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Wearing medals on New Year's Eve or at holiday party?
this year I've ran three marathons, a half, a 10k and two 5k's. Runners, is it bad form for me to wear all my medals for the year at a New Years or holiday gathering in order to (yeah, show my success), but also as a "now we start again this year" kind of thing. Community, What are your thoughts?
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Is this a "healthy" way to get veggies?
Got me this fancy Blendtec blender, and it has been munching up the veggies I buy daily. But inputting the information into myfitnesspal, I am wondering if it is really a healthy shake? It makes a LOT in reality, more than I can drink in one sitting, so I split it up over about 6 hours. I'm concerned about the sugar…
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Whole Citrus Fruit vs. Low Sugar
I am trying to follow a very low sugar regimen this month, taking in no more than 7 grams of sugar per day (only because total avoidance is near impossible). The question I have is: There are 14 grams of sugar (roughly) in the Orange I pack in my lunch. Does the fiber content of the orange offset the effects of the sugar…
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Tweaking the nutrition to end plateau.
Well, I've been doing well for quite a while, but now seem to just be hovering up and down 5 lbs over the course of the week. So, out of curiosity, I am going to try and tweak my nutrition a little bit to see what happens. I'm just going to eliminate sugar from my diet. Well, sugar, and anything that is sweeted with an…
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The "unsupporting coworkers" post. Been here, read that.
All my pals know I'm living healthier, enjoying exercise and better nutrition. Which is why it is so frustrating to have a week of school every month that is just balls-to-the-wall go go GO from 6am to almost midnight. And ALL the while everyone is shoving "goodies" in my face. Brownies that people brought in, "power"…
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Heart Rate Monitors w/out chest strap
I've been thinking about getting some kind of heart rate monitor for exercise tracking and such. But there are a LOT to choose from it seems. I got one of these little Fitbit Zip things at the Apple store on an impulse, and while it's cool, I just don't see how it can be accurate. I'd like to step up from that, but I don't…
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Grrrrrr.... Lack of willpower is supremely irritating
Well, pop goes the second cork on the next bottle. Open and closed goes the pizza box. Dammit. Up go the numbers on the scale. Well kids, this is why we DO NOT EVER SKIP A HEALTHY BREAKFAST, it WILL catch up to you..... There's a week of 7 mile runs. God Dammit =/ Guess we just start again Grrrrrrrrr.
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Total Victory.
Started: March 22, 2011 (not 2012). Finished: ??? still going. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll settle for "Like a Boss!" A few things that helped: Dr Gundry and "The Diet Evolution" Myfitnesspal and mapmyrun for the calorie/exercise tracking P90X and raw willpower. Bring it! ME!
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Best way to improve run time?
Ok, so did a 3 mile run last week after 60 mins of stairmaster. Took 37 minutes. Did it again today fresh, hydrated and all stretchified, and ended up with a 34:15 time. Was really pretty disappointed with those results, since I've been doing a lot of cardio at the gym. I've been going 4 to 5 days a week, doing an hour on…
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Extremely tired after yogurt?
Anyone else have this happen? I've noticed that if I eat yogurt (today was Chobani Greek Strawberry Yogurt), within 15 minutes I get extremely tired. Like I took a 2 hour nap and now I feel drained as though I'd been through a wringer of a workout. Nothing else has been a new addition to my food routine except the yogurt,…
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Why I don't feel the least bit bad about my $5 footlong fix.
You know you've hummed, sung, or whistled it before: Five....Five Dollar....Five Dollar Foot-Loonnnggg. Most of us have all been exposed to this little phrase in commercials so much that I doubt I need tell you the name of the Fast Food chain that uses it. But for the three people who don't know it, AND happen to…
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Double Dissatisfaction
"Eat me"... The Heath Bar called to me from the checkout stand. That land of impulse-buying where sugar laden everything beckons. "You know you want to, you've been doing really well, and it's FRIDAY Bud!" The glint of the wrapper in the overhead halogen lighting gave it the look of a brand new ferrari in the showroom.…
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Alcohol and "the munchies"
I love red wine. I love it far more than I should, to the tune of a bottle every few days. I am hoping that someone would be able to tell me why it is that when I have even just a few sips of my beloved red grapes, that I feel tremendous and dire urges to eat TONS of food. I am sure I could google this and get some kind of…
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Breakfast, the most important meal, ever.
Over by nearly 2,000 calories for today. How did I end up so ravenously hungry that I stuffed my gourd with three cheeseburgers? My answer is: "I skipped breakfast." Yup. I woke up lazy, didn't hit the gym right away, and waited three hours to take a protein and fiber shake. I am quickly discovering that having SOMETHING…
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Building a better chicken...
I ate a chicken today. Not a breast, not a leg, I mean the whole thing. I slow roasted it French style in a pot, took the skin off, and ate the little critter. But this was a tiny chicken. I guess you could say it was "chicken little". I mean the whole thing cost me a whopping 1.49 at Ralph's by UCLA. If it weighed 3 lbs…
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The All-American (Gut-busting) Slam "Breakfast"
I'm sure lots of us are familiar with this classic: Some sort of heap of fried potato product. 3 eggs 2 slices of toast 2 pieces of bacon, sausafe, whatever salted and mashed up piece of protein you can imagine. a little sprig of parsley that tells you it's healthy... This was my "on the go" breakfast today at a place in…
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The Demon called "Binge"
I would normally be cursing myself and shaming my lack of will at the moment. But no. I refuse to do so. I choose to instead admit that I succumbed today to a weakness. Despite 80 minutes of walking, and carefully watching the calories for the day, I ended up eating half a box of pasta, 1/2 a large pepperoni pizza, and 12…
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The dreaded (?) plateau.
Diet. One of the worst four letter words in the world of profanity in my opinion. So I try not to use it. Instead, I'll say that I started my change in lifestyle in March, and have since dropped 3 belt loops, one "X" off my shirt size, about 8 iinches off the waist, and according to my semi-monthly weigh in, about 40 lbs…
