The connections
January 3rd, 2008
Just a quick note before bed.
Perhaps it’s just me but I like the ads showing up from google. I was able to select a 15 topic sets and they will run ads from those sets and so far they seem to be hitting certain themes inside my posts. Politics, gas, cars, foods, etc. Amazing how they can be so targetted.
Well I’ve been trying to get to bed earlier these days and it’s just not working out. I’ll get started on that this weekend to get back on schedule. School starts on Monday.
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PS(What do you think of my exercise icons?)
The exercise icons are cute- makes the chart easy to read:) It reads that you are walking 2.3 miles a day? I have heard that is about what it takes to charge up metabolism (or 10,000 steps) Do you have a step counter?
The menu service I use is fairly inexpensive for a subscription and comes in a few different varieties (the low-carb one is the one I use but its not scary restrictive, just better choices, etc):
http://www.savingdinner.com
They even have free sample menus (with shopping lists) so you can try it out without committment to see how it fits your style.
2.3 or there abouts. I measured the distance in my car twice and split the difference. I was stopping and starting often to make a small map of the mileage between this mailbox and the crocked fence post, between this dip in the road and that tall pine, etc.
When I get well enough to try some sprinting I’ll run those short distances unti I can evetually string them together into a more solid run. I expect it to take some time.
When I did this last year I was able to run 1.3 miles or so in sprints, but it took almost two months to get to that point.
BTW - sprinting and walking is called an O2 work-out. It more quickly adapts your muscles to processing oxygen and allows for better cadio-fitness. Basically you get less tied because you aren’t working as hard to get ‘energy’ to your system. Learned this in the USMC from a fellow Marine who I use to work out with.
I use to have a step counter but the hinges kept breaking and it was a pain to keep having to buy another one and then recalibrate ever time. I wore one for two years and probably went through six of them.
Something else to keep in mind is that the exercie chart only keeps track on determined walking/running events and not general walking. People walk a lot every day just in their normal job and for me working in a high school going from classroom to classroom doing computer questions and troubleshooting I easily walk three to four miles a day.
But the walking I’m doing here is must more determined and I work up a sweat whereas at work it’s a leisurely stroll.
Perhaps this should be a blog entry? 8^)
One day my DH clocked my route in Publix with a step meter and found I was doing 1/2 mile after cruising between food stuff pushing my buggy. With my bum knee I cannot walk or jog fast and the buggy acts like a “walker” thus no cane:) Point is my doc says moving is moving. You are doing great - just keep it up rain or shine- and there is always the nearest Publix. And keep it fun.
A diet rule my grandma taught her patients was “eat nothing white”. She had great success with patients health who gave up sugar, products with white flour and milk (soy being a recommended substitute). Today it has been called the “anti-ageing diet”! Hum- perhaps that is why folks mistake me for 40 at 60:)
Seriously, sugar will age us all. My grandmother did not want to keep her patients sans wrinkles but free of arthritis, recover quickly from cancer and level out blood sugar thus preventing type II diabetis,etc. Plainer speaking it shifts one from refined foods to whole foods.