Lead a Fit and Healthy Life
Archive for January 6, 2010
Help yourself and your kids: Don’t diet – CNN.com
02 years ago
The 6-year-old girl who is watching her mother suck in her stomach in front of the mirror is going to look at her belly poking out and immediately think that she is fat.
How awful that we just inadvertently planted the seed of lifelong discontent with her body into the innocent mind of a 6-year-old.
We have to be mindful of what we really want to emphasize as important. ..
News to Note
02 years ago
by Stephy
in News to Note
Biggest Loser’s Erik Chopin: Losing Again on Discovery Health – That’s Fit.
I like to read stuff like this that really puts on display the reality of weight loss. Let’s not sugar coat how hard it is for TV. I am not happy that he gained a bunch of weight back, but it goes to show you that life is not what you are watching on TV.
Taco Bell: Making a run for weight loss? – CNN.com.
I read a quote from someone else on FB that said something to the effect – what does it say about us as a country if we are touting Taco Bell as a weight loss means? Yikes.
Is the fat acceptance movement bad for our health? – CNN.com.
Wow. This is a loaded bullet topic. There are good points on both sides of the coin, but the bottom line is being overweight is not healthy. How much overweight is really the question. No one should be treated badly because they are heavy – period. If a doctor says mentions to you about your weight or that of your childs from a medical perspective, it’s not that they are saying that you don’t deserve basic rights. It’s about your health, and as I have said before – what you do now affects you later health wise.
Study: Calorie Counts Often Wrong on Food Labels – TIME.
Now this doesn’t surprise me at all. Do you really think that that chef or cook is sitting there measuring the food to ensure that the prepared food is in line with what the official calorie count is? I often think about that when I am eating out. One day you can have a Chipotle chicken bowl and the person at counter puts one small scoop of rice, the next time you go back, you get a heaping scoop. See the issue?
Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
02 years ago
by Stephy
in General Reflections
Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler , Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
via Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008).
So is the Internet affecting our ability to concentrate? Above it says the equipment has a role in forming our thoughts. Does how we consume those thoughts affect how our brains work?
Healthier Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip Recipe
2| I have made this really yummy Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip for a few parties this holiday season and I am always asked about it. I got the recipe from my friend Mel. It is not KIC by any means. Today I got the HG newsletter and saw this alternative. I am going to give it a try — has anyone out there tried this alternative before??
Buff Chick Hot Wing Dip (taken from http://www.hungry-girl.com/)
After receiving tons of emails about a famous (and fatty) Frank’s RedHot dip, we HG-ized it for your (and our!) chewing pleasure. This stuff tastes JUST like Buffalo wings… Ingredients: Directions: Place cream cheese in a medium bowl and stir until smooth. Mix in Frank’s RedHot, mozzarella cheese, ranch dressing, and yogurt. Stir in chicken until thoroughly combined. Spoon mixture evenly into a deep 8-inch by 8-inch baking dish. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or until mixture is heated through. Stir well and enjoy! P.S. We love dipping carrot sticks and red bell pepper chunks into this dip, but we’ve also dunked baked tortilla chips into it and used it as a sandwich spread! MAKES 15 SERVINGS HG Alternative! To make this dish FAST, skip the oven altogether. Prepare dip according to the directions, but in a microwave-safe dish. Then microwave uncovered on high for 5 minutes (stopping and stirring halfway through cooking), or until hot. |
PER SERVING (1/15th of recipe, about 1/4 cup): 68 calories, 1.5g fat, 616mg sodium, 2g carbs, 0g fiber, 1g sugars, 10g protein — POINTS® value 1*Shopping for trouble…
12 years ago
Take a look at Mel’s blog post with the picture of someone food shopping at her local grocery store. That cart is full of shit food.
The Clothes Make the Girl: Grocery Cart of Poison.
I can’t tell you how many times I go to Wegman‘s and see carts just like this. I like to look in carts while I am shopping and while I am certainly not perfect in my eating and food shopping habits, I think I do pretty well – 80/20 rule right?
Seeing a cart like this makes me sad and angry. The parent is teaching their kid to eat this way and it’s a the kind of thing that keeps getting worse – I am not just talking about weight issues – long term health begins when you are young.
This is reprehensible in my opinion. Is this an issue of lack of nutritional eduction, ignorance, lack of caring, giving up or don’t give a shit? Who knows – but anyone with common sense knows the basics of what is junk food vs healthy food even if some in both categories are questionable. There are some foods that there is no question and that shit is in that cart.
Last week in the 4 week group training…
12 years ago
Today’s group training workout at Plumbline was the last week of the 4 week session. So that mean’s weigh in PLUS body fat measurement. I stayed the same weight however I was down half a percentage (.5%) in body fat. MT said that if I lose another 1% he is going to throw a Plumbline Party. Not sure what kind of party that is, but chances are it involves push-ups!
We did straddle jumps, straddle Kick ball crunch, and fast jumps on the BOSU for 3 rounds.
Core training was stability ball mania: ball exchange, scissor twists, and crunches & ended with Supermans and hip missions. Hip missions are kind of like an abductor exercise but you lie on your stomach and slowly move your legs out while in the Superman position.
Oh and not to forget the push ups - for some of us MT makes us do extra ones before the rest of the group starts. It used to be 5 extra, then 10 extra, then 15 came and went and now he expects 20 extra push ups in addition to the group doing 30.
Then we started the 2 round workout: AMRepsAP
hang cleans 65lbs – full disclosure: If you remember last week I had issues with 85lbs. Well I am still having those issues, so I stuck with the 65lbs which was no issue. It’s got to be my form!
overhead squats 75lbs (10)
bench press 100lbs (first round 10, 2nd round 
stability ball exchange
one arm hang cleans 35lbs
PT Station was 25lb dumbbell push press squats, and then jump rope (your weight) 15, 12, 9 reps for time. My time was over a minute better and my rope broke midway. I was doing the push press squats wrong the previous weeks! I was doing a hang clean, push press squat which takes considerable more effort than just a push press squat. So although my times were sucky in the weeks’ past, I was getting more of a workout than intended.
So, what did you do?
