Posted on January 7th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Diet, Social aspects |
This is a cross post with my other blog, Uncommon Cents:
As those of you who read Uncommon Cents know well, I’m frugal; for those of you who read Athletic Diabetic know well, I’m trying hard to keep my weight down, my blood sugar down, and my conditioning up. So one of the intersections of these is with food and eating out.
McDonalds is not exactly a healthy place to eat by reputation. What they are known for is fast food, and at least some of the time, cheap food on their dollar menu. I went there recently and discovered their side salad is a regular there.
This is a pretty deceptive picture in my estimation.
These salads are tiny. They also don’t provide a whole lot of anything as far as nutrition goes: 20 calories, 1 gram of fiber, 2 grams of sugar, 4 grams of carbohydrates total, and 1 gram of protein. I often have two of them.
I sometimes combine these with a McDouble, basically two hamburger patties with some mustard, ketchup, onions, and pickles–but without the bread. That makes it tough to figure out the actual nutritional value, because by getting rid of the bread I get rid of the vast majority of the carbohydrates, but I can’t find any chart telling me how much of the nutritional information on the McDouble is because of the bread. I can tell you, however, that it does very little to boost my blood sugar without the bread.
It’s hard to say how healthy all of this is, even though I can say it meets the definition of inexpensive. All I really have to measure by are nutritional charts that are incomplete (or maybe too complete) and my own blood sugar. But judging by the latter, the combination of a side salad (or two) and a McDouble don’t seem to make my blood sugar jump, and for that–and the small impact on my wallet–I am grateful.
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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Bicycling, Running, Training |
I’m feeling winded, but not really sore. I really believe this training program I’m currently on for running–which, while my secondary athletic endeavor, has taken a front seat due to the fact that I have three running events coming up within the next seven weeks–is working. That fascinates me, because I’ve been such a struggling […]
Posted on January 2nd, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Organized events, Running, Training |
I haven’t discussed it much at all but one of the big events of the year for me is the Great Aloha Run. It’s one of the largest athletic events of the year in Hawai’i, and while it’s not up there in prestige or challenge with the Honolulu Marathon, it’s a great time for many […]
Posted on January 1st, 2010 by ryan
Filed under Administration, Bicycling, Motivation, Organized events, Personal, Running |
Yes, I’m still (mostly) on a holiday hiatus–and unlike my other blogs, this blog is never a weekend poster–but as a follow up to yesterday’s post about my entering the Livestrong Challenge in Philadelphia, I have to say that I am grateful, honored, humbled, and awed by the response. Within the first 24 hours of […]
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by ryan
Filed under Bicycling, Organized events |
Well, it’s not totally hiatus time, but posts are infrequent, however, I would just like to say I officially registered for Livestrong Challenge Philadelphia today. My personal fundraising page is at: http://philly2010.livestrong.org/rsuenaga Please support me in riding this event! I’m going a long way to do a century, and I’d like to make it special […]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under Running, Social aspects, Training |
As I continue to experiment with heart rate training (my current bit of reading is the Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot), I am finding that my initial reaction to training with the monitor is common–that I feel like I’m going too slowly when I do my “easy” days. What I’ve noticed, three weeks […]
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under Bicycling, Running, Social aspects |
I’m working really hard and hoping that I’m learning something. I’m on an ambitious workout schedule and I’m seriously watching my diet; in fact, I’m also testing my sugars before and after meals as I try to figure out what will raise my sugars and what won’t. I usually run four days a week now: […]
Posted on December 24th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under Administration |
Posts will be sporadic over the next couple of weeks as the holidays are upon us. Wishing everyone the best!
Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by ryan
Filed under Exercise, Running |
Using Google Maps while I find a reasonable way to measure my running distances and speeds, here’s some of my current routes: This is the three mile out and back route that my running partner (who I guess will be known here as Twitterless E) do two times a week (supposed to be three times […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by ryan
Filed under Diet, Exercise, Medical care, Motivation |
I’m a little worried. While my training has been going well–maybe better than ever as far as running goes–I’m still not feeling 100% myself. I’ve had a cold and the cough that it produced is still hanging around. And I went to take labs for the first time in awhile this morning and my fasting […]