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Thank you for being here. One of my goals for 2010 is to post more often on the Group Fitness Talk Radio blog. I am the girl that finds it so much easier to talk face to face, but I want to get to know you all better and since we don’t live close enough to meet face to face, this is how we get to do it.
In 2009 I did some major changing. Let me explain…. My exercise regimen is fairly set. I teach my scheduled classes, which I love, and sub whenever I can. In the summer, I add cycling to my schedule as I can and train for long rides with my husband on the tandem. I pretty much exercise to capacity. Is that a term? Anyway, you all know what I mean. However, I needed to change something up, as I was dissatisfied with changes in my body composition- a nice way of saying I was consistently gaining weight . Oh, by the way, I also know I was working out in the proper zones and burning fat while training. So, horror of horrors, I had to look at my diet. What could I/ should I change? Something wasn’t working anymore. So, I have modified some things and changed the way I look at different components in my diet. I found the following article very helpful. It’s from 2002 and it is a bit lengthy, but it has a lot of good nuggets in it and a lot of “food for thought” ha ha.
Let me know your thoughts.
Wow. Very interesting and a lot of food for thought in that article.
I have always been a proponant of eating low GI food, but never stopped to think about those carbohydrate drinks like Lucozade, I guess on the assumption that I would be burning those calories off rapidly as part of my workout.
It’s a hard pill to swallow – that perhaps fatty food is not our enemy after all.
I do think that the author neglected to mention what, if any, exercise the subjects of the various tests and studies were required to take, although he did mention that weight loss occured simply by cutting out the carbs (I say simply – the science behind it seems possible to my non science mind!).
It would be interesting to look into the outcome of the studies mentioned on the last page of the article, as well as any reaction to the article by either the medical or from the fitness world. After all, if people can lose weight just by well, eating less (shock!) then why go to the gym (well, of course there are those who train to race…but what about the housewife who wants to shed those post Christmas pounds!)
Thanks for posting this, it’s going to keep me thinking for a while. Plus, it’s good to challenge the status quo.