Improve Your Health In Just One Minute !

Dan

Not about the exercise but about the diet......

This evening I went back to my workout and diet app. Since Hannah had her accident I have not been out as much and obviously work sitting down, plus I am a biscuit (cookie) monster, so before it gets even worse than it is, I am on a health kick

I put in my meals today.... awesome, way under calories so due a treat.

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I went a little mad on the biscuits and put them in the calorie counter AFTERwards

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I went over my calories for the day by ... wait for it... 1599 calories!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had seen about the intensive exercise thing on TV a few months ago. Wonder how long it will take me to work off 1599 calories LOL

Abbie I had to read that twice...first I thought not so bad 1599...then realized what you meant. I have the same problem...good all day...and then wolf down some bad thing. Tonight I thought I was doing really well...worked late ate good all day...for dinner I found s bag of Newmans garlic chicken...ready in 10 minutes. Great... I was hungry and don't like to cook so late. Finished it off and went to clean up...read the bag and found I just ate a dinner for two.

750 calories per night.......no matter what you eat all day..............do it !!! Dr's orders..........kept me thin......................till 'le change', sigh.

Vivian you mean you only count the calories you eat at night? Day calories don't count?

Um, Val.......burn the calories at night - they get burned in a quick spurt of intensity, and that helps, I think.........very enjoyable to exercise at night, unseen,and burn,baby !

One round of tennis doubles per day, Dr's orders............three sets, round robin, three hours.........fabulous, dahlink !

OH...lol ...I was liking the idea of an extra 750 at night. I run the dogs at night ...maybe that counts...don't know if I burn 750 off.

I recently met an older woman at a friend's BBQ who is 98lbs soaking wet. She was chowing down on a heaping pile of potato salad and a 1lb steak! I said, you surely don't eat like that all the time. You're so skinny! She said, Oh, yes I do! She has to eat 5,000 calories a day (down from 6,000/day when she was young) just to stay a toothpick! And, no, she doesn't run marathons or anything. About made me want to slit my wrists. Haha! I've heard of men with metabolisms like that, but never petite women. She must belong in the Guiness Book of World Records or something. Could you imagine being able to eat 5,000 calories/day and stay skinny as a twig? A fantasy I'll never realize!

5000 calories!!! I'm pretty sure if I ate 5000 in one day I would gain ten pounds. I need to lose about 25 pounds and started a 1200 calorie diet...works for about 3 days and then I am starving. I'm going to try the intense exercise thing. I think the computer is making me fat...I used to come home from work and do stuff...now I plop myself down in front of the computer.

I have had good luck losing weight on the low-carb/paleo diets. It's sticking to them for long that's the hard part. Gawd, I love sourdough bread!

Dan, thanks for posting this... I have one of those bikes up in the attic...ten minutes a day...at home. How hard is that? My dad told me to jump rope...that would probably work to if you followed the rules.. you could probably just pic your favorite exercise and adapt it . Sorry I didn't read the whole thing...This jumped out at me "Each session consisted of three 20-second “all-out” intervals, during which riders pushed the pedals absolutely as hard as they could manage, followed by two minutes of slow, easy pedaling. The riders also warmed up for two minutes and cooled down for three, for a grand total of 10 minutes of total exercise time, with one minute of that being the intense interval training."

Gee, I don't even eat 1300 calories in one day. We are all so different! You have to do what works for you. I need to count calories -- been doing it since I was 13. I'm now 64. Now I use an Excel spreadsheet. When I go off the spreadsheet, I gain weight. Aside from walking the dog, I do stretching and calisthenics every evening to the extent that it feels good. If it doesn't feel good, I won't do it. But never more than 10 minutes. Then I flop on the couch and exercise my vision, lol.

I agree that short bursts of exercise can work -- it works for me, anyway!

Dan you are not telling us if you will try this?

