Exercise, Nutrition, WLS & Cooking Q&A - 1/10/2014

Today is the end of an era for me. I am closing a company I have run for the past 8 years and moving on to a new job starting Monday. Needless to say I am stressed out to the MAX today! Anyway I thought this might be a good distraction for me today. So if you have any questions about Exercise, Nutrition, WLS, or Cooking fire away.

good luck on your next adventure

                    I'd like to start adding weights to my workouts. So far I'm just doing cardio. Have you come across anything that would spell it out for beginners. I am completely clueless on strength training. I'm considering the gym/trainer route, but would prefer to do it at home. Any insight?

Also, the pyloric valve.  Dense protein is supposed to cause it to stay closed thus keeping the food in our stomachs longer.  But if you are chewing your dense protein to a near liquid consistency, could it be assumed that it will empty quicker? I hope that is not a dumb question! I have read several post on this subject, and have some understanding of it, but have always wondered.

BodyBuilding.com is a great resource for well just about everything, but specifically workouts. For women, I really like Jamie Eason and she has an approach for starting out in the gym, check it out, sounded pretty good to me:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/jamie-easons-gym-guide.html

You can also always ask me for specific workouts or if you PM me I will be happy to put something together for you to get you started.

They pyloric valve doesn't stay open it opens and closes sort of like a fish eating. it opens to let a small amount of food through about 1mm or less. Anything bigger than that gets refluxed to break it down more. Think of chewing to liquid more like filling a class with water versus filling it with ice. If you fill a glass with big chunks of ice there is lots of air between the shapes and edges. You can fill a class with ice and it might really only take up half or less of the volume with the substance that matters, so the more you can fill it with nutrition the healthier it is for you and by the way if it is really full and not half full of air, you will be more satisfied for longer. No matter how you chew it takes a VSG patient 30-45 to process what is in their stomach where as pre-VSG it was more like 45 to 90 mins. Its not that it will empty quicker it has the same amount of work to do, it just that every little bit that goes through is nutrition and not air or regurge.

Good luck with your new job!!  How does Atkins bars hold up to Quest bars.  Are there any other brand of protein bars that are close to the same nutrition AND taste as Quest?

Taste wise they don't. Quest Bars hands down taste the best given their low carb, high fiber profile. I am not crazy about the Atkins bars and they have a lot of sugar alcohols in them. I don't have any problem with sugar alcohols but some people do.  I do like dome of the Atkins endulge bars like the coconut one, but use them as an occasional treat. VPX makes a line of bars that nutritionally are similar to quest bars but taste wise fall far short. I have tried a couple of times to make my own bars which taste better but come out higher calorie. 

Thanks!!

Hi Keith!

Change is HARD..  But I wish you all the best with your new position!

My question is basic, but I've had a complete block....  I'm getting really nauseous during my workouts.  What's a good time frame for eating before your work out?  I know that eating immediately after is good but should you go without eating and just plan on a post-workout breakfast?

Thanks,

Elisa

If you are eating solid food, at least an hour, a shake you can probably go as low as 30 mins but you want it to get processed before you work out. I ALWAYS eat before a workout and its usually a protein shake about an hour before my workout. I also eat within an hour after.

Thanks for your response Keith!  Don't know why I didn't see this before!  Hope all is going well with your new venture!

Finally feeling better!  Can't wait to get back on track with exercise!

Elisa