Getting Exercised About Exercise

January 11, 2004

interesting article... IIRC, it offers more evidence to one of Christie's recent

posts giving 3 examples of people [incl. herself] who managed significant weight

loss without added exercise, just doing Atkins.

..... " The underlying belief is that being " in shape " means being thin and no one

would be fat if everyone exercised. For consumers, the take home message is that

the whole point of exercise is to be thin. In fact, we're admonished everyday to

exercise to lose weight.... Trouble is, exercise - as necessary as it is for us

-- won't make us thin.... "

Dedy

January 11, 2004

Here's my experience with that one....when I was in my 30s I

training and running marathons. AND if I didn't watch what I was

eating GAINING weight on a dime. Now this is running 10-15 miles for

the most part daily for months. It wasn't muscle, it was fat

depositing itself right onto women's fat loving areas..thighs, hips

and breasts. At the time I didn't know a thing about high/low carb

diets so I was doing what was recommended ...carb loading..this was

15 years ago. I couldn't figure it out, so I would just starve

myself, run 20 miles then have the shakes when I finally got home.

Can you spell stupid but I had no idea about high fat/protien just

lots about eating vegetarian.

I also gained weight once hiking on the Pacific Crest trail for two

weeks. No one would believe that my pants were getting tight in the

waist the longer we hiked! We were eating tons of carbs, all the

stuff that was easily carried on our backs. The guys I was with lost

so much wieght it hurt thier butts to sit on rocks for too long...go

figure...I have a woman's very, very effecient carb keeping

metabolism.

I've also talked to women who said they gained weight while hiking

the entire Appalacian Trail.

Lynn

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