<p>Posting this just for laughs. Wow, there are some whacky diets out there that I’ve never heard of:</p>
<p>[Diets</a> That Don’t Work | Yahoo! Health](<a href=“Health | Yahoo Life”>Health | Yahoo Life)</p>
<p>LOL. Cabbage soup diet leading to 10 lb weight loss in a week… Baby food… Chew your food and spit it out… Yuck.</p>
<p>I seem to be on the Dunkin Donuts diet. Count is up to 3, but I only ate a Clementine and a banana for lunch to make up for it. I have now banned myself from the break/coffee room.</p>
<p>MOfWC, it was only 3. No worries. 
Pizza lunch at work today. Cabbage soup diet for the rest of the week!! LOL.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that the Dunkin’ Donuts Diet is on that list of diets that won’t work! :)</p>
<p>I have to buy my bags of Dunkin Donuts whole bean coffee from the drive-thru window because I don’t need the temptation of staring at that wall of donuts.</p>
3 sets, 6-1, 6-0, 4-6, two hours. I lost focus in the last set. There’s a preschool class that the Y holds on the court next to ours and the kids are literally screaming and shouting. I shouldn’t let it get to me but it does happen. My opponent is getting better and better and I tell him so but he says that it is very frustrating to play me because I run everything down. I told him that I lost a lot of weight and he said that he noticed.
A manager came into my office earlier and offered me chocolates but I declined. We talked about weight loss and he told me that I look like a college student now. We used to share the same office so he saw me all the time many years ago.
I had my usual two sausages for after-workout snack (or lunch). There’s free pizza in two hours but I don’t think that I’ll stick around for it.
<p>Luckily while I like Dunkin Donuts coffee, I don’t feel any great need to buy it regularly. We reserve Dunkin Donuts for roadtrips.</p>
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<p>I haven’t found an all-around everyday whole bean coffee, for the price, that I like better than Dunkin Donuts. I usually try to buy some of the burned Starbucks House Blend beans on sale at Marshall’s and grind a little of that in with the Dunkin Donuts to give it a little more kick. I will buy the mild Starbuck’s Breakfast Blend as a change of pace. They don’t burn those beans very much.</p>
<p>All the stuff in the grocery store that is as good as Dunkin Donuts is more expensive. DD has a buy-3 get 1 free sale right now which makes it $6.35 per pound.</p>
<p>Dunkin Donuts is my favorite coffee too - most consistent provider of coffee in my opinion.</p>
<p>We get free coffee in the office though I have moved over to mainly tea.</p>
<p>Sadly, I don’t like coffee. Just donuts. And not usually Dunkin. One of the (few) things I really miss about Dallas are the Asian-owned, independent donut shops that were spaced about 2 miles apart all over town. SO good. Or-maybe I don’t miss those. No wonder I was fatter in Dallas!</p>
<p>I now live in a town with no donut shops. Which is really good, most of the time. But every so often – say twice a year – I’d really, really like one decent donut. We do have a cafe that makes fine beignets, though that’s not quite the same.</p>
<p>Went for a walk today in the cold, and remembered how much I do not like walking once the wind comes up even a bit on an already chilly day, especially once the sun has dipped below the mountains. I’m in the last (I hope) remnants of this head cold, and I hope my oomph comes back soon, because it got seriously clobbered. Luckily, my appetite also got clobbered.</p>
<p>OK, after my false start on Tuesday, I jumped back into the fray again with a New Rules of Lifting workout.</p>
<p>I used a whole bunch of my gray metal hex prison dumbbells today. Used a pair of 25 lbs for the rear foot elevated split squats. Used a 15 lb’er for the Turkish Get Ups. Used a pair of 10lbs to hold my foam roller in place on top of my step for my ghetto rear foot elevated split squat bench!</p>
<p>Used some of the big ones, too. 35 lb’ers for the [hang</a> snatch](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube) and bench press (head and shoulders only on stability ball). Used a 55 lb’er for the lateral steps up to a bench and plank position single arm rows.</p>
<p>Overall, a good punch-the-clock workout. I think I’ve finally kicked this lingering cold.</p>
<p>Spicy chipotle chicken caesar salad for dinner.</p>
^^ Glad you are feeling back normal! Dinner sounds good. I had a hair appt after work and my gal over-poured the wine a little bit. I felt like I was sitting there with a tumbler! Donuts and wine… Leftover Indian food for dinner.
