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Revisiting Exercise Calories
A few years ago, I used my nice new heart rate monitor to measure the calories I was using for some of my typical cardio activities: 30 minutes on the elliptical, 45 minutes of spin class, 21-mile training ride outdoors, etc. After I'd done that a few times and averaged the results, I pretty much put the HRM away ...…
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Beef Eye of Round Roast
It was my night to cook, and what I had on hand was a 2.6-pound eye of round roast. So I did what I usually do -- went to the internet to find out how to cook it. I found that I might have made a mistake in buying that kind of roast, which was described in several places as being potentially the toughest meat on the…
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Dead Mathematicians Need to Play, Too
The Famous Classical Mathematicians’ Game of Hide and Seek Newton, Euler, Pascal, and Descartes got together for a game of hide-and-seek. Euler was declared “it,” and he dutifully covered his eyes and counted to one hundred by fives while the others scattered. Pascal and Descartes found good hiding places for themselves.…
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Drinking Your Way to Weight Loss
Just had a thought today, while filling up my icewater jug. It's my souvenir from Lutheran Hospital's orthopedic unit: one of those with a snap-on lid, holds about a liter -- you know the ones. Anyway, I notice that after I add the amount of ice that looks about right to me, there's room for three cups of liquid water,…
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Three months ago I did not even know ...
... what "NSV" stands for ... now I have one! Went to the doctor yesterday for my every-six-months blood work and prescription refill. She's got her own blood analyzer and you get the results in near-realtime. I was on two blood pressure meds, one statin, and one for gout: four in all. This morning, I'm on zero…
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Spin Instructor Sayings
My Monday and Wednesday morning spin instructor says some things that make me smile sometimes (with, of course, the sweat still running down my face). A few of her better ones: "Your legs are burning, and you're LOVING it!" "If it's not hard, you need to add more! Don't cheat yourself ... I'm watching YOU!" "Make it heavy!…
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A Different Way to Cheat, Sort Of
Does anybody's food diary have something entered that you didn't, in fact, eat? I find it happens to me every now and then. I get online, after dinner maybe, and enter what I had. I look and see what I have left -- calories, fat, carbs, sodium -- and decide what I'd like to have later as a snack. Then maybe I get busy with…
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Exercise calorie insanity
OK, so I'm in a Monday 9-hole after-work golf league. Tonight I thought, "I walk and use a pull cart, and that's a little bit of exercise ... I'll try and log that and see what happens." So I entered "golf" in the search window, and I found "golf, pulling clubs," so I selected that. How many minutes, it wanted to know. So…
