<p>We have no internet yet at the house, so I’ve tried to keep up a little with my iPhone and now today at work.</p>
<p>I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Lifting, hauling, up and down stairs. Glad I’m a fit person! H and I are very tired. Did get up for 2.4 miles this morning. The initial take off from the new house is flatter than the old, which is nice. I can still do my hills, but I have some options for flatter and easier if I want just a couple of miles. There is still a lot of construction going on in the immediate neighborhood, so I have to be careful not to trip over rough asphalt and raised manhole covers.</p>
<p>Our kitchen is in shambles, so we can’t really fix food yet.</p>
<p>MOfWC, I feel your pain! Moving is equivalent to two housefires, as my grandfather used to say. We moved 12 years ago to a neighborhood that was still under construction. I’m still scarred from that experience. :)</p>
<p>I went for a followup with my ortho. The doc says that my knee is waaaay better, and my current inflammation stems from the IT band that probably worked too hard to support the leg while the knee was “out”. I was prescribed specific stretches to do daily, but was given the green light to run. Fingers crossed. </p>
<p>NMinn: I saw your posts. Ouch!!! Sending positive vibes your way. I hope you will get better soon. Kidneys tend to cause excruciating pain (been there as a teen). Hang in there.</p>
<p>IT band issues are straightforward to fix (heard from coworkers that had the problem in the past). Sounds like you’re back in the running business. I can imagine how that felt - not being able to do something that you love and are in training with.</p>
<p>(Referring to the upthread convo on kitchen scales: That will be the day–when my DH exercises portion control! If he likes something, he eats seconds. What he likes is meat, mac & cheese, cheesy potatoes, pasta…</p>
<p>But this thread isn’t about negativity, is it? :D</p>
<p>My PT for shoulders/neck is going great. If I feel pain any time during the day from the arthritis problem, I know what to do. Those shoulder exercises are GREAT. Next week he’s adding weights to the routine. Yikes.</p>
<p>And the PT guy is excellent at kneading out the knots in my muscles. Too bad I let it go so long, but my doc really was warning me AGAINST PT. He said, it’s arthritis, there’s not much they can do, don’t waste your money. HA! </p>
<p>Doing a lot of high intensity exercising. I have become concerned about my waist circumference and how unhealthy it is. I carry all my weight in the middle of my body, I swear! I will turn 37 next week and it was at that age one of my Aunts had a heart attack. She was shaped just like me. That has been on my mind a lot.</p>
<p>This is my first birthday that I truly feel OLD.</p>
<p>He now lives in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and often teaches at the nearby Omega Institute, a New Age emporium spread over nearly 200 acres of woods and gardens. He is known for his rigor and his down-to-earth style. But this was not why I sought him out: Black, I’d been told, was the person to speak with if you wanted to know not about the virtues of yoga but rather about the damage it could do. Many of his regular clients came to him for bodywork or rehabilitation following yoga injuries. This was the situation I found myself in. In my 30s, I had somehow managed to rupture a disk in my lower back and found I could prevent bouts of pain with a selection of yoga postures and abdominal exercises. Then, in 2007, while doing the extended-side-angle pose, a posture hailed as a cure for many diseases, my back gave way. With it went my belief, na</p>
<p>One of my dear (but rather negative) running friends sent me that yoga article. Of course, his take was “See, yoga is terrible for you!” He had some short-lived experience with yoga some years ago at a fitness center and thinks all yoga mirrors his experience. I told him I found hot yoga to be VERY different and I was never once encouraged to do something I shouldn’t. To the contrary, I usually get told NOT to push (being as they quickly figured out my personality). I’ve done other types of yoga, too, and I certainly can see how you could hurt yourself. But, frankly, that’s the case with almost anything. You have to be careful and you have to do things properly. There is always a risk of a bad instructor or trainer. I just didn’t see how this was such big news.</p>
<p>6.25 miles, 9:10 pace. I eased up quite a bit from yesterday and felt like I could go another quarter. I’m taking son to the Y tonight (we didn’t go last night - too cold out) and I plan to do weight machines but I could run a mile with him too.</p>
