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| Fitness | Heart Rate and Running | Nov 23 2009 23:10 (UTC) |
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Yeah, sometimes I feel good on a run even though my HR is high, other times I just feel like I'm working too hard. My BF who runs a lot too ran a couple weeks ago with a fast pace group and wore his HR monitor and said his HR was about 167 - 170 and he could only keep it up for an hour before he had to slow down. Sometimes I think that maybe it's that my legs aren't strong enough - I don't do enough weights right now - but in reality I'm just looking to be able to keep an average pace, not a speedster so it doesn't make sence that my mucles are that much weaker than the average person. Also I've had periods where I've done a lot of weight training (3+ times / week for months on end) and I've had the same high heart rate issues regardless of how much I weight train. Since I've started talking about seeing a cardiologist I've heard of quite a few people who are friends of friends who've had testing done. One lady has a heart rate that goes a bit crazy for about 20 minutes and then goes back to normal. Another lady all of a sudden had a high heart rate when exercising and she hadn't previously had this problem, she had some testing done and then all of a sudden the problem went away and her HR was normal again. I'm quite surprised at how many people know someone who's had issues. My cardiologist appointment is on Dec 1 ... I'll let you know how it goes |
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| Weight Loss | Carb "blockers"? Anyone with experience? | Nov 23 2009 22:38 (UTC) |
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Original Post by michachu: ummm ... that's what I said. |
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| Fitness | Heart Rate and Running | Nov 23 2009 22:30 (UTC) |
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Original Post by mperic81:
This is me too. I ran my first half marathon with an average HR of 180. I was miserable. When I run with a slow pace group my HR is about 170 to keep up, and when I run comfortably on my own my HR is about 160 - I am also very slow at this pace. My HR also gets very high when biking and I've compared to others and my HR is up to 30 beats faster. Usually this means you're just more out of shape, but considering I'm in good enough shape to finish a half ironman (albeit slowly) I don't think it's that anymore. I believe my speed is directly limited by my high heart rate. I am currently waiting to see a cardiologist and going through some testing to ensure I won't drop dead when I run - lol. There is a condition that I / you may have where your heart is picking up impulses that shouldn't be elevating HR but does and apparently this is a fixable condition. It couldn't hurt to get it checked out. |
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| Weight Loss | Carb "blockers"? Anyone with experience? | Nov 23 2009 22:19 (UTC) |
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A carb blocker would theoretically work if it reduces your insulin response to eating carbs, since insulin is the primary hormone responsible for converting blood sugars to fat stores. It makes perfect sense that your cravings and hunger would go down if you have stabilized your blood sugars. If you find that your blood sugars were way out of whack prior to starting the carb blockers you may want to consider reducing or eliminating most of the carbs you actually eat because when you stop taking the carb blocker you're body will go back to having the insulin response and storing those foods as fat again (thus regaining all the weight you lost). There are quite a few solid theories of obesity that point to problems relating fat metabolism (for example the insulin response) rather than just calories that leads to obesity - meaning what you eat can be just as important as how much you eat. |
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| Weight Loss | Nighttime Eating syndrome treatment. | Nov 10 2009 03:24 (UTC) |
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Do you wake up hungry at night or is it just habitual eating? If you wake up hungry it could be because your blood sugars are out of whack and you should look at eating foods that stabalize your blood sugar and avoiding foods that spike/crash it. If it's habitual ... I dunno ? |
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| The Lounge | Relationship and friendship. Trying to be a rational, supportive girlfriend. | Nov 03 2009 08:05 (UTC) |
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Original Post by jellykiss: Yes. But platonic friends don't sleep over, they go for dinner, drinks, movies and then go home separately. |
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| Foods | help with my diet | Nov 03 2009 07:26 (UTC) |
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Candida detox can be quite difficult ... but definitely worth it. Coconut oil is also said to help with eliminating the overgrowth of candida. You may also want to consider that your body may just be sensitive to all grains. It's not just gluten that can cause problems, although gluten is usually the main suspect. This doesn't mean you have to cut out carbs completely if you don't want to, however I believe it's perfectly healthy to do so. I had IBS problems as well for many years and since eliminating carbs the problems have completely resolved. You may want to avoid grains/rice/cereals for a period of time to allow your stomach to get rid of any inflamation it may have and resolve any canadia issues (low carb does help with this as yeast eats carbs, so if you don't eat carbs the yeast starves and dies) and then decide after a few weeks/months if you want to try to reintroduce these foods or not. For myself, I felt so much better without eating this stuff that I saw no reason to put it back into my diet except on rare occasion (and I do experience the stomach upset that goes along with such indulgences) |
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| The Lounge | Do you talk to your pets? | Oct 30 2009 01:13 (UTC) |
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Does anyone else have funny nick names for their animals? I have all sorts of names, besides his actual name that I call him. The weirdest one is Captain Poopy Pants ... lol ... my dog has a sensitive stomach and farts a lot. We've even shortened it to Pooper and Poops |
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| The Lounge | Do you talk to your pets? | Oct 29 2009 22:31 (UTC) |
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I taught my dog to say 'maaamaaa' ... he sounds like Chewbacca ...heehee. Love my doggie!
