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| The Lounge | What's in the name? | Feb 07 2013 05:27 (UTC) |
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My sister was a Katherine. Never a Kathy. She never felt it fit her and changed it when she was in 7th grade. My parents still don't always remember after 40 some years. On the other hand, my parents sometimes used to get our names confused with the dogs. As in Roger, no Katherine, I mean Mac! Eyeroll. |
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| The Lounge | What's in the name? | Feb 07 2013 05:23 (UTC) |
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I don't seem to have a naturally good memory for names, so I have to work at it. I do prefer to make an effort when I know this is a person I am likely to interact with on a regular basis and especially so if it's either an incipient friendship or a work relationship. My names have been mispronounced so many times I can't even begin to count. My first name is actually pronounced with a long E, but so many people have insisted that's wrong it should be a short e. Or I'm misspelling it if I pronounce it that way or something. Blame my parents for all of that, I guess. Then my last name when I was married to my first husband was one of those vowel-challenged Polish names so forget about ever having that remembered/spelled/pronounced properly. I was pretty forgiving about that because it was just impossible. Now my last name (second husband) is also often used as a first name so that's been fun too, as in "Hey! You have two first names!" When someone makes the effort to get my name right, that gives them many extra credit points. |
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| Fitness | NROL Abs Movin on, Phase 3, Turkish Get-ups | Feb 05 2013 23:41 (UTC) |
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dbacker,bakasana and partial bakasana (as shown in your link) do require pretty good core strength, but I was reading the above as some sort of magical hovering move which would really be impressive. |
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| The Lounge | Landlines! | Feb 04 2013 15:58 (UTC) |
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We have a landline. We live way out in the middle of nowhere where cell phone service doesn't exist till you get about 10 miles up onto the actual paved road and then it's only kinda sorta before you actually get into town. |
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| Weight Loss | Am I doing something wrong? | Jan 31 2013 22:43 (UTC) |
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Does your fuel band give you the total calories burned for the entire day? If so, and it gave you a total of 1500 for a day where you participated in two challenging exercise classes, that sounds like something's off with the band. (I think we all have a belly pudge when we sit down unless we're skeletal.) Your weight is already healthy for your height, and you're lifting weights, so you may not have very much fat to lose. Also, since you are 19, you do need to understand that your calorie requirements are higher. You want to stay fueled for those 190-lb squats. |
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| Foods | Strange Nut butters | Jan 28 2013 02:17 (UTC) |
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Sunflower seed butter supplanted almond butter as my favorite food the first time I tried it. I've never had macadamia butter but I'd probably like it. The only nut butter I've tried that I wasn't too fond of was walnut butter. Too - dry or something. |
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| Fitness | NROL Abs Movin on, Phase 3, Turkish Get-ups | Jan 28 2013 01:58 (UTC) |
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Yes, I've done that one. I'm working on the latest one, NROL Supercharged. Just finished up the first program and starting tomorrow with the next one. Abs will do you well if you move on to Supercharged, they've got a lot of the same stuff. |
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| Fitness | NROL Abs Movin on, Phase 3, Turkish Get-ups | Jan 27 2013 20:07 (UTC) |
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Put your feet up on something - how high of a something is your choice. I've got a footstool about 14 inches high I use for elevated planks. If you've got a lot of core strength you could use the bench. |
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| The Lounge | What was she thinking? | Jan 24 2013 16:07 (UTC) |
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That totally looked like an oh god men eye roll. What I loved about that video is that she just kept on mowing down her lunch, that was some serious eating going on. She was hungry. Gotta love that about a gal. |
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| The Lounge | Ridgeline, Frontier, Tacoma | Jan 21 2013 15:12 (UTC) |
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I have a 2005 Tacoma. It's been very reliable (knock wood) and is standing up to our awful dirt roads pretty well. Sitting in the back seat is possible but not comfortable, bigger folks would be complaining on long rides. |
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| The Lounge | Your last meal.... | Jan 18 2013 04:50 (UTC) |
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Since I already know going into the meal, it's my last one (and assuming I'm not too sick to eat), I don't have to worry about it making sense. Going for the gusto here. Some sort of vegetable substrate for a good size dollop or two of blue cheese dressing, the really good kind. Several lightly toasted pieces of Semifreddi's seeded baguette, and a jar of sunflower seed butter (my favorite thing). A big hunk of super rich chocolate cake or a half dozen of my Mom's cookies (any assortment) or both. To drink: as much perfectly brewed rich black coffee as necessary. May as well die wired. |
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| Recipes | Lentils | Jan 14 2013 20:28 (UTC) |
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That's a really good recipe, but it takes a little while to make. Not hard though, and it comes out yummy. |
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| Recipes | Lentils | Jan 14 2013 18:20 (UTC) |
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Ooh, that sounds good, let us know if you do. |
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| Recipes | Lentils | Jan 14 2013 17:39 (UTC) |
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Lentils are a main for me, so these recipes are filling and tasty. Big on fiber and protein all that good stuff. http://caloriecount.about.com/curried-red-len tils-recipe-r168226 Sometimes I'll put green peas in that one too. http://caloriecount.about.com/lemon-lentil-so up-spinach-recipe-r71879 I make the next one a lot, lately I've been using beluga lentils (those little black ones, but standard brown lentils work great too) http://caloriecount.about.com/lentils-red-bel l-pepper-feta-recipe-r96150 Disagree a bit on lentils needing sodium - they do need to be jazzed up with something, but not necessarily salt (although that last one with feta...)
