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Let's Form a Virtual Team on Concept 2!
Hi everyone, On the Concept2 site, there are Team Challenges. One will start in early January. Right now, I'm doing the November 22-December 24 challenge, but I know I'll need more motivation in January. I'm set up an MFP team in hopes that others will want to join up. First, set up a profile on the page at…
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Need another recipe nutrient site
I am helping care for a person on a special diet. I rashly promised others working with me that I would find a site to measure nutrients because I thought I could just have them all join this site, but it turned out that not everyone wants to join MFP! Does anyone know another site that will do for me what MFP does with…
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Using a heart monitor for rowing
Now that I've been hauling out the heart monitor, I also found and re-read "Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot," which we happened to have on our shelves. I found notes from when I used it (14 years ago!) for running, and I am thinking of trying the plan out for rowing too. The suggestion is that if an athlete…
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Fat Chance
I've been reading Robert Lustig's book, "Fat Chance." Lustig has worked in a clinic that treats obesity in young people. He writes with years of research and experience supporting his presentation. If you've watched him on the YouTube video, "Sugar, the Bitter Truth," you know that he has been able to turn around many…
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Suggestions from Terry O'Neill
As I mentioned elsewhere, I sent a note off to the "Expert advice" on Concept 2. I didn't really think I'd get an answer, but slightly less than 12 hours later, this very detailed note came into my mailbox. I had explained that I'm almost 54, have 60 bp resting right now, have been rowing 10-12K often lately, and that…
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Fitness trackers
Now that I've found my old heart monitor for training use, I was looking for information about whether I could track caloric expenditure based on the heart rate I show during different forms of exercise. I didn't find any easy chart, but I did find this article on why fitness trackers can vary.…
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Calling Stationary Rowers!
Do you work out on a rowing machine? If so, join in on a challenge! Go to the Concept2 page and make yourself a profile: http://log.concept2.com/log.asp (You can start logging your meters there now...a Holiday challenge is on at the moment, and Concept 2 will donate money based on 100K meters or more!) Then to to the Teams…
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Downton Abbey...what next?
I get great exercise on my rower when watching good shows, but I'm pretty picky. I don't like too much violence (or it has to be serious cartoon-like violence). I like good acting and story lines that move...given the short list below, can you recommend what will keep me rowing for a couple of hours? I can't row as long…
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NSV
Today a kid in the library asked whether I was the teacher who used to work out in the weight room with his football coach. When I said that I was, he said, "Wow...you've lost a lot of weight!" One of my students thought that was a really weird thing to say to a teacher. It made my day!
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Good news, bad news
I got home this morning after three weeks of traveling. I didn't get to exercise as much as usual en route, but I did try hard to stay on track eating well. It meant that I was often passing up tasty-looking morsels, but I felt a whole lot better than I usually do when attending conferences. (I took a number of my own…
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My daughter's jeans!
I put a pair of my daughter's jeans in my closet last Christmas because they were too cute to get rid of and she was doing a clean out before going back to school. I tried them on just for laughs, and almost couldn't get them on (or OFF!) because of my hips. Yesterday I was cleaning my own closet and found them. Pulled…
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NSV: rowing easier without a big belly!
I was a college rower, and this spring I have joined our local rowing association. The first time out was very hard, not so much because of my long time off, but as it turned out because I couldn't pull the oar in and down ... my stomach was in the way!! Of course I'd never had that problem before. I was skinny and in…
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Meals that you can't really quantify
What do you do when you don't really know how many calories are in something? I have eaten two meals lately that I didn't cook. Yesterday for Mom's day, I had a beet salad dressed with oil, and poached salmon, as well as mashed sweet potatoes and then some lemon meringue pie. I didn't weigh or measure the portions, so…
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Thanks, Kate! (and MFP, of course)
I am so glad that I confessed to my friend that my eating had spiraled out of control, just a week ago. She mentioned this site, and I decided to try it. Having rowed lightweight many years ago as a tall person (and therefore having had to make an unhealthy weight once a week), I am the perfect person to say that frequent…
