<p>Honey Nut Cheerios (with half n’ half) was my cereal vice. I don’t picture myself ever eating another bowl of cereal – although I did get into a small bowl of my wife’s “healthy” Grape Nuts early on in my diet. Now, I try to limit my splurge snacks to things like nuts or cheese or fruit. Apples are my current vice, but at least there’s some fiber along with the fructose.</p>
<p>I expect to eat a lot more cereal in the future. I picked up a box of Trader Joes Wheat Bites and Trader O’s. Also a loaf of wheat fiber bread at 90 calories per slice. It’s interesting that the cereals both have a decent amount of protein. At any rate, it actually takes a little effort getting in 500 calories of carbs in the morning. I will be experimenting with the amount - 500 is a safe number for four miles. Since you’re going on blood suger for the first two, 300 might actually be enough.</p>
<p>Bread is also my weakness. I just don’t buy it anymore. Tonight’s dinner menu: Turkey stuffed peppers. I mix ground turkey, broccoli slaw, slivered portabella mushrooms with seasonings and stuff the pepper and pour sugar free tomato sauce over them and bake. It smells good in here!!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the comments about Wheat Belly. I guess I should read it. The Taubes book really changed my whole thinking about food, so I know these books can be worthwhile. </p>
<p>I have never been a big veggies eater, so I get most of my carbs (about 70 g per day) from a bowl of oatmeal, with flaxseed and berries, in the morning and a fiber bar as an afernoon snack. My weight has been stable for the past few months, which I can live with although I wouldn’t mind losing 5 pounds either. Perhaps I do need to cut out the wheat altogether.</p>
<p>For those that have a bread weakness, you might give very high fiber bread a try. It is pretty hard to eat a lot of it and I don’t think that it triggers the strong desire to eat more of it. I used to wolf down a whole loaf of white or near-white bread in the past but I don’t do so with the very high-fiber breads.</p>
<p>I need to prepare some oatmeal for breakfast tomorrow.</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the [Podcast</a> with the Wheat Belly doctor](<a href=“http://robbwolf.com/2011/08/30/the-paleo-solution-episode-95/]Podcast”>The Paleo Solution – Episode 95).</p>
<p>I’m not really a “paleo” guy, but these podcasts are entertaining more often than not. Robb Wolf and Greg Everett are knowledgeable and intelligent about nutrition and exercise. Both own gyms. Wolf was involved in the very first Crossfit gym and they go on some epic rants about Crossfit, over-training, and injuring people.</p>
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<p>Back in the saddle with a New Rules of Lifting workout after a week off. Felt great. Picked up right where I left off with the same weights and had a good solid workout. Did all 8 reps of the second set of chinups without band assistance: 4 then rest, 2 then rest, 2 then rest.</p>
<p>Got in a double today…</p>
<p>Morning
20 minutes Elliptical
3x7 TRX Leg Workout: Hamstring Curls, Hip Abduction, Bridges all laying on my back
3x7 KB Swings (50#)
3x7 KB Snatch (20#) each arm</p>
<p>Evening
7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Front Squats with 95#
1/4-1/2-1/4 runs (total 1 mile)</p>
<p>Knee is still in a pretty bad shape. It is not bruised or swollen, but the kneecap feels misaligned and hurts. Grrrrrr… By the time it heals, I will have Arnold arms from all this weight lifting. :)</p>
<p>That sounds like bone on bone. Can you get something to align the kneecap (tape, patella strip, knee sleeve)? Can you click the kneecap into the right position so that the kneecap is riding over cartilage? Bone on bone over time is bad.</p>
<p>Bunsen, go see the doctor for your knee. Pain is bad!</p>
<p>bunsenburner - have you had your back checked out ? i was having knee problems earlier this year and it was because my back was out of alignment. i was in chiropractic treatment for a good long while and it took care of the problem. i still get adjustments regularly. the knee pain was worse after i sat for any length of time. i would get up from my chair and could barely walk. i had twisted my back about a year ago and that’s how it ended up not being in alignment.</p>
I got my home weights, stretching, abs and glutes workout in last night (actually early AM) and didn’t get enough sleep so I’m drinking 1/2 cup of coffee this morning. I haven’t had coffee in quite some time but I’ll make sure to drink enough water before my run today.
