NON-CHECK-IN....March

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5 Grain Cookies

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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 1/2 cups 5 Grain Rolled Cereal
1 cup Whole Wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup water
2 egg
1/2 cup pecan halves
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup raisin

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets and set aside.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.

Chop pecans into coarse pieces and set aside.

In another bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth then blend in water and vanilla. Beat eggs and add to butter mixture.

Stir flour mixture into the egg and butter mixture. Add cereal and all remaining ingredients. Mix well. Refridgerate dough if sticky.

Drop by spoonfuls (rounded) onto the prepared cookie sheets.

Bake 10-12 minutes. When done, edges should be brown but tops golden - not dark brown.

Description:
"Bob's Red Mill Standard Cookies"
Yield:
"1 cookie"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 107 Calories; 5g Fat (44.2% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 14g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 24mg Cholesterol; 97mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 1 Fruit; 2 1/2 Fat; 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.

NOTES : Refridgerating dough makes the cookies less flat. Make sure not to overcook the cookies or they will lose their chewiness. I used King Arthur AP Flour instead of whole wheat to lessen density of cookies.

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
Thanks for the recipes, and Congrats on the weight loss Donna!

Hope you're doing better Stacy.:)

Lowmax today, step combo premix

Ready for some sunny days now!:D

Linda
 
Linda - thanks for the congrats. Hope you like the recipes.

I have two more coming soon (granola bars and zuchinni bread)! :p

Stacy - you okay?! Miss your conversation here!

Elliptical, coremax, and yoga on tap. Trying to change my workout timing this week - will be interesting...moving up to 4:30 so I can get some Bible Study and paperwork done before the girls get up...

Blessings,
Donna
 
Hurray! the sun came out today. :D

today Push & Pull, looking forward to the compound exercises in this one, nice change, also starting the sit up challenge today, T-Th-Sat, concurrent with push up challenge M-W-F, this combined with a lighter schedule in April should leave time to get things cleaned up around here, garden, house, garage...:eek:

trying to get some baselines to see where I go from here, weight & measurements are one thing, & the sit up/ push up challenge obviously has it's own check built into the program, the harder part is gaging cardio vascular, intensity, impact parts, beyond just feeling good or not day to day, before, during, & after a workout. One thing I want is to be confident of strength in legs especlally around knee joint for sports, stick & ball, at a fun level.

Many years ago a doctor said I could ski again if the muscles supporting the joint were strong enough, I'd like to think that is true, not necessarily to go skiing (I cringe at the thought or sound of chicken bones breaking...:confused:...(that's the queasy smilie today) I wouldn't mind being able to prove that I could do the plyometrics in some of these routines and not thinking of myself as having "bad knees"

This is possible, right?:)

Well we're gonna find out!

Hi ya Stace! Hope all is well where you are!
 
Hi, feeling almost back to baseline today. I did Kelly Coffey Meyers 30 Min Bootcamp workout today. I was going to do both 30 min workouts back to back, but felt pretty winded after just the 1st one so decided just to stop at that point. I may walk on my treadmill later tonight as hubby won't be home and it'll keep me from sitting around doing nothing. I dont have specific workout plans this week other than to do some lighter workouts to get my pre-illness strength back.

The weather is supposed to be nice this week and on the weekend and I'm actually looking forward to getting outside and cleaning up the yard a bit.

As far as "bad knees", over the years I've definitely learned my limitations and I've also become a true believer that things can improve by strengthening your quads and hamstrings and working on flexibility, just depends on how you go about it. Strengthening my quads by walking inclines on the treadmill, by doing isometric work and by doing power yoga, helped much more than doing traditional squats/lunges.

I received the book Intuitive Eating in the mail and hope to start reading that today. I still need to work on the mental part. I believe that will always be a struggle. I view food as my addiction as someone else might view alcohol.

Regarding soluble vs insoluble fiber, here are some links...

http://www.healthcastle.com/fiber-solubleinsoluble.shtml
http://www.helpforibs.com/diet/fiber1.asp
http://www.helpforibs.com/diet/fiber2.asp

It's good to be back!
 
Hi Stace! Donna!

