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Re: Upping the running, and a carb revelation
From: AdoptASAP (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:56:44 -0500 (CDT)
Good for you. YOu should however walk fast instead. Running is not
good for the heavy and older-then-20-yr-old person. It puts extra
stress on the ankles and that does a ripple effect up the body. If you
must run, run on your tippy toes. Its landing on the heals that are not
good. Tippy toes will also work the calves more. We had a kid that
always beat in HS running. He would experiement and he got the best
speed on tippy toes.
At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jodi wrote:
>
>Whelp, yesterday I upped my running routine from 1 mile walking warm-up,
>2 miles (8 laps) alternating walking and
>running laps, and 1 mile walking cool down to 1 mile warm up, 2 laps
>running, 1 walking, 2 running, 1 walking,
>3 running, and 1 mile cool down... the 3 lap part was because my mind
>tends to wander and I couldn't
>remember if I was on the first or second lap, so I did an extra to be
>safe... then remembered that I had in fact
>been on the 2nd when I went the extra lap... Yay me, I am actually
>capable of running 3/4 mile :-) But I am
>going to keep it at 1/2 mile chunks for a few days, maybe go up to 3/4
>mile chunks on Tuesday or so...
>
>Soon I feel I'll be able to call myself a runner and really truly mean
>it!!! My goal of running a mile + at a time
>WILL be met this summer!! I know it!!!
>
>The thing is, yesterday I was wondering at my uncontrollable - and
>recent - carb cravings, unsure if it meant
>I needed to be stricter, or if maybe my energy output (35-42 miles a
>week walking/running) was too high
>to be limiting carbs as I have... Well, yesterday, after my previous
>night's cookie pigout, I had more energy
>while running, ran faster, felt better, yada yada yada... So I wonder.
>Maybe that really was it. Maybe
>my carb cravings mean I really need to start listening to my body more
>and the diet books/advice less? Gosh,
>that's hard to do... I've gotten so used to thinking of my cravings as
>being a bad thing, something to control...
>Whodda thunk they actually just meant I need more food???
>
>So I am going to eat a pack of cookies EVERY night, and see what
>happens.
>
>Just kidding. :-) But I am going to increase the amount of GOOD carbs,
>and see where this goes. Wouldn't it be
>a hoot if that kicked my weight loss back in? Maybe it's not the BCP
>that has stalled it after all. It does seem, in
>retrospect, that I lost the bulk of my weight BEFORE I got more serious
>about cutting out carbs. So let's see how
>this goes... wish me luck. :-)
>
>- Jodi
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