Why Exercise ?

[Timmy]

Well, yeah, but think of it this way: exercise is good (in moderation), not smoking is good. Best to do both, but doing just one is better than nothing. Right?

[coadie]

Exercise with out dietary changes lead to failure

Stress Diet

The following diet is designed to help you cope with the stress that builds up during the holidays.

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit
1 slice whole wheat toast
8 oz. skim milk

Lunch:
4 oz. lean broiled chicken breast
1 cup steamed spinach
1 cup herb tea
1 Oreo cookie

Mid-Afternoon Snack:
The rest of Oreos in the package
2 pints Rocky Road ice cream nuts
cherries and whipped cream
1 jar hot fudge sauce

Dinner:
2 loaves garlic bread
4 cans or 1 large pitcher Coke
1 large sausage, mushroom and cheese pizza
3 Snickers bars

Midnight Snack:
Entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake (eaten directly from freezer


Rules for This Diet

1. If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

2. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are cancelled out by the diet soda.

3. When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you do not eat more than they do.

4. Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER counts, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee Cheesecake.

5. If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.

6. Movie related foods do not have additional calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel. Examples: Milk Duds, buttered popcorn, Junior Mints, Red Hots and Tootsie Rolls.

7. Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage.

8. Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in the process of preparing something.

9. Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories. Examples are: spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and mashed potatoes.

10. Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any other food color.

11. Anything consumed while standing has no calories. This due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.

12. Anything consumed from someone else's plate has no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to his/her plate. (We ALL know how calories like to cling!)

REMEMBER: STRESSED SPELLED BACKWARDS IS DESSERTS!

[rgcraig]

Ferd, you just made my day!

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Ferd, you just made my day!

LOL! ive lost 18 pounds since surgery. it led to some research on what I need to do.

I walk my office floor up to 5 times a day. One lap takes about 4 minutes.

another thing you can do is get a pedomiter. you can get a good one for less than 10 dollars. take 10k to 15k steps per day will do more for your health and weight than an hour a day in the gym!

I read a book called "reversing heart desiese" if my memory is right.

that book quoted a study of 10,000 people study that shows the following
sedintary people die at a rate of 50 per 1000 people. people who walk 30 minutes 4 times per week die at a rate of 24 per 1000. people who have a very high rate of exercise (Marathon training) die at a rate of 19 per 1000.

Sedintary people die but just becoming ACTIVE cuts the chance of death in half, but at the same time there is little statistical difference between walking moderately and training for a marathon!

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Ferd

LOL! ive lost 18 pounds since surgery. it led to some research on what I need to do.

I walk my office floor up to 5 times a day. One lap takes about 4 minutes.

another thing you can do is get a pedomiter. you can get a good one for less than 10 dollars. take 10k to 15k steps per day will do more for your health and weight than an hour a day in the gym!

I read a book called "reversing heart desiese" if my memory is right.

that book quoted a study of 10,000 people study that shows the following
sedintary people die at a rate of 50 per 1000 people. people who walk 30 minutes 4 times per week die at a rate of 24 per 1000. people who have a very high rate of exercise (Marathon training) die at a rate of 19 per 1000.

Sedintary people die but just becoming ACTIVE cuts the chance of death in half, but at the same time there is little statistical difference between walking moderately and training for a marathon!

I recall a longitudinal study that reflected 1,000 of 1,000 died. I will go with your numbers. I may RUN down to Sonic and order a chilicheeseburger.

(we call them triple bypass burgers)

[rgcraig]

Very interesting!

My biggest problem is I'm a carboholic!


....and I like to bake!

[Praxeas]

I don't know....why do 300lb women in blue denim skirts go to Mc Donalds and buy a BigMac, supersize fries and a large DIET soda? As if that is going to help?