Tacenda Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 7 hours ago, bluebell said: This is my third winter in Utah and i agree the inversion is gross. Thankfully we don't get it hardly at all up here in Layton (we are on the bench close to the mountains and south weber). We didn't ever get this in Montana, but that makes sense since i lived about an hour from the mountains so no valleys to gather everything. I know they do have inversion in Missoula and i think Butte too but i don't know how bad it gets. Those are the only places near mountains with enough people to cause it i think. My sister lives on the bench looking over South Weber. I wonder if you two might know each other, lol!
bluebell Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 13 minutes ago, Tacenda said: My sister lives on the bench looking over South Weber. I wonder if you two might know each other, lol! You never know!
Rain Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 10:01 AM, bluebell said: I used a Fitbit for a while to track my steps and then I discovered that it wasn't tracking them correctly (it was missing about 25% of my steps on average). Now I don't trust it enough to want to use it anymore. If it is fairly consistantly then it should be ok. Just think of a goal that you want to hit like 10,000 and then know that you need to hit 7500. I know it's frustrating, but if that is what you have then it is a way to work around it. I have gone back and forth on the my fitness pal app. I like how it connects to other apps. I think it is great to start with, but after awhile I can't stand using it for calories. It's not a big deal for breakfast and lunch, but I am a throw it together dinner kind of person and I got tired of entering in a new recipe every single day. If it is a day that I am using a recipe I have used it is better, but even then it will often end up different than the recipe called for. I've just tried to throw on as many veggies as possible and cut down on fat. If you do try endomondo it will connect to myfitnesspal, but make sure the calories are reading right if that matters to you. It says I am burning 2-2.5 times as many calories as every else I have checked and I have checked over it and can't figure out why. 1
Rain Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 (edited) I miss the snow, but I don't miss inversion! Edited February 13, 2016 by Rain 2
bluebell Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 13 minutes ago, Rain said: I miss the snow, but I don't miss inversion! I'm done with the snow this year. We've had a foot of snow on our lawn since November and the drifts around our driveway are still 2-3 feet even with everything starting to melt. Im dying for spring! 1
Garden Girl Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 (edited) On 2/10/2016 at 2:43 PM, halconero said: Just wanted to see who here on the board has fitness goals for the New Year. You can do it! It's all about consistency and discipline over any form of temporary motivation. Every new year I resolve to do better... I used to love to run or walk along the shore at low tide because the sand was just right... nice and firm. Just enough to cushion the impact of my steps... and the power of the sea was always humbling. I did some of my best praying as I'd walk along the shore. My particular beach has very few people so the expanse of sea and sky was there before me in all its beauty. Now, after a knee replacement and some health issues, I find it difficult... and I miss it... but I like to take a book and sit against a log (well up from the shore and water for safety) and just enjoy being out... My serious exercise now is limited pretty much to the gym at the Rec Center, which thankfully is quite complete with all the equipment and an indoor walking track. At home I use elastic flex strips, dumb bells, bike, etc. So yet again I have resolved to get more fit and take off those pesky extra pounds... sigh... GG Edited February 13, 2016 by Garden Girl 1
Rain Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 57 minutes ago, bluebell said: I'm done with the snow this year. We've had a foot of snow on our lawn since November and the drifts around our driveway are still 2-3 feet even with everything starting to melt. Im dying for spring! Me too. It doesn't get real cold here, but I have been frustrated that I had to turn on the heat when we are not in bed till I realized that in Utah I didn't set the heat to 58 or 60 so so why was I essentially doing it here. Problem is last week I had the heat on. This week we are in mid to upper 80s and next week we will be in the 90s. Where did spring go?!