Glad to hear from you, thanks for the links & knee info, here's the link I original looked at about the Venuto book
http://www.thecathenation.com/forum/showthread.php?t=193084&highlight=Burn+Fat&page=9

and this comment from workingToBeFit

"I am guessing this is different for every one of us - but for me it's more like 90/10. Perhaps it does depend on age as well. But from 2001 - 2006 I was 30 pounds overweight, and I was working out like mad, but eating in a kind of "whatever" mindset. I believe I was working out wisely - weights, cardio, and flexibility - and while I did feel fit, my weight would NOT budge. UNTIL - I started eating clean. I read the Eat Clean Diet and probably more important, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, and I changed my style of eating totally. Then the weight just fell off, and by the end of 2007 I had lost those 30 pounds and my percentage of body fat felt dramatically. This was all in my very late 40s. So, I am a believer."
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-=- It's not I'll work out when I feel better, it's I'll feel better when I work out. -=- Unknown -=-
Ann

I saw the other post recently & ran across this in my bookmarks,

oh, in earlier post I was "thinking" C & W compound weights, while writing "Push Pull" jeez, that stuff happens to me, :eek:

Linda
 
Hi again. I actually have a copy of Tom Venuto's BFFM ebook. I read it and it's good and has lot of great info. In practice, it seemed hard for me to translate into everyday life. From what I remember, it discussed eating more frequent, smaller meals, which for me and where I work, just is not possible. I may reread it though and see what I can take out of it this time around! There's another Venuto ebook I read about, something about the Holy Grail of fitness or something. Apparently it's hard to get your hands on unless you have BFFM, which I technically have but I'm "e-borrowing" it from someone else who purchased it years ago! Maybe he'll make it more readily available. But, I think I actually know what to eat, how to eat clean etc, it's the mental part and putting it into practice!
 
Hey!

Finally feel like I have some energy again. Did elliptical and yoga today (Which was on tap for yesterday - but, just could not get the energy up!). Felt real good to sweat! Back on target tomorrow with circuit work, abs, and stretching. Going to be switching back and forth between cardio/strength days and circuit/toning days for awhile.

Did not get up at 4:30 - tried - did get up at 5:30 and got my workout done. That schedule seems to work better for my day. I will see if I can be consistent about that :eek:

Stacy - nice to hear from you. Let me know about that book, Intuitive Eating - sounds interesting.

Also - Linda - explain this Venuto book to me...what do you see as being different and challenging with this method?

Blessings,
Donna - haven't forgot about the recipes...sick mom/sick kids for a week takes a toll :eek:
 
Hi

About the book,
That description I read is what clicked with me, in the opposite way, I had been working on the eating clean part for a couple years, and was doing the minimum, or less, as far as exercise, the reverse is true, you can eat clean & your weight may not budge either.

In the past few months I've seen the most weight loss with both, and I did not take an aggressive approach towards either, both require consistent effort on my part, hence the rotation, & menu planning focus. Important for maintaining weight once you've lost it.

When someone else has success & I can see that it works, all or in part for me, I'll pass it on. The emphasis of that book is that the kind food you eat matters, I thought if you would like to contact people who successfully loss the weight, there are some, and specifically this is how they did it.

I'm also working on the mental part, if everything is hard, it's easier to give up on some parts, or skip them all together, build into your plan some easy to achieve goals, nothing succeeds like success! (no I didn't just make that up) more than a dozen times did I feel like this site gave me a leg up, literally!

Low Max today, maybe the 1-4 premix "stop the presses", about time huh?

Glad everybodies feeling better.
Linda
 
Linda - thanks for the "book report" :D! I am reading about this book online as well as the thread you provided. Reminds me a little of Covert Bailey with regards to formulas and fat loss versus weight loss. Should be interesting!

Did Cardio and Weights plus A.M. Yoga "Hip Openers" this morning! I think LowMax or Low Impact Step tomorrow with strength as long as I am feeling strong.

Have a great day!
Donna
 
Yesterday I woke up with good intentions and then my day went downhill. I worked from 7am-5pm, got home was just plain tired. The past few days it's been a viscious cycle of working long hours, battling insomnia, waking up late and skipping breakfast, working thru lunch (not by choice), binging at dinner and not working out. Something's gotta give but not sure how to solve it all. Quitting my job/cutting my hours isn't an option. Hoping things will get better soon.

