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Today's activity.....

Well, after last night's gym-adventure (30 minutes on T-mill, spin-class, 1 mile in the pool)...I was pretty much unable to find sleep until 3am, and even then it was like a train-wreck. I cancelled with Roz and promised myself to hit it later.


Food as follows...

80-cal low-fat yogurt
210-cal Zonebar

Spicy Tuna salad
Caterpillar roll

210-cal Zonebar (juicing-up for workout)

1.25 hours of cranking on the weights, upper-body

Large salad w/minimal dressing, garbanzo & kidney beans, 4 ounces skinless breast chicken, 2/3-cup brown rice.

4 ounce non-fat frozen yogurt
100 ca's of dark chocolate

Projected calories in: 2,350
Exercise: 540

Observations....something is weird: normally I look in the mirror and can't see too much of a difference.....but now I can actually see it, it's like my body is sorta going through an anti-plateau deal and I'm leaning-out a bit. The center divide in my abs is deepening a bit and I can feel more quickly the tight muscle under the skin. My face seems to have made a jump in leanicity (I make the word up)...and I see more lines/cut in my arms.

Controversial news: I'm set to visit my nutritionist this Friday....time to weigh-in, measure-in and get my body-fat% taken. It's been about 4-5 weeks and since last seeing him I've been working-out HARD and really watching my diet. I feel pretty good, I'm looking good and I'm getting compliments. WHO WANTS TO BET THAT DAMN SCALE IS GONNA TELL ME I'VE DONE NOTHING?
I'm preemptively upset at that thing...why won't it grant me the numbers? How can I continue to lose girth & fat and yet it hovers at 232-pounds? We'll see......
 
Oh...one other thing. I'm gonna see if one of my spin-instructors will let ME do the class this friday. I'm not sure they can let me (I'm not cert'd)...but neither is her husband and he's sub'd for her once. If she's there, I bet it's kosher. Will she let me? I rather doubt it.

The problem is...her music SUCKS, but I've been giving her some tunes and people are responding. I just compiled an AWESOME mix of songs and I'm so jazzed & confident about these tunes, that it's time for me to stop fantacizing about the day she doesn't show up for class and I jump up there and run things. I'm gonna go for it...tomorrow I'll ask her if I can run the class. I can't wait to make everyone my b!tch! ;) :D

Hey...if anyone wants a killer spin/workout cd, let me know....I'll mail it to ya! No hard rock on this...just a collection of all sorts of great stuff, VERY INSPIRING, lots of energy...everything from some neo-classical opera to Trance! :D
 
g8r80 said:
Hey BSL, what do you know about the hazards (to your diet) of High Fructose Corn Syrup?
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Avoid it.

Here's the details I have...I trust you're asking a legit question and not just joking around by insinuating that I'm hyper based on my potential consumption of said evil? ;)

Ahemm.....

High-Fructose Corn Syrup is used to sweeten almost everything these days. It wasn't in our food supply before the 1970's, but since then our consumption has skyrocketed. These supersugars quickly enter your bloodstream and trigger both hormonal and chemical changes that make you feel even hungrier...also, insulin surges start a cascade that tells your brain to eat more and your fat cells to store more fat.

Why the fructose in high-fructose corn syrup is different from that of ordinary sugar: The digestion, absorbtion and metabolism of fructose differ in significant ways from those of regular sugar. Table sugar is a combination of glucose and fructose and is known as sucrose. Glucose is the basic sugar the body uses for energy and metabolism - one of the key building block of all carbohydrates and often found as part of other slowly absorbed sugars found in beans and whole grains. Fructose is also one of those building blocks, found in mostly fruit, where it is packaged along with fiber and an abundance of protective nutrients. But fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion adn the consequent increase in leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells that tells your brain you are full...which reduces appetite.

