<p>Went to WalMart to pick up weights. I was disappointed to find that they only had one ten-pound weight plate. They stores in my area seem to be chronically short on the ten-pounders. So I picked up a barbell and two five-pounders and it’s set up as 22.5 pounds (or thereabouts) as I had an old odd ten-pounder. This is perfect for me to do curls with while leaving the heavier weights for the bench press and for my son to do all of his other exercises. I was hoping to get something that my daughter could use as she was able to do 2x10 easily on the bench press. I guess I’d have to take the plates off of our son’s dumbbells temporarily for her to try 2x12.5 and 2x15.</p>
<p>We got out into the parking lot and it was scorching out. The car temp read 102 degrees. It cooled down to 94 after a bit of driving and dropped to 90 when we arrived home. We’re not running outside on the track this evening - too hot.</p>
<p>Also felt dizzy and weak while shopping. 2 hours of tennis + no lunch + 140 calories for breakfast is not a good combination.</p>
<p>To darned hot around here to exercise outside too. Am planning to walk up to the nearby sushi restaurant with DH if/when the temp drops, but its almost 7 and still 90 degrees!!!</p>
<p>Small gripe – when did “dessert parties” become the fashion? Went to two of them (graduation parties) this weekend, and only one of the 2 had any fresh fruit/non fattening options :(</p>
<p>jym, I thought you were referring to the practice of serving a meal on a smaller plate, in order to forget that you’re really eating doll-sized portions.</p>
<p>Well, they did serve the desserts on the smaller plates, but the food served were all dessert items (cakes, trifles, cheeses like brie and roquefort, cookies, etc.). The “new” thing is something called “cakeballs”. Little round balls of cake encased in a hard chocolate covering. Swell :(</p>
<p>Ran 5 easy miles this morning. H decided to exercise, too, so I joined him in the gym and did my running on a treadmill (bleh). After breakfast, I dragged H to the beach (to get him away from the stupid marketing folks who were pestering him with their requests via email). H was not too happy to get in the water, but I managed to spot an octopus hiding under a rock, and that was the highlight of our snorkeling today! H spent half an hour taking pictures and filming the darn thing as it was changing colors, moving about and spewing clouds of ink. I’ve been making our lunches and dinners (grilled fish and veggies - yum!), but tonight we are going out - we will skip the shuttle and walk 1.5 miles to the restaurant. And tomorrow the fairy tale ends… We are going back to the gloomy PNW.</p>
<p>Dick’s Sporting Goods stocks weight plates, just pennies more than WalMart’s prices. So that’s a reliable place to find them in stock. I’ve bought some there because they are the same style that WalMart used to sell before they switched to the plates with kettlebell grips – which are cool, too, but mix 'n match doesn’t work.</p>
<p>I went out and did my 5K walk/jog hilly jaunt in the heat of the afternoon. I think it was 88 degrees when I went out. I sweat a lot for an ol’ (formerly) fat guy! I was pretty much drenched. Saw another peak of 101% of my max heart rate. Kinda reminds me of old times on those hills.</p>
<p>I am starting to cover just a little more ground in each 2 minute jog interval.</p>
<p>We have a Dicks coming to our local mall but I don’t know when. The
closest Dicks currently open is 30 miles from us (according to Google)
in Concord, NH, and it wouldn’t be worth the trip. I may just load up
on the 5s as there’s enough room for what my daughter could use.</p>
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<p>I was trying to figure out what the sign meant by kettleball plates
while at the store. The plates have an outer ring and a solid metal
piece like a rectangle in the middle. That means that you can pick
up the weight plate using the cutout piece as a handle. I suppose
you could fit two hands in there and use it like a kettleball.</p>
<p>I like the plats as it makes them easier to carry with one hand.</p>
<p>I don’t have any problems mixing and matching weight plates, as long
as the hole sizes is consistent which basically means never, ever
buy Olympic weights.</p>
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<p>I thought about it one more time but decided to have a late dinner
(chicken with light asian liquid + sprouts + broccoli + cantolope)
followed by late weights.</p>
<p>I might have to go with your fiber solution because I’m having some
trouble making the RDA without spiking up the carbs. The biggest
problem is that my son likes my low calorie bread from Trader Joes
with five grams per 40 calories. We have regular whole wheat bread
in the house but it’s 2 grams per 70 calories and I’d hate to eat
350 calories of bread to get to my RDA today!</p>
<p>Perhaps a powdered drink would work - I’ll check our drug store or
supermarket for something.</p>
