<p>In this one, they took 50 overweight people (average 209 pounds) and put them on a 10 week diet of 500 to 550 calories a day. The first findiing was that their hunger increased. Wow, I never would guessed that, huh? </p>
<p>And – here’s a shock – a year later, they had put back on half the weight they lost on a 500 calorie a day starvation diet. Well, duh! I don’t even have a PhD and I know that, if you starve someone, they will lose weight and, if you stop starving them, they will gain weight! They need a study to find that out? Really?</p>
<p>What’s the point of even doing a study like that? Why not do studies that actually have some relevance to real-world weight loss. The only people in the world who actually believe a 500 calorie a day starvation diet makes sense are nutrition researchers. That’s nuts…</p>
<p>As least I agree with one expert quoted in the article. In fact, I think his observation is pretty much self-evident:</p>
<p>After all my criticism of SuperFeet (except for the awesome flip flops) I am trying them again. Got the raspberry (women’s) from Zappos. Need to cut them down to fit. My forefeet are getting sore in some of my more cushioned shoes, which is strange. I’m hoping the SuperFeet will help. </p>
<p>Drizzly fall day. Managed 5.2 and was thinking about hot yoga, but got a lunch invite so I got cleaned up and don’t want to get un-clean, so will delay that sweaty mess of a workout until tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>The New Balance Ultra-Arch Insoles come in whole number sizes.</p>
<p>Ran 3 miles, 9:39 pace. Felt incredibly hungry after one mile. Sunset getting earlier and earlier is messing up my eating and sleeping habits and it has been busy at work. I need to get back in some kind of rhythm.</p>
<p>looks like the Raspberry SuperFeet is the women’s version of the Orange that I use in shoes with removable insoles. Nice cushioning for the front of the foot. Knock on wood, I have had zero foot pain since I got the Brooks shoes with these inserts more than a year ago.</p>
<p>MOfWC, I have the pink insoles, too (in one pair of my Brooks runners), and I loooove them. I like them better than Viestrus insoles that I have in my other pair of running shoes.</p>
<p>Your PT has great videos. I was shown a similar thing - wall sit ups while holding and tightly squeezing a ball (I use an old basketball) between the knees, down and up, down and up, 30 times at least. Ouch.</p>
<p>I can promise that I’m not going to try a 3 minute wall sit any time soon! Ouch.</p>
<p>I think of wall sits as a stepping stone on the way to squatting. The squat is going to engage all the muscles of the upper leg, including the hamstrings and the glutes, while the wall sit is going to mostly work the quads just above the knees.</p>
<p>OK, you shamed me into it. I just tried the wall sit. I lasted 60 seconds, but the quads were starting to get a serious burn. Hey at least I wasn’t in total agony like I was when iPod nazi made me do them at 250 pounds.</p>
<p>You guys are good! I feel virtuous just watching the video of the wall sit! </p>
<p>I may start my job on Monday- or not. The intake process is a little slow. Not complaining, since I’m still getting severance and I get to relax without having to actually DO the job!</p>
<p>Walked the big dog. Loved the pink insoles for walking at least. I’m wondering what I didn’t like about them a few years ago?</p>
<p>Day off for me. I was spent last night after yesterday’s workout, although (fortunately) not sore today. Still, a recovery day seemed to be the ticket.</p>
<p>I think the typical complaint with SuperFeet is from people who cannot tolerate the firm arch support. They seem to recommend starting with one of the lower arch models and progressing as your foot adapts. The salesman tried to start me out with the BLUE version in the Brooks, but the arch support in the ORANGE felt fine for me from the start. Adapting was never an issue. The arch support felt great right away.</p>
<p>I actually think my foot has developed a bit of a natural arch just from having the proper support and getting some weight on the outside edge of my foot.</p>
<p>The cushioning foam pad in the ORANGE or BERRY is nothing that seems that hard to adapt to, unless it makes the shoe too tight. It’s just high density foam. When I go shoe shopping now, I take a a pair of ORANGE and a pair of BLUE Superfeet insoles with me to make sure I can get a size that accommodates one or other other.</p>
<p>Today’s run: 3.51 miles in 34:42. I felt really sluggish today, I think I was a bit dehydrated because I was really wanting some water, which I don’t usually think about. But it’s done. I think I’ll try some of those wall sits.</p>
<p>That was when I started on my jihad for single leg balance, which I have been working on in every workout, three days a week, ever since.</p>
<p>I got a wild hair tonight and decided to see if I had made any progress. So I did four or five on each leg, squatting to the top of a desk. That was easy, so I tried squatting to a bar stool that was a couple inches above my knee. That was easy, so I did four for five on each leg squatting to the arm of a love seat that was at about my knee height. So far so good, so then I did three on each leg squatting to a dining room chair, which is getting pretty close to thighs parallel to the ground for me – probably about as deep as the geezer in the video. I was able to do three reps per leg! I’ll have to try them for realz with 5 lb DBs as counterweights (makes it easier) after I’m fully warmed up tomorrow.</p>
<p>I’m pretty excited because that means that I’ve accomplished both of major goals at the start of the year: doing an unassisted chinup and doing a single leg squat. That’s some real progress.</p>
<p>I’ve still got a ways to go before I really own either of them. My single leg balance still has a way to go, too. That’s really been a long-term project. One of the things I do everyday in my warmup is 10 one-legged jumps on each leg. Recently, I’ve found that I can bend my knee, squat down, and actually put a little oooph into them. I think that’s what got me thinking maybe it was time to try the single leg squats again.</p>
<p>How about 50 perfect pushups in 1 min? Just kidding. You are doing great, idad!</p>
<p>Blankmind, good job on your run, you still managed to run under 10 min pace. When I’m feeling thirsty, I turn into a slug.</p>
<p>I decided that I could use DH’s bike for some crosstraining while he is out, and pedaled the heck out of it! Finished off with some free weights and the infamous wall sits just for fun. The cat jumped into my lap while I was doing the sits, so it turned into a weight-bearing exercise (this cat weighs exactly 15 lb).</p>
<p>My weight has been pinned between 182 and 183 but I’ve felt thinner the last week so I asked my wife for my size 31 jeans and got them on. They were a little snug at the waist but not tight. I could probably wear these to work but I’m just going to move it to the closet and will try it on every two weeks. I’m doing the right things and feel slight body changes but the weight hasn’t moved and I often find myself intensely hungry.</p>
<p>The biggest calorie burner for me is tennis, 2.5 - 3.0 hours of tennis four times a week and I’ll lose weight. But I can’t do that in the off-season as it is near impossible to get that kind of contiguous court time indoors and the indoor courts are not as convenient to work for me as our the public courts.</p>
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Just kidding. You are doing great, idad!</p>