Take care of yourself

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

No kidding ... dump that and the M&M's habit, and there's no freaking telling ...

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

Talk of food has made me hungry for a Jack in the Box Ultimate Cheeseburger. But it's 2:22 in the a.m., there isn't a Jack in the Box within hundreds of miles, and I'm supposed to be up in 5-6-7 hours. But I can't sleep, either.

I'm hungry.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

I just entered the CRASH-B Indoor Rowing championships. I've always been a little curious about it.
My workouts have been a little unfocused lately. Knowing I have to do this on Feb. 25 should get my ass in gear.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

First, Weight Watchers has changed more people--forever--than any other eating plan I know. If you really learn why it works, you can do it forever without much effort.

Back to your menu--did you not eat before 430? If not, you're already doomed for the day. Your body goes into a protective mode, storing extra calories, until it gets fed, and your metabolism wakes up.

Those Cheerios with 'yogurt' are loaded with sugar (that ain't real yogurt, and even real yogurt is loaded with sugar). At that time of the day, you're taking in a lot of carbs that you won't burn up before bedtime. Scrambled egg whites or even the turkey sandwich would have been better there.

About the 'diet' sodas--even with zero calories, they make you fat. The science is fascinating: The fake sweetness does exactly what it's supposed to--tricks your brain into thinking this is the real thing. So your body acts accordingly, releasing insulin to deal with the impending sugar. Oops, false alarm, it was just a mess of chemicals, but now the insulin is out there, unused.....where it stores itself as fat.

Protein bars are usually not what they seem to be--frequently loaded with sugar. Men need more calories, so a 280 calorie Balance bar is nothing to someone like Boom....but it's two meals for me. I LOVE Luna bars--marketed for women, but fine for men too. 10g protein, around 100 calories, I am addicted to the Chocolate Peppermint, that's my breakfast every day, or an emergency snack when stuck in the airport.

READ THE LABELS. 'Sugar Free' means 'we stuck some other shit in there instead, sorry.' 'Fat Free' usually means 'yeah, now there's some extra sugar, but no fat!' Processed foods suck. Salt, chemicals, weird stuff. Be careful with the Lean Cuisines.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

21, in IJAG's defense, I'm pretty sure she's a really late riser, like mid-afternoon. Perhaps that's why she started so late ...

On diet soda, I've really tried to cut that way down. Used to drink a 20 oz. Diet Dr Pepper every night at work, and the caffiene was screwing with my ability to sleep. So unless I'm making a long drive or I'm really struggling at a game, I stay away from it. I'm at maybe two bottles a week now. I try to get most of my caffiene out of the way in the morning with coffee.

The read the labels thing is great advice. I was looking at bread at the store a couple of weeks ago, and one "100 percent whole wheat" bread was about a buck cheaper a loaf than the other. I pick up the cheap loaf, look at the ingredients and find out it has high fructose corn syrup. Really, wheat bread has it. The more expensive one didn't, so it went in my cart.

Stay the hell away from the high fructose corn syrup. The stuff is pure, unadulterated evil.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

I say: Drink Minute Maid Light Lemonade or Sugar-Free Tropicana Lemonade in the can. That stuff tastes spot-on like lemonade and has no sugar/carbs. Switching from 5 or 6 "regular" Cokes per day to this stuff is a main reason I was able to lose so much weight in 2004.

Also, the Cybex Arc Trainer is a good thing. Oh how I love you, CAT.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

There is a caffeine-free version of Diet Dr. Pepper. It's not widely sold, but my boss stocks up on it every so often when she's going to visit relatives or is near a store that sells it. Maybe the local distributor would be able to point you in the right direction.

 

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I second this. The other "phrase" to look out for is "partially hydrogenated oils".

I have a friend who is really into the politics and economics of food and food production; it's fascinating to learn what the manufacturing industry has done to what we consume.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

You guys talking about running are killing me.

I hate that with a passion. I ran XC and track in high school, but stopped as soon as the season ended my senior year and I have resisted doing it again.

BUT, with the triathlon coming up (the one a bunch of family members are doing in memorium of a cousin who died while doing it) I've decided I better start doing a little running. One of my spinning classmates is into Ironman triathlon and he's an inspiration because he swims 25 laps before spinning, then hits the indoor jogging track as soon as we finish the 60-minute ride.

I think I'll try to jog a mile or two once or twice a week as a wa to condition my body for tat type of work. But as soon as that triathlon is over, I stop running. I just hate it.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

About the breads: 'Wheat' bread is meaningless--all bread is made from wheat, they think they can fool you. You want 'Whole Wheat' and here's the next trick--you don't want "Made with Whole Wheat!" That means they put some in there, but the rest is plain old white shit. You want "100% Whole Wheat!" Even the folks at Wonder and Butternut make it now, and it looks and tastes like white bread, for those of you who think whole wheat tastes like baked pencil shavings. Gotta read the labels.

And in case I forgot to mention it, diet drinks are wade with chemicals derived from windex, and they make you fat.

 

Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

if all you did was avoid HFCS and anything with the word hydrogenated, you'd be a much better person. i do my best to avoid it, but it seeps in here and there. it's amazing how many products have HFCS. yesterday i noticed that the jar of sliced pickles in my fridge has HFCS. pickles! i'm sure it's just in the marinade and it's fine to eat a couple of pickles a week - as opposed to guzzling drinks loaded with the crap - but it's frustrating how tough it is to completely avoid the stuff.

oh, and for yogurt, i recommend switching to organic. almost all supermarkets these days seem to have at least a small organic section.