<p>3 pretty awful miles after work at 98 degrees. Shaded course, but still… Will get up in the morning tomorrow. I need to get back to hot yoga. Being out of town messed up my schedule. It is going to be rough after missing a week. One key to survival is consistency.</p>
<p>Did my little 5K walk/jog thing again before dinner. Beautiful sunny 85 degree afternoon. I did the same five 2-minute jogging intervals that I’ve been doing, but it’s getting a little easier. I’m starting to pick up the pace a little bit, which means I’m still hitting some ridiculous peak heart rates. I’m now jogging right at one mile of the 5K jaunt. My overall pace has not really picked up that much because I can’t stay with the 4 mph walking pace on the hills after these jogging intervals – especially because I have to start jogging as soon as I hit the top of four of the hills. All in due course. I’m sure I’ll see slow adaptations over time.</p>
<p>Back to iPod nazi’s easy core workout plus weight lifting tomorrow.</p>
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<p>I still find myself patting my belly or grabbing my wallet out of my hip pocket and thinking, “Whoa, where did my belly go?” or “What happened to my butt; it’s not there anymore.”</p>
<p>You are right. Face and neck are pretty dramatic with weight loss. You must have lost a pretty nice amount of weight to see a difference in photos from just a month ago. That’s fantastic.</p>
<p>BC eagle – congrats on the pictures – that has got to feel gratifying.</p>
<p>On the food front: if you haven’t frozen some blueberries, that’s a treat worth trying. Not at all the same (to me) as the pre-frozen kind. I wash a couple of dozen, roll them around on a paper towel to blot up the water, and put them on a plate in the freezer, where they don’t stick together. Just a handful make a really nice, icy treat that does a lot to satisfy my ice cream urge. Still-mostly-frozen raspberries (which I do buy pre-frozen) have a similar reaction. I’m having to enjoy fruit in much more moderation – I tend to be a fruitaholic – but this works for me.</p>
<p>Things got so out of control today, that I pretty much skipped lunch. Ugh. A bowl of reconstituted miso soup powder nice lunch does not make. 
So I treated myself to some Haagen Daazs (the one that “expands my aazs”) after dinner: just a couple of heaping teaspoons of H-D Lemon Five, probably not even a 100 calorie dessert. This stuff is so rich, it has to be enjoyed in really tiny bits. Give it a shot, it is soooo worth it!</p>
<p>My heel is doing waay better, unfortunately, in addition to messing up my running schedule, it managed to wreck my Napolean plans to hit the ongoing Nordstrom’s designer shoe sale. I will get back to running later this week. As far as the shoe sale goes… the pickings are already slim, so I’m counting on returns trickling into the stores by the time I’m ready to try things on.</p>
<p>arabrab, fruit is my guilty pleasure. I love flash-frozen bananas, peaches and berries. Since I rarely eat sweets or sugar, I decided not to skimp on fruit. A bowl of berries makes a nice grand finale for my breakfast every morning.</p>
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<p>Me too! I’m not skipping breakfasts any time soon. I wonder if the researchers counted frosted flakes, pastries and donuts eaten first thing in the morning as “breakfast”. Unless I have my protein for breakfast, I do get hungry way before lunch and wolf down more than I really need.</p>
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<p>Pretty hot where you are already. We’re supposed to get into the
mid-90s today.</p>
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<p>My wife was out the door at about 6:45 for her morning walk. 62
degrees at the moment and she’s usually out for about 45 minutes.
