The phone rang again at like 5:15 am to find we have no school. Okay, that would be fine, except for the fact that this KEEPS HAPPENING! I have ceased to complain about not being able to run outdoors, because that gets mighty boring seeing that we have had more snow than I can remember since that insane winter of 1996. At least I have the treadmill, which actually seems to be doing more harm than good to the hip flexors, since now I am on strict orders from my physical therapist to split my 3.1 miles into two to three separate interludes. This sucks in so many ways, the most pronounced being that I have to get on the treadmill three (or two) separate times. Okay enough complaining. I'm grateful that I can exercise at all after the over 2 year hiatus after my hip surgery.
I was asked a question about food consumption for those of us who are small, or petitte. I am a hair over 5'2" and am an extremely petitte person. The fact of the matter is, we require a lot less calories than our larger counterparts, and that is just an unfair fact that we all have to deal with. When I work out on my treadmill, I make SURE to enter my weight, because any assessment of caloric use that the treadmill gives me will NOT be accurate because the default settings are for someone who is 150 pounds. The difference in caloric use for someone who is my size and someone who is 150 pounds is profound. I am going to do an experiment today and set it differently for both workouts. I will report on my findings.
I am going to give some concrete calorie counts to answer the email I received, but I really hesitate to answer it because I fear I will be leading people on either a too permissive diet, or a too restrictive one, depending on your metabolic rate and calorie consumption. I am an interesting, and from what I understand, unique metabolic makeup. For some reason I seem to eat more than some, and burn way more than most. My body seems to want to maintain the size that it is presently, even in the face of attempts to consume more calories. I think I have a more stronly maintained setpoint than most people, and in attempts to preserve its weight, my metabolic rate varies and can go into overdrive at times (like now it seems). Do I violate the laws of science (MYTH # something or other, can't remember numbers)???? NO. But my science is different than say, yours. More on this another time. ENOUGH THEORY, here's what I have most recently found to be really good!
New limited time flavors of Danon Light and Fit....carmel. Mmmmmmmm. 80 calories and so very delcious.
There are a few other limited time flavors, but this is the best by far in my opinion. Granted, this is coming from someone who eats this every day:
Anyway as for receipes, I'm toying around w/ several for today. The first is a black bean chowder (with chicken stock and shrimp instead of higher fat beef that one of the receipes calls for) and removing the white rice it recommends, and substituting with NO RICE. I'm hardcore folks, you know that, so take what I say and make it your own. I do not expect my patients, nor my blog readers to live my lifestyle. However, if I don't live my recommendations then how on earth can I ask my patients to live them? I can't, so I'm hardcore. I will post the receipe if I make it, or I will post whatever I do decide to make...just so you can have the option of something new! :)
Speaking of hardcore....after shoveling some (I must hire people to remove the rest of the snow today) I am going down to get on the treadmill, turn on my DVR'd Dr. Phil episode or maybe Jersey Shore (wait I already watched that...twice, LOL). I will report my caloric findings to you all after my experiment inputting different weights into my treadmill program. I also have been wanting to discuss my new TV DVR standards. I have to say, except for Jersey Shore, this season has been rather bleak. xoxo for now.....
For those that have an interest in logging their foods and their exercise so they can make informed decisions might want to check out www.fatsecret.com
I use it, you get a BB app, an app for your iThingy, or a Droid gadget. And it syncs.
You put in your particular info, it estimates your BMR, and then it's off to the races. In the past I hated it, but now I'm loving it and here is why.
unlike Jersey Girl, I'm a large person, and one of the quirks of my body (that i think is related to my size), is that I can diet hard for a day or 4, get on the scale and gain weight. Then two days later, eating more generously, lose 3 or 4 lbs. Now I have a really good idea on a daily basis if I'm weight positive or negative, no matter what the scale says. And I know that over a week or a month the scale will reflect the log. It has to. That's reassuring, and when the scale and my body want to make me nuts, I can relax.
At the least you should check out the site, its totally free!
Posted by: Scott | January 27, 2011 at 03:19 PM