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<p>Oh, darn. I forgot to set the DVR…</p>
You can watch it on CBS Marketwatch on replay.
<p>Darn. I missed the king’s speech, too. I’m sure it will be all over the news for a few days to come. Traffic was horrendous, so instead of exercising first and then eating, I exited the freeway, went to the Nordy’s cafe and had one of their awesome salads. Even though I ate 2 hours before my run, my planned easy 5K turned into a painful slog. 26:50, and I was glad that it was over! I will never repeat this mistake - no more eating dinner prior to my runs.</p>
I love the Nordstrom restaurant!
Oh- the President spoke? Overshadowed for me by Vandy stomping Tennessee. I helped! H and I were so excited by the game that on the way home (traffic horrible getting out of Vanderbilt) we forgot we had left his car near my office and had to backtrack to get it. At least we didn’t get all the way home! (old age brain farts…)
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<p>I was organizing my sock drawer, but I sure am sorry I missed it. :)</p>
<p>I would try to catch it on the web, but I’m three episodes behind on The Biggest Loser and we all know how exciting it is to watch fat people lose weight!</p>
<p>I hope you <em>exercise</em> while watching fat people lose weight! Most of the stuff on TV these days I wouldn’t sit still for, but to each his own.</p>
Hah. Actually, I “watch” the Biggest Loser episodes as background noise while I’m cooking dinner. I especially like the nutrition advice telling them how healthy is is to eat Subway subs and making them use lean ground turkey in breakfast burritos with “whole grain” tortillias!
<p>not worried about idad not exercising ;)</p>
<p>Question on Protein Intake</p>
<p>So, I have been experimenting with paleo/low-lower carb over the last months with some good but not overly dramatic results. A bunch of pages back we discussed the study about “calories counting” and the flaws in the reporting of this study, e.g. not acknowledging the difference in the high protein vs. high carb diet results vis a vis body comp.</p>
<p>In that study if IRC the high protein folks were consuming 200 g of protein a day. WTH? I have been consciously trying to do very high protein over the last few days, just as an experiment and the highest day I had was 130g which included protein shakes, eggs and A LOT of chicken breasts.</p>
<p>I am not really interested in criticisms of a high protein diet or the bodybuilder approach to nutrition, I am well familiar with them, nor am I planning on some kind of long term super high protein diet. I am just curious-- how the heck does one incorporate those kinds of levels into a diet?</p>
<p>For those of you tracking, what are your typical daily protein amounts and what foods get you there?</p>
<p>I don’t see how I could do more than 100g a day on a regular basis. Anyone else easily exceed this amount?</p>
<p>Note to self- next time there is a high probability of rain at noon, get out of bed in the morning when it is NOT raining and do the run! 43 degrees and steady rain for first 3 of my 4 lunchtime miles. It wasn’t a downpour, and I made it, but it got a little chilly. Now all my wet running stuff is in the back of the car.</p>
<p>Probably no exercise for me today. Sitting in the hospital waiting for DH to be finished with the third of his three cardiac procedures today. Trans-esophageal scope, to check for clots in the heart vicinity; ablation, to correct the atrial flutter; and defibrillator, to eliminate the nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. He’s had more than his share of physical aliments in recent years. I plan to keep exercising until I’m 100.</p>
<p>CJaneRead–Good question. Is somebody subsidizing the steaks? 
Not to mention those amounts of protein assumes higher total calories than most people need.</p>
<p>MOWC–I am so impressed by people who run, rain or shine!</p>
<p>Next week is my last week for PT on the neck arthritis issue. My therapist can’t make the arthritis go away, alas, but he has given me great exercises for related shoulder/posture issues. And he is a god at kneading out muscle knots…makes me regret I didn’t marry a PT. :D</p>
<p>VeryHappy–good luck to your H on his health issues!</p>
<p>VeryHappy, hoping all goes smoothly with your H. Sounds like a lot to deal with.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m bored and grumpy, and slightly (but not really) worried.</p>
<p>VH, hang in there. Keeping fingers crossed for this hospital visit to go uneventfully.</p>
<p>MOfWC, even though I live in the rain capital of the US, I would have chickened out! 
I hate running in wet clothes. My hat’s off to you!</p>
<p>CJane, sorry can’t help with your protein question, but my wild guess would be supplements, such as protein powders.</p>
CJane:
I average about 100 grams of protein a day, ranging from a low of about 75 g on days when I have a dinner salad or pasta and salad to a high of about 125 g per day when I pig out on a big steak or have eggs and bacon or tuna for lunch. Its mostly from large portions of meat or seafood or poultry at dinner, plus a smattering throughout the day: cheese, half n’ half, nuts., etc.
To eat more protein, I would have to make a concerted effort to have protein for lunch instead of the soups or salads that I have most days. Or, start hitting protein shakes. But, I think I’m getting plenty of protein. 0.6 grams a day per pound of body weight is not crazy high, but it’s well up there.
<p>Don’t congratulate me. I HATE running in the rain and thought I was getting out early enough to beat it. I was completely dressed and out the door of the dungeon of a locker room in my office building (I’m not complaining- grateful to have it) before I realized it was starting to rain. After work is not an option today, so this was it. I figured I could at least do a mile (1/2 mile out and turn around) to keep the stupid streak alive and bag the 3-4 miles planned if I was too miserable. I was dressed OK and it wasn’t a really hard rain (not stinging my face, etc). I just sort of kept going, with the view that I would turn around if I got too miserable. I made it out to the 2 mile point and by 3 miles it had pretty much stopped raining. I am NOT a fan of running in the rain at all, but glad it’s done!</p>
<p>This thread FTW</p>
<p>Was on the fence about running today due to soreness from yesterday and windy and cold conditions. But reading everyone else’s achievements made me just go and do it.
45 minutes per 10K training plan. done.</p>
VeryHappy:
Hope everything went well and that your hubby is well on his way to recoverying from his procedures today. Sitting around a hospital is no fun, for you or for him.
<p>5.1 miles, precisely 500 calories burned. I started slowly, then had enough dry powder left to squeeze out about 1/3 of a mile at 7:30 pace at the end of my run. Dinner time!!</p>
<p>I did nothing yesterday outside of walking a couple of miles.</p>
<p>I only had 4.5 hours of sleep the night before and was going from 5:30 AM to 8:30 PM (got home around this time). Just had some dinner, did a little work and browsing and went to bed. I’ve done a lot of intense abs work and a lot of stretching and feel pretty good. My knee and arm feel pretty good too. We’ll see how today goes in terms of timing - I have a fair number of uncertainties in my schedule today.</p>