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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited May 2015

    Late check-in = 1 point

    Weight up = 0 points

    Exercise = 12 hours = 24 points 

    Daily H2O = 5 points

    Tracking = 0 

    Extra credit = 1 point – saw a beloved BCO sister at a music festival in NC last week.  Had a GREAT time!  Pix on p. 281 of the let’s post our daily exercise thread.  Here's a link.  I’m the one with the gray hair.  :-)

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/58/topic/741082?page=821

    Total = 31

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Great pic! Good for you!


  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited May 2015

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 7

    Track ~ 0

    Exercise ~ 3

    Wt (164.2 down) ~ 2

    Ex Credit ~ 1 I actually hit 10K steps one day this week.

    Total ~ 16

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Friday Check in =1 points

    Weight:236 # =0points

    Water Intake =11 points

    Exercise:= 205 minutes!= 6.8 points

    Extra Credit = 1 point,hit my goal of 4K steps per day 3 times this week!

    Total =19.8 points

    Gardening has been very good for my activity level!Now I need to eat better and stop gaining weight.



    Zogo--10K steps in one day--HOORAY!

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited May 2015

    Late check-in = 1 point

    Weight down = 1 point

    Exercise = 6 hours = 12 points 

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Tracking = 0 

    Extra credit = 1 point - got through an audit with no findings last week.

    Total = 22 points

    WTG zogo on 10K steps and NM on exercise points & reaching goal!  ThumbsUp

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    YEAH for the no findings audit!


  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2015

    Been missing last couple weeks but hope to get back on schedule. Don't have a scale and probably won't have one for a few months while in transit so will have to go by how clothes fit in the meantime. Know I'm up a few because it was up when I last saw the scale a week ago but I'm still in the smaller clothes so will base it on that as long as I keep up exercise and once again learn to eat properly.

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Welcome back, Patoo! I've read that going by how your clothes fit is as helpful as going by the number on a scale. Sounds like it makes a lot of sense to me!


  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited May 2015

    Good news Badger

    Welcome Back Patoo!

    Friday 3

    Water 6

    Wt (167.9) 0

    Exercise 5

    Extra credit 1 Started doing weighted squats this week. 5x5 every other day.

    Total 15

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Friday Check in =1 points

    Weight: 240 # =0points

    Water Intake =10 points

    Exercise:= 15 minutes!= 0.5 points

    Extra Credit = 1 point,avoided soda all week

    Total =12.5points

    Well, getting the 4K steps per day thing going pretty well, over 3.5K steps on the days I don't hit 4K, much better than I have been doing.On the eating front, I'm having a hard time finding unsweetened iced tea, my go to for avoiding soda when I don't want plain water, and have been drinking Gatorade and the like, with the accompanying calories and surprising amount of sodium.Got to work on that now.My weight is fluctuating between 236 and 240# just from salt and water intake variations.Sigh.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited May 2015

    Late check-in = 1 point

    Weight same = 1 point

    Exercise = 3 hours = 6 points 

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1.5 points - been working crazy long hours, some nights burning the midnight oil.  One day last week I was so exhausted and stressed I just couldn't take it anymore.  Went outside for a good cry in the fresh air as a coping strategy.  Giving myself an extra half-point for remembering to bring some kleenex!

    Total = 16.5 points

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Good for you, Badger, for remembering the kleenex!

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Friday Check in =3 points

    Weight: 240 # =0points

    Water Intake =7 points

    Exercise:= 130 minutes!= 4 points

    Extra Credit = 1 point, took a bag lunch one day.Thought about ways to do that more often.

    Total =15 points

    Weight's been 238 all week, except for today.I mean really.Couldn't stay at that number ONE more morning?

  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited May 2015

    Hey NM, Looks like you maintained from last week even though you were up today. Give yourself one point for that!

    Badger, stress IS exhausting. Glad you found a little relief in a good cry. ((hugs))

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 7

    Exercise ~10

    Wt (166.9) ~ 2

    Extra Credit ~ 1 Hit 10K steps 2 days in a row.

    Total ~ 23

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    zogo--I'm happy to make 4K steps per day and you are hitting 10k! How do you do it? I know I have to work my way up, I'm still feeling the effects of pushing to 4K.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited May 2015

    hey ladies, missed Friday & Sat but for good cause, see below.  Thx for the hugs, backatcha!

    Late check-in = 1 point

    Weight down = 2 point

    Exercise = 5 hours = 10 points 

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - been off the board all week as chose to walk after work instead of logging in.  Once I'm here, I usually spend at least an hour, sitting.

