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Quote of the day

Posted in Exercise, Weight loss on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I’m heading out so don’t have the time to give this the attention I’d like, but this from Prof. Dr. Andro over at SuppVersity is interestingly similar to last Sunday’s QOTD re the usefulness of exercise:

It does rather appear that [exercise] helps to rebalance our natural ability to regulate energy intake - maybe partially due to an increased availability / accessibility of existing body fat stores due to exercise induced increases in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation capacity and insulin sensitivity.

By all means check out the full post. I think that the good doc is spot on with the notion of “physical culture” and the idea that it “does not take 8 days, 8 weeks or 8 months, it takes a lifetime.”

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Loving my new shoes!

Posted in Ancestral health on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The nice folks at Kigo Footwear have restored my faith in customer service after my recent disastrous experience with Altra.

I order the Kigo drive and the size I ordered was too large. So I sent the shoes back to Kigo (just as I had with the Altra Eve’s) and not only did they not sit in the post office, but I got an email from Kigo letting me know the smaller size was on its way.

I got them yesterday … love ’em already!

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About facing fears

Posted in Psychology on April 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I’ve commented before about how the idea that compulsive overeating is a symptom resonates with me. Dialing in your diet and your exercise is very, very helpful for addressing overeating, but if you’re at all like me, it’s not enough. I’ve spent as much, if not more, time on making it so that “fight or flight … or food” is not my default coping mechanism when emotions threaten to overwhelm.

Today’s post is in honor of the universe that seems to really want to make a point ;). First, there’s today’s post from Ellen at Fat Girl Wearing Thin, where she looks at the “debilitating effects that avoidance and fear can have on a person.” I can so relate (as my comment there suggests).

Ellen’s post reminded me of something Sherri Shepard said after getting booted early from Dancing With The Stars:

That thing that scares you the most, that makes you say ‘I don’t know if I can do it, I’m scared’ — run towards it, because it’s so amazing on the other side.

Finally, there’s this from The Buried Life (via their FB page today):

Note to self: feel the fear and do it anyway!

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Friday cat blogging

Posted in Friday cat blogging on April 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I practically bust a gut watching this! Definitely has me rethinking my plans to use one of these auto-feeders when traveling. Hmmmm.

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Quote of the day

Posted in QOTD on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Andy Bellatti:

I always like to tell people: forget “low-fat”, “low-carb”, etc… start thinking “low-processed”.

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Biggest Loser and metabolism

Posted in Weight loss on April 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Bob working out Season 13 contestant Chris

Long-time readers may know I’m a regular Biggest Loser watcher and have commented about it before. In fact, I once did a stats post looking at the inherent difficulty that women faced in the competition.

So today’s Weighty Matters’ post from Yoni Freedhoff about a forthcoming study showing that the Biggest Loser’s approach to weight loss “destroys participants’ metabolisms” was a must-read for me.

Researchers (note, emphasis mine):

studied the impact 7 months of Biggest Loser weight loss had on the resting and total energy expenditures of 16 participants. They used all the latest gadgets to do so including indirect calorimetry and doubly labeled water. So what happened? By week 6 participants had lost 13% of their body weight and by week 30, 39%. More importantly by week 6 participants metabolisms had slowed by 244 more calories per day than would have been expected simply as a function of their weight loss and by week 30, by 504 more.

Wow. Drilling down into the study we learn that this is despite the fact that lean body mass was in fact largely preserved. Yowza. As Yoni says, this is not how you want to start approaching weight maintenance!

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Quote of the Day

Posted in QOTD on April 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Ken Leebow of Feed Your Head is even less optimistic than I about HBO’s Weight of the Nation:

This “special” will air in May. I’m sure it will have plenty of people with their heads cut off. Sadly, that’s what they do to obese people. And it will discuss, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes. I’m sure it will discuss the cost of health care. …

Here’s the scoop: We do not have an obesity epidemic. We have a food crisis. It’s the food, the food, the food. By pinning the problem on obesity, we take the wrong fork in the road. We must address the horrific food environment.

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