<p>Congrats on the continued loss, EPTR!</p>
<p>Momlive, Awesome!!!</p>
<p>I’m glad you put your excitement to work on the treadmill! I measured my waist and am down 1/2 ". Still flabby but less of it. </p>
<p>It’s good to check in here and share good news and hear good news. It takes my mind of the bed bugs. I’m getting a little extra exercise packing up the house for the exterminators. When did we collect so much sh**?!</p>
<p>As far as running goes, I would love to try it but don’t know if starting at age 50 is a good idea. I’m also very self conscious since I was a teen and my lovely sister told me that I run funny. That’s hard to recover from :)</p>
<p>Just came back from the doctor. Husband’s cholesterol numbers used to be borderline( last time he checked was in 2009). After eating this low carb diet for a little less than a year, his numbers are so good that it is within a desirable range. The results are not from eating more fish but low carbs. For years I used to eat fish two or three times a week, now I just eat it once a week but have regular meat with salad or a big pile of vegs on other days. He is already skinny so weight is not an issue.</p>
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<p>I can’t see myself ever becoming a runner at this age either (though I have known people to do it) but what I’ve started doing is what idad said, I walk for 2 miles but for very short bursts of time (probably less than a minute or two) I will slowly jog. If you do this often enough, you might find yourself running but I don’t think running has to be the goal. Just getting your heart rate up for a sustained period of time is what gets you fit. Actually, I have found sustained running to be too jarring for me from my head to my toes (knees, shins, bladder issues, etc.), so I’m not likely to take it up - though it would be cool to finish a 5k. I guess technically you don’t have to run the whole way? Do you? :)</p>
<p>Congratulations, EPTR! That’s quite a change in your waistline. I have to find my measuring tape…</p>
<p>Momlive, that’s an inspirational story. Congratulations on the big improvement in fitness. </p>
<p>DrGoogle, wonderful about your husband’s numbers! All the more motivation to go to a low-carb diet. Can you tell us more about his (and your) diet? How many grams of carbs a day? Any grains, or mostly fruits and vegetables?</p>
<p>I ran regularly in my 20’s, and did several 10k races and one 8-mile race. But I was still doing ballet quite seriously, and running shortened my hamstrings and basically made me much less flexible. I could not stretch this out, and so I changed to swimming, which didn’t fight with the ballet. Maybe my running technique was wrong, and there’s a way to avoid the shortening of muscles?</p>
<p>I have heard about Chi running (and Chi walking), but don’t know much about them. My impression is that they are supposed to be better for the body than regular running.</p>
<p>As I find my way into a higher-protein, low-carb eating plan, I’ve been working on identifying foods that can be kept available for a low-calorie, low-fat, low-carb injection of high-quality protein to balance an out-of-kilter daily protein/fat/carb breakdown. Two such foods that I’ve identified are hard-boiled eggs and shrimp (thawed, frozen cooked shrimp with cocktail sauce). But when I eat these things, the cholesterol count on Livestrong shoots through the roof. I am wondering how much I should be worrying about limiting cholesterol. My cholesterol level is not too high, even in my current overweight and out-of-shape condition. </p>
<p>Thanks, again, for those posters who suggested Livestrong/MyPlate. It has made a big difference to me.</p>
<p>I am also very happy right now. My current calorie goal for losing 1 lb/week is over 1500 calories, a very comfortable allowance which allows plenty of good food and some not-so-good food every day. I know that as my weight declines the calorie goal will also decline, and it won’t be quite as easy as it is now. But my main concern was what my calorie goal would be to maintain at my goal weight, assuming I get there. So I went to Livestrong just now and put in a weight that is probably as low as I would ever want to go, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the maintenance calorie allowance is 1800/day! I guess this is a perk of being quite tall.</p>
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<p>Well, it seems that you’ve expanded your definition of “doing it
wrong.” One would just imagine that you were talking about technique.
Take a look at Wimbledon.</p>
<p>I’d guess that at least a quarter of the players are dealing with
injuries. Look at the number of players using Kinesio Taping, knee
bandages, bringing trainers on court for treatment, etc.</p>
<p>Injuries can be managed. Injuries can also come from other sports and
result in pain when running but that doesn’t necessarily stop you from
running.</p>
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<p>What’s the source of that statistic?</p>
<p>It seems to assume that runners will keep on making the same mistakes
over and over and over again and not learn from those mistakes. It is
possible that it implies that runners get injured, recover, increase
their mileage, and then get a different injury.</p>
<p>Is the injury necessarily from running?</p>
<p>I get some knee damage playing tennis that decreases when and how long
I can run for. I often don’t run on the day after a tough match but
that’s not absolute.</p>
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<p>Trader Joes Fat-Free Cottage Cheese might be a useful food. I buy the regular 4% Cottage Cheese as I don’t have an issue with eating fat but their fat-free has a pretty high protein to carb ratio and both are zero-cholesterol.</p>
<p>This one is not too bad in terms of protein to cholesterol.</p>
<p>StarKist Chunk Light Tuna Packed In Water:</p>
<p>50 calories
Fat: 1 gram
Cholesterol: 25 mg
Sodium: 170
Carbs: 0
Fiber: 0
Prot: 11
Sugars: 0</p>
<p>Trader Joes Organic Firm Tofu has zero carbs, zero cholesterol,
zero sodium, zero sugars but does have fat but the protein to
fat ratio is slightly less than three-to-one so you might find
it useful.</p>
<p>NYMom,
I don’t usually measure how much carbs per day. We just eliminate most carbs and sugar from our diet. We do eat grains. This is typical of what H eats evereday .