    Total = 21 points

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    badger--GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!

    I tend to get parked here in front of the computer, too.

  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited May 2015

    NM, I have a fitbit. I think it counts some movement that isn't actually a step sometimes. But as long as it is consistent, I can compare. We are going to pick up DD from college. A 12+ hour drive each way. I'm sure my steps will be lacking this week.

    Badger, you are doing well with the computer time. It can be such a time magnet.

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 7

    Wt (168.4) ~ 0 Ugh.

    Exercise ~ 4

    Ex Cred ~ 1 Yesterday ~ 11,384 steps

    Total ~ 15

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Friday Check in =1 points

    Weight: 240 # =1points

    Water Intake =14points

    Exercise:=0 minutes = 2 points for hitting 4K steps 2 days

    Extra Credit = 1 point, cooking a meal with veggie almost every day this week

    Total =1 9 points

    Weight's been 238 all week, except for today.I mean really.Couldn't stay at that number ONE more morning?And again, this week, 238# until Friday ayem!It's a conspiracy, I say! A CONSPIRACY!



    Zogo--I'm sure the Fitbit reads some movement as steps incorrectly.If I wear mine on my shirt where it would be on a bra (if I wore one) it reads VERY differently from in a particular pocket of my uniform pants.But comparison is the big thing, more steps is more steps is more movement and is a good thing, no matter how it's measured or counted or how accurate the count!It's the motivation that matters, at least to me.Like you say, as long as it's consistent .12 hours drives will definitely cut into the step count, but such changes in plans are part of life, right?

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Soapbox warning! NM is getting up on her soapbox again, feel free to skip this post!


    Unproven Dietary Guidelines, or Is fat and cholesterol really the enemy?

    For decades we've been told to decrease our intake of fat and cholesterol, do lower total cholesterol levels, then to lower "bad" cholesterol levels, then to take statin drugs to get cholesterol levels to "healthy" levels while putting up with muscle aches and pains and liver damage in order to avoid dying of a hear attack. "the research proves" is a common phrase. It's also a common lie. The research doe NOT prove any of this!

    "Reuters Health Information

    U.S. May Lower Cholesterol's Level of Threat to Health: Report"

    (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/839564?src=wnl...)

    What? How can this be? Is the US, in all it's infinite wisdom now condemning all it's citizen's to death from cholesterol clogged arteries and heart attacks? Um, no. The US is admitting "they" got it wrong from the beginning!

    "For decades, the government has warned against diets high in cholesterol. But now many nutritionists believe that cholesterol intake may not significantly impact cholesterol blood levels or increase the risk of heart disease in healthy adults, according to the Washington Post." (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/839564?src=wnl...)

    What? Cholesterol is NOT a deadly enemy? Again, HOW CAN THIS BE???? Doesn't the research prove that cholesterol intake is killing us all? Well, actually, the research has NEVER "proved" or even strongly linked cholesterol and heart disease.


    Evidence From Randomised Controlled Trials Did Not Support the Introduction of Dietary Fat Guidelines in 1977 and 1983

    (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/839903_1)

    "Results 2467 males participated in six dietary trials: five secondary prevention studies and one including healthy participants. There were 370 deaths from all-cause mortality in the intervention and control groups. The risk ratio (RR) from meta-analysis was 0.996 (95% CI 0.865 to 1.147). There were 207 and 216 deaths from CHD in the intervention and control groups, respectively. The RR was 0.989 (95% CI 0.784 to 1.247). There were no differences in all-cause mortality and non-significant differences in CHD mortality, resulting from the dietary interventions. The reductions in mean serum cholesterol levels were significantly higher in the intervention groups; this did not result in significant differences in CHD or all-cause mortality. Government dietary fat recommendations were untested in any trial prior to being introduced.

    Conclusions Dietary recommendations were introduced for 220 million US and 56 million UK citizens by 1983, in the absence of supporting evidence from RCTs."

    Translation, courtesy of Yours Truly: There were 6 studies that the dietary guidelines were based on. All were conducted with men, none with women. 5 of the 6 studies were "secondary prevention" studies done with men who had already had a heart attack, and were looking at preventing a second heart attack. One study included healthy men who had not had a heart attack. The "interventional" group is the group of men who changed their diet to decrease dietary fat and cholesterol, the "control" group did not change their diet.

