this week is all about new change for me this week. first change was to new job and now in training for that. second change is on my diet by going on a low carb diet inspired by a new co worker, and third change is that my back is finally healed and will start back working out tomorrow.
tomorrow will get on my elliptical and start slow to see how that goes and gradually increase my time and efforts and see how that goes. i am out of shape and sweat easily just taking a short walk. i was in too much pain to work out for those couple months when my back went out. then i will gradually add back more exercises and listen closely to my body as to not re injure my back.
one of new co workers told me he does the low carb diet and is in great condition and has a small size. he told me his mother did the diet and lost forty pounds in a short time. since i want to add vegetables back to my diet i decided to start that yesterday. so no white bread, rice, and very low sugar.
feel good to be back and can't wait to tackles this weight and get back in shape. so good luck to all you guys out there who follow me and the new people who have saved and joined my group. i still in the game and ready to rumble. until next time take care and God Bless.
Yesterday finally caved in and went to my doctor office because the pain was too much to deal with. all my medication was 2 to 3 years old and weren't working. Got new medication that works and hopefully my back will heal soon.
In the meantime I've been searching for new free weights and free weights holder to get in December as i update my gym.my wife and i finished putting down the floor in the entertainment room and will soon start on the work out room. hopefully will have my home gym back in a month.
need to cut the salt in my diet and exercise again to lower my blood
pressure. i don't have high blood pressure but it was up from normal at
the doctor office.i thing it rose due to eating beef stew out of can at work which is high in sodium. also doing some of my physical therapy exercises until my back gets back to normal.
i hope all is well with you guys and will post more later. take care and God Bless.
My back has been hurting for weeks and this past weekend it went completely out. I did like five sprints and some jumping jacks. Then later it went completely out.
I'm in terrible pain and trying everything I know to ease it. pain pills, laying in bed for hours, ice, heat, and some of my physical therapy exercises. I had lost a pound last month and had turned a corner and now this has happened.
i now weigh 286 pounds and 10 pounds for the year. so after losing 23 pounds by the spring i had regained 13 pounds. once i get my back pain resolved, i'll continue my quest. Until next time take care and God Bless.
Like an Eagle soaring in the wind, I've turned the corner and coming back. Even dealing with severe pain in my leg from my back, I'm still in the game.
My wife gave me a massage to ease the pain and been taking pain medication to lessen the pain. Working out with the weights, Jumping Jack and Wall Push ups. Working out thirty minutes to an hour every other day. Walking more in my real life by parking far away from the job and stores to get in extra calories without thinking about it.
Still trying to incorporate the Glycemic Index in my diet and staying away from soda's. Having a struggle with the amounts and keep my sugar intake down. Eating Tuna, Red Meat, Wheat bread, and Coffee.
Lost one pound in a month. Not a big amount but I will take it since I had been consistently gaining weight. Trying to increase the intensity but hinder by pain and will work to reduce that so I can go all the way. Until next time take care and God Bless!
I've been keeping up my workouts every other day and just in general moving more to burn those calories. Some of my shirts are loose and started to be to big for me. Glad the belly fat which is the most dangerous fat for disease going down on me.
My wife doctor told her that her sugar level is high and so we've adjusted our diets to the Glysemic index.. Added beans to our diet and watching our sugar intake and keeping it smaller. Still eating my two fruits a day with grapefruit and bananas or apples.
This last week has been dealing with pain in my leg from my bad back. Recently the pain was so bad I had to rest on the bench at the park
downtown and watch my wife walk the bridge and then go and get the truck
and pick me up. I was done for the day.
I've put ice on it and that brought down some of the pain. I prefer to heal it naturally and not take pain pills. Now my refrigerator has stopped producing ice and will try to get a massage.
I will keep you guys posted, until next time take care and God Bless.
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The latest study finds an intriguing connection between weight-bearing exercises and a lower risk of diabetes.
While lifting weights is more often associated with strengthening
muscle and keeping bones healthy, those exercises primarily benefit
what’s known as red muscle, which gets its color from mitochondria, the
energy factories of cells. Red muscle is the core of endurance athletes’
strength and helps them to power through sustained workouts. But it
turns out that another type of muscle, white muscle, which is more
prevalent among sprinters, weightlifters and those who use resistance
training, where short bursts of energy are critical, may play a role in
regulating blood sugar.
White muscle also becomes more prevalent as people age, as the cells
start to rely more on glucose for energy. That’s partly why researchers
have long believed that the shift from red to white muscle is can be
harmful, since the dependence on glucose can encourage insulin
resistance. Greater demand for sugar leads to higher levels of the
hormone insulin that can overwhelm cells and leave them unable to
respond to the sugar-metabolizing hormone, which provides the ideal
environment for diabetes. But in the latest research published in the
journal Nature Medicine, scientists from the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan question that view, reporting that white muscle may actually keep blood sugar levels in check.
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“Despite the good correlation between diabetes and white muscle, the
cause and effect relationship has not been proven and remains
controversial,” says study author Jiandie Lin, a Life Sciences Institute
faculty member and associate professor at the University of Michigan
Medical School.
The researchers bred mice to pump out more of a protein —
called BAF60c — linked to the development of white muscle. They found
that mice with higher levels of BAF60c did in fact have paler muscles,
which confirmed that the protein is part of the pathway for their white
muscle development.
They then put the mice on treadmills to compare their physical
endurance to a group of control mice with less BAF60c. The BAF60c mice
were able to run powerfully for short distances, but wore out faster
than the other animals.
The genetically altered mice were then put on a high-fat diet, and to
the researchers’ surprise, the animals exhibited better control over
their blood sugar levels than mice on the same diet who weren’t making
more of the protein.
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“What our study highlights is that having more white muscle per se is
not deleterious. When we activate the white muscle program in mice
through a transgene, we observed that the mice are protected from fatty
diet-induced metabolic disorders. They have a better ability to control
blood glucose levels,” says Lin. Previous studies
hinted that weight-bearing exercises could benefit diabetes risk, but
the latest findings provide a more detailed explanation for why. If
further research shows the BAF60c pathway is indeed a safe and effective
way of building white muscle and improving blood sugar management,
patients may be able to take advantage of activities that can boost
white muscle production, such as weight lifting, as well as drugs that
can produce the same effect, to control the insulin resistance and high
glucose levels that forecast diabetes.
