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If you get a chance, check out Spark by John J. Ratey. If BN has samples, the beginning is enough to "spark" your interest and gives you a sample of how phys ed before a child's hardest class has changed how kids learn in Naperville, IL. With that in mind, I have found that I comprehend better and more thoroughly if I read during or after I've gotten my body moving. When I read on the StairMaster, I don't go at high pace, slower, steadier and longer.
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That's interesting. I haven't noticed a difference myself in how well I comprehend before and after exercise. But then again, I've not paid that much attention to it and now I'll try and notice if there's a difference.
Because of my ankle and foot issues, I usually can't do machines for slow, steady and long. I can only do short sessions, so I tend to do a bit more intensity, which is partly why reading on the machines doesn't work as well for me as music does.
I do my slow, steady and long in the pool... but I use my arms there. No way to hold a reader in front of your face while doing crawl or breast stroke or even water jogging where you are pumping your arms or otherwise stroking with them!
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Gracyn, I'm sure you already know this but being hungry can work against weight loss. I did the Atkins' diet years ago, and it completely changed my life. The first thing I noticed is that I was never hungry and had to cut back on coffee because I had so much energy that I no longer needed the coffee and it just made me jittery. Of course, I love the taste of it, so I eased it back into my diet. I was against low carb/high protein & fat for so long, but after hour long sessions on the StairMonster and still feeling like if I miss a single workout, I'll gain 10 lbs., I finally got desperate and looked into. It was one of the absolute best gifts I've ever given myself. Plus, now when I eat a 20 oz rib eye with cheese and butter, I no longer feel guilty. I realised that I actually feel really good and never sluggish after a high protein and fat meal.
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I think it's an each to his own. I've tried lower carb for a while now, not super low carb, though I've done that too. Just didn't work. Weight loss was slow. I was hungry all the time, but also extremely low energy. Low carb would just get me craving fats like crazy... but eating more fat just made weight loss even slower. I do know that low carb works well for some, it just didn't do it for me. I'm not doing low fat either though! Just basic balance.
When I went to moderate carbs from mostly fruit and veggies, I found I was still too hungry and too low energy. I need *some* starchy & sugary carbs and have actually increased the carbs a little the last couple weeks and noticed that I feel better overall with the same deficit.
And the weight loss is staying good! 1.6 pounds last week, 1.6 pounds this week! 7.2 pounds for the month!
Hunger wasn't quite as bad this week... I kind of aim for light hunger, and if it gets too bad, then I eat something. Same for headaches... light headache OK, bad headache signals I need to eat more.