Perpetual Healthy Eating and Fitness Rant & Rave thread

[merigayle]

Catch that egg teetime!!!

[Lanarkshire with an L]

I just googled that relay!  Wow - to say that looks challenging is an understatement!  Looks scary as hell and I admire both you and Diablita for having the nads to do this!!

Meri - it is the Soldier's Marathon here at Ft. Benning.  It isn't until November, but believe you me, I need all the extra time to get some sort of prepared.   

You're in Columbus? I'm up the road in Atlanta. Good luck on your marathon! I'm not there yet in wanting to do one. I keep saying the day I get to the end of a HM and I feel like turning around and doing it all over again will be the day I decide to do a marathon.

Meri- I can't imagine running 2 runs in one morning! And when I run first thing, I find a glass of OJ is a good way to keep the stomach happy (and give a bit of sugar to my system.) I've been trying the new Silk soy mango smoothie this week.. just a few ounces before my Jillian workouts. Helps me not feel nauseous by the end of it.

[Jules62]

You're in Columbus? I'm up the road in Atlanta. Good luck on your marathon! I'm not there yet in wanting to do one. I keep saying the day I get to the end of a HM and I feel like turning around and doing it all over again will be the day I decide to do a marathon. /quote]

Yep, in Columbus.  Are you running  Peachtree RR?  I  Atlanta and always try to get DH to move there.  You should come down to do the 1/2 in Novemeber.  It is an awesome race!!

[Ice Cream]

I may have to buy some faux yogurt. I bought some awesome coconut milk greek yogurt the other day but when i went to buy another, i realized it was $2.39/container!! like a little single serve container  but maybe i can find another, less expensive one i like.

Curious... can you elaborate on these products?

[Lanarkshire with an L]

Yep, in Columbus.  Are you running  Peachtree RR?  I  Atlanta and always try to get DH to move there.  You should come down to do the 1/2 in Novemeber.  It is an awesome race!!

Yes, I'll be doing the Peachtree! Are you? If so, we should arrange a meet up. I would love to come do the half in November, but I won't be living in the US anymore by then (getting married in Aug and moving to London!)

[Bolloxd]

You're too kind teetime.  I'll be running with you in mind.

I guess if I'm gonna jump into a relay race then starting with the most difficult one is the way to go.  My butt hurts just thinking about it.

[Jules62]

Yes, I'll be doing the Peachtree! Are you? If so, we should arrange a meet up. I would love to come do the half in November, but I won't be living in the US anymore by then (getting married in Aug and moving to London!)

Yes, I am doing Peachtree!!  We are staying in Midtown, so a meet up would be great.   Last year we sat at Frog's and drank $1 drafts and chatted with perfect strangers about the run.  Fun stuff.  Let me know!  Congrats on getting married!

[merigayle]

Curious... can you elaborate on these products?

yogurts made from dairy alternatives. i generally buy DD coconut or almond yogurt, sometimes soy. this one, the So Delicious greek style was really good and i usually find dairy alternative yogurts gross. this is the particular one i tried http://www.sodeliciousdairyfree.com/products/coconut-milk-yogurts/vanilla-greek
not sure what other info you would like, but i can help

I did my second run, about 50-ish minutes on the TM, my legs were tired. I actually have not eaten lunch yet, i am kinda nauseous. Maybe this is good for weight loss in more ways than i imagined

[debbatx]

Big food change today - I'm still having my PB&J for lunch, but instead of pretzels, DH cut up some fresh veggies for me to have with some hummus. Yum! Morning snack was Greek Yogurt, afternoon snack will be a handful of almonds and a string cheese. We'll see how the new plan does.

[merigayle]

i am actually thinking about eating my lunch, but was supposed to meet with someone at my office at 2pm, it is now 2:17, grrrrr. My first patient is at 3, so this is going to be tight if she shows late.

[debbatx]

Trying to figure out how many servings were in that baggie o' veggies. It was a sandwich bag of broccoli, red pepper slices, sugar snap peas, and baby carrots. Any thoughts? Maybe 2 servings? I know a normal serving size is half a cup...

[LizardMixture]

Food was good yesterday and good so far today. I'm using the fitbit and myfitnesspal.com and it seems to think I have a deficit of 500 cals. Also we fixed the treadmills today - I think we fried them putting them in the wrong plug so we had to get new consoles. Hopefully now everything will work right.

[merigayle]

debba- 2?

So my appt was lost, she went to church rd, not west church rd, VERY different places in our town I *just* ate part 1 of lunch. I got some low carb wraps at the market and they are vile, i have gotten others in the past which were palatable, this was pretty plastic like.

[debbatx]

Meri, that's kind of what I'm thinking - a serving is 1/2 a cup (unless it's a leafy green), and there was easily a full cup in there. So yay!

[Jules62]

DH cut up some fresh veggies for me to have with some hummus. Yum!

Would you mind sending your DH to my house to conduct some training?

[debbatx]

Hah! Jules, I've been trying to get him to do that for months.

[merigayle]

Would you mind sending your DH to my house to conduct some training?

[debbatx]

Huh. I like almonds! Who knew?

[Magic Microbe]

Trying to figure out how many servings were in that baggie o' veggies. It was a sandwich bag of broccoli, red pepper slices, sugar snap peas, and baby carrots. Any thoughts? Maybe 2 servings? I know a normal serving size is half a cup...

Probably about 2. I eat raw veggies with lunch every day (it is a habit I started when I first joined WW). It really helps fill me up!

[debbatx]

It's a new one for me, but it went well today. Yay for veggies! And almonds, even though they use up a decent amount of points. The things you discover when you're in your 30s...