High Fructose Corn Syrup has processed fructose which is absorbed more quickly and enters our cells without any help (it does not require insulin the way glucose does). Once inside the cell it becomes an uncontrolled source of carbon (acetyl-CoA) that is made into cholesterol and triglycerides. Basically, that means eating HFCS makes your cholesterol level shoot straight up and causes problems with your liver that slows down your metabolism even more. It actually produces a fatty liver and is the major cause of abnormal liver functions. HFCS is probably the biggest reason for teh increase in cholesterol levels we have seen over the last 25 years. By cutting-out HFCS you can see a huge drop in your cholesterol & triglyceride levels!

In fact, NONE of the normal controls on appetite is triggered when you eat foods or beverages containing HFCS. When you metabolize glucose, your brain normally gets teh mesage that you are full...that doesn't happen with HFCS...you just stay hungry and keep eating, which continues to fuel the cycle. Bottom line: eating foods with HFCS leads to increased appetite, calorie consumption, intake, weight gain, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. - Doctor Mark Hyman, M.D. His book: Ultra-Metabolism


Oh...and why do food makers use it? Because it's cheap...and in today's day & age, the might buck is more important then people's health.
 
Hey BSL, of course it's a legit question. The reason I mentioned it is that I have only recently been learning about HFCS and how it alters normal hunger patterns. I was just curious if this might be problematic for you as the HFCS stuff is ubiquitous because it is cheap.

There are some great correlations between US obesity and the expansion of HFCS since the 60s as you mentioned.

Not prying or insinuating anything, just offering what little I can...
 
g8....it's all good, I was just kidding. I thought your question was so good that I went ahead and posted it to the weight-loss section, added a bit too. Hey, thanks for helping me to remember why it's so bad for ya!!! Makes sense too.

Since I'm on my log.....


Weight-control oatmeal w/scoop of wheat-germ, flax & bran fiber
1 cup orange juice w/scoop of Green Vibrance

8-9 spin-class
9-9:15 ran 1 mile on the Treadmill
9:15-10:30 spin class
Swam 1+ mile in the pool

Really worked it hard, HR-monitor said 2,470 calories.

Throughout exercise, ate a triple-threat bar (230 calories) and drank 4 bottles w/diluted accelerade (120 calories total) and my protein shake with mixed-in fruit juice CONTAINING NO HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP....320 calories

Lunch: spicy tuna salad, Sunkissed roll, Spicy tuna roll (but wife had 3 pieces from selection). If I had to guess, I'd say about 1,250 calories.


Not very hungry for dinner, but when it comes, it'll be protein & vege's

Btw...I took Betty's suggestion and ran today at 5.3mph...no shin pain, but I did intervals...4 minutes running, 2 minutes fast-walk...I think I just need to gradually introduce my body to running. Thanks Betty, somehow running faster spared me the shin pain..or at least reduced it considerably.

In class I chatted with a gal who is a big-time runner..she flat-out told me I just don't have a runner's build and it's gonna be tough....but I'll do the best I can.

Hey...I spin/run/spin/swim....3+ hours of cardio, 2.4k calories burned....keeping it light & lean....I'm gettin' there!!!!
 
How the hell do you find the time to train like that? I'm lucky to get an hour to do what I gotta do.

Gr8 rep for using "ubiquitous" LOL
 
Kraken said:
How the hell do you find the time to train like that?
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You know what I do. I'm a contractor and at this point I run things from home and have my crews out doing the installations. I just take calls, answer questions, sell jobs over the phone (most the time), schedule things, run the whole office, etc.

On Wed & Fri mornins I just have my wife answer the calls and when I get home I get back on it. Admittedly, I have a very flexible and fortunate set-up when it comes to working. I'd say I'm lucky, but I rather & deliberately orchestrated things into being the way they are....:D
 
BikeSwimLaugh said:
You know what I do. I'm a contractor and at this point I run things from home and have my crews out doing the installations. I just take calls, answer questions, sell jobs over the phone (most the time), schedule things, run the whole office, etc.