halconero Posted February 13, 2016 Author Posted February 13, 2016 1 hour ago, Garden Girl said: Every new year I resolve to do better... I used to love to run or walk along the shore at low tide because the sand was just right... nice and firm. Just enough to cushion the impact of my steps... and the power of the sea was always humbling. I did some of my best praying as I'd walk along the shore. My particular beach has very few people so the expanse of sea and sky was there before me in all its beauty. Now, after a knee replacement and some health issues, I find it difficult... and I miss it... but I like to take a book and sit against a log (well up from the shore and water for safety) and just enjoy being out... My serious exercise now is limited pretty much to the gym at the Rec Center, which thankfully is quite complete with all the equipment and an indoor walking track. At home I use elastic flex strips, dumb bells, bike, etc. So yet again I have resolved to get more fit and take off those pesky extra pounds... sigh... GG Hey! You do what you can. Sounds like a great rec center. You've got this. 1
Calm Posted February 13, 2016 Posted February 13, 2016 (edited) On February 13, 2016 at 11:42 AM, bluebell said: I'm done with the snow this year. We've had a foot of snow on our lawn since November and the drifts around our driveway are still 2-3 feet even with everything starting to melt. Im dying for spring! This is the closest it has been to a Canadian winter since we moved down here. Usually you have weeks of dead lawn showing. Not this year. Edited February 14, 2016 by Calm
halconero Posted February 14, 2016 Author Posted February 14, 2016 Really? It's bright and reasonably balmy here in Calgary. Not a lot of snow out at all. A bit icey, but nothing huge.
Calm Posted February 14, 2016 Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) It has been a very wet and cold January and February here in Utah. It will be interesting to see when they compare it to records (if I come across that). Snowpack is higher than normal (percents are compared to average for that day in past years) along a certain line (look at bottom picture, one side all high, other side lower...looks like it is following the mountain range...so that might mean for some reason the water is being dumped on the west side of the mountains more than usual): https://www.ksl.com/?nid=978 Fall was quite dry as well iirc so that might account for lower water levels now. Edited February 14, 2016 by Calm
Traela Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 I lost 8-10 pounds just by eating less (lots of water before each meal). I think I've reached the limit of what that small change can do for me, so I've added walking. Now I have an added incentive- I just was made an assistant camp director! I am determined to get in shape so I don't hold those girls back on the hikes. 1
halconero Posted February 15, 2016 Author Posted February 15, 2016 56 minutes ago, Traela said: I lost 8-10 pounds just by eating less (lots of water before each meal). I think I've reached the limit of what that small change can do for me, so I've added walking. Now I have an added incentive- I just was made an assistant camp director! I am determined to get in shape so I don't hold those girls back on the hikes. That's been my biggest change. I was in a biophysics class a while back where the prof said "if physicists wrote a diet book it would consist of one sentence: output energy > input energy." I've been maintaining around a 500-800 caloric deficit for the past couple months, a deficit being less than what it takes to maintain weight. That amount has resulted in about a 2-2.5 lbs loss every week. It was a lot more at first when after I bulked and had some extra fat, and it's slowed down since I've become leaner, but since it's still going down I'm not going to change anything yet. To give everyone an idea of what a 500-800 calorie deficit looks like, it would be something like missing an average lunch or dinner meal from a sedentary person's diet. Since I usually run and weightlift most days and average about another 1000 calories burned it usually just looks like I'm eating your average three meals, though with a lot more lean proteins and veggies right now.
Calm Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 Quote That amount has resulted in about a 2-2.5 lbs loss every week. I hate men. Every guy I know can lose that much a week if they try while I think life is going great if I lose that in half a year. (or at least the ones that talk to me about it, there are some very heavy guys that I know but they don't talk to me about weight loss...probably because they aren't losing any). Yesterday I walked a hour easily, today I didn't take my meds right and by exercise time was in too much pain...dang it, so it is not happening today. However, as long as it is going to happen tomorrow that is okay. As far as diet goes, I have got to come up with something that I can go to besides food when stressed and anxious. It is not only when I go into anxiety mode, but when my daughter comes up and emotes on me and now I have Mom calling and doing the same pretty much daily. I can't really brace myself for either because I never know when it is going to happen and it is too stressful to constantly anticipate that (been there, done that, I preferring sleeping decently). Not being very mobile and it happening more at night than during the day means distractions aren't as available as I would wish. And even the board can fail if no one is posting, lol. 2
VideoGameJunkie Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 Ill probably die of a heart attack at age 50 so my exercise plan isn't the best.
Jeanne Posted February 15, 2016 Posted February 15, 2016 16 hours ago, VideoGameJunkie said: Ill probably die of a heart attack at age 50 so my exercise plan isn't the best. Hey...for all my exercising..I am just getting shorter!
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