<p>[Health</a> | Yoga can help undo damage running does to your body | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2016709668_yogrun08.html]Health”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2016709668_yogrun08.html)</p>
<p>Back from a trip to the cabin. Got some great hiking in which is a bonus at this time of the year. No snow yet!!! Hit the gym this morning and biked for an hour. Felt good on my knee since the hiking had made it a little stiff. Will try to do something else here at home in between laundry loads!</p>
<p>Happy belated birthday CJane!!! :)</p>
<p>Good article. Unfortunately, many runners (cough, cough) ARE competitive and tend to overdo it even in yoga. Imagine that! Also, I’ve seen a lot of runners get hurt due to poor yoga instructors. I really think hot yoga is a good thing for runners, but it is so hard that it can be hard to fit it in because it isn’t an “easy” day. It sure addresses balance, flexibility, breathing and strength.</p>
<p>I ran across this book at Barnes and Noble this weekend. Has anyone read it? Does it add anything new to the discussion about carbs? </p>
<p>(Just as an aside, I was put off by the picture of the bagels on the front of the book. Petty, perhaps, but if the message is that wheat is bad, don’t present me with enticing images of wheat products.)</p>
<p>4 miles, 9:25 pace. Smith machine and abbreviated free weights.</p>
<p>It looks like I can go back to running longer distances again. I went with 120 grams of carbs this morning (most likely overkill) and everything was fine. I’ll finish up the free weight routine at home and maybe do a video tonight.</p>
<p>amesie - i haven’t read the entire WB book yet. i’ve been following the WB blog and there is a Facebook page on it too. here is a link for the essentials of the diet:
[Wheat</a> Belly: Quick and Dirty | Wheat Belly](<a href=“http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2011/10/wheat-belly-quick-and-dirty/]Wheat”>http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2011/10/wheat-belly-quick-and-dirty/)</p>
<p>i notice that flaxseed is suggested for breakfast and so i’ve tried that the last couple of days. it’s incredibly filling. i haven’t really done the WB diet full throttle yet though so i’m sorry i can’t tell you if it works or not for sure. i do find for me though personally that i do feel much better when i avoid wheat products.</p>
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<p>Yep. That is what I am experiencing, too. I’ve also noticed that I’m getting a little better at that exercise — keeping everything squared up and really keying on the glutes. It’s a terrific addition to my warmup routine because it’s not very difficult to do, but focuses on getting an important muscle group limbered up and working. I noticed the difference in firing the hips doing swings the other day.</p>
<p>The next step is to apply it to birddogs and plank with one arm and one leg raised – exercises that I have been doing, but not doing with the proper glute emphasis.</p>
<p>I got into the leftover Halloween candy today. It was really ugly and something that I don’t often do. They are going to be angry when they discover all the little bags of M&Ms are gone. Don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m just starved all the time lately. Maybe it’s the weight lifting?</p>
<p>Hey BC: Sometimes it just pays to be lucky. I stopped by a TJMaxx and found a couple of bargains in long sleeve tech shirts. A plain steel gray ACIS long sleeve shirt for $10 and a black long sleeve Champion C9 with little discrete gray bits on the sides for $7.99. The C9 fits really well – just slightly fitted, something I have found in their short sleeve shirts, too. For $7.99, I wouldn’t mind a few more colors.</p>
I’m in.(10).
Amesie:
I listened to the Robb Wolf podcast interview with the Wheat Belly guy. He’s a cardiac MD who initially got involved with low carb diets with his patients to quicky reverse cholesterol risk factors. From that, he noticed that cutting wheat out of the diet had the biggest impact. Possibly because cutting out wheat automatically reduces carbs and eliminates most of the junk in the standard American diet. He takes it a step further and ponders whether it has to do with rapid introduction of genetically-engineered strains of wheat.
sewhappy:
The only thing that stopped my Halloween candy binge was that I finally ate it all. Well, all except the Blow Pops that don’t call my name. Peanut Butter Cups. Gone. Butterfingers. Gone. M&Ms. Gone.
It’s important for me to read or listen to Gary Taubes or Robert Lustig every so often, just to reinforce by belief that pigging out on that stuff is NOT what I want to do.
