Posts by irmo

So what's the best way to determine a healthy weight.  Using BMI, my healthy weight is around 150 - 170.  I haven't weighed in that range since college, and I was a pretty skinny guy then.  That seems way low.  To save you searching above, I am 48 yrs old, and 5' 10".  My goal weight is 185, but according to BMI calculations that only gets me to a "slightly overweight" category.

How is everyone else figuring their healthy weight goal?

SW:245 (10.1.08)

CW:236

I an exercising 5 days a week alternating strength (M-W-F) with cardio (T-Th).  on weekends I am active but don't do a formal workout.  Yard work, camping (this weekend), home repair.  I don't just sit around in other words.  I notice some of the weight loss results are more rapid than what I am seeing for myself.  I am maintaining a 1000 cal deficit on average, but the lbs seem to be coming off slowly (9lbs over 7 weeks).  What's anyone else doing?

I'm here too, I just don't post very much.....

h: 5'10"

sw: 245 (10/1/08)

cw: 237

gw:185

I've used this site in the past.  Mainly it's a great tool for tracking cals, and exercise.

Once soaked and cooked you can throw them on salads too.    Dried beans are great, but if soaking and cooking them doesn't fit with your schedule you can get them canned.  They're easier and faster to use that way.

I've had asthma for 30 years or so.  Asthma has many triggers and they vary by individual, for me its allergies and sometimes excercise.  I don't use a pill, I use Advair, whcih is an inhaled powder (like one of the other posters) and abuterol.  Advair and the pills are medicines that control the asthma and are used daily for maintenance.  Albuterol is used to reduce the symptoms of a flare up.  It essentially dialtes the air-passages that have constricted (causing the attack). So using albuterol is not really preventative, and won't prevent EIA, it just dialates things so you don't notice the flare up as much.  I only use albuterol pre-work out if I am already feeling a little shortness of breath.

The daily maintenance medicines are preventative and help keep the symptoms from apprearing when your triggers occur.  Advair for me, pills for others.  It depends on what your doctor recommends.  Like the other poster, when I keep up with the Advair, I almost never need albuterol.