Beverly said...


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Beverly said...
You're still dieting??? I figured you'd defeated gravity by now.

Best,

Andy

I let a few pounds slip back on early last year but managed to shed them
by the end of the year. I'm back in maintenance mode at the moment and
trying to keep it under control. It's tougher in the winter months
since I'm not out there riding 100+ miles a week The indoor trainer
is just not the same.

Do you still ride?

Beverly


I use the nordic trak ski machine with the arm pulley exercise for a little
upper body workout. Both the ski and arm exercises can be individually
tensioned to make either workout easier or harder. And it can get painfully
hard! I haven't hurt myself yet.

The only thing I don't like about it is my Omron pedometer doesn't detect
cross country skiing as steps, it's considered gliding and won't work. I
dunno.

I can get the distance off the readout on the ski screen so I can convert
that to steps and import it into the pedometer software that tracks
distance, steps, etc. I can enter the exercise in my diet software so it
will figure out the calories and fat (g) burned.

I've got software to interface with my glucose meter for tracking my
diabetes. I just ordered the Omron HEM-790IT blood pressure home unit since
it also interfaces with the pedometer software. All with such pretty charts
and tables to study.

I'm kind of trying to become a doctor without really trying.

The diet software (DietPower) shows my macro and micronutrients and I can
see where I'm missing less than %RDA for vitamins and take separate
vitamins to supplement my diet. The one-a-day always overdosed me which is
not a good thing, imho. I usually get too much B and Iron from my foods and
always way low on calcium, vitamin D and some others so I'll take a 50% RDA
supplement of those and leave well enough alone. Also since the exercise
burns calories I rarely reach my daily caloric intake. Thanks to diabetes
having put a curve in my diet, no wonder I'm losing weight. I'm about 90%
doing it right, daily. Yada, yada, yada.

Did I mention weighing food for correct portions is a drag??? Damn
nutrition labels.

Dieting almost feels like exercise.

I sure overdosed my reply. Sorry about that!

Best,

Andy