I keep meaning to do an efit30 workout (because I miss all of the pushups) but the stretching, abs and glutes workout is shorter and in parts making it easier to do while I’m partially doing something else.
Last night I used my MacBook Pro for the videos instead of the iPad. The MacBook Pro came with a very small remote control and it’s a lot easier to stop and rewind or fast forward than on the iPad. You can move back or forth on the iPad but the gesture is rather imprecise. To stop it, you have to tap the screen and then hit the stop button. The remote is much easier. The MacBook Pro has a bigger screen too - it’s just a little more work to move it from the floor to the table and back depending on the exercise.
I had patella problems that were so bad about 10 or 12 years ago that I used crutches from time to time. About six weeks of no running and no tennis (basically rest) fixed the problem. That was before I discovered the New Balance Arch Supports - they help to prevent PF but they also help to prevent knee problems for me in running and tennis. I was wearing them in my street shoes but I stopped several months ago because the weight loss allowed it.
Bunsen, your poor knee, how did you manage to whack it out so badly?
Sewhappy, your dad sounds like my kind of guy! I could easily sit down to a plate of pie, or a plate of cake or brownies or cookies, etc, etc, etc. It’s scary how much I can eat at one sitting. No one ever believes me when I tell them this, they think I’m exaggerating lol. But like your dad, I only do this once in a blue moon. It’s like I overdose on the sweet carbs and then I don’t want them again for a really long time.
<p>Was supposed to get up at 5:20am for a 6 mile run. Didn’t sleep well, heard storms at 4:30 and turned off the alarm. Got up at 6 and ran 2 miles just for the stupid streak. It was a light, 58 degree rain, which wasn’t bad even by my I-hate-to-run-in-the-rain standards. Better than nothing. Problem is that I have a Vanderbilt game tonight so can’t run after work, so it was this morning or never.</p>
<p>Picture update. Note that the difference between the last two pictures is only three to four pounds but it feels like a lot more due to the effect on my clothes.</p>
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<p>Very impressive BCEagle – not just slimmer and more fit looking, but younger looking, as well. </p>
<p>I went for a run/walk this morning and all that Halloween candy yesterday seemed to power me up. I went 1.5 hours, lost count of how many ipod songs I ran vs. walked. Felt really, really good. Now when I run I don’t feel as if I’m just getting thru that part, I feel really strong and in control of the faster pace. </p>
<p>Hope the rest of the day goes as well. A bunch of idiot turkeys woke us up at 4 am, honking and squawking in our backyard. Crazy NJ, everyday’s an adventure.</p>
Sometimes having all of those carbs feels good on a run.
How much of a workout can you get harvesting turkeys? I think that they’re selling for $0.60/pound at my local grocery store. Worst experience I had with a wild turkey was when one flew over the median on a highway right in front of me. I believe that a DPW worker got a free turkey dinner.
I sometimes pace myself with iPod songs too. The typical song is around 3.2 to 4 minutes and I like to count three songs per mile. Of course some songs are a lot longer and a few are a lot shorter.
<p>Nice progress, BCE. Great photos.</p>
<p>sewhappy- excellent walk/run. I think those over-distance sessions really help with metabolism/calorie burning.</p>
Just read where a streaker in Boise Idaho got caught up in a barbed wire fence.
Run safe, people! 
<p>Awesome transformation, BC! What a great photo sequence. You look fantastic!</p>
<p>What’s really interesting is that you have, from what I can tell, been exercising a lot – heavy, thin, and in between. It just goes to show how much of role diet plays in this stuff.</p>