SBF2: Reboot Boogaloo! July 23rd

yoginimary

So, I couldn't do the pose. I just don't have the strength. I haven't decided about today's class. My back is still sore from all the twisting, but I don't think we would do the same sort of thing again. Decisions, decisions.
I need to write up some classes for this weekend's set of three. I know I'm doing one balance class but have to decide about the others.

Today - meeting a friend at the gym for a possible core class. It's at the cheap gym, so I'm guessing it's a class on how to use the equipment - which I already know. I'd rather do some light cardio anyway.

My main complaint about the cheap gym is that they show the worst of the worst of TV - no learning going on at that gym - just Vh1, some strange Mexican channel, Fox, etc. - I can't ignore it either. Plodding along on the cybex, what else are you supposed to look at? I think it's bad for me - Vh1 especially. The "hot or not" judging - the basis of everything on looks - ruins your brain and your self image. Something that Discovery or Animal Planet do not do. Saw some Mexican wrestling the other day - that will not ruin your self image.:laugh:

Another soap box, boogaloo!

Mary

mechanicmom

I vote for a do overs. This day has started out on a bad note. Well, starting out wasn't bad but it quickly turned ugly. Alex threw one of his toys (a garage sale toy actually) down stairs and I gently got on to him. I didn't yell. I just said don't do that. That was over an hour ago. He's still screaming. He refused to eat breakfast. Is it wrong to put a child in the garage sale? I wouldn't dare, but the thought has crossed my mind this morning multiple times.
We got lots of great stuff for the sale last night and we are getting more this morning. I've got a lot of work to do. The house is such a wreck.
Today is Bible Study, more pricing and organizing, and I think that's about all I'm going to get done. I need to make a grocery list but I really don't see that happening. I may not get to go shopping until Sunday or Monday. Slim pickin's till then. I'd better load this mad boy up in the car and get to study.
MM

lotusfromthemud

Morning,

Could NOT get out of bed this a.m. It's a rainy day, and it feels like a stay in bed all day day. . .but I won't do that.

My trainer has looked over my food diary, and said the only thing she can see is too many carbs late in the day that might be causing me to store fat. So, now I'm trying this thing where I change the percentage of carbs vs. protein by meal. (heavy carbs in the am, medium at lunch, little to none at dinner). The logic behind this is that carbs are for quick energy, and you don't need any quick energy to go lie down. Makes perfect sense, actually. Also, she encouraged me to eat more. She said I should be eating 1900-2100 calories a day, every day. (Not net, just what I eat per day). So, now eating is my job. I'm already a "mini meal" behind because I woke up too late, so I had to plan in a post dinner protein shake. I uttered the words "I don't care what I weigh. . .I just don't want to jiggle as much." and then realized that it's true. I'm pretty solid even right now, but there are some areas that aren't. (I'm looking at you, my gut region) I wouldn't mind being smaller, but I really think I may be (finally) moving past thinking a number on a scale goal. Pretty cool, actually.

Mary, I was looking at the pose and thinking that you'd have to be really strong pretty much everywhere to hold that pose for any length of time. I would think it takes lots of arm, core, inner thigh. . .everything strength. I have no doubt you can do it, maybe just not yet.

And MM, I hope your day gets smoother.

Also, CP. . .I'll do pushups with you. I keep meaning to re-start, and I'm sure I'm a LOT weaker than I was when I was doing them before. It would be a challenge to keep up with them on the road (don't know if I'll check in or not. . .) but I, too keep forgetting/slacking on them.

Man, a record breaking novel. Today is Bikram, by the way, some errands, some cooking, some teaching, etc. I'll also go for a push-up test later and report back.

Take care, pebbs.:flowerforyou:

mechanicmom

My day has gotten smoother. Thank the Lord! I need a smooth afternoon so I hope Alex will gladly take a nap! We've been driving a Ford Ranger while my hubby's car is in the shop. We've loaded up the back twice with donations in the last 24 hours! I'm overwhelmed with stuff. I think I am going to have to take down the dining room table so I can have more room to sort and organize. I'm trying not to stress out (it won't help the weight issue) but I'm so overwhelmed.
I wonder if I am burning calories going through this stuff. Probably not much.
CP and V, I will try to join you both on Monday with the push ups. I tried to do them the other day and I managed ten. Not good. I've got to get through this weekend first.
I'm done rambling. I've got to get to work.
MM

lotusfromthemud

For the first time ever, with my planned food, I have met my protein requirement for the day. I want to stop eating now, please . . .and I still have two more mini-meals to go. So help me, this had better make me buff .

Also, I'm copping out on the push-up test today. I promise to do it tomorrow so we can start on Monday. It was unbelievably humid in my yoga class today, and I am done for the day. We have a new-ish instructor and she can't regulate the temperature. I peeked at the humidity reader (it's usually about 65%. . .still crazy damp) on the way out and it was 92%. I have never sweated so much. Ever. We were dropping like flies. It was bad enough that I sent an email to the studio owner about it, and I really never complain about stuff like that.

Mary, could you clarify the soy thing again? Is tofu the one that is OK in the estrogen enhancing department? I need a way to beef up my smoothies without, well, beefing them up, and my Clean Eating cookbook uses tofu in smoothies a lot.

Still learning boogaloo!:flowerforyou:

lotusfromthemud

Oh, Mary. . .I found the other thread. So, if I'm understanding correctly tofu is fermented, so it's OK (in moderation, I'm guessing). I just don't want to rely on a single protein source in every smoothie I drink.

yoginimary

Oh, Mary. . .I found the other thread. So, if I'm understanding correctly tofu is fermented, so it's OK (in moderation, I'm guessing). I just don't want to rely on a single protein source in every smoothie I drink.

See page 175, should come up here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=0qBYDphA1CoC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=pollan+tofu+soy&source=bl&ots=c92VfTnX5G&sig=C_5rdUcjkT_pMfujejZgYc-6HKg&hl=en&ei=GetoSsDnM4mBtweT8rCyCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6

or from someone's blog, but basically what I remember:

According to Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Americans are eating soy for 1/5 of their diet. They are also eating soy in ways that Asians never used it; that is, fracturing it into soy isoflavones, soy protein isolate, textured vegetable protein (TVP), and making it into all manner of processed foods. It is these soy isoflavones that are estrogenlike compounds and bind to estrogen receptors, which is pretty much the reason people question how safe soy is to eat. It’s uncertain if the isoflavones are treated by the body as if they are estrogen, or if they fool the body into it, but the FDA has not granted soy GRAS status (Generally Recognized As Safe) because we’re just not sure how they work. According to the Linus Pauling Institute, the long term safety of eating soy isoflavones is unknown.


However, for thousands of years, Asians have been eating soy and doing fine. Because it’s a staple in their diet, they’ve come up with some ways to make this food safe without necessarily meaning to, just because it was what they did with it in their culture. The traditional Asian diet incorporates soy in fermented form and as tofu. By boiling the crushed soy to form a kind of solution, and adding gypsum, they made curds (tofu) that are easily digestable. These foods have stood the test of time and aren’t as novel to the human body as what processors are doing to it nowadays.

lotusfromthemud

Thanks Mary, that helps a bunch. Sometimes I feel like everything is "bad" for you, depending on who you read at a given moment.

But, if there are two people I trust to tell me what to eat, it's Pollan and Nestle.