Food & Exercise -- 7/28/2004

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Chris Braun - 29 Jul 2004 02:38 GMT

Food:

6:45 (driving to Metro (subway)): ready-to-drink protein shake

9:30 (meeting, brought from home): 2 hard-boiled eggs

11:30 (meeting food): 1/2 sandwich: 1 slice rye bread, 1 1/2 oz. ham,
1/2 oz. Swiss cheese; 1/2 oz grated parmesan cheese (from the bowl of
Caesar salad provided by the caterer -- just eaten by itself)

1:30 (meeting food): 1 1/2 oz. turkey -- from inside a sandwich left
over from earlier

3:30 (meeting, brought from home): energy bar

5:00 (meeting, brought from home): 1 oz. almonds

7:00 (driving home from Metro): apple

8:00 (home): 4 oz. ground turkey burger w/ 2 slices f/f cheese in 2/3
whole wheat pita pocket; 1 mint meringue cookie

Totals: 1399 calories, 51g fat (33%), 126g carbs (36%), 110g protein
(31%)

Exercise: None, really. This is my gym day off, and with the long
days I'm putting in this week it was welcome. (We work all during
lunch, too, so lunchtime walks aren't an option.)

Chris
262/143/ (145-150)

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Elly - 29 Jul 2004 12:01 GMT

Food - high carb day 1 (out of 2/week)

Breakfast: cottage cheese w/Splenda
(300 g)

Lunch: Shepherd's Pie sauce w/cream, Tamari soy sauce and Tabasco
(no carrots or potatoes in the sauce; 1 portion sauce, 1 Tbs cream, 1 Tbs
Tamari soy sauce, a few drops Tabasco)

Snack: "cocoa pudding"
(1 cup cooking cream w/1 Ts unsweetened cocoa, 1/2 Ts cinnamon and Splenda)

Dinner: steamed potatoes with gravy and light cream cheese
(3 small potatoes, 1 Tbs gravy (steamed beef gravy) w/1 garlic clove, 2 Tbs
light cream
cheese)

Water = 1.5 l

Exercise:
Home fitness routine, 20 minutes:
- push-ups = 2 sets of 10
- arm rows = 2 sets of 20 w/each arm (using 2 x 2 kg weights)
- incline presses = 2 sets of 20
- bent over rows = 2 sets of 15
- lifting from laying down position = 2 sets of 20
- crunches w/leg lift = 1 set of 20 w/each leg

According to FitDay = 80 grams of carbs (1474 calories), and 54 calories
burned through exercise.

Question: is 20 minutes of callisthenics at home daily enough? How can it
be, if it means that I burn only 54 calories through exercise... :-(

Elly
breastfeeding mom of a 9mo, following the balanced low carb WOE
Mid July 2004: 195.8 / 191.4 lbs / mini-goal by August 20th:
184.8 to 187 lbs
sometime in the (distant) future: 150 lbs

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jmk - 29 Jul 2004 12:54 GMT

> Food - high carb day 1 (out of 2/week)
>
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> Question: is 20 minutes of callisthenics at home daily enough? How can it
> be, if it means that I burn only 54 calories through exercise... :-(

It would be if you were participating in the pedometer challenge. <VBG>
OK, just kidding. I really don't know but I suspect that it's not enough
by itself. It's hard to say not knowing what your daily routine is. I
mean, maybe you and DD go out for a long walk every evening? Heck,
maybe you go to Sam's Club and walk laps (that'll add some steps in a
hurry!). I guess that's sort of asking, "Are pilates good for me?"
Yes, they are good for you, however, I don't think that you're gonna
burn a heck of a lot of calories doing them. I hope that this helps in
some way!

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jmk in NC

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Ignoramus2121 - 29 Jul 2004 13:49 GMT

> Question: is 20 minutes of callisthenics at home daily enough? How can it
> be, if it means that I burn only 54 calories through exercise... :-(

my opinion, 20 minutes of calisthenics is great and pretty much
enough. Intensity if the variable that you would obviously change in
the future, as you get stronger.

