<p>Eddie- That’s great! You are an inspiration to me.</p>
<p>TheAnalyst, Cardinal Fang is correct: Exercises in the pool are not weight-bearing. </p>
<p>Exercises that force you to “pound” are weight-bearing – e.g., jogging, jumping rope, playing tennis, gymnastics, just plain walking. In addition, lifting free weights (not in the water!) stresses the bones of your skeleton; hence, you build bone. </p>
<p>Lifting weights in the water means you’re not really lifting them; the water is doing it for you.</p>
<p>CardinalFang is correct. Swimmers who do not do any dryland exercises are at a greater risk for osteoporosis. Many swim teams make their athletes do weight-bearing exercises: run, lift weights, do lunges, etc. so their athletes’ bones do not deteriorate.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. That was what I was telling her but she thought the resistance of the water made it OK and it sounded plausible enough I figured I would seek a second opinion. </p>
<p>We took our older son out to lunch at Ruby Tuesday’s today and there was absolutely nothing on the menu that looked remotely low calorie except for a $9 salad bar. I didn’t want to pay that for a small salad–no side salads offered at all. So I just had a cup of tea while they ate. Then we stopped in the Kroger’s where I picked up a small bag of baby carrots, some cherry tomatoes and a package of low fat string cheese (had a little of each and let S take the rest back to his apartment). H and S picked up some brownies that were on sale, so everybody was happy. I really don’t know how people eat out happily. Every time I try it’s a disaster.</p>
<p>Eddie, you are doing great.</p>
<p>^^^Congratulations on resisting and on following up with something both cheap and healthy. I rarely eat out anymore (finances have something to do with it as well!), but when I do, I really try to stick to “real” food – meat, vegetable, potato unadorned.</p>
<p>You guys are doing great. Congrats! This thread is helping me think a little before stuffing things in my mouth. I need to get the focus back to good nutrition. It’s just such cr%ppy weather that I want to “comfort eat”.</p>
<p>Have we discussed food journals? I have started keeping one again, and it’s a great help with thinking before (and after) eating. I buy a nice, spiral-bound journal, and each page is the same format, one page for each day. I keep track of hours of sleep, number of walks with total time and how far I went up our hill, each meal and snack, weight. If the meal is at a resturant, I note that. </p>
<p>I just started doing servings of fruits and vegeatables too. If I eat something naughty, I circle that. </p>
<p>If you haven’t done this, you should try it. It really helps get your eating under control.</p>
<p>I have been using Daily Plate on Livestrong. It makes you think before putting something in your mouth.
For those who have added fish to your diet where do you buy it? We aren’t big fish eaters but I would like to add it to our diet. No salmon.</p>
<p>Yes - I have a journal. It’s a steno pad. A new page every day. I put the date, my weight, what I eat (not counting points or calories yet), and how many calories I burned at the YMCA. I am also starting to put my mood or feelings in - to see how or if it is affecting my eating/exercising habits. Actually, I must admit - I did this same thing 3.5 years ago when I lost 40 pounds. And I can see now that I was disenchanted for about 6 weeks before I totally stopped caring. I was specifically writing about it. But you know what? I didn’t change a single thing. Looking back, I should have changed up the foods I was eating, or the type of exercising I was doing. I needed to do something different and didn’t even realize that was my problem at the time.</p>
<p>Ah, the advantage of reflection. This time you’re ready, eddie.</p>
<p>Interesting that H is still buying donuts and cakes at the grocery store, when D and I are really watching what we eat. And he’s the only one in the famiy who is visibly overweight. It will be interesting to see if our behavior influences his.</p>
<p>H’s eating habits make no difference to my food choices. I make positive eating and exercise decisions when I feel good and less healthy choices when stressed, overworked, depressed, or am otherwise unhappy. I finally made the changes I needed to be happier (changed my job two years ago) and have been able to more successfully manage my weight since then. H had nothing to do with my unhappiness nor was there anything he could have done to fix it. Those were issues I had to resolve on my own.</p>
<p>Boy, we have some real “Losers” on this thread! It is wonderful to hear about your success! I thinking checking in here keeps us all honest!</p>
<p>Missypie- I am like the Analyst, what others do has no impact on my eating. I am far more likely to nibble when I am stressed or depressed. Actually, I was thinking it might be harder and more stressful for your DH if the two of you are being more careful about your health. I don’t know, everyone is different.</p>
<p>I don’t have much will power if faced with unhealthy choices. I am better if I don’t let myself get hungry. Friday while shopping with my D we didn’t stop for lunch till after 2. She wanted In and Out Burger. I was starved and the fries disappeared quick.
Today made french toast out of challah bread. Had a slice but I don’t do syrup or sugar so that helps. Valentine’s breakfast.</p>
<p>I bought edamame! I love it! Great snack!</p>
<p>I bought it at Costcos. For $5.99 you get four 14-ounce bags. I just took a bag, put some in a bowl and defrosted them in the micro so they were still cold, but unfrozen.</p>
<p>Delicious! My kids actually prefer their veggies raw so I’m thinking they might like these as well - they have ALWAYS eaten their green beans raw!</p>
<p>Never underestimate the power of a nice, sweet carrot as a snack. Now that’s a food where I can’t eat just one.</p>
<p>Personally I like to eat a couple of strawberries when I need a snack. Today friends of ours took us out for lunch as a thank you for looking after their birds. We had Chinese and I really didn’t eat too much, though I did share a cocktail with dh. Then it turned out they had dessert waiting for us at their house and we couldn’t say no. She’d made “cupcakes”, but since the wife is into healthy eating what they really were was healthy muffins. Okay, but I have to admit I was thinking if I had to eat calories I didn’t want they could at least be tastier!</p>
<p>Mathmom - I still think calories consumed in order to be nice should not register on our bodies. Think how much nicer we would be to one another!</p>
<p>Poor D - her boyfriend bought her a HUGE quantity of chocolate and other candy for V. Day. I told her to just put it in the freezer.</p>
<p>I hope she does missypie, for incentive tell her the “no sugar” lady online passed on her own birthday cake this weekend!</p>