<p>^^ Good point. They have done really well and are on the “recommend” lists.</p>
<p>Love the name of the bra!!</p>
<p>RIP, Food Pyramid. Long live My Plate:</p>
<p>[Food</a> pyramid out, ‘My Plate’ in for healthy eating - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_re_us/us_usda_my_plate]Food”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_re_us/us_usda_my_plate)</p>
<p>At least it looks less confusing.</p>
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<p>I’ve got an even better idea. Slash the Dept of Agriculture’s budget and layoff all the government bureaucrats who have spent years wasting taxpayer money on all this nonsense!</p>
<p>BB – at first I got all excited over that bra since it’s not a “pull over your head” style. But, alas, it doesn’t come in smaller sizes. :(</p>
<p>And MOWC – thanks for a good laugh. I’m envisioning this whole changing in the car scenario …</p>
<p>Lesson learned today: Running in the sun at noon on an empty stomach is a bad idea.</p>
<p>@ InterrestDad, I know right?</p>
<p>I can figure out most dietary knowledge just scouring the internet, and i have never once consulted the government on how to improve my eating habits. It’s more of an individual thing.</p>
<p>Eat clean
Work out dirty.
On to the next one.</p>
<p>But wait, there’s more:</p>
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<p>Woah! The government is going to eventually (will that be before or after GITMO is closed?) provide interactive tools to help people manage their weight and track exercise! What will they think of next?</p>
<p>Oh, wait…there are already dozens of sites that do that including [url=<a href=“http://www.livestrong.com%5DLIVESTRONG.COM%5B/url”>http://www.livestrong.com]LIVESTRONG.COM[/url</a>], sparkpeople.com, weightwatchers, Jillian Michaels’ new site, fitday and many more. All providing excellent products from the dreaded private sector supported by subscription or advertising.</p>
<p>I hope the gov’s nutrition twitters are as informative as the colorful new plate. Here’s today’s government nutrition tip:</p>
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<p>That’ll kick the obesity epidemic in the keister, huh? 
All from the same people who have told us for 20 years to eat more pasta and cereal and bread to keep from getting fat…</p>
<p>Two sets of tennis today: won 6-3, 7-5. My weekly regular has a new racquet and has done some tuning on it and is playing quite well with it. Basically he took a cheap Wilson in the 10 oz range and added an ounce of lead tape and he has a stable and powerful but light racquet. So he had me running a bit harder than usual.</p>
<p>I was ravenous throughout. I had eaten 755 calories for the day before playing but I guess that I used up more than that during the match. So I’ve had four days this week with 750 - 1,000 calories of exercise with a daily intake of about 1,500 calories.</p>
<p>Body feels light and airy.</p>
<p>I’m out of food at the office so I might go over to the food kitchen and buy some mixed nuts for an afternoon snack.</p>
<p>CBBBlinker, you have to try that bra on. I think it runs very small.</p>
<p>A good place to look for sports bras is HerRoom dot com. That’s one of the few places that carry Shock Absorber brand. Tons of helpful reviews on that site.</p>
<p>We bumped two of the dumbbells to 32.5 pounds - I wanted to try the bench press at that weight. It’s generally easier to do dumbbells at 65 and the barbell as I have some balance issues with it. Of course I can do twice as much on the Smith machine but I don’t have the Smith machine at home.</p>
<p>So son does 40 bench presses in about a minute with the heavier weights and says to leave the additional weight on. At the moment, we’re using all of the weight plates in the house. I definitely need some more plates - maybe two or three tens.</p>
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<p>He’s got the ol’ (formerly) fat guy beat. That’s about the weight I use for DB bench presses these days, but sure can’t do 40 of them! If he’s looking for a little extra fun, tell him to stay in the bench press position, but slide down so that only his shoulders, neck, and head are on the bench – keeping his legs and butt raised as if there were a bench. Then, do those presses.</p>
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<p>I’m taking a little vacation from presses. Kind of overloaded on them recently. The “push” exercise I’m doing in this week’s workouts is the TRX pushup – hands in the suspension trainer strap handles about a foot off the floor. It’s really challenging, probably because you have to use so much effort just to keep the whole thing stablized. 6 reps is plenty.</p>
<p>Fun new exercise:</p>
<p>I’ve doing a [two-dumbbell</a> hang clean](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCx8Ngsmskk]two-dumbbell”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCx8Ngsmskk) supersetted with medicine ball overhead slams. I got the hang clean figured out in pretty short order. You basically jump up, generating all the power with the legs, and then just shrug under the weights. I did 9 rep sets with two 25 pound DBs today.</p>
<p>Incredibly hard new exercise:</p>
<p>The stabilty ball dead bug. Good lord. This one is tough. If you want to “feel the burn” in the abs, this is a guaranteed winner. Third exercise in this video:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Advanced Six Pack Abs Workout](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqbRZj-ARkM]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqbRZj-ARkM)</p>
<p>My daughers got me a gift certificate for Lululemon for Mother’s Day. I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to use it yet. I just got back from a few days at the beach and managed to do a couple of long walks with intervals on the local bike paths and also took a spin class at a local gym. I was able to get a summer package for spin class–10 classes for $175. It’s good for 6 months. Classes are at 6 am–which I hate, but recognize that it’s good to start out the day and have your workout completed. It’s also hard to get up that early.</p>
<p>I can do about 10-12 of the presses but I’m more interested in improving how much I can do over doing a ton of them. He does 200 of these presses a day (in addition to other exercises). There’s no way that I can keep up with that and I don’t bother. I just do my simple stuff at a relatively slow pace.</p>
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<p>Running is stupid.</p>
<p>Uh ho. Did you injure yourself again, MOWC?
I confess I have not made time to exercise lately, ande the scale hasn’t moved, but I am being careful with food intake and my pants are a little less snug. One step at a time…</p>
<p>When I get to saying something like that about something that I love, it’s time to take a moderately long break. It doesn’t happen very often, thankfully.</p>
<p>Oh my. Those Lifefit Ellipticals area $3-5000. Ugh. </p>
<p>I wish there was an LA Fitness or Liftetime Fitness near us like we had in our old home. Here is NJ the fitness centers are super crowded and I haven’t found any that are that nice. The Basking Ridge Y is very nice but always mobbed and is a bit of a drive for us. The other Y’s are kind of icky.</p>
<p>Rear foot elevated split squats are stupid! :)</p>