<p>Wine and cheese for dinner here. I did not feel like cooking for myself. D is probably partying in Boston after finals, and DH is stuck in Europe for the weekend. Sheesh… I’d love to be in their shoes. Laundry and vacuuming is not too exciting… </p>
<p>Freaked the cat out to the point of explosive hissing by doing sprints around the kitchen. Me thinks I have to try minimalist shoes for running. My ortho doc suggested experimenting with no support shoes. She consults UW x-counrty athletes, so she might know something about running. :)</p>
Went to the Y with son tonight. Did some of the weight machines and a bunch of exercises on the free weights. It’s nice to have tons of rubber-coated dumbbells handy. I was moderately sore after tennis today so I skipped the two-mile run.
I skipped the pizza at work but came home to … pizza. Choice of homemade garlic or homemade eggplant. It’s a good thing today was tennis day when my calorie allowance goes up quite a bit.
CC has had outages two days in a row. I had database errors before. I wonder if they are using MySQL (common with PhpBB forum sites). Maybe they need to upgrade to something industrial strength.
<p>Sounds like the knee is a lot better.</p>
<p>Working on this crazy one-leg deadlift in today’s workout.</p>
<p>[One</a> Leg Deadlift - YouTube](<a href=“One Leg Deadlift - YouTube”>One Leg Deadlift - YouTube)</p>
<p>It’s one of those where I can tell right up front that it’s going to be a long-term project. I kind of plop down on the back knee at the bottom. Not yet to the stage where I have complete control. But, I’ll keep chipping away at it. At least I can sort of do it.</p>
<p>H is going to build me a wobble board out of maple. Between that and the free weights I have and have been acquiring (Craigslist, great!) the tubes and bands, and the fake val slides, I think I will then have just about everything I need for a full workout at home. I’d like to get some of those TRX suspension trainers, but installing them poses a few issues, so that’s going to wait a bit. As we head into crummier weather, the thought of being able to get nice, full exercise sessions in without having to scrape ice and snow off the car is very motivating. </p>
<p>Went to a dinner party last night; it turned out to be a surprisingly low-carb friendly dinner. I did have a small piece of the cake for dessert, but I was quite content with that. </p>
<p>The cold has now settled in as an annoying cough, and I’ve finished off the vat of chicken soup I made last Tuesday. I’m trying to figure out if I need to make another vat. (It was some mighty fine chicken soup, I must say.)</p>
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<p>The Jungle Gym XT is considerably cheaper and includes a door anchor so that you can just wedge it in a door. A permanent ceiling or wall hook would be better, but you could do most of the good exercises (like inverted rows) with the door anchor.</p>
<p>Perform Better has it on holiday sale for $79.95 with free shipping. This would be a great Christmas idea for fitness geeks. </p>
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<p>In a lot of ways, I think this would be a fantastic starting point for home fitness. I wish I had one when I was just starting trying to do squats and stuff because it allows you to hang on the straps and reduce the load. Plus, it’s perfect for inverted rows. And there are full workouts that you could do if you had no other equipment.</p>
<p>Thanks, iDad – how does it work to do squats with a door frame? I’m having trouble with the geometry of that.</p>
<p>I was mega-sore this morning - combination of tennis and weight exercises that I hadn’t done for some time.</p>
<p>I’m transcoding some videos that I downloaded a while ago and will try one of the Yoga videos.</p>