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April 27, 2008
Blog Break
Between the fact that I'm feeling remarkably awful but sick of listening to myself whine and that it's major crunch time between our annual assembly (statewide) and crunch time in Scranton, I think I'm going to have to take a blog break, if only for a few days. I am not dead. Thank you for your support.
I am reminded, these days, of a line from a Kate Bush song that was one of my favorites in high school. One night, after a particularly bad fight, a good friend left a note in my school mailbox (this was how we communicated back then, though notes, it was our pre-historic version of email, yes I am very old) that quoted, and the line is remarkably apt for a blog about CR:
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future.
Posted by april at April 27, 2008 9:30 AM
Comments
I know you're on a break, but I just saw this and thought you might find it interesting: http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/fitness_heart.html
Contrary to what many of the fat acceptance people say, healthy living might not be all that matters after all...
Posted by: Erin at April 29, 2008 10:18 AM
Hi, I have a question that I'm sure you've answered before so I apologize in advance... I know that in CR the integral factor is how many calories one consumes, period. I, however, am a runner and really need the extra calories to best perform. Let's say I'm consuming a net of 1,000 calories a day, but a gross of 1,500 (on a day I ran 5-6 miles, just as a numerical example). Would I still reap the longevity benefits of a CR diet or do I have to bite the bullet and choose between CR and running? I've tried to run while eating a gross of 1,000-1,200 a day and it's doable, but I don't perform nearly as well. I'm not good for much more than long-distance jogging that way, and I also end up nearly skeletal (literally) and freezing-cold all the time...
That question out of the way: feel better soon and keep on truckin'.
Posted by: Jackie Young at April 29, 2008 1:03 PM
Your readers will miss you but we quite understand! You really aren't SuperWoman! Love, MoMR
Posted by: Judith at April 29, 2008 6:13 PM
Hi April
Hope you get your needed rest. If I may suggest to Jackie, she can read the blogs of two CR practitioners who also are runners -
Andrea
http://www.tenacity.net/
and Illiah
http://cronfetti.blogspot.com/
Also Jackie can research the archives of the CR Society, where similar questions on CR in relationship to running have been discussed.
Cheers,
Arturo
Posted by: Arturo at April 29, 2008 8:52 PM
Take a break. LIVE LIFE. Come back ONLY when you really can't bear to be away any longer. We'll miss you.
Posted by: Lindsay at April 30, 2008 8:29 AM
Erin, if you cite the fat/fit study, don't forget this, from the article: "...expert Steven Blair, a leading proponent of the ''fit and fat'' theory, said the study is limited by relying on women's self-reporting their activity levels. That method is not as reliable as a more objective fitness evaluation including exercise treadmill tests, Blair said. These tests include heart-rate measures to see how the heart responds to and tolerates exercise. In Blair's research, overweight people deemed 'fit' by treadmill tests did not face increased risks of dying from heart disease."
Plus, what about smoking? There are scads of reasons that impact on this. So, don't get too excited over the study. It's still quite possible that people can be "fit but fat" (and also thin but unhealthy).
Posted by: FM at April 30, 2008 11:49 AM