On Wed & Fri mornins I just have my wife answer the calls and when I get home I get back on it. Admittedly, I have a very flexible and fortunate set-up when it comes to working. I'd say I'm lucky, but I rather & deliberately orchestrated things into being the way they are....:D
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The joys of being your own boss.
 
There are "joys".....but I'm sure you'll trust me when I assure you there's a downside to everything, it's not all fun & games. I'm often up late and I take calls wherever and whenever. Still, a good thing :)
 
BikeSwimLaugh said:
There are "joys".....but I'm sure you'll trust me when I assure you there's a downside to everything, it's not all fun & games. I'm often up late and I take calls wherever and whenever. Still, a good thing :)
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Oh I believe you bud. 100%. Still better than workin' for da man though.
 
BikeSwimLaugh said:
There are "joys".....but I'm sure you'll trust me when I assure you there's a downside to everything, it's not all fun & games. I'm often up late and I take calls wherever and whenever. Still, a good thing :)
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Rep +1 for the truth about self employment! I have not received a W-2 from anyone other than myself since 1993 and that has given me great pleasure and great grief (but much more pleasure than grief).
 
bettyhenes said:
So are you going to be teaching that spin class tomorrow?
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Phate89 said:
Hey BSL, are you doing any weight training?
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Phate....hell yes I'm weight-training!!!! :) 3x per week usually for about 1.25-1.5 hours per session. I have my own gym here at the house. Oddly enough, I sometimes take business calls while I'm working-out...but only when the wife can't cover the phones.


Betty,

Today was the spin-class. I'm gonna tell ya right here and now...I think I'd really like teaching/instructing a spin-class, perhaps it's something I might wanna look into, just for fun. Did I teach the class today? No. The gym requires all instructors to have proper certification and my contractors license apparently doesn't cut it in the gym. :D

So okay.....one of my more favorite instructors has good energy and she's fun...but flat-out: her music SUCKS and she doesn't seem to realize that her classes have less attendence because of it. People have complained to the dept. head and she's been scaled-down on doing classes....yet, she just doesn't get it. I've given her some music and she's slwoly incorporated it into her class....and despite her getting good feedback on MY music, she's still a bit oblivious to it and sticks to her stuff.

So instead of just giving her a whole bunch of music, I actually put together an entire 'score'....a gentle start song, songs alternating from fast/high-energy to a more mellow/slow (high resistance) pace, etc....all ending with a nice wrap-up song. I did a whole program and she agreed to run it!!!

So what happened....she played the first 4-5 songs (and everybody was diggin' it) and then suddenly, for no reason, she pulls out the CD (tells me we'll come back to it) and pops in her crap and proceeds to dull everyone out with her 80's remniscent junk. 4 boring songs later she goes back to my CD and everyone is loving it again...and then she screws-up the end by going back to her finishing-crap. I don't get it...is she too proud or too ignorant to figure it out?

The other thing is...she ran much of it wrong. I told her to do the 1st song with the lights out and then bring the lights up as we got half-way through the 2nd song when the energy started. A great spin-class isn't just about the instructor...it's about the music & the energy....it shouldn't be a "class"...it should be a concert/party where you're having so much fun and feeling the energy that you're unaware of just how much exertion you're putting-out. With no music is almost hurts to sustain 175HR, but with a jamming tune I'm churning 175 and hardly feel it. It has been substantiated that music can reduce one's perceptoin of exertion by as much as 30%. GIVE US THE TUNES!!!!!!

I love my instructor and she's wonderful...but I'm telling ya straight-up, I know I could connect and get with these people's heads better then her! She ran many of the songs wrong and the whole thing was a bit disappointing. That said, it is what it is. When the class was over she mentioned to everyone that I had brought in the music and several people made positive comments....I hope she realizes what's up with it.

