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<p>Chips are typically a combination of carbs and fat – a combination that can have a very high calorie density (carbs absorb fat well, and most people find carbs + fat combinations more palatable than non-sugar carbs only or fat only).</p>
<p>Oh, these were the “healthy” tortillia chips. Said so right on the bag: </p>
<p>NOW WITH 40% LESS FAT</p>
<p>That means I can eat chips and salsa all day and not get fat, because they are healthy chips!</p>
<p>Haven’t checked in for a couple days. Best wishes for a speedy recovery to teriwitt H. How scary!</p>
<p>Just came from the gym. Everything I did today seemed harder than usual. Why is that? But, my upcoming HS reunion this weekend kept me going. </p>
<p>The other day I went shopping and bought pants in a smaller size! I’d start celebrating, but with women’s clothes you never really know if you’re smaller or if the sizing just varies by brand.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand the day-to-day fluctuations in any of this stuff: exercise, body fat, weight. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme nor reason, or at least nothing that I’ve been able to put my finger on. </p>
<p>Congratulations on the smaller pants! I’ve decided that fitting into smaller pants is one of life’s great pleasures! :)</p>
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<p>I think that it is, in large part, the fish itself. The fish available in the specialty restaurant supply chains is a completely different level of quality than the grocery store stuff that is already old by the time we get it. I notice it just buying fish from or local seafood market compared to the grocery store, and that’s not even a high end specialty fish market.</p>
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<p>Hope all is going well with your husband. As someone whose spouse rides at least three times a week, your post was sobering. Things happen so quickly on a bike. Thank heavens you convinced him to wear a helmet!!! The thought is just so frightening to contemplate.</p>
<p>Hang in there and try to take care of yourself. Let your real-life friends make meals and pamper you in anyway they can. This stuff takes more of a toll on YOU than you realize. Trust me, I know what I am talking about.</p>
<p>I agree with wnp2. At work a woman and I have joked around about our “Sick Husbands Club.” It can be emotionally and physically draining.</p>
<p>Speaking of health and wellness. You guys know that I’ve done a lot of workouts from Alwyn Cosgrove (and his wife Rachel) and posted a lot about their approach to fat loss exercise.</p>
<p>Here’s something Alwyn Cosgrove wrote last week celebrating a different kind of health and wellness milestone. Kind of makes it a little easier to get through a workout when I’m panting like a dog. I just think, “well, this could be a whole lot more challenging!”.</p>
<p>[What</a> It’s Like to be Reborn](<a href=“AlwynCosgrove.com”>AlwynCosgrove.com)</p>
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<p>Hi All! Have been OOS for a while. Have H working on lowering his carbs…darn guy…he has lost 10 lbs in under a week!!! He still has had wine and beer with dinner or golfing and still managed to lose that weight!!! And he isn’t overweight!!! He just wanted to lose 10 lbs for D1’s August wedding. Really isn’t fair as I have had the same food in much smaller portions…minus the beer and stuff…and worked out while he never even saw the gym. I have such a hard time wrapping my head around this type of stuff and it really discourages me. :(</p>
<p>It IS discouraging. </p>
<p>I live with a man who will occasionally say, “Oh, I better eat more today I need to bulk up a little.”</p>
<p>Homicide is justifiable in these situations.</p>
<p>Oh let him enjoy his 10 pounds of water weight! He didn’t actually lose 10 pounds of fat in a week. It’ll all even out. Just be thankful you’ve got him thinking about this stuff.</p>
<p>Besides, it’s his loss not working out. Think how much more fit you are as a result of those hours at the gym. That’s huge, regardless of weight loss.</p>
<p>grrr…At this point I’d trade in some of that endurance/fitness to wear a smaller dress size at the wedding. sigh…</p>
<p>(can you tell I am in a bad mood today??? Must be all of this rainy weather!)</p>
<p>NM, I am confident you look and feel one hundred thousand times better than you did a year ago. I bet you are wearing a European dress for the wedding and you KNOW those are always cut smaller. Am I right? </p>
<p>H is slowly slipping back into some bad habits. I’m noticing some triggers. Don’t laugh- but if his mother calls - that’s when he wants some cheese/crackers and wine. I went to bed last night - he drank some wine and had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He doesn’t like to exercise in the morning or when it’s raining. He cancelled a follow up physician’s appointment because he was “too busy”. I wanted to be busy when I had to have a colonoscopy too.</p>
<p>Yeah NorthMinnesota, what is up with all that rain? I’m heading to your state in a couple of days and the weather forecast sounds downright uninviting. I may have to spend all my time at that giant mall.</p>
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<p>I remember those late night snacks. Maybe a tall 16 oz glass of Pepsi to wash it down. Arggghhh.</p>
<p>Not that you can necessarily remind him, but he’s at the stage now where “just hold off on PB&J until I lose this five pounds” is so important. He’s lookin’ at this whole diet thing as the end of life as he knows it – a permanently depriving himself of something he thinks he enjoys, for reasons that can’t be even remotely real to him at this point. See it all the time with smokers who get a couple weeks into quitting and freak out at the thought that – OMG – they actually could quit smoking.</p>
<p>That’s when focusing on not smoking for just one day or losing just five pounds seems more manageable and less frightenging. Anything to get a couple months into the journey where the payoff starts to become real and self-sustaining. You guys remember me talking about standing in the grocery store holding a can of Pringles. My little mind game was that, maybe I’d buy that can after I “lose this five pounds”.</p>
<p>Eased back into the week with a 40 minute aerobics class. Good cardio and the hr was definitely up. Tomorrow back to the big boy stuff.</p>
<p>Lunch today was grilled fresh copper river salmon - delicious. Lunch is main meal of the day, so probably looking at a small salad for dinner. Progress on scale is expectedly slow going – I never seem to have that quick water weight loss – but it is heading in the right direction, even if at a glacial pace.</p>
<p>Purchased a quinoa cookbook (need another cookbook like the proverbial hole in the head), but if I don’t want to give up grains entirely, quinoa looks like a good substitute. I have already made sushi with it, that was quite good. Looking forward to experimenting with it.</p>
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<p>yup. You are not alone with these frustrations.</p>
<p>If you are eating right and exercising, then that’s pretty much all you can possibly ask and the fat loss will take care of itself. We are all going to lose at our own rate, and even at different rates at different times, sometimes with no apparent reason. Usually, about the time you’ve decided that you’ll never lose another pound is when you wake up one day and see a big drop on the scale. Maybe these fat cells just like to torment us. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s all a plot. While we’re sleeping, the fat cells get together and talk about how to torment us.</p>
<p>There’s nothing worse than a bunch of snickering triglycerides making fun of us! I hate the damn things… :)</p>