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| Fitness | First half marathon complete! - foot pain isn't getting better tho | Oct 07 2009 05:37 (UTC) |
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Going to the doctor/physiotherapist is a must - could be a stress fracture. There are many injuries that can happen and if it's been 9 days and it still hurts, it's an injury of some sort so please get it checked out. |
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| Fitness | "recovery" after big race? | Oct 06 2009 02:17 (UTC) |
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I'd agree with wesmckean, listen to your body. I was out for easy runs 3 days after my first half ironman, a month later I was dogging it for 2 weeks after only a half marathon. It really depends on how hard you ran, and how you feel. If you're tired, take a few days. If you feel good, go for an easy run ... but avoid the speed work or HIIT for a few weeks. Congratulations! |
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| Fitness | How many Calories? | Sep 29 2009 02:00 (UTC) |
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When I've done a full carbo load I've notice a real difference ... however my half marathon PR I just ran on a whim without paying attention to what I was eating in advance (and I was actually carb depleted at the time). During the events try to fuel yourself as much as you possibly can (1 gel every 45 minutes or so - be sure to take with water). For a full proper carb load you actually carb deplete (zero carb) for 3 days and then eat as much good carbs (plain brown rice, sweet potato, chicken...) as your body can digest (it's actually kinda gross). You may not want to go to that extreme, so you can just eat as much good carbs for the 2 or 3 days ahead of time as your body can take (regardless of calories). Probably more important to your performance is to rest enough this week though. I would suggest doing no more than one or two 20 minute runs this week and save your energy for the race. You will probably gain 2 or 3 lbs of water weight after this weekend, which will go away in a day or 2, so don't worry about that. I see it all the time when I have a hard weekend. |
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| The Lounge | Wedding Reception Food Ideas | Sep 25 2009 03:04 (UTC) |
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Mashed potato buffet? Baked potato bar? <scratches head> What about serving sushi? |
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| The Lounge | Biggest Loser | Sep 23 2009 23:41 (UTC) |
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Original Post by buggyhair: I picked up on this too - crazy! First of all they must be starving only eating 1200 calories - I'd be dizzy within a couple days and unable to work out. Second of all, for a guy to burn 8000 calories in a day ... even if his RMR was 3000 that would take 10 hours of exercise burning 500 calories an hour (a pretty decent work out for an out of shape person)! They must be giving these guys a little something something to get them to be able to do this. Definitely not a healthy way to lose weight ... but I do love watching the show while I'm working out - LOL! |
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| Health & Support | What's the scoop on poop? | Sep 05 2009 19:17 (UTC) |
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Flax is a high fiber seed a bit like psyillium husks, but IMO flax is better because it also works to calm inflamation. If you are constipated it will make you go, I had the opposite problem and it helped a lot as well (I was already eating a lot of traditional fiber fixes like metamucil, but none of it worked). As an added bonus, flax expands when it gets wet, so it's incredibly filling as well. I've recommened flax to a friend who's husband was developing Chrone's disease and it worked for him too. |
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| Health & Support | What's the scoop on poop? | Sep 05 2009 18:19 (UTC) |
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My magic bullet for IBS problems is ground flax. (I have a good reciepe for a quick and easy flax muffin if you want) That and knowing that your body can only digest a certain amount of carbs at one sitting (about 300 calories for me) before I start becoming gassy so you may want to look at what else you're eating even if it's healthy foods it may be causing the gas. Also, leafy greans like spinach can also cause gas if you eat too much.