<p>I went over to CVS’ website and fiber products are listed under laxatives and fiber. I found out that there’s dextrin (from various plants) and psyllium from plants from Pakistan and India. psyllium has more fiber but gels more and has more potential to cause gas though both can do this. I’m thinking of going with the CVS brand dextrin in a fairly low dose. A bottle has 90 or 100 servings so I’d better not hate the stuff.</p>
<p>Actually I think that I’m just going to eat a few apples and find some protein and fat to compensate and sleep on the fiber supplements.</p>
<p>Yes. It actually works quite well. I put a couple of 2.5 pounds weights on bar first as spacers then up a 10 pound kettle-plate at the very end (leaving minimal handle sticking out for kettlebell swings!). It does’t matter what you put on the other end.</p>
<p>I got four of the kettlebell 10 pound plates, so I can use them in a pair of matching DBs, depending on what I’m doing.</p>
<p>@teenage_cliche, sounds as if you are making very good food choices! Let us know how the run goes. </p>
<p>H and S extended their weekend and are returning tomorrow, so today I did more house purging of their “stuff” - which is now at goodwill or in the trash, never to be seen again. :D</p>
<p>In celebration of my newly non-cluttered house, I went to the mall with my mother and treated myself to a new pair of running shoes. New Balance. Then we went to Panera and I splurged on a salad, then Mom wanted to walk. She can walk faster than H, so we had a nice, brisk, 2 mile walk. </p>
<p>@jym- saw those cakeballs at Starbucks (from a distance, mind you). They’re on a stick like a lollipop. D made them for some male friend. Good thing I’m not said male friend.</p>
<p>There are several sites that recommend using oat bran, which can be purchased at health food stores. There is a pill available from a site I used to order vitamins from (mostly for the dog!) called puritan’s pride. Their oat bran has Calcium Sulfate, Silica, Cellulose (Plant Origin), Gelatin to bind the Oat Bran, listed as 850 mg/tablet
" (Avena sativa) (husk)". I haven’t tried it. Can’t speak for it.</p>
<p>Went out for our walk for sushi, but it was closed for the holiday, so went further to a Chinese restaurant and had steamed scallops and vegetables. It is still hot as blazes outside and its after 9!</p>
<p>Sabaray-
I’ve seen the cake balls on sticks, like lollipops. These were just on the plate - looked like truffles. I let myself take one bite of one, but fortunately I didn’t like the flavor of the cake, so in the trash it went.</p>
<p>Re fiber: I broke down and bought the Dukan diet book. He recommends the use of oat bran as part of the diet, the amount one consumes varies with the phase of the diet you are in. He offers a “pancake” recipe - one egg white, 2tbsp oat brain, 2 tbsp fat-free plain Greek yogurt, 1tsp Splenda (for a sweet pancake) OR pepper, herbs, chopped garlic for a savory one. It can be eaten for breakfast or lunch (he recommends topped with smoked salmon, ham or turkey breast, I am guessing this is the savory pancake).</p>
<p>ehow reports that psyllium has 13 grams of fiber per tablespoon, dextrin has 8 and oat bran has 1. So psyllium is the most efficient per unit but there can be side-effects when starting out and I think that building up would minimize those side-effects. BTW, I wound up going with sun chips and an apple and greek yogurt to keep everything in balance. I had a look at the products at the supermarket - lots more of the flavored stuff than the unflavored stuff.</p>
<p>Getting to ten or fifteen grams of fiber on oat bran would mean taking a lot of pills!</p>
<p>I ran in my new shoes today for the first time. What a difference. Since I started back running, I’ve been feeling my old knee pain starting to come back and I’ve been having to be very careful with my foot placement. Today, I felt no pain at all. I’ll have to see if it stays that way, but I’m feeling hopeful.</p>
<p>Some of us use aftermarket insoles which provide much more cushioning than stock insoles and make a big difference in sports where there is a lot of pounding. Some of us also keep track of the number of miles run in our shoes and replace them at a certain number of miles, whether the shoes look good or not. BTW, this can mean moving the used running shoe to daily wear status and using a new pair for running. I use a spreadsheet for tracking miles and shoe miles but I understand that there are dedicated websites to track that stuff too.</p>
<p>Ran 2 miles before yoga at my first hot yoga studio in Dallas. It was interesting to be back there after 5 years. It varies somewhat from the Bikram format, and it reminded me of a few postures that will be good for me. Glad to be back home even though it isn’t cooler than Dallas. I am not complaining about the heat. Glad to be warm.</p>
<p>Have been using the Livestrong site but trying to figure out how to calculate smaller portions of things (liek 5 teddy grahams) or how to calculate restaurant meals. Suggestions?</p>
<p>BTW I am a happy camper. Bought my first batch of fresh peaches of the season!! I LOVE peaches!</p>