For breakfast, H usually has oatmeal cereal with soy or almond milk and a few raisins for sweet. Then he has peanut butter with low sugar jams and whole grains bread from costco about 1 hour later with his coffee. For lunch H has a bowl of turkey/chili soup and a big salad. In the afternoon he has an apple. For dinner, he usually has meat and a pile of veg, sometimes with grains like red wheat berries or quinoa, etc… For dessert, he eats plain yogurt with applesauce and fresh berries, nuts, raisins.
All his numbers are very good especially for a man his age. I was worrying the Atkins diet may not be good for his kidney functions but apparently the numbers prove otherwise. He has stopped running everyday due to tendonitis, but he walks everywhere. He walks to work, he walks after lunch and after dinner.</p>
<p>BC:</p>
<p>On running injuries:</p>
<p>[The</a> 10 laws of injury prevention from RunnersWorld.com](<a href=“http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-241-285--13413-0,00.html]The”>http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-241-285--13413-0,00.html)</p>
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<p>Running is a very high impact activity. Three to four times body weight, crashing down 1500 reps per mile or something like that. Women are especially vulnerable to injury, due to physiology of hip width, knee angles, and stuff that is way over my head. </p>
<p>Everyone wants a “runner’s body”, but the reality is that people who have that thin body are generally the people who can run with minimal injury. You don’t get that body from running; you can run because you have that body! Just like playing NFL lineman won’t give you a 300 pound muscular body; people with that body play NFL lineman.</p>
<p>^Good analogy, idad.</p>
<p>There’s a number of people in my extended social circle who had to give up running in their 50s and 60s because of the long-term consequences to their knees and other joints. Many of them have turned to biking as an alternative to running.</p>
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<p>Are the respondents representative of runners in general? I don’t even
think that subscribers to Runners World are representative of runners
in general.</p>
<p>I suffered a tennis elbow injury in 2010. Would I have responded yes
to the runnersworld.com poll?</p>
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<p>I don’t know that everyone wants a runners body. I’d be happier with a
tennis physique that you see in guys like Federer, Roddick and
Djokovich. I know one runner that is extremely thin with very little
upper-body strength; I’d rather have that upper-body strength. The
guys I saw working out at the YMCA today definitely prefer that
upper-body strength too.</p>
<p>I know older runners that don’t have injury problems and others that
manage their injuries. Sometimes those injuries are from other sports
or just from life or accidents unrelated to sports. Those folks aren’t
experiencing pain from “doing it wrong.”</p>
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Here the article from WSJ
[Cancer</a> Linked to Sitting on the Job - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303499204576387843134027056.html]Cancer”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303499204576387843134027056.html)</p>
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<p>That pretty much describes my injury history as a runner. </p>
<p>Another way I and other runners commonly get injured is by trying to stretch too much life out of a beloved pair of running shoes. They look reasonably okay so you keep running in them, but once they have started to wear out it’s only a matter of time before an injury sets in.</p>
<p>Non-runners making this same mistake accounts for a high number of the failures that occur when they finally attempt to give running a try. They get out there and hit the roads wearing their trusty old sneaks they have been walking around in since the second Reagan administration. Bad idea.</p>
<p>Dr Google, thanks! Biospace website stinks, to say the least when it comes to searching. Here is an article on sitting, but not exactly what I wanted to post:</p>
<p>[Sitting</a>, even after workout, can cut lifespan The Chart - CNN.com Blogs](<a href=“http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/22/sit-less-live-longer/]Sitting”>http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/22/sit-less-live-longer/)</p>
<p>I do not think I ever ran myself into an injury, because I listen to my body and stop as soon as something does not feel OK. Whatever back pain I have is mostly from sitting and staring at the computer screen. Yesterday was especially brutal, so I’m looking forward to my new chair (thanks for the tip, MOfWC!). However, I ran about 11 miles today, and my back feels so much better!</p>
<p>Way to go EPTR and MomLive!</p>
<p>BC:</p>
<p>Sprinters typically have good physiques. Here’s the kid who won the bronze for the USA in both the 100 meters and 200 meters at the Beijing Olympics. Sprinting is all about strength, power, and explosiveness:</p>
<p><a href=“http://0.tqn.com/d/trackandfield/1/0/i/2/-/-/WalterDix.jpg[/url]”>http://0.tqn.com/d/trackandfield/1/0/i/2/-/-/WalterDix.jpg</a></p>
<p>Thank you all for the high-protein, low-cholesterol choices.</p>
<p>And thanks to whoever recommended Jan’s Sushi Bar. I made her Honey Mustard Chicken tonight, and everyone (except S2, who is a vegetarian) loved it. I thought it was the best chicken I’ve ever made, and very easy. I also made Waldorf Coleslaw from cooking light, and both sons said that it was the best coleslaw they’d ever had. I just tracked dinner, and Livestrong even had the Waldorf Coleslaw in their database. We also had steamed broccolini, and S2 said that he’d noticed that I’d started an at-least- 2-vegetables-at-every-meal initiative!</p>