According to my fitbit I burned whooping 1367 calories today after climbing 12 floors, walking 2.58 miles and after 8 minutes of very active exercise.
I'm still alive.
'Improve Your Health In Just One Minute !' seems to work

Abbie,

Saw it on TV a couple of months ago, huh? The article posted is dated yesterday. Good to know our crack U.S. media is on top of things! (Have they gotten around to reporting on World War II yet?)

How long to burn 1600 calories? A strenuous workout of sometime between forever and eternity should do it! LOL.

The whole "burn calories" thing is VERY disheartening. So you do a good job and want to reward yourself with a nice treat: two little chocolate chip cookies. Probably around 150 calories. Probably takes 30 seconds each to eat them. Here is what it takes to burn those calories - 30 minutes of this:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Calories-burned-in-30-minutes-of-leisure-and-routine-activities.htm

It ain't fair!

Val Arie, I already do it. I sorta went nuts on the treadmill yesterday. But the one thing I miss is bike riding. Haven't been able to do it for a while. I would go on 45 minute aggressive rides with bursts built in. The fresh air and exercise was great. Really miss it.

Sounds like we all suffer the same demon: late night snacks. It's my weakest link, too.

Dan that's a great chart...maybe I'll print it out and hang it on the fridge. Maybe that's the thing...to find something you really enjoy doing...like your biking. IDK...there are things I like to do that do burn a lot of calories...I just don't do them every day. Today I have to do heavy cleaning...that will burn a bunch. But if I keep at it all day it still won't burn off the container of Hagan Das I ate the other night. You are right...It ain't fair!

I have lost 20 pounds in about a year and a bit.

I began doing interval training three times a week, but you need repair time. So now I do it
once a week. I am up to 2 minutes of 30 second intervals. My blood work has improved.

I cut out my dinner at chipotley's two weeks ago. Salt!! My blood pressure has gone down
significantly. I am saving a ton of money.

I am going to use the thread mill or the elliptical machines three times a week to bring up my
HDL. I also figure my weight will drop something close to anther 20 pounds this year, 2015.

I have a little theory. You can use this or be destroyed by this theory. If as a man I can eat
1800 calories, when I eat 1700 that 100 calorie difference is magnified in its result. The 1700
will keep the metabolism up and running causing a good sized difference. We have all met
someone who eats nothing and gains weight, You can not eat nothing. Exercise the same
thing, a little exercise goes a long ways. A lot of exercise and your body ignores it, gives you
nothing in return, but worn out joints.

The flip side of the 1800 calories per day is if you eat 1900. And in my case if the last 100
calories is carbs your weight will buoy up considerably and quickly.

My BIL is a researcher in Boston. Specialty is Obesity and diabetes. His department head
told me Harvard is beginning a genetics study soon to map out genetic markers for
who gains or loses weight by eating what. Some people eat carbs and gain weight. While others
eat fat and gain weight. There is not single hard and fast rule for the human race. Everyone's
metabolism is genetically somewhat different.

Dave

"Improve Your Health In Just One Minute"

This title caught my eye because, at 83, I'm into anything that will keep me healthy.

I have not one prescription in my name and am only a few pounds over my high school weight.

But I hate exercise and riding stationary bikes. (The bikes are good for parking your clothes at night, though.)

Loved yoga and will get back into that pretty soon.

But the thing I do is talk to my body, talk to my brain, talk to my cells and congratulate them on such good work.

I believe that if you think young and healthy, your body will go along with you.

I learned long ago to never claim things like: my cold, my headache, my backache, my.... whatever problem.

If you claim it, you own it.

Mind over matter. It works for me.

Dan, yes. It was a guy who did a set of different styles of exercises, this one included. They did heart, blood pressure, weight etc after each one and this style beat the others hands down. We started doing that back then and Robin still does it. I'm always tired, busy...oh you think of the excuse, I have it. He is a keep fit nut and it shows.

Here you are, this what we watched http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17177251