| peaches101389
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| i tried the south beach and did really good until i pased out from not eating the right foods. I can't live on salads, nuts, eggs and sugar free cany the low carb diet and the south beach diet is not for me. i need somthing that is easy to acess, flexable, and not low car. i want to do this without meetings or have ing to buy food ex (weight watchers, nutrisystem) does any one have any ideas |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:24 am |
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| oldpjams
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peaches101389 wrote: i tried the south beach and did really good until i pased out from not eating the right foods. I can't live on salads, nuts, eggs and sugar free cany the low carb diet and the south beach diet is not for me. i need somthing that is easy to acess, flexable, and not low car. i want to do this without meetings or have ing to buy food ex (weight watchers, nutrisystem) does any one have any ideas
the best idea would be to understand SBD (or one of the similar diets) and follow it.
eating lean protein, vegetables and fruits, whole grains, low sugar, and exercising is the only way to lose weight and be healthy. SBD packages this old concept pretty nicely. there is nothing low carb about SBD.
todays menu:
omlette with ham, cheese, asparagus, grilled peppers and onion
slice of ww french toast
mixed fruit with nuts, yogurt and dry cereal
piece of cheese
chili
big salad
mixed fruit
banana
grilled chicken
grilled summer squash and zuchini
big salad
apple crisp
mixed fruit with nuts, yogurt, dry cereal
biked for 25mi before breakfast. will do resistance tonight when the kid is asleep.
i don't know why i waited 30 years to start living right. |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:59 pm |
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Yesterday's menu:
Breakfast: 1/2 cup Uncle Sam's/1/2 cup Barbara's Grain shop cereal, strawberries, black coffee.
AM Snack 1 (Pre-Yoga): 1 slice whole wheat blueberry walnut bread & small tangerine
AM Snack 2 (Post Yoga): LF string cheese, dried apricots
Lunch: Large Salad with LF feta cheese, ham and turkey for protein.
PM Snack 1: 1/2 cup black beans with tomato, green pepper and salsa
PM Snack 2: pistachios and apple
Dinner: Veggie Burger on whole wheat english muffin, sauteed zucchini w/ tomatoes
Late night snack: NSA fudgesicle
No eggs, no SF candies and lots of carbs. Easy, flexible and it works. Don't understand the issues. |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:34 pm |
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| oldpjams
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i could eat at your house.
that's good to know. |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:37 pm |
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| RedRox
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| You'd have to show me how you stand on a stability ball and do dumbell exercises though! The Vail to Frisco route starts a few short hours away as well! ;) |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:47 pm |
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| oldpjams
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redroxco wrote: You'd have to show me how you stand on a stability ball and do dumbell exercises though!
standing on the SB is what you do in between falling off the SB...which i've done more than once while learning.
start with kneeling "on all fours" by putting your knees against the ball at shoulder width and your hands on top of the ball. now roll your body forward on top of the ball and try to stay there...takes practice!
after a while you will be able to kneel on the ball. this is great for doing bicep curls and curl-to-presses. makes you use your abs!
i used to hold on to a wall to stand, but it's dangerous to be that close to a wall. there are different ways to stand up, but i have found that the best way for me it to put my hands on the ball and then just hop up into a crouch. then stand.
it definitely takes practice but it's a lot of fun once you get used to it. when i first started working with this trainer he showed it to me and i couldn't believe i would ever get to it, but eventually i'm here. the next step is to be able to stand on the SB and throw a ball against the wall to yourself. it's amazingly hard on your core. some day.
edit: forgot to mention that i always do this in shorts and no shoes. it's much easier to get a feel for the ball -- and a grip -- with bare skin. |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:55 pm |
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| RedRox
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I'll stay with my yoga sculpt classes for now where overhead tricep extensions in tree pose are challenging enough for me at the moment in terms of balance with hand weighted movements. But it does have me intrigued! ;) It's been interesting to me as well to initially see postures/movements in yoga that seemed advanced or "impossible" at first that simply required practice and a desire to achieve them to make them possible. Removing the mental blocks and believing they are possible is always the first step! ;)
Tree pose:
ummmm... what was this thread about? |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:19 pm |
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| oldpjams
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thread drift is fun.
that pose looks like great fun. you can do bic curls etc on one leg like that 8) |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:26 pm |
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| Probably could. We do hammer curls coordinated with a lunge movement and sometimes isolation curls from a static lunge with the back foot at a 45 degree angle and the torso open to the side with shoulders in a vertical plane (extended side angle). I'd say half the class is more pure power/vinyasa yoga without any weights and half incorporates light weights with lots of reps from static yoga postures, like tricep extensions from tree. I'm not sure how much good I'm actually doing strength wise, but it's fun and different and keeps me off the streets at lunch! ;) |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:06 pm |
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| oldpjams
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| i liked the kettlebell thought. i responded in that thread. i'm a big believer in functional exercise now...yoga is great in that regard. |
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Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:14 pm |
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| RedRox
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| Yup! I agree (some days later!) Although the "old school" part of me still has these nagging thoughts about some additional resistance types of training. I liked my earlier core conditioning classes at my gym when I first started that did more of the stuff you seem to focus on. (without the standing on the ball parts!) But using bosus which were tricky enough, or lunges with weights on steps and flys on stability balls. Just good overall stuff that incorporated a variety of elements. The yoga sculpt with weights is a good step in that direction, but still looking around and weighing options. A ball and some dumbells may be my best and least expensive option at this point. |
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:49 pm |
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