I havent had much time to read my book, but still look forward to it. I got Jillian's new yoga workout the other day. I'm looking forward to trying it out sometime.

Time for work....
 
Stacy - thinking about you! I have been in that "crazy wheel" of days out of my control - many times. Sometimes it just takes changing up just one little thing (like go to bed earlier) to swing your orbit back into control. It will get better. When reviewing your posts in the past - you have been such an inspiration to so many people - just hang on that - you are just going through a funk and you will pull out stronger than ever. I know it! :cool:

Let me know how that yoga workout turns out. Jillian strikes me as someone who would intensify yoga too much for me. I used to teach yoga in my 20's and 30's and am devoted to the relaxation, holding positions, breathing, and meaning of the moves. That's why I like Rodney Yee so much. But - I am on the lookout for new programs. Call me an oldie! ;)

Linda - got the E-Book and trying to read a chapter a day. Setting goals is my chapter for today. If you want to talk about it - I would love the company as well as the motivation to read this 314 page book :eek:!

Finished Low Impact Step, CoreMax Stability Ball, and Rodney Yee AM Yoga. Want to do Lower Body Sculpt and some stretching tonight. Still don't have energy for heavy weights - start them on Monday.

I have decided to work a similar schedule through the Spring - inserting Beginner, Intermediate Cathe DVDs as well as ones from my library. Also, since I need to lose 30-60 pounds and from my reading it looks like splitting my workouts up through the day helps in fat loss - I will TRY:eek: to do two smaller workouts each day. So - the rotation BASE looks like this:

M: Cardio (elliptical/treadmill), abs, yoga...toning (i.e., T-Tapp, Pilates, isolated non-weight exercises), stretch
T: Cardio (step), abs, yoga...strength (upper), stretch
W: Circuit (shorter), abs, stretch...toning (i.e., T-Tapp, Pilates, isolated non-weight exercises), yoga
T: Cardio (intervals), abs, yoga...strength (lower), stretch
F: Circuit (longer), abs, stretch...toning (i.e., T-Tapp, Pilates, isolated non-weight exercises), yoga
S: Cardio (kickbox), abs, yoga...strength (full body), stretch
S: Bike or walk with family - maybe a yoga program

Blessings,
Donna
 
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Hi, great day we're having here, spring has sprung!

I'm really not ready to take on a book at the moment, I've been a little lax on the housemax...

I'd love to hear about what you both find though!

That's a good way to organize your w/o schedule, I think mine will generally be one w/o per day next time, learning some newer stuff, but overall, generally shorter w/o's & basic cardio/strength/cardio/strength I think.

Monthly, light, medium, & then hard (hard for me, that is), then another easier month, repeat. That's the idea, anyway

coremax 2 & stretchmax 2, today
Linda:)
 
Linda,

I will let you know about the book - maybe even give a chapter synopsis if I can! :rolleyes:

Thanks for the rotation review - like you, I am finding my own "personal groove!" :D Like I have said before, it seems that for me to be fit and have a healthy lifestyle - I must listen to my body. This rotation base seems to work for my schedule and my goals.

Well - on to theatre class with the girls. Try to read and do paperwork in the "downtime!"

Blessings,
Donna
 
Wow Stace,

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself, sounds like you have the challenges, built right into that schedule, last thing you're probably thinking is a workout when the weekend comes around. Will your schedule always be busy?

Hey Donna, I'd really like the book review! It took me a while to understand what works for me, what I want.

Low Impact Circuit today (If I don't get lured out into that sunshine, & stay there!):D

Linda
 
Hey ladies!

Body Fusion, Basic Abs, and StretchMax with the Stability Ball DONE! :eek:

Was going to do LIC - but, amazingly, I am still a little weak! I can tell because my heart rate on "beginner" routines like Low Impact Step and Body Fusion is running a little high. So - just listen to my body and do something - but, not overdo it.

Looking forward to some yoga tonight. Did not get to read in the book last night - my husband came home from out of town - so, things were exciting after not seeing him for 4 days. :D I did think about my ultimate goals (Chapter 1) though and am coming up with some motivating ones...;)

Weigh in, measure in, etc. is tomorrow morning as usual. Will see how I did and let you know!

