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Like Apples to Oranges. Really?

January 25, 2012 by 2 Comments

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSD_-Mx6AKmAnNQfQoPIt46bGdEALAIPsItJoWx5ylgWvTUtm1nWith so little time on Wednesday mornings, and an extra busy day ahead, let me cut right to the chase on BL.  I am glad it was just one hour!  It was week 4, and still I am feeling little for the show or the contestants, though I always love the weigh in.  The challenge might have been OK, if the questions were.  Which builds muscle better, chicken or fish?  And the “correct” answer was fish?  What kind of chicken are we talking about?  Breast meat?  Thighs?  What kind of fish are we comparing it to?  I don’t think this was a fair question at all?  I have been avidly studying nutrition, especially with regard to fitness, and especially plant-based for decades and couldn’t answer these questions.  There were no quantities!  How many beans to how many blackberries are we talking??  I hated that the contestants felt stupid and like failures.  This challenge had nothing to do with knowledge.  Anyway, Black team won giving them exclusive use of the gym for the week, while Red team would go gym-less.  Again, this bothered me.  There is SO much to do outdoors, it shouldn’t be a punishment!  Besides, after a month of gym workouts, I would guess a body would really be shaken up by such a different week or workouts.  Change is GOOD.

Buddy went gym-less, too, as he went home for the birth of his baby, Levi Martin, but would be back by scale time.  Chris, aka “Mrs. Clause,” has a mini-melt down, and we hear her crying “I want to go home,”  (mixed with a lot of the F word) from behind the bathroom door.  Drama between Dolvett and Conda, who has a horrible attitude.  With the show on for just one hour to make time for a speech by President Obama, the weigh in came quite quickly.  Most everyone had a great week with lots of people dropping double digits.  I am definitely partial to Chism, and was thrilled to see him drop 12 pounds but just as I suspected, Red team blew the scale up!  Buddy managed to lose 10 pounds at home and the Red team wins the weigh-in.  Emily has immunity as she dropped 9 pounds, and had the highest percentage of weight lost on the Black team.  With almost a tie between Chris and Gail, it was Gail who got the tie-breaking vote to go home.  I am so glad it wasn’t Chris.  Gail’s daughter, Lauren, went home last week and they are both doing great at home.

Next week, the aqua team, eliminated the first week, will weigh in and see if they have lost enough weight to return to the ranch.  The show is bound to start getting better one of these weeks soon, so I’ll keep watching, if for nothing else, the weigh in results!

I thought my President had a lot of really great things to share with the world in his address last night…but I am going to try to keep politics out of this blog because there ain’t nothing peaceful about talking politics!

SilverSneakers luncheon today at 1.  We will be just short of 100 strong.  I do mean strong! 

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What the $#*)(#$&*()&%#?

January 24, 2012 by 2 Comments

Thanks to always motivating, Carol, for sharing this training “tip” from Biggest Loser’s own Bob Harper.  Then I am off to start my day of workouts and I’ll be #*@)#*@#&@$&$@ if any of them are gonna get the best of me!  How bout you?

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  “Biggest Loser”trainer Bob Harper would like to get you back on the health-and-fitness path. And he’d like you to do it by talking to your food. And to your treadmill. Actually, he would like you to scream profanities at them.

 

 

Welcome to Bob Harper’s ” … You ” diet. (You know what the expletive is, people, but we are not allowed to write it out on our website, so use your imagination.)

The rules of this diet-and-fitness regimen are very simple. In fact, they are the rules that Harper says he uses when he is tempted to indulge in a piece of chocolate cake, or skip a workout and sleep in. Instead of giving in, he gets mad — and then he starts cursing like a sailor. He suggests you do the same.

Let’s listen in as Harper takes a break from filming Season 13 of “The Biggest Loser” to give us an inside peek at the renegade techniques he uses in this never-to-be-published diet:

“If your friends are eating that chocolate cake and you know it’s not the day you are supposed to have it, say ‘ … that cake!’”

Put on your swagger jacket and let rip, Harper says. That cake doesn’t have any power over you. That’s an inanimate object sitting on a plate that can be tossed in the garbage with a flick of the wrist. How can something so insignificant have any power over big ol’ you?

Though it sounds like Harper is joking around, he’s deadly serious. Such verbal self-coaching, while unconventional, will help you break the spell that the chocolate cake, French fries or any other indulgence might hold over you, he said.

“It empowers you,” he said. “Just say, ‘No! I’m not going to sabotage everything that I have been working so hard on for that piece of cake. Is that piece of cake worth it? No!’”

This self-coaching also work in reverse — use it to get your workout game on, he said.

Let’s listen again as Harper gives an example of how he revs himself up to hit the treadmill when he just doesn’t feel like it.

“That treadmill is going to get the best of me? No. That treadmill is not going to get the best of me. That treadmill doesn’t even have a heartbeat. I’m not going to give you another thought. I’m going to take advantage of you. I’m going to ride you and then not call you the next day! … you, treadmill!”

Harper said such measures, while extreme, can work if people put some emotion into their words.

“Try it,” he said. “It’s empowering. And it’s fun.”

 

Copyright © 2012, Los Angeles Times

For more from Bob, Biggest Loser, tonight…8pm or set your DVR!

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Just How far IS A Journey of 10,000 Steps?

January 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Yesterday, at the beach, Mitch and I had a chance to suck up some vitamin D and some peace as well.  It was so beautiful, I couldn’t help but wonder why we have so many houses and condos for sale!  To all of those who ask “but don’t you miss the change of seasons?” I answer…nahhh, not really!

As we took a walk along the beach, before heading back home for big football, Sunday, I found myself thinking about the 10,000 step a day rule.  How far IS 10,000 steps?  Sure, I have tried wearing pedometers, but I never find them to be accurate, and I truly had no idea how many steps I take when I walk the beach, the dog, etc.  Yesterday I counted my steps back from our nice walk, and came up with about 600, so times it was about 1200.  That is just barely 1/10 of the 10,000 steps that are recommended daily to maintain our weight and fitness.  While it is obviously different for everyone, depending on the size of their feet and their walking stride, 10,000 feet is approximately 5 miles.  For weight LOSS, 12,000-15,000 is the recommendation.  To build aerobic fitness levels, make 3,000 or more of those steps FAST!

Certainly we can trade our walking in for another form of cardiovascular exercise, but keep in mind, you may need to do more or work harder to truly accomplish the equivalent of those 10, or even 15,000 steps you are aiming for.

Today is the best day I know to get those feet going.  If you are in a warm weather climate, there is nothing like getting some vitamin D right along with your fitness.  If you are in a climate that doesn’t allow for outdoor walking, there is always the mall…or even the good ol’ gym.  Today is NO EXCUSE Monday.  With the holidays WELL behind us now, 3 weeks into the new year, excuse time is long over.  Walking.  It works!

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My Wish for YOU

January 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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And if football brings you peace…May your teams win, today.

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