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| Fitness | Low Carb Ketosis and Exercise - Possible? | Aug 25 2009 15:41 (UTC) |
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Original Post by vejitarian: I'm not promoting anything. I was correcting the incorrect statement made by fitnessgirl that it's impossible to work out while on Atkins, and that LC eating causes kidney failure, high cholesteral, cancer .... etc which isn't true. That's all. There is nothing dangerous about eating low carb (or even eating zero carb). I'm not going to bother with this discussion anymore either, clearly the witch hunt is on and you guys are looking to burn the heritic at the stake for having an opposing view. |
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| Fitness | Low Carb Ketosis and Exercise - Possible? | Aug 25 2009 02:46 (UTC) |
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Ugh. I give up. I'm not attacking dietians, I'm simply saying just becasue something is taught in school dosen't make it true. 20 years ago they taught dietitians that eggs cause high cholesteral, this has since been proven false. I'm simply saying look at the data objectivly. Really people, there are huge south beach threads on this forum - do you really think they're all idiots too. Sorry, but I don't consider any 'authority' from the biggest loser credible on health. Archaeological digs don't actually support the theory that humans ate any significant amount of fruits or veg except on an opportunistic basis. And Paleo man did not die of old age at 40 - paelo man died of influenza, virus, tooth decay or other contageous diseases or was eaten by a bear. It was rare for someone to die of old age. I'd even go as far as saying if they had the same medical abilities that we did, they would live longer than the average carb consuming modern man. I see it's utterly useless trying to discuss this topic here though.
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| Fitness | Low Carb Ketosis and Exercise - Possible? | Aug 25 2009 00:02 (UTC) |
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Humans survived on primarily a meat diet for hundreds of thousands of years. Explain that! The Inuit traditionally ate only fat and meat, never ate a vegetable ever - and never had any instance of diabetes or cancer until they started eating a westernized diet. Clearly you do not want to look objectivly at the data. There are plenty of doctors who support atkins style diets. |
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| Fitness | Low Carb Ketosis and Exercise - Possible? | Aug 24 2009 21:41 (UTC) |
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Carbs are known to cause diabetes - I didn't say that obesity itself causes diabetes (although the two usually go hand in hand). Being a licensed dietician unfortunately doesn't make you an expert on anything other than the government dogma of thier balanced food pyrimad, which is based on faulty research conclusions. I honestly don't mean any offense by that, I have done a lot of research on the actual studies that the main stream food pyrimid is built on and their conclusions are not justified. Just because you learned it in school doesn't make it true. The main reason I follow a low carb diet is for my health because based on what I have researched, not for weight loss (I am at a healthy weight and normal BMI). I encourage all of my loved ones to follow a low carb diet because the evidence is clear that a high carb diet is harmful and causes disease. I have completed several half marathons and a half ironman while following a low carb diet and am now training for a full marathon followed by a full ironman. There is no reason to eat carbs. Edited to add - type 1 diabetes is not caused by diet or lifestye and usually is found in children because their body simply isn't able to produce insulin at all - this is a problem with their pancrease; type 2 diabetes is totally different in terms of what's going on with the body - in fact they are polar oposites. Type 2 diabetes is the over stimulation of insulin - the body has to produce more and more insulin (because too much carbohydrates are being consumed) that cells become resistant to the insulin, causing high blood sugar (because the insulin isn't able to do it's job fully) |
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| Fitness | Low Carb Ketosis and Exercise - Possible? | Aug 24 2009 19:43 (UTC) |
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I highly encourage you to do some research on the subject. Diabetics wouldn't have diabeties in the first place if they followed a low carb diet. It's carbs that cause diabeties, and the best treatment for diabeties is a low carb diet. You're confusing ketosis, a natural harmless process that your body uses to digest fatty acids, with ketoacidosis, which is only observed in uncontrolled diabetics and sever alchoholics. Your body actually produces ketones to digest all fat, not just when you're in ketosis - ketosis is simply that the body is producing more ketones in response to a higher demand to process fatty acids (coming from both food and your fat stores) and because there is more ketones being produced it can be detected through a urine test. What causes low blood sugar is diabeties, not low carb diets ... there is zero evidence of ANY cases of kidney failure in healthy people who switch to or follow a low carb