<p>BB - your new togs sound great. I’m jealous.
If I stay at the new studio, I think I will have to go all MOWC and spring for some lululemon…</p>
<p>I got an email ad from Lululemon today with some hot yoga clothes. It was pretty close to NO clothes, but I can see the point… The bra would actually be good under the Nuu-Muus.</p>
<p>The weather has decided to cool down all of a sudden so I’ll be on the lookout for a new jacket.</p>
<p>Tuesday intervals. Stretching, lunges, mile warmup and the dreaded 400s (6 @ 72-75). Mile warm down. </p>
<p>Went to sports medicine doc to check out tender shin. No stress fracture just tendinitis. </p>
<p>Saw an old men’s health article that listed 5 body weight exercises when you don’t have access to a gym; y squats, spiderman pushups, wall slides, single leg romanian dead lift, spiderman lunges</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting for Life today. Nice solid workout. Punched the clock. Push ups were really good – 10 reps, feet in Jungle Gym straps. Rear foot elevated split squats were solid. 10 reps per leg.</p>
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<p>One of the core exercises I’m doing right now is Spiderman ValSlide pushaways. Push up position. Push the left hand forward while brining the right knee to the right elbow. I’m not very good at them, but I’m trying.</p>
Isn’t that an oxymoron? I did think it was the type of yoga that you were talking about. But, from the later context,
Maybe not.
All of you ladies posting stuff on clothes had me thinking about Nike, Lulu and UnderArmor. All three have great charts. Nike broke out today. Lulu is working on filling a gap and UA is near six-month highs. I guess people are back to buying workout clothes.
I bought another Nike Sublimated shirt - these are my favorite shirts for hot weather now. I just wish that they would go on sale more often. I’m thinking of getting one for my wife. We could go out in matching shirts.
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<p>As a result of participating in the 5K last Friday I received an email yesterday encouraging me to do an upcoming race where no timing devices are allowed. We’ll see. 
Thanks for posting news on the Forerunner 10 from Garmin, MOWC. That’s a possibility. Wish it were round and a little more girly, I admit, lol.</p>
<p>Cals 1885
Fat 140 g
Carbs 97 g
Fiber 28 g
Protein 68 g
Sugars 53 g</p>
<p>66% fat
14% protein
20% carb</p>
<p>Little light on protein today, big salad (1000 calories) for dinner. </p>
<p>Scale is responding nicely. My 7 day average is down 2 pounds from three weeks ago today. Doesn’t sound like much compared to my glory days of fat loss, but I’m working in a pretty narrow window these days. I’m going to try to keep riding this horse for a while longer and buy myself some wiggle room before Thanksgiving! :)</p>
<p>Nice that you are seeing results, idad!</p>
<p>I am high on the carbs due to a Reuben sandwich craving that could no longer be denied. I made it at home so the portion size was still acceptable. (also don’t think there is a place anywhere near here that could serve a decent Reuben anyway…)</p>
<p>Cals 1300
Fat 66g
Carbs 93 g
Fiber 25 g
Protein 78 g
Sugars 16 g</p>
<p>Fat 47%
Protein 24%
Carbs 29%</p>
CJANE:
I’ve been waiting for you to get your 'puter fixed. I’ve got a podcast that has your name written all over it. It’s a Jimmy Moore podcast with Dr. Stephen Phinney (author of the latest Atkins diet book and The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living. The topic is stalled weight loss.
[ATLCX</a> (Episode 23): Long-Term Stalls & Weight Gain Even On A Well-Formulated Low-Carb Diet | Dr. Stephen Phinney Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low Carb Blog](<a href=“http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/atlcx-episode-23-long-term-stalls-weight-gain-even-on-a-well-formulated-low-carb-diet-dr-stephen-phinney-2/15282]ATLCX”>http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/atlcx-episode-23-long-term-stalls-weight-gain-even-on-a-well-formulated-low-carb-diet-dr-stephen-phinney-2/15282)
Phinney is a big ketogenic low carb advocate. I’m not sold on the necessity of that, but he has some really interesting advice on a number of topics. He’s very big on getting the protein levels right: 1.2 to 1.5 g per day per kg of body weight. Very down on severe caloric restriction. Every day that you fast or eat very low calories is a day that you lose lean muscle and make it more difficult to lose weight. Interesting comments on not exercising too much.
Speaking of sandwiches:
I have not had a piece of bread since I moved at the end of May (except for my McDonald’s biscuit breakfasts on the road to hiking). I am going to have to break down one of these days and have a hamburger, I guess.
I’ve been working bacon and eggs into the rotation here lately.
