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Fenriswolf:
Seriously? I feel a bit dumb asking that... but when I was fighting last I was pretty damn fit but I've never really been a distance runner and I was pushed into running for an hour, with stairs at the end. I subsequently decided running was the devil and my trainer was a cunt because my ankles are now incredibly weak and achy and because they don't seem to do their job any more my knees have started aching regularly... and I'm 23.

Now I do walk on hills a fair amount but I pretty much went from just sprint-style training to having to jog for 5 miles over hills (I know it's not that far but it is for me!) and it really stuffed my joints.

ruyi:

--- Quote from: tania on 10 Dec 2008, 14:56 ---the closest thing i can think would be "fiber" and "fat". food that are low in fat and high in fiber are your best bet.

--- End quote ---

I think fat is good for you, actually? Fat is satisfying, like fiber. Also you don't really get fat from eating fat. Rather it is refined carbs that fuck up your blood sugar level to make you hungrier and more likely to store fat.

Still, the best thing is to think of your diet in terms of whole foods rather than nutrients, macro or otherwise.

mishy:
i like this thread. i need someone to cheer me on, too.
i acknowledge my utter laziness. in fact, i think i'll walk home today. at least part-way. (it's about 40 min of flat road, about 3 km. that's canadian for less-than-half-a-mile.) it's easy.
i never liked running. it always feels like my ankles or knees are just going to crumble and fall apart. (damn the flat foot gene.)
i need to move more, just move. i play a lot of world of warcraft and i work in IT. this = sedentary lifestyle. i also have habits that make me want to eat food when i'm not hungry. i plan on watching my intake of food. observing it is the first step, altering/controlling the intake is the next step.

the simplest, easiest thing to do for people like me is to eat slower and stop eating when you're full (or, as many diets suggest, when you feel satisfied but before you are "full".) it is true that it takes time for your stomach to say "ok that's enough", about 20 minutes, so if you inhale your food you've eaten much more than you need to by the time you feel full. (i got this from my psych classes in university, not some interweb diet thing.)

if i don't leave now, i won't be walking. good luck to everyone! post again soon.
(sorry if someone else said the same things.)

Peet:
Could I just posit the notion that the frequency of meals doesn't make a great deal of difference to a) blood sugar and b) your metabolism (putting aside the massive vaguaries of that term). I support this idea with two lines of argument.

Firstly, tania, i believe your graphs are only partly right. Obviously your blood sugar spikes after a meal but i don't think it ever really falls below the required concentration, unless you're in a starvation state. The whole point of the insulin/glucagon system is to store glucose when it's in excess and release it slowly so that you've got enough to fuel your body at all times. It's a groovy system that works pretty well.

Secondly, most of the tissues of the body don't use glucose as a primary energy source. Only the brain and the red blood cells use it exclusively. Your other tissues (particularly the muscles, given that we're talking about exercise) will use it initially for short periods of stress because it's more rapidly broken down than fats, but in the longer term - say a period of exercise more than a couple of minutes - you start to use fat anyway. Fat metabolism is way complicated but in brief it can't be done by a cell in the same manner as glucose. It has to come from fatty acid stores, not just from free fat floating around in the blood as would happen after a meal, and so the use of fat as an energy source is less effected by frequency of meals than glucose.

On an unrelated note i think the key to exercising is to do something that you actually enjoy. If you like running then that's pretty great for you but a lot of people don't. I keep pretty trim by fencing three times a week because I look forward to doing it and it's great fun as well as being exercise.

ViolentDove:
^

What Peet said. I enjoy the exercise I do because it's either casual football (soccer) games in the park, or riding my bike, both of which I genuinely enjoy. Also the latter activity is my main form of transport around the city, which helps.

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