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| Calorie Count | Fitbit with Calorie Count | Jan 12 2013 15:46 (UTC) |
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I've been using a bodymedia gofit armband, which also tracks calories burned, assuming something similar to a fitbit. I have an external device that gives me a quick readout of calories burned so I don't have to upload to the bodymedia website every day, and then I just manually add the calories burned to the activity log so CC matches. |
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| Maintaining | Study shows Low Carb Diet best for Maintaining Weight Loss? | Jan 10 2013 03:52 (UTC) |
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It's interesting. I have to say though, I'd rather exercise for the hour a day than do the low carb diet described. |
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| The Lounge | Profound Theory by Lou Schuler- Maybe 'eat less, move more' doesn't work | Jan 04 2013 21:11 (UTC) |
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dbacker, I am also very noncompliant with the protein shake thing. When we moved and I started working out at home, I could never make one that didn't taste disgusting. Besides, I'd rather eat something. The original question about "eat less move more" not really working - I don't actually remember this from the original book. I do remember that they were really trying to get women to eat enough to sustain a difficult program and work toward fat loss and not just weight loss, so maybe that's what he was aiming at. Mostly, the physics say that to lose weight you have to eat less than you burn, but there are so many individual ways to tweak that formula and what you eat is super important. I've done all of the NROL(x) books except the For Life one. I just got supercharged too. I've got my start date scheduled for Monday, logs are printed out and ready. I was ready for something new.
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| Weight Loss | Lost Weight But Food Still Controls My Life | Jan 03 2013 22:19 (UTC) |
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This is such an interesting topic. chuckdaisy, one additional thing (maybe two) - honestly I'd work more on letting go of this: "It drives me insane and makes me feel ashamed." Learning to change this thought pattern, regardless of whether you manage to achieve some level of ephemeral and/or fictional normality in the desire to eat, will serve you well. We have more control over what we feel and think than most of us realize, and where I'd go is in training yourself to just recognize the desire to overeat and then let it go. When one of those moments happen you can look at it and ask yourself what your choice is: eat more at that point and get whatever pleasure/enjoyment from it that you can, or pass on the food because you've made a choice to remain healthy. If you're hungry, eating is not a bad choice at all. If you're eating because food is the one thing that gives you the most pleasure in life (it does for me, that's the honest truth), then you can look at ways to bring more pleasure into your life that isn't eating-related. Also, make sure that you are eating foods that you do find delicious on a daily basis, but you may need to redefine delicious. On a personal level, I don't really find sweets very tempting any more, but nut butter is now my bee's knees and it can be hard to be moderate. It doesn't have to be a "hard on me mentally life" but you may need to train yourself to recognize that. |
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| Weight Loss | Lost Weight But Food Still Controls My Life | Jan 03 2013 16:22 (UTC) |
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I lost 135 pounds, maintained the weight loss for five years. I have not however, lost the desire to eat too much. I still go through the occasional period of getting annoyed that part hasn't changed, and then I realize that I can choose to feel frustrated or I can just get on with it in the fashion of "we all have our crosses to bear". Also, I think there are probably some metabolic and/or hormonal components to it in that I don't think I ever really had a good response to leptin, which is the hormone that tells you when you've had enough to eat. So be it. I've made my choice, i.e. eating less than I want to to maintain my weight. Also, I'm the same way about scenarios you describe with not eating the office birthday cake. I know I can eat it and ultimately fit it into the calorie day, but usually those cakes aren't really very good. I'd rather save the splurges for the extra special things. Congratulations on your accomplishment! |
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| Fitness | New Rules of Lifting Supercharged | Dec 28 2012 00:46 (UTC) |
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You hate it so much you love it? There's a whole lunge chapter? |
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