Stacy - miss you! :(

Blessings,
Donna
 
Hi there

No work out today, ahhh... a little review

Low Max (1-4) upper end of the aerobic/anaerobic mix, think I'll only do this when I'm really feeling pretty strong, I really like the squat pulses though, wish I could mix & match those in somewhere else.

Low Impact Circuit, upper end for length here, getting the highest calorie burn with this one, it's the only one I do that's better than 1 hour, at 72 minutes, it's a toughy, but very much fun, getting better at too, I think

Coremax 2 & Stretchmax 2, how can you not have fun working out with a beachball:D...I can just picture someone's child walking off with it, saying "this must be for me!" these two are pretty good

I liked Push & Pull, nice change, good length for total body

Overall pretty good month so far!

Linda
 
Okay - no weight loss - 1.5" loss (in good areas like thighs :p)! Body Fat % down .5 and a muscle gain of 1 lb. So - good results with a on/off week due to being sick.

Doing Cross Train Kickbox today with Yoga. Should be alot of fun! Day off tomorrow.

Gotta get rotations caught up from last week on the thread - will do that tomorrow. And, get to reading that book too!

Linda - GREAT MONTH for you. I am impressed - you are a real motivator. What I like about your pace is that you aren't going "all out" and burning out. You are taking one day at a time and being consistent. You will meet your goals - I am sure! :)

Have a great day! :eek:
Donna
 
Hi Donna & Linda.....congrats on all of your accomplishments and your dedication!! Sorry I havent "non-checked" in lately, just been busy and a bit lost in myself....unsure of where I'm going with my fitness, eating etc.

My thoughts have been mostly centered around food/diet. I just don't want to diet anymore! I dont want to think about every meal and what I might eat in some situation that may be 2 weeks away! I was reflecting back both mentally and thru my various food journals that I've kept hit or miss over the years and I felt the healthiest mentally and ironically saw the best results on the scale, in the mirror and just in my overall well being when I allowed myself the privilege of eating whatever I wanted but only when hungry and trying to stop eating when I wasn't hungry anymore, ie. not stuffing myself. Now, those results only lasted for a brief time because another emotional eating trigger arose and the rest was history. I'm really hoping I can learn to not diet AND drop a few lbs at the same time. I'm slowly getting thru the Intuitive Eating book, but only on chapter 2 so not much to report so far. Not dieting yet not giving myself free reign to pig out on junk is such a fine line and such a struggle for me. I'm pretty much trying to unlearn all the negative habits and thoughts about food that started way back when I was in elementary school. I need to be patient and let things evolve.

As far as my workouts go....today I was in the mood to do something new/different. I popped in Lalofit Vol 2 without previewing it. I purchased this a few months ago but havent done it yet. I also have Vol 1 and havent done that yet either. Well after 10 minutes, I hit eject! It was waaay too tough for me at the moment, but it's something I look forward to working up to....maybe I should've checked out Vol 1 first! I ended up doing Kenpo X from P90X and got a really good workout. The weather was great so I worked in the yard for about 3 hours right after....let's say yard work involved more squats than I realized...my legs are so tired!! But it was great to be outside and it's great to feel sore again!! (Sounds sadistic doesnt it ;) )

Tomorrow I'm going to do some sort of weight work, don't know what yet.

Have a good Sunday!!! I'll report back!!
 
Hi Donna, Stacy

So far, so good, I'm keeping better track this month for sure, my original Wii disc died, so I replaced with wii fit plus, it saves info from original, & it has new stuff when you do the body test (balance & other things, humbling really:eek:)

I thought about you Stace, maybe you could do a time diary, not a food one? I like the idea of "yard work", gotta get back to it. Let me know about the Lalo 1 when you get to it! I went back too, & looked at how I've done things, really helps.

Donna, maybe you could do some mini reviews on the videos too? always see what you & Stacy are doing and say, wonder what that's like.:) Next month I'll learn the premixes of C & W, along with some others, haven't quite worked it all out yet:p

Push & Pull today

Let's keep at it!
Linda
 
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