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Becoming More Healthy by Eating Healthy Fats

November 24, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink, Weight

Healthy Fats and Non-Healthy Fats I am on a bend, trying to learn more about nutrition and healthy fats in particular. I am seriously trying to learn more about the role of fat in my diet. There is a lot to it. For most of my life, I lumped all of the different kinds of fat together -- things like belly fat, saturated fat, and Omega-3 fats.  Most of my eating plans would revolve around calorie counting. I have a better handle on it now, but I'm still learning about nutrition, macros (protein, carbohydrates and fat) and how to be more healthy as I work on maintaining my weight loss. Note: I am not a dietitian or nutritionist, just someone trying to sort it all out. Today is...

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How do YOU Measure Your Fitness_

How do YOU Measure Fit?

November 10, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Fitness, Sleep, Weight

How do most women over 50 measure fit? I am guessing that the first answer would be weight. Maybe stamina vs fatigue? As women in 2018, we have the opportunity to access so much information, it can be overwhelming and obsessive. Those who know their numbers may point to BMI or A1c or VO2Max. Or waist size or blood pressure. As I go deeper into focusing on fitness, strength and getting healthy, I've discovered that there are always new numbers and measurements to fine tune things. When I first started running/walking/jogging in 2009, I wanted to know how long it took me to go one lap around the track, one mile and a 5K. Those became numbers I worked toward improving. I hadn't even heard of VO2 Max and...

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Review of The Obesity Code

October 4, 2018
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Book Review, Weight

The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung, MD answers a lot of questions we've all had about both weight loss and weight gain. It's a well-written, easy-to-follow book that explains why so many of us are overweight or obese and why when we lose weight, we're likely to regain what we've lost. The Obesity Code begins with a look at the past few decades and how obesity has become an epidemic. Fung does a great job of explaining the science in terms that we can understand. I rarely felt like I needed to start skimming because I couldn't understand. Basically, according to Fung, we can pretty much pick a diet and we can work hard at losing weight and eventually we can...

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Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss and Health

September 20, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Weight

Everywhere I turn, I run into someone saying that intermittent fasting is the thing to be doing. I’d say it’s just a trend but a number of doctors and medical experts seem to be recommending some version of intermittent fasting. Intermittent Fasting is not a diet. It does not involve what you choose to eat but when you eat it. Most doctor’s and nutrition experts will recommend that if you’re going to try intermittent fasting, you should still eat in a healthy fashion. Don’t let the fasting make you think that stuffing yourself with cheese curls is a great way to break a fast. In The End of Alzheimer’s, Dr. Bredesen recommends an intermittent fasting plan. He suggests that you at least have a 12 hour window...

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Recording Your Body Measurements

September 13, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Motivation, Weight

Today I want to talk about the value of recording your body measurements. We’ve talked about weighing ourselves in this blog (To Weigh or Not to Weigh) and I think that’s a useful measurement to track. It’s certainly useful to know that your weight jumped five pounds in the past month. I gained some weight on my super-duper exciting summer of travel and now I’m trying to take it off. I went to the beach twice and on a ten-day visit to Italy and had a great time. There always comes that moment when you come home and jump on the scale. Sigh. Putting weight on is so much easier than taking it off. It doesn’t seem fair, but I guess it’s also a lot more fun...

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Maintain Weight Loss and Health Through Food with Karen Parrott

August 28, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Podcast, Weight

Episode #16 of Becoming Elli – Fit, Strong Women Over 50 Podcast: Download | Play in New Window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts  (iTunes) | Google Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Stitcher | Player FM | Castbox | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In today’s podcast, we talk with Karen Parrott, a popular blogger who writes about her weight loss journey and how to maintain weight loss. You can find her blog at Garden Girl, Weight Maintenance and Food Sobriety by abstaining from sugars, grains (NSNG) using a Paleo, LCHF, modified AIP, mild Ketogenic food template with a Primal Blueprint lifestyle. If you’re wondering what exactly all that means, we get Karen to define this and describe her way of eating in more detail. How Karen Lost Weight Karen Parrott is a 52 year old Licensed Medical Technologist living in Carlsbad, CA. She began gaining excess weight as a child and struggled with...

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Counting Calories

Counting Calories or Eat Less and Move More

July 12, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Weight

If you want to lose weight and you start to look around on the Internet for information on the best way to do so, you’re going to find countless different diets and methods of weight loss. There’s way more than I can discuss in a blog post, but I thought I could pick a few and write different posts about them. So today, let’s discuss counting calories. This is the type of dieting that most of us have been familiar with since we were teenagers: you count calories and eat fewer calories per day or week than you burn. This is not a new idea by any means. We all learned about this kind of diet and probably have tried numerous times. If you’re very diligent about...

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Race Recap of the 2018 Cleveland Half Marathon

June 12, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Half Marathon, Podcast, Races, Weight

Becoming Elli Podcast Episode Number 11 Podcast: Download | Play in New Window Subscribe: Apple (iTunes) Podcasts | Android-Google Play | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify | RSS In Podcast #11 of Becoming Elli, Jill and Chris share their experiences with the Cleveland Half Marathon. Running 13.1 miles with less training than they would have liked, Jill and Chris found that changing expectations made for a fun event. Listen today to hear about: * Expo * Parking * Expectations and attitude * Weather and what to wear * Running the 13.1 mile course through downtown past the stadiums, into the Flats, up into Tremont, past Ohio City, down through Gordon Square and finishing in Public Square * The food and the medal * Fun in the Beer Garden and listening to live music [caption id="attachment_1458" align="aligncenter" width="945"]...

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marathon of maintaining a weight loss

The Marathon of Maintaining a Weight Loss

June 2, 2018
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Fit and Strong, Motivation, Weight

After gaining weight following a fateful Girl Scout Camp weekend in the mud (injuring both of my Achilles tendons,) I realized I had to get back in shape or I'd continue to gain. In October 2007, I began eating better. Then I started exercising. Slowly the weight came off and I got more fit. In July 2012, I hit my goal weight, then went a little lower as a buffer zone. I lost 70 pounds and for the most part have kept it off - with a few ups (in the winter) and downs (in the summer.) Right now, at the beginning of summer 2018, I'm about 10 pounds over my goal weight, but am feeling strong and fit from I gaining muscle. Because I've been...

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Becoming Elli is for women over the age of 50 who are focused on healthy living and getting fit. We discuss fitness, nutrition, and ways to age gracefully. Our mission is the same as our podcast: to become (and stay) Fit Strong Women Over 50.

Chris Brown & Jill McCauslin

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