The benefit of strength training is not in the instant calorie burn,
it is in becoming more muscular, better looking and acquiring better
metabolism. Plus, prevention of osteoporosis, improved posture (your
pushups etc), etc etc.

i

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Chris Braun - 30 Jul 2004 04:06 GMT

>Exercise:
>Home fitness routine, 20 minutes:
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>Question: is 20 minutes of callisthenics at home daily enough? How can it
>be, if it means that I burn only 54 calories through exercise... :-(

Well, the purpose of these sorts of exercises isn't primarily to burn
calories; it's to build strength and improve your body's functional
ability. This is valuable for overall fitness, but also helps with
weight loss because it increases your metabolic rate. For this
purpose, the amount you're doing is not bad at all.

For calorie burning and cardio benefits, you would look more to your
walking, aerobics tapes, swimming, and that sort of thing. It's good
to do some of these as well as the calisthenics, and they'll also help
with weight loss.

I think 54 calories sounds like a rather low estimate, but I'm not
very knowledgeable about that stuff. I exercise for fitness and never
worry about how many calories I burn.

Chris

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Elly - 30 Jul 2004 18:48 GMT

Thank you all for answering that question. I guess what I really wanted to
know was: if there are days when I do only 20 minutes of home callisthenics
(and burn only so much calories - it was FitDay's estimate, Chris, so can't
tell if it's really true or not), would that be enough for that day.
So, I guess, it could be enough - combined with walking/biking/swimming.

The next question: do I have to do the walking/swimming/whatever to
"improve" and up the number of calories burned the *same* day when I do the
20 minutes of callisthenics, or can I plan to alternate callisthenics and
cardio every second day? Would that be ok?

You see, I really like to do my exercises all "together", I'm really not
that good at doing 10 minutes of this, and couple of hours later 10 minutes
of something else... it just feels like I'm never done. So I'm more of a 1
hour of exercise a day person.
Which brings me to the fact that sometimes I find only 20 minutes available
for home fitness program, and can't fit in anything else (like a tape, a
walk, a swim).
But, if I do 20 minutes of callisthenics one day, and walk/swim/whatever the
next day - would that be ok?

Please help, I forgot how this works ;-)

Elly

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Ignoramus6756 - 30 Jul 2004 20:22 GMT

> Thank you all for answering that question. I guess what I really wanted to
> know was: if there are days when I do only 20 minutes of home callisthenics
> (and burn only so much calories - it was FitDay's estimate, Chris, so can't
> tell if it's really true or not), would that be enough for that day.
> So, I guess, it could be enough - combined with walking/biking/swimming.

Yes, 50 calories spent on strength training is a lot!

> The next question: do I have to do the walking/swimming/whatever to
> "improve" and up the number of calories burned the *same* day when I do the
> 20 minutes of callisthenics, or can I plan to alternate callisthenics and
> cardio every second day? Would that be ok?

My opinion only, people fuss too much about it. That you do something
on most days and spend enugh calories per week, should be enough.

> You see, I really like to do my exercises all "together", I'm really not
> that good at doing 10 minutes of this, and couple of hours later 10 minutes
> of something else... it just feels like I'm never done. So I'm more of a 1
> hour of exercise a day person.

Good for you, I think that it is better. I am the opposite, I get
bored with exercise, so I do a bit of this and that.

> Which brings me to the fact that sometimes I find only 20 minutes available
> for home fitness program, and can't fit in anything else (like a tape, a
> walk, a swim).
> But, if I do 20 minutes of callisthenics one day, and walk/swim/whatever the
> next day - would that be ok?

would be pretty good!

My opinion only, but you are on a very good track so far.

I hope that you won't get mad at me if one day I express my opinion
that you are not on the right track.

i

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Elly - 31 Jul 2004 12:37 GMT

Thanks for answering all my questions, I.
And, no, I won't be mad at you if you say one day that I'm not on a right
track - provided you can prove it, lol ;-)

Elly

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