Re-reading Fit Or Fat, Covert Bailey (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977). Basic overview of diet, nutrition, exercise physiology. These days I can supplement the reading with a "gloss" from online sources. So I know what "lignin" is chemically, and where it's found. We looked up olive oil.
1977, some of this information is "trendy" -- people were running and carbohydrate loading in 1977. Bailey suggests a low fat, balanced diet w/ complex carbs, "whole foods" (fruits/veggies) and fish/poultry as protein sources -- without going overboard on "high protein" diets.
One thing he suggests, and I need to refine, is having several meals during the day rather than the smoothie in the morning, meal in the evening and "snacking" on peanuts, apples, pickles into the night. Savory scone at 3 Cups is one option. I should pack along a sandwich or some fruit for during the day, haul out the lunch bag.
Aerobic exercise: Bailey recommends 80% capacity heart rate. My max. heart rate is about 160, and I shoot for 120 bpm in aerobic exercise (75%). 120 bpm is difficult to attain on a spin cycle. The heart rate monitor next time out on the road would tell me what I'm doing going up the hills. 80% is appropriate for a 25 yr. old. I think it's a bit severe for a 62 yr. old. (Bailey provides a "heart patient" rate -- and I am in some sense, high cholesterol, blood pressure.)
Pedometer is on its way.
Ohhhhhhh yeah, I was 231.8 lbs and 43% this morning! 231 on the scale is a new number. I'm feeling pretty euphoric!
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