diet (only people who are already in kidney failure should avoid a low carb diet, it's not the low carb diet that causes kidney failure), cholestorol levels have been clinicly shown to go down on a low carb diet, not up, and all of the other claims you make about the dangers of low carb diets are unfounded and proven otherwise. It's actually been shown that a low carb diet reduces risk of cancer, not cause it like you state. Also, there's nothing quick fix or fad about low carb eating. Most low carb dieters lose 1 - 2 lbs a week after the initial induction phase. Most low carb dieters also exercise and work hard to reach their goals. Low carb eating has not been 'debunked' and in fact every attempt at doing so has shown results that prove that a low carb way of life is in fact more healthy than the currently accetped 'balanced' diet. Again, I encourage you to do some research on the subject - you'll be surprised at the weakness of the data that our food pyrimid is based on. |
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| Fitness | Low Carb Ketosis and Exercise - Possible? | Aug 24 2009 18:14 (UTC) |
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Original Post by fitnessgirll: Actually it's not only possible to work out and be on Atkins, I've had some of my best training runs carb free. Yesterday I ran 13K and swam for 30 minutes, all while in ketosis and without taking in any carbs. The body is not only perfectly capable of running without carbs, it actually prefers it. There is only a small one inch area of the brain stem that requires glucose to function, the rest of the body is perfectly fine without it. |
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| Fitness | Gym Etiquette/Pet Peeves | Aug 22 2009 21:23 (UTC) |
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I hate gyms that have a 20 or 30 minute time limit on cardio machines during peak hours. If I'm running on a treadmill I'm not even warmed up for 20 or 30 minutes and if I showed up for a work out, I want to work out not have some half assed work out. |
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| Weight Loss | Random thought about cals+starvation mode | Jul 23 2009 22:52 (UTC) |
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When you restrict your calorie intake at any level - 1200, 1500, 1800 - your body will compensate by burning less calories and becoming more efficient. There is no magic number. The more you restrict, the more efficient your body becomes. |
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| Weight Loss | cutting carbs? | Jul 23 2009 22:00 (UTC) |
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I eat an atkins style low carb diet and I exercise a lot. Low carb doesn't mean losing muscle, I'd say that you lose less muscle eating low carb than you would eating a 'balanced' diet because of the ketosis. I've been eating low carb for about 3 months and I run/bike or swim 6 days a week with no issues. Good luck |
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| The Lounge | Words that SHOULD be in the dictionary... | Jul 23 2009 05:36 (UTC) |
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Original Post by watergirl: LMAO!!! I heard a comedian once who was talking about finding the end of the universe ... it was somewhere in Texas ... standing in a mall in front of a Starbucks ... he turned around and on the opposite side of the mall was another Starbucks. Standing in between the two Starbucks he deemed the end of the universe. Only in America. I must admit I love Starbucks though! Who ever takes Starbucks across the pond will do well! |
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| Fitness | I have a question | Jul 23 2009 05:26 (UTC) |
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Maybe you need a different physiotherapist. My better half is a physio and there can be quite a difference in approaches used. Also, be sure you do all of the exercises they give you as much as they instruct you (unless you're in too much pain). |
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| Weight Loss | Be featured in Health magazine | Jul 22 2009 04:35 (UTC) |
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I've only lost 9 lbs (only another 8 to go) but I've got a couple of tips... 1) I've learned to be be patient and eat to live, not live to eat. Weight may not come off fast, but I only need to ask myself "how do I feel?" to know if I'm eating well and exercising enough (or too much). 2) Nothing tastes better than feeling great! If I eat poorly, I feel terrible. If I eat well, I feel good. 3) Sugar is the devil! 4) I still love pizza ... but I have to earn it first in my training! |
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| The Lounge | egg yolks... affraid to waste | Jul 20 2009 22:42 (UTC) |
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http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search /label/How%20many%20eggs%20per%20day%3F This guy ate a lot of eggs without any effects - lol. |
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| The Lounge | egg yolks... affraid to waste | Jul 20 2009 22:42 (UTC) |
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http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search /label/How%20many%20eggs%20per%20day%3F This guy ate a lot of eggs without any effects - lol. |
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