<p>It’s okay. Sometimes it’s just the thing to do. I shouldn’t have done it but I’m at peace with it and kind of enjoying the sugar buzz. Of course, I’ll feel lousy in a few hours. My dog keeps giving me reproachful looks. She didn’t get any.</p>
<p>You are right, sewhappy. You do have to just let it go. What’s eaten is eaten. My problem with carb-binging is that I can’t stop. That’s dangerous because it can mean hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of calories, calories that typically have no redeeming nutritional value whatsover. I’ve made a pact with myself. Just say no to the junk carbs like candy and chips and, in return, I get to eat fantastic meals like the massive thick cut pork chops and fresh asparagus that I grilled last night.</p>
<p>My deal with candy is that I will eat whatever I buy, so my candy treats have to be an occasional small bag. I have a little fling with 350 sour gummy worm calories and that’s that. Halloween got me in trouble because, once I had polished off 300 stupid calories of chocolate, there was still more in the bag.</p>
<p>It’s funny how we all have different triggers. I am not all that tempted by candy. I can eat one peanut butter cup or a small Musketeers without a problem. HOWEVER, if there is a pan of fudge at a potluck or office party, I can eat most of it and then I feel literally sick. Bread and yeast rolls are also “can’t stop” items for me. I used to buy those big round Hawaiian bread loafs at the grocery store and tear off pieces until it was almost all gone.</p>
<p>sewhappy and idad - my h and i indulged in some glasses of wine last night and one thing led to another and then …we hit the leftover halloween candy too ! butterfingers for my h and the little chocolate hersey bars for me ! what were we thinking !<br>
my h’s biggest vice is tortilla chips. we cannot keep those in the house or he will eat the entire bag !<br>
sewhappy - our dog once got into the halloween candy. he suffered a seizure and we then had to have him on cooked rice and hamburger mixture for a week after that. poor thing ! no halloween for him !
mowc- breads can be a trigger for me too. i am so much better off if i am on an all or nothing plan…so for me now…saying i can have no wheat…really helps me stay away from the breads (which I love). i read somewhere that when you crave a food then that might be an food that you are actually allergic too…i.e., then bread = wheat sensitivity. maybe it was in that wheat belly book. i can’t remember where i saw it.</p>
<p>Amen on the tortilla chips. Plain restaurant style chips. Doritos Cool Ranch chips. Doesn’t matter. Start me up on a bag of those and I never stop. Last time my wife brought home stuff for me to make fresh salsa, I had the salsa as a topping for grilled fish and never ate a single chip. I knew not to start down that road.</p>
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<p>There are theories that carbs are addicting in some way. I don’t know if that’s true or not.</p>
<p>I don’t mind having a splurge on something I really like, but I’m doing my best to not splurge on stuff that is only mediocre at best, and for me, that includes most Halloween Candy. (Put me in front of a box of Sees, however,…) Tough, though, when you have kids whose halloween bags are stuffed with stuff you really don’t want until it is looking at you all the time. </p>
<p>I’ve noticed that once I’ve gone off-track it is way too easy for me to keep heading in that same direction, thus proving that I am not smarter than a sixth-grader. But, I’m lucky in that we’re empty nesters, and H doesn’t bring much home that I would have trouble not eating. His box of Captain Crunch, or the holiday box of Crunchberries, gack, not only doesn’t sing to me, you could have it out on the counter and it would petrify before I’d touch it. (And to be perfectly fair to him, that one box could last him a month or more.)</p>
<p>I can walk past a bowl of candy or chips and not even look at it. However, a freshly baked loaf of bread will get my attention in a nanosecond! Just like MOfWC, I used to tear into loaves of bread. Eons ago, my mom would give me money for two loaves if she had to send me to the store, because she knew I’d come back with one and some crumbs… I was skinnier than a rake handle even though I ate so much bread! I must have burned all those calories while climbing trees and riding my bike all over the place. :)</p>
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<p>This makes me laugh very hard. For our dog it was Easter candy. Quite an expensive vet ordeal. </p>
<p>My DH also shares the addiction to chips. I can’t have them in the house. He comes home and instead munches on cheerios. Tides him over till dinner. Interestingly, neither kid can tolerate salty snacks and I have never seen the appeal.</p>
<p>It’s so interesting how we all crave something different. </p>
<p>My dad always says “Every now and then it’s good to sit down to a nice plate of pie.” And when he says “plate” he basically means the whole pie! He used to do this when I was growing up, couple of times a year. Always a lean man, very vigorous. Sometimes you just need that “plate of pie”.</p>