    "There were no differences in all-cause mortality and non-significant differences in CHD mortality, resulting from the dietary interventions." Translated, this says that the overall number of men dying of any cause during the study was the same in each group and the difference in the number of men dying of heart disease in each group was so close that, statistically, the rate must be considered the same. In this instance, with 2467 participants evenly assigned to the interventional and control groups means that each group had approximately 1233 men. 207 deaths from heart disease in interventional group is a death rate of about 16.8%. 216 deaths from heart disease in the control group is a death rate of about 17.5%. The 1.3% difference is not big enough to reliably be considered a difference mathematically.

    The proper conclusion is "There were no differences in all-cause mortality and non-significant differences in CHD (coronary heart disease) mortality (death), resulting from the dietary interventions." A correct secondary conclusion is "The reductions in mean serum cholesterol levels were significantly higher in the intervention groups; this did not result in significant differences in CHD (coronary heart disease) or all-cause mortality (death)."

    So how did we get to the place where millions of Americans are taking cholesterol lowering drugs with significant side effects on a daily basis?




  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited June 2015

    NM, THANK YOU for helping to get the word out. My doctors tried to put me on statins a few years ago. That is when I started doing research. If you are a woman (unless you have had a heart event already) you should not be taking statins. I got both my Mom and MIL off of them. I've shared scientific info with anyone who has any interest. They caused my mom irreversible shoulder issues, and my MIL had "fuzzy thinking" from them. And even worse, her doctor didn't have her taking CoQ10, which is essential. (I would even consider it malpractice not to include it with the therapy).

    Eating low carb has become a way of life for me. I eat healthy fats like butter, coconut oil and olive oil, and get plenty of protein. June 20th will be 4 years for me. No sugar or grains for me. By eating this way, my risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and dementia are all reduced.

    Bottom line, eating cholesterol doesn't cause high cholesterol. Inflammation is the core issue and is caused by sugars and carbs.

    Ok, I'll step off MY soapbox now :-)


  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited June 2015

    Zogo--welcome to the soapbox! Fun, isn't it?


  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited June 2015

    NM, it has become my passion. I try to leave my soapbox at home once in a while. But, it sneaks in my purse and I can't help it. I feel so much better, it is hard not to share the news.

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 7

    Exercise ~ 9

    Wt (167.4) ~ 2

    Ex Cred ~ 1 Going for my annual gyne exam today.

    Total ~ 22

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited June 2015

    hi, so sorry ladies I've been bad about posting, just swamped with work. Training on new computer system in addition to my usual heavy workload.  Plus vacation starts at the end of next week so my to-do list is long.  On the upside, I will get to see patoo! ♥ to all

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited June 2015

    Friday Check in =1 points

    Weight:# =0pointsDidn't even check Friday.

    Water Intake =points

    Exercise:=0 minutes =

    Extra Credit =point, cooking a meal with veggie almost every day this week

    Total =points

    Work has been CRAZY busy.Been feeling sorry for myself with the 16-18 hours days, never a chance to get caught up, and eating like a pig, which is my downfall.Not keeping track of stuff, either.So, I've had my pity party week, now to get back on track starting Monday.At least I can maintain control of tracking what I eat and drink, right?

  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited June 2015

    Badger, have a great vaca and share pics when you are with Patoo!!

    NM, those are some crazy LOOONG work hours! Take care of yourself.

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 6

    Wt (168.6) ~ 0

    Exercise ~ 9

    Ex Credit ~ 1 I did Jillian Michaels workout videos this week with my DD that is home from college.

    Total ~ 19


  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited June 2015

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 7

    Wt (168) ~ 2

    Exercise ~ 7

    Ex Credit ~ Hit 10K steps one day

    Total ~ 20

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited June 2015

    hi ladies, check out the Let's Post our Daily Exercise thread for pix!  Will be back to regular posting next week.

  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited June 2015

    Well, it's been a couple weeks of unGodly long hours, ongoing diarrhea with dehydration and the feeling crappy that goes with that, living on Gatorade and pepto and trying not to go crazy and keep the work stuff from getting to far behind. Seem to have gotten out of the deep dark work overload hole, during which I gave up everything that wasn't work, sleep, take care of the dog and work some more. So, time to get back onto the tracking wagon.

    P.S. I managed to lose almost 10#, but it was all water. Got rehydrated and got my blood pressure back to a reasonable level and my weight went right back to were it was. Sigh.


  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited June 2015

    ((NM)) sorry you're feeling lousy on top of that mountain of work.  I'm dreading my inbox after a week away. 

    edit to add there are vacay pix on the mods get-together news thread, here's a link

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/90/topic/783453?page=3#idx_80

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