Day Forty-Nine
After weighing and measuring this morning I started my new jump rope routine, or at least I tried to. Man, this has been really rough so far. I had intended on jumping for 30 seconds and resting for 60 seconds, then repeating this for ten minutes. After five rounds, or about 7.5 minutes, I was done for. My legs were like jelly. I guess a good side effect though was a comment made by my wife while watching me. She said, “Man, you can really see the muscle definition in your legs!” I tell you, there are not many better ways to make me feel better than that. Now to get that same kind of look all over.
Edit: In addition to my morning walk, my wife and I walked 3/4 of a mile this evening.
My South Beach Diet meal journal for the day is as follows:
- Breakfast – Three scrambled eggs, three turkey bacon, two small cut up peppers, twleve cherry tomatoes, 1/4 cup of Exekiel 4:9 cereal with 1 cup of ff milk, and one cup of ff, plain yogurt mixed with Cherry, sf Jello powder. Hmmm, this sure sounds like a lot as I am reading it.
- Mid-morning snack – Nothing
- Lunch – A bowl and a half of leftover chili. I didn’t mention this yesterday, but this really turned out great. My wife basically took all the leftover beans for the week, added deer meat, homemade tomato sauce, and chili powder. This was some really good tasting chili.
- Mid-afternoon snack – An apple and three tablespoons of natural peanut butter.
- Supper – Three chicken breast strips, a large helping of white beans, and a large helping of broiled green beans. I was inspired to do this from a post on the South Beach Diet Message Boards. I didn’t follow the recipe closely though. I ended up putting a teaspoon of olive oil in a plastic bag and then mixed a variety of my favorite spices in the bag. Then I dumped a large helping of cleaned, cut, fresh green beans in the bag and mixed this around until it was well coated. Next, I broiled this in the oven until the green beans started to turn color. This was really good.
- Mid-evening snack – a small handful of popcorn and a bowl of cucumbers and onions in vinegar.
One thing I have been doing since I started this diet is taking an aspirin a day. I ran across an interesting article a few days ago that doesn’t change that for me, but may for others. It seems that Aspirin is better for men as a heart attack prevention method. It appears that some of the anomolies in previous Aspirin heart attack prevention studies may have been because both men and women were included in the study, indicating that aspirin may not have any benefit for women with regards to heart attack prevention. Studies that only concentrate on men find success.
In another study, that is no surprise to us South Beach Dieters, it was found that white bread and sugary cereals may lead to an increase in heart disease and diabetes. Oh really? You don’t say? I hate to have such sarcasm on this, but it amazes me that some people in the scientific community are just now realizing this. Lead autor Alan Barclay also stated that high GI foods raise blood glucose and insulin, lower good cholesterol, and raise triglycerides. It almost sounds like an ad for the South Beach Diet.
Hey! I know what you mean about having to contain your sarcasm with “discoveries” like that.
I worked in a residential home and one of the residents had type 1 diabetes and I would PERMANENTLY be arguing his diet and NOBODY believed me that it’s the processed flour etc that was assisting to his poor blood sugar control. They were so fixated on sugar that they couldn’t see anything else. The typical “well, it says diet on it therefore it must be okay” mentality. Gah.
Even the diabetes specialist nurse shot me down once for suggesting it – I was at a training day and asked her some questions based on SBD theory and she was very dismissive – so believe me some people really are stuck in the Dark Ages where glycaemic control knowledge is concerned.
Having said that, I don’t think she was all that competent as a diabetes nurse full stop… I can’t see how anyone’s blood sugar that fluctuates between the 70s and up to around 500 can be considered good glycaemic control in the slightest. It was probably even over at times, as the blood sugar machine would return a “hi” verdict which is when it’s reached it’s limit it can read to!
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It is stories like this that amaze me. My grandmother is in a nursing home and is borderline diabetic, but what do they give her with most every meal? Foods made with processed white flour. In my humble, opinion there is enough evidence to support the benefits of a diet void of processed white flour and sugar that it borders on medical malpractice to suggest those things are good for you. In all fairness, most people in the medical field are practicing as they were taught. I guess I should step down off my pedestal because I am not educated in this field and I don’t see everything they see, but it sure seems like there is a substantial amount of evidence supporting a diet similiar to the South Beach Diet.
I agree with your last comment though, she doesn’t have a very good grasp on the situation if her patients have blood sugar fluctuations like that.
Fortunately for me, my doctor’s husband has been on the South Beach Diet and she thinks it is ‘good for some people’. That is better than the typical response.
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I saw your link from the other site… Thanks for your encouragement. I read about your jumping rope plan… sounds cool… I am heading to the basement to give it a try! Good luck to you! I posted my LOOOONG 2 week menu on the other site… please let me know what you think. Thanks!
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Thanks for leaving a comment hope23. If you haven’t jumped rope before, get ready, it is much harder than I expected it to be. I’ll head over to the forums and check out your menu.
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