Great! Thanks. Loved listening to the poet (poetess?) read her own work. Made me homesick for the South.

Thank you!
Kelly

Yes, you may use the photo of Mike’s Special in your post. In fact, you can use any of the photos on my blog as long as you give credit.

If you want a photo of me, I guess the best place to go would be my Twitter account. You can click on my little photo and enlarge it up to a pretty good sized one. You can then save it (it’s a jpg) and use.

It might, however, have led John Cloud to review his own exercise style and make his experience available to Time’s readers.

It uses Maximum effort training intensities which I suggest could be called Super, so that along with Sprint Interval Training (SIT), High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) we may end up with another acronym
Super High Intesity Interval Training (SHIIT).

I am currently applying the idea to my home rowing machine, but have yet not reached the goal of six training intervals per session.
Y’all have a nice time now.

I guess I’m still one of those who can’t get my mind around the idea that exercise can’t make you thin. I lost 130 lbs on Protein Power over 18 months while exercising 2-3 times every day (walking, biking, weights-slow burn). I still exercise once a day to maintain. The article from Time you linked said the subjects were told not to change their diet. In my case, I ate the same amount every day regardless of how much I exercised. I seem to have a minimum threshold of how much food makes me feel civilized. So holding food constant, the weight loss would correlate to the amount of exercise. I was on close to zero carbs so there was no such thing as stopping for a caramel latte and muffin.

The thing I really can’t wrap my mind around relating to this is that you’ve mentioned several times that it’s impossible to gain fat on zero carbs. You’ve had patients that at 5,000 calories on zero carbs and didn’t gain weight. So if it’s impossible to gain fat on zero carbs, then during a long exercise session, say a 2 hour walk, you’ll be using body fat for energy. Then afterwards, even if you gorge on meat, you won’t gain. So logically it would seem you would ratchet down, either losing or staying the same. Can you help me wrap my mind around that compared to the Time article and Gary Taubes’ articles?

My grandmother, a Depression-era Okie, called skim milk “blue john” and said it was only fit for “slopping hogs.”

Yep, my elderly relatives called it ‘blue john’ too. And wouldn’t drink it.

Did you ever come across this 2 minute clip where the late bodybuilding legend Mike Mentzer discusses nutrition. He advocated a diet high in carbs. He was a very intelligent man, but he may have missed the mark on this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KKzIAu-ms&feature=related

Mentzer died from cardiovascular disease, brought about perhaps by the excess carbohydrate in his diet and consequent insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia. Although neither one has been proven in the classical sense to cause heart disease, there is a much, much stronger correlation between even minimally elevated blood sugar (within what are considered normal limits) and elevated lipids.