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brorilla replied to your post “Bright Line Eating”

During the two or so years I was in really great shape I was the annoying type of person that said "I eat to be alive, I don't live to eat" I had rock solid self control. I looked at junk food as poison. Maybe it wasn't the healthiest relationship with food, but it was practical. I wish I could strike a nice balance between "I deserve it" and "that's poison"

Unfortunately, for some of us, there is no happy medium. Some foods are poison to us, they are just as addictive as drugs, alcohol or cigarettes.  

This book talks about the science of addiction, particularly food addiction, and actually having ‘bright lines’ that you don’t cross is much more freeing than the constant battle of ‘do I eat that or not?’ that I’m sure many people suffer with. It’s draining to our willpower and to our mental health.  Thoughts about food end up taking up more and more of our time and energy. 

When I felt best was when I had bright lines and didn’t eat sugar or flour. Period. There was no more debate, and it was sooooo much easier and so much better for me. I felt better in every way.

HAHAHAHA! I just re-read your post and indeed you requested no mention of the p-word. Sounds like you're enjoying it. I grew up in a very cosmopolitan city (Tijuana, MX) and trained in some obscure Polynesian martial arts system known as Lima Lama. I was a third degree brown belt, just short of Black and then quit. I always enjoyed watching the Tae Kwon Do people at tournaments. (I really envied the white dobok our uniforms we're black)

I was just kidding about the mention of pushups of course :)

I’d never heard of Lima Lama, but I looked it up and it looks pretty cool! Definitely notice some similarities (but I mean honestly, how many different ways are there to kick/punch?) but it seems like there’s more handwork than TKD.

For the record I’ve got two doboks - my first was all black (which I feel looks quite nice (and happens to be a very nice material)). I actually borrowed my wife’s all black dobok for my very first class since I hadn’t bought one yet.  And then after I got tired of washing it so often got the regular white one. My (for now(?)*) current dojang also offers a few other doboks - all red, all blue, and of course the black collar all-white dobok for black belts. There may be significance to the red and blue - you have to be on the school’s demo team for one, or at least X belt (but not black) for the other, but I can’t recall at the moment.

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Family taekwondo this morning was a challenge....

Sneaking in 300 push ups into a workout seems cruel. But, NICE MAN! I remember your wife doing TKD before, when did you get started? Or did I just miss that you’ve been doing it back when you were training for your Ironman?

I politely requested not mentioning pushups.*

Just kidding :)

Yes - my wife took Taekwondo while she was in college and got up to the belt just before black belt. Some schools call it “chodanbo”, some call it “deputy black”, some call it “half red half black” because that’s just what it is.

She started taking the kids a few years ago - maybe 3 and change. We were on the fence for a while if we’d make it a full family activity, or keep it as “mom and kids” time. After my Ironman (and the Chicago Marathon a month later) we decided it was time for me to start. I think I took a week off after the marathon before I started classes with them. So I’ve been going just shy of a year now.

Confession: The last time I attempted a headstand was probably 3 weeks ago ... maybe longer, and I could NOT get up. I could not get my hips over my shoulders, couldn’t get my balance shifted so I could make it into a headstand. It really disappointed me. I was tired at the time, and I have kinda hung onto that small thread as the reason, but I haven’t tried it again, not wanting it to be confirmed that I can no longer do a headstand because I’m not strong enough to balance and lift the extra weight I’ve gained.

This week I’m starting to feel more ‘on track’ than I have in a long while, so, I decided to give it another try. I did it against the wall, but didn’t have to use it to balance. It took two tries to hold it, and wobbly AF, and it didn’t last long, but I made it. 

The weirdest part is that my QUADS start to cramp ... quads? Why quads? I don’t know, but they were super-unhappy with the whole thing. So weird. 

So, I haven’t posted about this, or even told very many people, because I’ve basically been working on not thinking about it too much.

Since I’m over 50, my doctor kept bugging me to do a colonoscopy. I finally caved in, sort of, and did one of those ‘cologuard’ tests for colon cancer. It came back positive. 

There is certainly a possibility that this is a false-positive, and that’s kinda what I’ve been holding onto to keep myself afloat. Tomorrow I have a diagnostic colonoscopy to find out if there really is anything, or if the cologuard test was wrong.

Today I’m on clear liquids only, and at 5pm and midnight I have to drink a half-gallon of ... roto-rooter clean out stuff. Joy.

So, I’ll let you know what the results are when I know. I’m pretty sure it won’t be tomorrow, but I forgot to ask them when I get the results. 

2017.01.24 Weekly Weigh-in / Check in

The scale has FINALLY moved again. 

I was really starting to think it wasn’t going to.  

Key points:

Down 2 pounds this week and 6.6 pounds since re-starting.

Despite keeping carbs low (and those I’m eating are all ‘whole foods’), I still am not in nutritional ketosis. (I’m still at .2 MMOL/L, ketosis starts at about .5) That’s confounding.

Most days my calories are ‘under’ what fitbit thinks I could eat, but I’m not so sure about fitbit’s determination of what I’m burning. I have tried to find a place around here where I can get my metabolism checked, but thus far, no luck. The only places I can find are weight-loss clinics who want you to join their program.

Sleep has been very good.

Water has been pretty good, considering it is winter. Most days at 96 ounces.

Steps need improvement. In my defense, on Saturday I did a lot of repair work in the house which required me getting down on the floor and up again about a million times (it seemed), which didn’t get me many steps but left me exhausted. Sunday was a concert and then football playoffs ... and, um ... yeah, no walking.

I switched out my regular Ranch dressing for a dairy-free homemade kinda-ranch dressing on Thursday (I think it was). Is that what helped the scale move? Just coincidence? I don’t know. Gonna stick with the dairy free for a while and see how it goes.  I am now 100% dairy-free except for butter, which honestly has very little in the way of lactose in it.

I still have a doctor’s appointment later this week for a checkup and to get some blood tests done to check my thyroid. If she seems the least bit competent, I’ll ask her if she knows of anywhere to get my metabolism checked.

Now I’m holding my breath, hoping the progress continues.

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