She doesn’t like walking around when it is hot out. I’ve never
been good at working out on the road. I just skip working out
most of the time unless I’m in one place long enough where I can
find a decent place to do so.</p>
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<p>I think that it’s more weight distribution. I increased weights and
decreased miles for a few weeks and made very little progress on
losing weight. I think that running is basically the most efficient
way for me to lose weight. There is far less soreness in my body with
not doing weights this week and my aching tooth doesn’t ache. It was
bothering me last week - heavy weights seems to aggravate it. I’m
going to the dentist today to fix stuff (I have a list) and maybe he
can fix that problem.</p>
<p>My experiments with beans were interesting. Wife cooked a pound of
black-eyed beans which I’ve almost gone through this week eating about
a cup of cooked beans per day. The last 1.5 cups will be finished
tomorrow (it’s in the freezer now). These were cooked plain - no
spices or other flavorings. Nobody else in the house will eat them so
I figure that I need to freeze them in small containers, good for a
week of lunches. Unfortunately they crimp my style on eating bananas
(wife bought a bunch and wants me to eat them because they are ripe)
and other fruits/carbs because the beans provide a lot of carbs. So
maybe I should ask her to cook half a bag a week to provide for three
lunches.</p>
<p>I decided that I want to try to run 30 miles from MOWC’s example. That
will be something that I haven’t done in over a decade. I’m already
halfway there and my knees feel pretty good so it should be doable
if I don’t mess something up with tennis tomorrow.</p>
<p>Re: new research about eating breakfast – why am I not surprised? Seems as if for almost every research about what to eat or not eat there is a follow-up study that says the opposite! </p>
<p>Lately I’ve been having 1 medium size orange with a cup of coffee before going to the gym. After returning I have the rest of my breakfast. I had been buying the 5 lb. crates of clementines, but found myself eating about 4-5 a day. Too many fruit carbs.</p>
<p>The gym in RI has slightly different weight machines, so some muscles are a little sore this morning. Looks like we’re in for a few days of pretty hot weather, so on the days I walk outside, I do it very early.</p>
<p>BC, can you post the before-and-after pictures? Use a big yellow smilie face like idad did. Curious minds want to know.</p>
<p>I’ll see if I can figure out how to do that.</p>
<p>Rode the recumbent bike yesterday. My knee is still very swollen but the biking makes it feel so much better and takes away the stiffness. I usually eat a late breakfast, after I work out. I eat way less than I used to!</p>
<p>I am sure we discussed this a hundred pages back; someone will remember: How does one get a reading, or perform a calculation, of the percent body fat one has??</p>
<p>Had a good first week with Weight Watchers/30 Day Shred combo. Lost 3.5 lbs. This week has been more difficult. I’ve been SO hungry…especially in the mornings, so I am using points up pretty quickly. </p>
<p>I am eating more fruits and vegetables…which is good because I never really did like either very well, but F & V are 0 points in weight watchers so it encourages you to eat more of them.</p>
<p>I hope to lose 1-2 lbs per week…it seems like so much work for such a small weight loss, but it will add up if I can stick with it. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I have vacation in 1.5 weeks…I hope I don’t gain everything back.</p>
<p>VeryHappy- it is an imprecise measurement and is usually done with these calipers (pinch your fat in several locations) or an electical scanner sort of thing (iDad will be more precise in this description) or underwater weighing where you hold your breath and get submerged.</p>
<p>Got my butt out of bed and forced myself out onto the hills for 6 miles. It wasn’t easy, and I am sorry to say that despite all my free ***** from Brooks, my Nike Lunar Fly shoes are feeling really, really good right now. I have PT this morning and will be dead if he has me do much leg stuff.</p>
<p>Congrats wdaveo! Stick with it! You can do this!!! :)</p>
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<p>The image on the right is 245 pounds, the middle is about 206, the left 197. What’s amazing is that the difference between 197 and 206 looks bigger than the difference between 206 and 245 - a side view would be more representative. I have given some thought as to putting in older pictures in the 165 pound area. I have no pictures in the 145 pound range which was most of my 20s - photography was a lot more expensive back then and the people that I hung around with didn’t take pictures.</p>
<p>The modern age of digital photography is wonderful where pictures are essentially free.</p>
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<p>The amount of energy in food is really amazing</p>
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<p>LiveStrong weight/calorie chart. It’s interesting to see those calorie spikes about every two weeks. They’re usually followed by a sharp drop-off for a day or two. Basically those are days of intense hunger where I may go up to replenishment level or replenishment level - a few hundred calories. The time-frame of the chart is when I started LiveStrong and lower carbs. I have data in LiveStrong going further back but I don’t have a lot of data points so it’s pretty choppy. The data points that I have are in my running spreadsheet and I only put in weight once in a while. I wish that I had the data from back in the 1990s. I’m pretty sure that I recorded it and that it’s sitting on a hard disk at home or on an old VAX/VMS system that I have access to.</p>
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<p>There’s so much activity around “targeted therapies” for cancer and other diseases that it leads me to think that our metabolic profiles also probably vary a lot and that’s why it’s so important to try various dietary measures but not be slavish to one that makes you feel bad even if it is deemed the right one of the moment. </p>
<p>Right now I’m reaching that sad conclusion that my system just can’t handle bagels, which are so good here in the Northeast. When I eat them I feel lousy. </p>
<p>Current fav dessert is Edy’s coconut popsicle. 140 calories. Puts the brakes on for eating the rest of the night.</p>
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<p>I haven’t had a bagel in sooooo long; same thing with donuts.</p>
<p>One of my favorite bagel spots is Rosenfelds Bagels in Newton Center (suburb of Boston) - I used to go there as a kid. The smell of fresh bagels wafted through the village when they were cooking bagels. I can certainly see eating them again way into the future if my calorie expenditure supports them. I used to eat them all the time when I was younger and had no weight issues with them. MOWC likes running because it gives her a lot of options on food. Tennis, running, weights, etc. can give you those options once you get to where you want to be.</p>