<p>I think that I’d be a real runner if I didn’t play tennis.</p>
<p>BCE- You defiinitely are doing really well with your running. Not that I’m not slow anyway, but I’m trying to keep my January REALLY slow to just have some less-taxing runs before I kick into marathon training. Ugh.</p>
<p>I think yoga is only bad for you if you too quickly try to push your body into the positions. When I was into yoga a couple years ago it took me months to be able to hold/ go into certain poses. I still can’t do downward dog with my heels down. And, I am a former cheerleader/someone who was pretty good at gymnastics. I love yoga and view it as something that gives me strength and quiets my brain. Just my opinion. Not everyone is into the same thing. I have no desire to do competitive sports aside from running and never had.</p>
<p>I don’t do yoga (except for some of the sadistic stuff iPod nazi made me do in that abs program), but from what I’ve seen, it’s like anything else. There’s some really good stuff. Some stuff that will probably hurt you sooner or later. And, mostly a bunch of stuff in between. I don’t think there’s anything in yoga that’s worse than doing crunches.</p>
<p>Darn you arabrab. Why did I have to get a kitchen scale and find out how big a handful of peanuts really is! :)</p>
<p>Great feature. Put a cup of coffee on the scale, hit TARE, and read out how much half n’ half I’m adding in fluid ounces. I’ve been understimating by a third. What I thought was one ounce is really 1.5 ounces. Amazing I’ve lost any weight at all. Although, all things considered, my tracking has probably been accurate within a hundred calories a day, which isn’t too shabby.</p>
<p>The white one was on sale for $19.99 (probably because it’s more of a “flourescent lighting” green, not really white!). Thin profile, glass top. Buttons are touch sensitive areas on the glass.</p>
<p>Ran a mile with my son and did two abs weight machines while he finished his run.</p>
<p>I much prefer running in the sleeveless techs than the dri-fit t’s though I don’t think that’s a function of brand. I can run in t-shirts but I prefer sleeveless. At any rate, I still have four techs (3 XLs and 1 L) and those are fine for now.</p>
<p>I wore the T into the office today and someone in the kitchen was startled to see me. He said “Wow, you’ve lost a lot of weight!” Before, it was hard to tell because I was wearing larger clothes. Two of my dress shirts would be good for a waist size of 38 so there was some puffing in the back.</p>
<p>This morning I messed up on the carbs. I had 150 grams of carbs - my target was about 110-120. Two cups of rice + a clif bar = too many carbs. So I bought a big box of Cheez-Its this evening so that I can dial in the carbs more precisely.</p>
<p>My wife made this big pot of beef bolognaise, spaghetti and rice. I used my handy, dandy kitchen scale to measure out 12 ounces (no spaghetti, no rice). Just finished it and I’m going back for another four ounces.</p>
<p>I sympathize with your hubby. If I like it, I want to eat a lot of it. The key, for me, has been finding a diet that lets me eat stuff I really like, and a lot of it. That has meant eating none of some other stuff I like, but that’s the trade off. If I want to eat a big steak or a ridiculous chicken caesar salad, then I have to say goodbye to the mac 'n cheese. </p>
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<p>Good to hear that your PT has your shoulders coming around. I think this “arthritis” diagnosis is a bit of a catch all for stiff painful joints. Sometimes, it really is bone on bone and there’s not much you can do about it. But, sometimes a little targeted rehab might work wonders. All you can do it try. What kind of exercises does your PT have you doing?</p>
<p>Ended up at Marshall’s today. Mine had a veritable rainbow of short sleeved technical shirts on sale: Nike, UA, Avia, New Balance etc. Sadly, didn’t need anything, so I passed.</p>
<p>Then later in the day, came across one of these:</p>
<p>Thought I had seen it all, but somehow missed this particular apparatus. Not really considering one for myself, but am curious, anyone ever use one?
Seems like the perfect bike for all you marathoners…</p>
<p>This is something that’s confused me with measurements–isn’t the bolognese spaghetti sauce more like a liquid than a solid food like meat. I would measure it using a cup rather than a scale. I would measure a meat serving using a scale. What’s correct?</p>