I'm spinning again tomrrow with my Othropedic surgeon friend Glenn. This is Glenns's second class...he took her class last week: she opened with 3 of my songs (that Glenn liked) then reverted to her crap and he hated every song until the class was over. I hope she'll play more of my stuff tomorrow...and I assure you, it's not just me looking-out for what I like....other people have commented on her better music and they are definitely making reference to my stuff. Actually, she's found a few songs on her own, but for the most part the new stuff that people love is mine.

Anyways...today is good...3+ hours of my routine cardio and calories are proper. :D
 
Oh okay, was just asking because i haven't seen you post exercises and some numbers on how your lifting.
Good to know though

Keep up the good work.

It's getting way too hot over here, and i'm feeling lazy and sluggish because of the heat.
 
Yeah....it's about 100 out here and (being an insulation contractor) my phones are ring ring ringin' :D Cause, ya know...ring is converted into Cha-ching! :D :D

I do a whole bunch of routines...chest-press, lat pull-down, tricep press, bicep curls. Honestly, I don't know the names of all of them and I just have numbers & weights listed on a board in my gym. I just do what I do and don't bother reporting here all the numbers. I lift heavy weights till it hurts and then I slam a protein shake.

Thanks for taking an interest...:)
 
Many people suggested I needed to add some calories and my deficit was too extreme...that I was in starvation mode and my body was clinging to fat, etc. Forum members, trainers, many people swore I had to dial-in some more calories to lose weight......

Well...I started eating more for breakfast (just before my workouts) and since I do my workout for long periods I ate a bit between different exercises and I certainly ate just after working-out as well. Yeah, I pre-fed and fed my exercise and then I went lean into the evening keeping the carbs low.

I felt leaner, I looked leaner, my face appeared thinner, my trainer said she could see the difference, my arms looked more cut....I was happy, but given my history I was scared to get on the scale.

Today I saw my nutritionist...first thing he did was look at my arms and say "Dude...your arms look huge, and your chest & shoulders, sheesh: what have you been doing"????

So I told him how I was eating a bit more but timing it before my workouts and just after my workouts. That I've added the butterfly stroke to my swimming and can now rip it all the way across the pool, and I've been lifting heavier and using the energy blah blah blah.

So....he pulls-out the body-fat calipers and goes to the new spots we test (where what fat remains). Good news: I've dropped 1.1% in body-fat%. He does the pinching 2 more times to get an accurate picture; yep....I've certainly lost fat, you can see it on the digital calipers and visually see the cutting on my body most everywhere.

Then I get on the scale.....oh great: I'VE GAINED 3.5 POUNDS!!!!

Now I'm up to 240, isn't that wonderful? All that eating just fueled my endomorph/mesomorph ability to stack-on muscle. Fat? Yeah..I lost some fat, but evidently I've yet again gained enough muscle to offset the fat-loss on the scale.

I don't know if I should celebrate or scream.....

My nutritionist says I need to cut calories way down and stop lifting heavy, and not to push the HR over 140 when I do my cardio: give the body no reason to add muscle and cut the cals to burn the fat.

So I've gained 3.5 pounds in my weight-loss program, let's everyone congratulate me, I'm the Greatest Gainer Winner!

Ya know, that gym actually bolted the scale to the floor....I was seriously gonna throw it through the f-in window!
 
dude quit focusing on that number. As I said before I fluctuate about 7 lbs from day to day, week to week. You lost fat thats the important thing.

Quoting from the Ubiquitous Chillen, "don't make me put your head in a compression device"
 
Pardon me if I'm a lil confused BSL but :-

- are you bulking, cutting or what?
- what is your goal as if your starting body fat was 11.5% and you have lost body fat % but gained weight. Do you have stats for your biceps/waist before and after this gain/loss? Do you now have a six-pack?
- do you have a scientific log of the reps and actual weight-lifting you are doing? Your reply to phate above suggests otherwise. It would be good to see actual gains in lifts as well as to see which compounds you are doing.
- do you have a fit-day or similar log of your food intake as those deficits sound unusual?

Its seems to me as if you are not sure of where you are heading but maybe I haven't the time to read all that was written previously.
 
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