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<p>Clearly that must mean Froot Loops are good because you don’t need to add any sugar on top, right? ;)</p>
<p>I wanna do the flume slide!</p>
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<p>My frustration is that I finally overcome the intuitively appealing idea that sugar in fruit is good and sugar in, say, fruit loops is bad, and accept that the body responds to both kinds of sugar the same way. And then someone who seems to know what he is talking about says “added sugar,” as if that is different from “unadded sugar” . . .</p>
<p>Intervals on the track tonight. Mile warm up. 8x200s at 32-35 seconds. Mile warm down 2 mile walk. Daughter has time trials tomorrow. I’m a nervous wreck!</p>
<p>I really like the taste of orange juice and that it has calcium, but I do only drink small amounts of it at a time (maybe 1/8 cup). Now if only I’d be better about the rest of the sugar I consume…</p>
<p>I don’t eat that much stuff with added sugar except ice cream, but another thread prompted me to catch up,watching The Closer, and Kyra Sedgwick who is in fantastic shape, plays a character who has a file drawer full of Ding Dongs & Reese’s peanut butter cups and snacks on them often. I don’t even like Ding Dongs but she makes them look good!</p>
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<p>The technology for fruit juice concentrate that made orange juice (and all the other juices) widely available and affordable starting in the 1950s has played a major role in the obesity epidemic. Before that, virtually nobody drank juice because you had to squeeze it yourself from oranges. Expensive and time consuming.</p>
<p>Lustig points out that nobody is going to eat five oranges in a sitting, but that’s exactly what we do when we drink a glass of juice. The sugar load, hitting all at once, is off the charts. Grape juice. Apple juice. Cranberry juice. Lemonaid. The consumption of all this stuff took off with the advent of frozen concentrate.</p>
So, I couldn’t help but think back, while I was walking today, to Feb 2012 when one of the three fitness goals I wrote down in iPod nazi’s workout program journal was:
Walk a mile without getting winded
Today, I walked 7.5 miles without getting winded. My highest heart rate (except maybe when I was going down the flume) was 72% of my max. Just cruisin’ along. It really makes me appreciate the transformation and the things that being a little more fit allow me to do.
<p>idad, you don’t mean February 2012. What year did you mean??</p>
<p>Looks like a nice hike, iDad; glad you enjoyed the natural water park. </p>
<p>I don’t know that I could reduce my fruit consumption or that I would want to. I am continuing to adhere to a low fat diet, primarily due to some unpleasant digestive issues that I’m struggling with. Fruit, and the sugar that goes along with that, is something I just don’t want to give up. Juice is more of a condiment in our house; part of a marinade or a small component of a smoothie. Frankly, at one point I briefly considered juicing after D recommended “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead”. </p>
<p>NM, ouch!</p>
<p>I love fruit, I eat lots of fruit, and I’m never giving it up. 
I always have at least two pieces every day, sometimes more. Not juice, however. I can’t remember the last time I had fruit juice.</p>
Am also a big fruit (predominantly summer fruit) eater. Could live on summer fruits (peaches, mangoes, watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, grapes, pineapple, occasionally apricots, plums, etc). In winter I do eat bananas, apples, oranges, grapefruit but not anywhere at the rate I eat summer fruits. Any other suggestions for winter fruits? Occasionally thee are summer fruits available in the winter, commonly imported from SA, but the peaches are usually mealy and unpleasant.
<p>Years ago I had a math teacher who liked to snack on kumquats.</p>
<p>I haven’t tried rambutan.
<a href=“http://www.rodale.com/7-best-winter-fruits-protecting-your-heart?page=4[/url]”>http://www.rodale.com/7-best-winter-fruits-protecting-your-heart?page=4</a></p>
<p>NM- How are you today?</p>
<p>DadII- Are you out there? Yoo Hoo. Still in the sauna?</p>
<p>iDad- wonderful hike and, wow, you’ve come a long way, baby!</p>
<p>Big fruit eater here. Sometimes lunch is two pieces of fruit. I especially like a bowl of defrosted frozen berries at breakfast. Don’t like fruit at dinner or in the evening though. For me fruit is a get-the-motor-morning early day food.</p>
<p>MOWC, thanks. I just did my final weight in. Lost 5 lbs from last one. Exceeded my goal set 12 weeks ago. Of the 12 weeks, I lost weight in each of them except one. That was the graduation week and ate out every meal.</p>
<p>By this Friday we will know the results of the contest. </p>
<p>based on the web search, I did drink two 1/2 cups of coffee black this AM. produce the results as desired. </p>
<p>Beer and buffet tonight!!!</p>
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<p>Ooops. It was February 22, 2010 when I downloaded iPod nazi’s program to my computer and wrote the three required goals in the “Success Journal” (aka workout sheets).</p>
<p>*1. Enjoy exercise at least three times a week.</p>
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<li><p>Walk a mile without getting winded.</p></li>
<li><p>Lose 12 pounds to get started.*</p></li>
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<p>They turned out to be three pretty good goals…</p>
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<p>On fruit, it’s my treat food now, too. After hearing Lustig’s spiel, I had to stop buying the little 6 ounce frozen italian ices that were my previous treat. Just pure sugar juice, only frozen. There’s just no rationale for eating that. Might as well just eat packets of sugar. So, I now eat two or three apples a day. I’ll switch up for other kinds of fruit (blackberries, strawberries, etc.), but it is hard to beat the supply of fantastic apples. And, they are SO sweet now that I no longer eat much in the way of sugar.</p>
<p>Lustig is not down on fruit, largely because it mixes the sugar with enough fiber that it is absorbed at a rate the body can handle (for most people). It is when the amount/concentration of fructose exceeds that level that the liver converts sugar directly into fat (triglycerides). That’s the problem with juices and soft drinks. The sugar of five oranges in a glass. Bam. The liver is swamped.</p>
<p>I do think that fruit can be overdone. It is sugar. I’ve got to watch it. One large Fuji apple is 23 grams of sugar or about the same as 2 tablespoons of white sugar.</p>
<p>I would need a motivation from today on. Last week, my doctor told me I am fine per weight now, another 10 less lb would be nice. He also cleared me of all bad things and took me off all the meds. </p>
<p>Now what??!!!</p>
<p>may be I would train to run a 5K. What is a good time for a 5K run?</p>
<p>Doing ok MOWC! Thanks for asking. Still have large red welts that are very itchy and painful but coping better. The ones that went up my shorts and stung my left thigh are the worst!</p>
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<p>It boggles my mind that you go out and run as far as I walked yesterday. I guess the same changes I’ve seen (lower heart rate, not getting winded) in walking must occur over time as you build up a running capacity.</p>
<p>Should have seen my fall. I still don’t know exactly what happened. I may have tripped on my trekking pole. I just was instantly in a heap by the side of the trail. With a 20 pound pack on my back, I was a little bit like one of those bugs that can’t flip over! Took me two or three tries to get up! 
I knew it it was only a matter of time. I nearly went down a couple of times last week.</p>
<p>Got to break out my “emergency first aid kit” for an antiseptic towelette to clean out the dirt and grunge from my skinned knee. Even got to be a good samaratin with antispectic and some bandaids for a kid that cut open his chin on the rocks.</p>
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<p>That’s good news. I was worried about you, too. Welts are miserable, but they will heal. It’s the allergic reactions to multiple bee stings that are bad news.</p>