Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

jym626 · May 31, 2011, 12:55pm

I use IE. I’ve tried it in google chrome, through yahoo. Tried aol too. Zippo luck. I typed in one letter (f) and the choice it gave me was facebook! :eek: Yes, I get dropdowns in the black bar above. Just not the food choice option. Grrr.

jym626 · May 31, 2011, 12:57pm

That did it ID!!! Thanks!!! Of course, I just finished sending them an email asking how to fix this before I saw your post :(

mominva · May 31, 2011, 1:09pm

Re: MyPlate:
I’m also a big fan of the Frequently Eaten tab; it references you own entries and can be sorted by name, brand or frequency.

interesteddad · May 31, 2011, 1:23pm

Once you’ve done repeated searches on the drop down list, it will start listing things you frequently choose at the top of the list, with a star next to them.

interesteddad · May 31, 2011, 1:31pm

teenage:

Yay! Congratulations on the mile! I remember when my goal was just to walk one mile. You are way ahead of me. I’m up to about 2/10ths mile jogging…

arabrab:

Yay! Fifteen pounds is fantastic. Tha means you’ve lost 5 pounds, three times in a row. Three celebrations.

You idea of walking up the hill for a interval and back down is great. There are lots of places with parallel high roads and low roads. In fact, the big town near me has a High Street and a Low Street that run parallel.

Men have options in pants for guys with big butts, guys with normal butts, and guys with no butts. I’m in the “normal butt” fit these days. Some of the online retailers have options for ladies with, I think they call it “curvy”, butts. I don’t know about women with no butts. Isn’t that the fashion model stuff?

arabrab · May 31, 2011, 2:06pm

idad – Oh, I definitely have a butt, but I carry my weight on my front, not my back – and clothing designers seem to put all the extra fabric in the butt and thighs, because that’s apparently more common. My guess is that the “curvy butt” pants would be truly humongous on me. (They also put way more room in shirt sleeves, some of which could accommodate a Smithfield Ham.) But, nice problem to have in the longer run.

And yes – the five pound goals feel very, very good.

And jym – I wouldn’t worry about the MyPlate folks getting back to you anytime soon. If it weren’t for the kind folks here I would have been stuck too months ago.

jym626 · May 31, 2011, 2:09pm

Lol, arabrab! Thanks!

hops_scout · May 31, 2011, 8:38pm

That’s pretty much all I wear. I wear a lot of Nike and Under Armour polos to work. Also, I have 3 pairs of Nike Golf pants and 4 pairs of Under Armour Golf pants. In fact, today I wore UA golf pants (black) with a blue/white Nike polo.

I wear performance apparel to work almost daily…

interesteddad · May 31, 2011, 10:44pm

Well, another milestone (as if losing 86 pounds isn’t enough!) I stole a bunch of stuff from the various workouts I’ve been been doing and put together my own workout for the first time today.

Credit to Alwyn Cosgrove. I borrowed the structure of the workouts from New Rules of Lifting for Abs, which I find to work really well for me. Then, I plugged in exercises into the superset slots – some that I haven’t done in a while, some that need work, and a few new ones that I’ve been wanting to do.

The workout is in five sections:

**Warmup: **
Basically the NROL4A warmup with a few substitutions and additions, like Big-X walks and monster walks.

**Power: **
A superset of 6 med ball overhead slams and 6 dual DB hang cleans (a first time for me). Three sets. Short rest.

**Core: **
Two new ones that I’ve wanted to do. Stabilty ball dead bugs and Ben Bruno’s TRX Pallof Press to overhead press. Two sets. This was fantastic. Fun and challenging.

Strength 1:
A super set of TRX pushups and my DB dead lifts. 6 reps, three sets. Sufficient rest in between.

**Strength 2: **
A superset of rear-foot elevated split squats and (slightly) band-assisted chins. Six reps x 3 sets.

The whole thing took right at one hour, which is where I like to be. I’ll do this again on Thurs. with one change: I’m going to swap the DB deadlifts and rear foot elevated split squats. The second Strength section was much more difficult.

BCEagle91 · June 1, 2011, 7:27am

Run 4.25 miles at a pace that I haven’t run at since last September (9:46). The tennis over the weekend seems to have helped making running a little faster easier. I went to the other WalMart in the area - no 5 or 10 pounders - very disappointed. I considered ordering online to store but I found them in stock at the Chelmsford store which is about 15 minutes from my office so I think that I’ll take a run down there this morning.

