John V

Tues am 210.9#, 62.2#bf (29.5%), 51.4% water, 7.4% bone

Hip hurt a little yesterday, better today. incline db press 21#x12x2 flat db flys 21#x12x2 1 arm db rows 21#x12x2 bb curls 55#x12x2 db kickback 17#x12x1 stand mil press 45#x12x2

Forgot to post my 1st lifting session from 2 days ago. (Thurs) incline bench press 75#x10,x8,x8 incline db flys 18#x12x3 ribcage extensions 18#x10x2 clean & press 75#x1 standing military press 55#x10,x8,x6 db curls/rev 18#x13x3 Today's lifting left me helpless to resist a little run, 1 mile in 10 mins. 50 yd. strides 2x in lap 4 and a 5th cool down lap. Stretches before and more after, 20 slow and 20 faster bicycle crunches. My hip wasn't silent about the event and seems a tad resentful right now. I couldn't wait to run one more day.

My trainer Karl put me on this easy starting program: Incline DB press 18#x12x2 Flat db flies 18#x12x2 1 arm db rows 18#x12x2 bb curls 55x12x2 db tricep kickback 11x12x1 standing military press 35x10x1

Received a Weight Watchers Conair scale for my birthday. This morning it read: 207.9 lbs, 60 lbs bf (28.9%), water 51.8%, bone 7.4%

Thank you very much for the BD wishes. I think my sisters are getting me the scale I covet, with fat/water/bone %. My daughter bought me a Whole Foods card. (She knows me best)

Thanks Pamela. I don't have a reason to not do yoga or weight train, though. I should at least be working on my cascading gut!

Tomorrow will again be a week since I ran. The hip isn't healed. I've been eating more late at night. I'm over my eyeballs in work to do. Tomorrow I turn 49!

The chiro canceled yesterday. I didn't run and the hip is getting better. I may not try until I'm close to 100%.

Glad to see your walks. Keep it up! Ever eat sprouts?

Ouch. A proper diagnosis can be most helpful. Feel better soon.

The hip is complaining about yesterday's run. I'm going to the chiro tomorrow and will probably skip my scheduled run. I need to be DONE with this hip thing and may take a few days to do that if needed.

Ran 2 mls in 22 min, slowing as much as I could to try and keep the HR under 160. The hip only protested for the first half lap. Yesterday I barely noticed the hip injury. Enjoyed a ninth "victory lap" walk to cool down, then did maybe 10 min of stretches. Did a few minutes of stretches before the run too.

Hip resented the run a little, but not too bad. Added Triphala to my daily regime, a standard Ayurvedic herbal powdered mix. ("3 fruits") Thanks for the support folks, which has been important to my getting off to a good start.

Sending you positive vibes to support your efforts. It takes lifetimes to create our life habits, so I'm not surprised when it takes me a while to "turn this big boat around." Your going to see lasting results from lasting practices.

You'll be making great progress soon if you keep up a schedule like this. Good work!

Ran two miles but forgot to check the time before I started. I kept a good pace and stayed in the 160s HR range, slowing to walk a few steps when I'd slip over 170. I felt strong getting started and the hip only protested a tiny bit in the beginning. I enjoyed a couple of Sun salutations as a warm up and loved a walking lap after jogging 8. It felt like a "reward." I ran a couple of 50 yd strides on the 8th lap, which put me over 170 HR. I increased the time stretching, after the cool down walk, which felt great. I'm going to hang out at 2 miles until my hip is fully recovered. We delivered 1800 lbs of groceries to 120 apartments yesterday, with no a.c., so I sweat my clothes soaked for a couple of hours. It was certainly exercise. My diet is great, with decreased calories.

It's been almost a week since I ran, but, my diet is excellent, the hip is improving, and I have tons of cases of groceries to move, stacking and unstacking, then 120 deliveries tomorrow. Enjoy your lunacy this full moon!

My chiropractor adjusted the hip and spine and I felt immediate relief. I think I'll be running again in a couple of days. Next week I'll visit her again. I dropped 5 lbs this week. When I stopped running after my shin splint injury I also lost five pounds quickly. Were it not for cleaning up my diet, running would increase my weight! In livestock terms, many Lithuanians are "good keepers." (hold weight easily, anabolic tendency) So, I'm down 20 lbs since April. Since I will have taken off a week if I start running again Saturday and I took off 6 weeks for the shin splint, I've moved my goal of 85kg to 7 weeks past my birthday, into late September.

Reader, you and I are both liberated from my daily food lists. Here are crucial things my log did and did not reveal. During the day I need to eat more food, more frequently and at night I need to cut off solid food by 8pm. I need to reduce wheat flour and bread in particular. Vegetables need to be dramatically increased, including sprouts. I need less bananas and more temperate zone fruits. I need less cooking oil and salt. Portions of some items need to be drastically reduced. (I'm talking to you potatoes!) Today I took still another day off from running, because of this left hip thing. Tomorrow I'm going to the chiropractor about it. I think it's getting better, but tomorrow I know it will be mending correctly. I realized from a little reading on running, that my problems so far have come from pushing it a bit too hard for my present condition. I took a long while declining in athleticism, I know now that I need to take a little time to get restarted. A long term, sustainable habit is my goal and injuries can take the wind out of my sails. My cardiopulmonary system survived a little overtraining, but 1st my shin, and now my hip has not. I consider them warning shots over the bow.

Healing vibes to you. I have to take a short rest and heal up a bit now also. You'll be 101% soon.

Another day off from running, as my hip is worse than I knew and I don't feel I should ignore it any longer. Running with moderate/low pain again proved counterproductive for me, as it was when I got the shin splint in April. The bump on the shin, where I understand tendons reattached them selves, has been painless and slowly disappearing for a couple of months. This hip thing has got me hobbling a bit now as I try and work carrying a load or when I get up from bed, etc. I don't want to lose the time I did on the shin splint with this, so I'm going to stop running for a short while. Yesterday I finished eating with ryekrisp, nayonaise, vegan cheese. This morning I had ww/pb/ban and chai for breakfast with the multi and later psylium. I had a masala burger for lunch and ww/vegan cheese/nayonaise/mung sprouts later with more chai.

Took the day off from my scheduled running to allow my hip to recover, which isn't very bad, but has been warning me for several runs. I read a lot of The Complete Idiots Guide to Running by Bill Rogers. Yesterday I had alf sprout/onion/mustard/ww sandwich, black bean soup, potato-yam homefries, 1/2 a stout, 1 dr Weir bar, a lot of greasy, salty home made tortilla chips and salsa. Today I had choclate chai and psylium in the morning, then an ear of steamed corn and broccoli w/marg, 1/2 a pack of gimelean sausage, a big salad of homegrown lettuce, mung sprouts, carrots, o/v.

Congratulations on your amazing juice journey.

Rye/alf o/v sandwich, OJ, 4 tofurky kielbasa w/cabbage yesterday. Chai, ww/almond butter, multi so far today. I'm wondering if I'll need to rest an extra day tomorrow, so I can heal up. I've had an increasing problem with the left inner hip/pelvis this week and feel old getting up from not moving for a while. I need more stretches!