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<p>That is so awesome! If I’m not mistaken, you also deserve the credit for starting this thread that has helped keep many of us on track. You started it on Dec 29th, 2009, with a goal of losing 45 pounds!</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t work for me. I enjoy cooking and eating too much. I had to find a diet that allowed me to continue enjoying fantastic dinners.</p>
<p>I’m not saying I agree with the diet myself. It’s just another one that’s out there. I know there’s no way I would be able to do it because I like eating too much as well. But for some, it may be worth a shot for that kick-start…</p>
<p>Congrats again, iDad. I think it was the running intervals that bumped you down on the scale! :)</p>
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<p>Could be! I had three days in a row (Th, Fri Sat) with interval heart rates above 94%.</p>
<p>kettlebells, kettlebells, and more kettlebells today… about 30-40 minutes of them. That’s it :)</p>
<p>Wow, with so much weight lost, some members of this thread look like they have partially raptured. ;)</p>
<p>Nothing hardcore for me today, just some walking around a nice park. I had to modify my running schedule this week due to attending a graduation ceremony. I’m afraid that I ate too much in the past couple of days, but i manged to keep my wine calorie count down (H and I were trying to be good role models to the young ones :)).</p>
<p>I don’t know what I’m going to do for a workout yet. I had planned on Spartacus, but he carpenter doing the final step of the new kitchen floor (nailing on the baseboard trim) drove a nail into a heating water pipe buried in the wall. I heard water, poked my head downstairs, and saw big puddles dripping from all over the place – the hot water had run under the new tile floor. Carpenter back ripping out the sheet rock, plumber cutting and soldering in a new piece of pipe. Draining and refilling the furnace.</p>
<p>I’ve got fans blowing to dry the basement and I do have a little dry patch for Spartacus, but I’m not sure I want to be down there. So I might do Airdyne. We’ll play it by ear. I’m glad I was here and discovered the leak within a half hour. If it had gone all day, it would have been a massive mess.</p>
<p>Use the Airdyne to help dry the place out!</p>
<p>Ran 3.5 miles - kicked up the pace a notch. I guess I should with less weight to push.</p>
<p>Went to a dinner party this weekend (only ate the salad and shrimp appetizer–main course was beef, which I don’t eat). The hostess didn’t even notice. I just filled my plate with lots of salad. </p>
<p>The topic that was front and center during dinner was about a book that the hostess had on her bookshelf–The Four Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Weight Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. Great subtitle! Seemed to me like a basic hi-protein, low-carb (no white carbs or fruit) diet that others have advocated with a few variations. The author suggests eating the same meals every day and allows one cheat day a week and two glasses of red wine every night. He also recommends using kettle bells for exercise. Beside weight-loss he promises better sleep and an improved sex life. Needless to say, the book generated lots of conversation!</p>
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<p>Hah. Why didn’t I think of that. And, I’d get a helluva strength lifting workout wrestling that thing down the stairs. I think it weighs right at 90 pounds.</p>
<p>I was just down in the cellar. It’s drying out, but the air is kind of damp and humid down there, so I’m not real excited about a long sweaty Spartacus workout on the mat next to the big puddle with two big fans blowing. I’ll be doing some high-tech Airdyne intervals (upstairs) and generating some more pretty heart rate graphs.</p>
<p>Congrats sabaray and idad! (and sabaray’s H!!!) If there’s anything this thread proves, it’s that small, sustainable lifestyle changes are the key. Maybe we should amend idad’s “eat less, move more” philosophy to “eat less, eat really well, move more”!</p>
<p>I think that’s really true, chintzy. For many of us, however, it mean redefining what it is to eat really well. It’s been quite a while since I binged on donuts or Sara Lee coffee cake. :)</p>
<p>I think that NMinn is right up there on the weight loss tally, too. I can’t remember BCEagle’s total-to-date, but it’s substantial.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I would have to say that it’s not just “eat less”, but “eat different” as well. It really does take eliminating a bunch of those “binge” foods. All of us probably haven’t different places where we rack up ridiculous binge calories, so the strategies might be a little different. For me, it was inhaling carbs.</p>
<p>I did make my grandmother’s fried chicken last week. A treat I hadn’t had in over a year. I fried up two huge breasts and had them for dinner with a veggie two nights. So good. And, actually, not a horrible “splurge” meal as long as you don’t do the fries or biscuits along with it.</p>
<p>I can even snack now. I’ve had dry roasted peanuts and pistachios in the house and have trained myself to grab a handful and walk away from the rest. That’s where tracking what you eat really helps change behaviors.</p>
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<p>Or tearing through a package of that raspberry danish strudel or those insanely-addicting little pecan rolls. Wash it down with a 16 ounce Pepsi. It’s like trying to see how fast you can pack on the lard. My all-time fav is probably the coffee/cinnamon rolls at Dunkin Donuts. Deep fried dough, glazed in drizzled sugar. Oh, yeah…</p>
<p>Way to go sabaray and idad!!! Yay for you!!! You are both doing so well! Congratulations!!! I am still plugging awayhere. So close to another goal for me but can’t post it yet! ;)</p>
<p>Everyone is so proud of themselves, and they should be!!!</p>
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<p>I hate when that happens! I was at 165.2 for three days in a row! 165 was just taunting me…</p>
<p>It’s hard to even type those numbers. They are so foreign to me. I tried on a pair of Guess jeans from a box in the back of a closet that I must have bought some time the 1980s. Size 34. They are actually a little big on me. Crazy.</p>
I am really proud of everyone and I love this thread.
<p>Airdyne intervals for me before dinner. Five minute warmup. Six 90 second intervals (I’m really gutting it out for the last 15 seconds of each one). Pedal easy after each interval until my heart rate falls to 65% of max and then go again.</p>
<p>Congrats and kudos all around! Way to go.</p>