<p>Appreciate the postings of calorie stats - it’s a nice end-of-day reminder. My carbs are still around 30% - it’s hard to get them lower.</p>
<p>Yesterday afternoon my wife sent me a message asking if pizza were okay. I said that I’m trying hard on low-carb and she made something low-carb. So things are manageable, as long as she doesn’t make something like pizza or pasta or a baked meal. I can always make my own stuff but sometimes I’m pretty tired when I get home and don’t feel like cooking.</p>
<p>Nothing in the kitchen at the office today.</p>
<p>I did some home weights stuff this morning. I was surprised that the military press was so hard (haven’t done them in quite some time). I need to get back to those. I was thinking of buying a fixed 20 pound dumbbell (I have 10s and one 15) for convenience to do quick weights on breaks. Ideally, I’d have a small stand with 20s, 25s and 30s on them and could do a variety of things with these.</p>
I took a break from chin ups for a couple months (doing other stuff) and went backwards. I’ve probably gone backwards on a few different lifts because I’ve been doing higher reps with lighter weight, as outlined in the first two phases of NROL4LIFE. For the first few months of the year, I had been doing 6 rep sets, which is pretty much as heavy I could go. That’s OK, I’m building endurance doing 10 to 12 rep sets of this stuff and I’ll cycle back to the heavy stuff soon enough.
<p>On diet…I follow my 80/20 plan.</p>
<p>21 meals in a week.</p>
<p>16 need to be clean…no grains, rice, white potatoes, sugar, etc. Basically meat, fruits and veggies, sometimes a little cheese. I eat as much of this as I want and don’t track calories.</p>
<p>5 can be anything… This week that has meant pizza, tacos, and a sandwich so far. Can also include a small dessert with a meal. Moderation is best with these meals, don’t eat a whole large pizza.</p>
<p>Snacks are generally nuts, fruit, yogurt, veggies. I rarely drink alcohol and stopped drinking any kind of soft drink (including diet drinks) years ago.</p>
<p>I have used this plan to initially lose and then maintain my weight for the past 10 years, never counting a single calorie.</p>
<p>BCE- maybe it should be “cool” hot yoga clothes! </p>
<p>We are having some hot, humid weather again which is really making my runs less than pleasant. Daughter and I are doing a group (supported) 17 mile run starting at 6am Saturday. Ugh.</p>
<p>Back from a hilly run with a friend this morning, 28-29 minutes. Doable hills, but hills nonetheless. Fun, time went by very quickly. <em>Mild</em> humidity. MOWC, you’d laugh at this being called humidity, trust me. ;)</p>
<p>Oh, and we got to run across the new suspension bridge!</p>
<p>5K walk/jog for me. I had to get up super early this morning and I was really dragging. I really needed a nap, but the weather was just too nice to stay inside. Just about the most beautiful day weatherwise I’ve ever seen. Same tomorrow. I’ve got the backpack loaded, headed for the hills. Tough workout today. My heart rate was taking forever to climb to 90%, so I ended up doing longer intervals. It is what it is, when you do intervals based on heart rate.</p>
<p>I’m going hard core low carb for dinner. Firing up the Weber grill. 14 ounce rib eye steak and grilled asparagus. Yum. This dieting is brutal!</p>
<p>4.12 miles, medium-hilly, sunny, 74 degrees. It was markedly easier to run today because of the lower temperatures. The one thing that I ran into was a large dog off leash in a parking lot. The owner, fortunately, was 30 feet away and the dog fortunately obeyed the owner. I froze when I saw the dog, and it ran up to me barking and I was expecting it to sniff but the owner called it away. My run was through some apartment complexes that I’ve never been through before.</p>
<p>I didn’t have enough carbs for the run - my wife packed stale cereal and I didn’t eat it. I need a good carb source that I can store in the office (it gets pretty warm in the office as they turn off the AC at night and on weekends) in case I need carbs before a run. There’s a ton of junk food in the kitchen that I’m trying to avoid. I can grab all kinds of chocolate, chips, nuts, M&Ms, Twizzlers, cookies, crackers, etc. It’s really good that this kitchen is in another wing of the building. Must be tough for the people that have to use that kitchen all the time.</p>
<p>BC, my traditional food before a morning run has done right by me every time. About 1/3 of a banana and a few walnut halves an hour before heading out.</p>
<p>Today I was scheduled to run later so I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich a couple of hours before said traditional food and then a few bites of the banana and the walnut halves as usual an hour prior to running.</p>
If I run over 3.5 miles, I find that I need a fair amunt of carbs during the day, probably on the order of 25 grams per mile to be on the safe side. Today I only had 49 grams which wasn’t enough. I ran into this problem last year and it took me months to figure out that it wasn’t enough carbs for the day - I’ve been trying to go back to low carb (I’m at 20% today) but I have to balance that with how far I run.