Bumped up the dumbbell chest press to 2x30 this morning. I have a way to quickly adjust the weights from my son’s 27.5 settings to 30 pounds using the 1 1/4 weights so that solves one problem. I’m planning on picking up 5 10 pound kettleball plates which will mean that we don’t have to use a bunch of the little ones on the main dumbbells. This will also mean that I can move the 4 7.5s from the dumbbells to the barbell which has a large number of small weights on it. The added weights will provide more flexibility and allow faster changes of weight. I’m going to leave one dumbbell permanently at 22.5 for curls.

I took my son to the YMCA so that he could run and I was too tired to do anything and I brought work with me but their WiFi was out so I couldn’t do any work. Doing weights and running is pretty tiring.

Classof2015 · June 1, 2011, 7:38am

BCEagle91-- thanks for the tip on home yoga – I will check it out.
MomofWildChild – good tip on “coverage” for shorts/pants – didn’t think of that.
Mommusic – will def check out beginner’s classes. And I’ll stay in the back!

Love all the positive energy and support here. I feel healthier already!

interesteddad · June 1, 2011, 7:56am

That’s the dirty little secret. Once you start to feel the result of exercise, you really enjoy being a little more fit, a little more lean, a little more muscular and it makes eating smarter and working out more rewarding and more enjoyable.

sabaray · June 1, 2011, 9:22am

Took yesterday off as it was just too hot and humid to push it. 6 AM, still humid, but did a reverse route to work some different muscles. Glad to get it done and finished by pushing myself to run up the hill to home. Nice to get the exercise done early in the day.

I did notice after a carb heavy day yesterday my weight was up this morning. I need to think of some different food items that I can eat. My old standbys are not helping.

jym626 · June 1, 2011, 10:54am

Made remarkably easy, but slightly different fish recipes last night (fresh wild salmon with lemon pepper and dill, and sea bass with soy sauce, lemon pepper and ginger). Put a tiny drop of Greek cucumber yogurt (tzatziki) on the salmon. Both were remarkably yummy. DH and I shared the 2 fish.

I need to ramp up the exercise. Also, I have a tendency to eat a piece of fruit (peach, banana, etc) for breakfast. If I dont have protein in the morning, weight loss seems to stop. Others see this too?

BCEagle91 · June 1, 2011, 11:02am

You missed a big discussion on low-carb diets here. Basically idad did a ton of research and the findings generally were that higher-carb diets make you more hungry and make it harder to keep intake down. So some of us are on lower-carb (33%) diets. I use LiveStrong to try to keep my carbs under 33% while maintaining the RDA on fiber and trying to watch the RDAs on sodium and cholesterol and it takes some effort to get those all in balance. This while trying to maintain a net 500-1000 calorie deficit per day.

BTW, here’s some stuff that was posted from those discussions and one article on the hierarchy of exercise:

(I keep articles from this thread in a Growley Notes Notebook for quick reference)

ucbalumnus · June 1, 2011, 11:36am

Willett is not a low carb advocate – his main emphasis is that the quality of food matters more than the ratio of fats/carbs/etc., and that exercise is essential. See his food pyramid:

[Healthy</a> Eating Pyramid - What Should You Eat? - The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health](<a href=“http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid/index.html]Healthy”>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid/index.html)

Note that exercise is in the base of his pyramid. The next layer has fruits and vegetables, healthy (unsaturated non-hydrogenated) fats and oils, and whole grains. The top of the pyramid (“use sparingly”) is composed of red meat, processed meat, refined grains, potatoes, sugary drinks and sweets, and salt.

sabaray · June 1, 2011, 11:42am

I can follow Willett’s principles (and do). I was looking at Michael Pollan’s Food Rules this morning to remind myself that eating well was a good thing. Pollan emphasizes using meat as a flavor and I am comfortable with that. It would be nice if one could say with finality, this is the way to live well.

That’s a nice link, ucbalumnus. Thanks.

arabrab · June 1, 2011, 11:59am

I’ve decided that I am a happy red-meat eater. I’m enjoying flank steak, the joys of single grind hamburgers (minus the buns), lamb steaks, and buffalo. And much to my doctor’s surprise, my cholesterol levels have decreased. (They weren’t particularly bad to begin with.) There’s just little chance I would follow a lower-carb diet without red meat. I enjoy chicken and fish, but not as a night after night event. Meanwhile, a flank steak cooked up with grilled vegetables on the bbq, aided by a good salad, leaves me completely satisfied.

VeryHappy · June 1, 2011, 12:02pm

^^^ Totally agree. I eat red meat probably five nights a week, and chicken the other two. Can’t stand fish; never could, never will.

jym626 · June 1, 2011, 12:22pm

Has anyone here done the glycemic index thing? It seems to be basically a low carb approach

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