Food n Fitness Thread #9837483 - Page 19

JazmenFlowers · #**271** 11-29-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by skcin

ITA. It's a real eye opener for just how bad it is for you. I'm no idiot, I never thought it was healthy, but the damage it started doing to this guy's liver and other organs in such a short time was shocking.

yep. he gained like 10 pounds in a week or something.

I do wonder though if Morgan was vegetarian or strict eater before this. I know he was in good shape and his fiance is vegan or maybe vegetarian so I'm sure the fast food really shocked his body.

but when he was in the car eating a big mac I think and he got sick...that's some serious ****. the reason we don't all get that sick is because we're probably used to all the crap that's in them.

JazmenFlowers · #**272** 11-29-2006, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Thanks for those links. I lost a pound over Thanksgiving. I seriously think my body is shcizo.

I've been wondering, does anyone know about the 85% heart rate thing? How bad is it to work out at like 90%? My heart rate is usually pretty high while working out but it freaks me out because I'm not sure how safe that is.

try these:

http://www.stevenscreek.com/goodies/hr.shtml

http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=4736

http://exercise.about.com/cs/cardiow.../aa022601a.htm

SuzeQuze · #**273** 11-29-2006, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by markolas

I'm easily traumatized. When I was 8 years old, my grandmother made me watch that TV movie with Bernadette Peters where she plays the mother of the little boy whose dad took him to a motel and set the room on fire. I was scared to take a bath for a year after that.

Okay, that's a normal reponse for an 8 year old to an age inappropriate movie. What was your grandmother thinking?

SuzeQuze · #**274** 11-29-2006, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

try these:

http://www.stevenscreek.com/goodies/hr.shtml

http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=4736

http://exercise.about.com/cs/cardiow.../aa022601a.htm

Thanks, I can never find the answer to that specific question though. I tend to work out oer 85% and I just am not sure if that is healthy.

carrie721 · #**275** 11-29-2006, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Thanks, I can never find the answer to that specific question though. I tend to work out oer 85% and I just am not sure if that is healthy.

suze, you shouldn't be doing a sustained cardio workout at a very high heartrate. if you're going fast enough that you can't talk comfortably talk while you're doing it, it's not healthy.

skcin · #**276** 11-29-2006, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

yep. he gained like 10 pounds in a week or something.

I do wonder though if Morgan was vegetarian or strict eater before this. I know he was in good shape and his fiance is vegan or maybe vegetarian so I'm sure the fast food really shocked his body.

but when he was in the car eating a big mac I think and he got sick...that's some serious ****. the reason we don't all get that sick is because we're probably used to all the crap that's in them.

I was more scared of the liver function changes. They got so bad the doctor tried to get him to stop this horrible diet long before the month was up.

SuzeQuze · #**277** 11-29-2006, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

suze, you shouldn't be doing a sustained cardio workout at a very high heartrate. if you're going fast enough that you can't talk comfortably talk while you're doing it, it's not healthy.

I can talk but the heartrate is high.

carrie721 · #**278** 11-29-2006, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I can talk but the heartrate is high.

what's your actual heart rate at 90%?

SuzeQuze · #**279** 11-29-2006, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

what's your actual heart rate at 90%?

I think it's 165ish.

On edit: I just used Jazzy's calculator from his first link which adjusts for a higher resting heart rate. It shows 178 as my 85% which helps explain my confusion. So 165 for me isn't crazy high I guess. Phew.

carrie721 · #**280** 11-29-2006, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I think it's 165ish.

that doesn't sound unhealthy - when i was working out at the gym, that's where i would try to stay when i was doing cardio. i've read that you should stay between 60% and 90% ... so you should be fine!

markolas · #**281** 11-29-2006, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

^^^
it's hard to wake up one day and realize that you've gained weight. and it seems like it happens overnight. but, in the end, it really does come down to how determined you are. you have to make up your mind to do it. once you make it through 2 weeks or so and get into a good routine, it's just keeping it up. you can do it.

I can't even make it through 1 week.

Mostly, it's a comfort food. If I'm having a stressful day, or I'm feeling a little depressed or something...I head straight for McDonald's or Wendy's.

markolas · #**282** 11-29-2006, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Okay, that's a normal reponse for an 8 year old to an age inappropriate movie. What was your grandmother thinking?

She was probably drunk.

I think that was the summer she lived with us and ate and drank nothing but Vicodin and Old Crow.

carrie721 · #**283** 11-29-2006, 11:49 PM

f*ck.

i need a f*cking kick in the pants. i have been so depressed this month. not just a seasonal malaise, it's been worse than that. i was doing so well with diet & exercise, and then i couldn't exercise when i hurt my back. now i feel like i have had a total emotional crash. i don't want to get out of bed, i don't want to leave my house, i don't want to deal with the necessities of life. my social anxiety has gotten so bad that my friends only see me if they visit me at work. they don't really understand ... i mean, they're understanding, but they don't get it. the other day i agreed to go to target with my friend, but i told her i had to be home by five. what happens at five? nothing, i just couldn't handle being out longer than that. i dunno what's going on. i have anxiety before i go into work. it's not an anxiety attack, per se, but my heart starts racing and i become really withdrawn ... which is a difficult state to go into work in.

i know i just need to pick myself up like i did when i first started with diet & exercise, but i wanted to share my bull****.

DrummerDeanna · #**284** 11-29-2006, 11:54 PM

That sucks Carrie. I'm really sorry to hear about that...has this happened before and how did you pull yourself out of the funk before?

Or are you in that stage where you know you should and need to pull yourself out - but just can't quite get there....that's the worst

carrie721 · #**285** 11-29-2006, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

That sucks Carrie. I'm really sorry to hear about that...has this happened before and how did you pull yourself out of the funk before?

Or are you in that stage where you know you should and need to pull yourself out - but just can't quite get there....that's the worst

yeah, this has happened before ... i've been dealing with severe depression for about 10 years now. i used to just live with it ... i'd go through periods where it would naturally lighten but it would eventually come back. once i started exercising regularly my mood really leveled out, so now i can pretty much control it. but it's hard because all i wanna do is pull the covers over my head.

when i hurt my back, i actually kind of prepared myself mentally for something like this ... i knew it was mostly the exercise that was keeping me at even keel.