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Food Baby SOS: Why HIIT is the Best Post-Buffet Fix
By Joie Goh
The holiday season is gone, and so will your post-potluck bloat.
“I’ll go for a jog tomorrow.”
How many times have you heard someone (or yourself) say this after a big, indulgent meal? It certainly feels great to put on your sneakers and hit the pavement the day after being stuffed to the gills, not only physically but also mentally. Because hey, you’re burning all those extra calories, right?
While jogging is one way to expend extra energy, it’s not the most efficient. Instead, opt for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)! Here’s why:
What Happens After You Eat
Before we go into all that, it’s important to understand what exactly goes on in your body after eating that big meal. Forget that old cliche “a moment on the lips, forever on the hips”. Fat storage doesn’t happen that way! Whatever you eat does not go straight to your butt, thighs or belly, but is broken down into different components during digestion in the gastrointestinal tract.
Simply put, excess energy from carbohydrate intake is converted into glycogen and stored in the liver and muscles. However, your body can only store a limited amount of glycogen. Once the liver is full of glycogen, the body will then turn excess carbs into fat for storing.
Burn That Glycogen
In theory, the answer to preventing fat storage is simple: just use up all that glycogen before the liver gets maxed out! However, simple ain’t easy.
When you start exercising, the body goes through several stages of utilizing stored energy. In the first 10 seconds, your body utilizes the phosphagen system to “fire up” the body. After the 10 second mark and up to 2 minutes, the body then switches to the anaerobic system, which taps into the glycogen stores to fuel the activity.
However, in the case of Low Intensity Steady State (LISS) cardio like jogging, cycling or swimming, a third system is used. The aerobic system takes over when activity is sustained beyond 2 minutes.
Instead of stored glycogen, the energy transfer from fat to muscle uses oxygen. Sounds brilliant? Not entirely. The body adapts incredibly quickly to become more aerobically efficient. Meaning, you’d have to jog longer, harder or faster each time to reap the fat burning benefits.
Enter HIIT
So, to get rid of all that excess glycogen before the body starts turning it into fat, you have to stay within the anaerobic zone. That’s where HIIT comes in. Short bursts of intense activity within the 10 second to 2 minute mark, followed by a short moment of rest, continually trigger the body to dip into its glycogen stores instead of switching to oxygen. When glycogen is used up, the body won’t have to convert excess carbs into fat.
Voila, food baby crisis averted!
An added benefit of HIIT is that it also increases the body’s metabolism due to its “afterburn” effect. You’re in a heightened state of fat burning for several hours, even after your workout. What better way to use up all that extra fuel from that big blowout party over the holidays?
'The Keto Diet And HIIT Workouts Helped Me Lose 85 Pounds'
My name is Sarah Ellison (@sarahelizabeththeII), and I am 24 years old.
I live in El Paso, Texas, and I am a full-time caretaker of my child with special needs. When I was diagnosed with kidney disease and endometriosis, I decided to adopt a healthier lifestyle by starting with the keto diet and doing HIIT and yoga. These changes helped me lose 85 pounds.
As a teenager, I played sports and had muscle. And I managed to stay healthy through my teens and my early years of marriage at 20. But then I got pregnant with my first child at 21.
Pregnancy cravings quickly turned into binge eating disorder and, after the baby was born, I was bigger than I’d ever been in my whole life. I was taking care of a special needs child while my husband was away in the military, and I couldn’t find the mental strength to lose the weight. At age 21, I reached 221 pounds.
I also had a lot of health problems that weren’t caused by my weight, but were exacerbated by it. Once my son was born, my kidney and liver went into serious decline.
At 22, I was diagnosed with kidney disease.
I was also diagnosed with endometriosis. My doctor sat me down and said, “If you don’t start eating healthy and get some of this weight off, we aren’t going to be able to manage your diseases as easily—and you will be taking years off your life.” My second child had just been born, and those words shook me.
My turning point came in that doctor's office with the ultimatum of life and death in front of me—and my children in my arms. I had to do better. I had to start taking care of myself, so I could be around to take care of my kids.
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At first, I tried keto. It worked well for me for a while until my health issues began to clash with it.It was extremely hard going from binge eating to keto. I had to pretty much cut out everything. It was hard to move to a 1,500-calorie diet as well.
Not only did I have to really focus on the nutritional value of what I was putting in my body, but I had to retrain my brain to see food as fuel and not an enemy.
I had managed to lose about 60 pounds in six months, but my doctor advised me to add more food and calories to my diet, so that's what I did.
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Here’s what I eat in a day now.- Breakfast: An omelet with cheese and ham, or oatmeal with Greek yogurt. (Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day!)
- Lunch: Grilled chicken with bell peppers, black beans, or white rice.
- Snacks: Either extra-protein peanut butter, or avocado on toast.
- Dinner: A grilled turkey sandwich on whole wheat with a side of spinach or cabbage.
- Dessert: A protein shake. I have a Fruity Pebbles one that I don’t add anything to.
But if I get vanilla, I throw some fruit in.
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When I was doing the keto diet, I didn’t exercise at all. I implemented exercise when I upped my calories.I was seeing the results I wanted to and I didn’t think I had the time to work out. But when I stopped keto about four months ago and switched to a higher-calorie diet, I knew I needed to supplement with exercise.
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As soon as I did start exercising, I fell in love! I started with light Pilates and yoga but quickly moved to HIIT (high-intensity interval training). It makes me feel good and fits perfectly into my busy schedule! I started by mimicking the routines of super fit women I’d see on Instagram, and now I feel confident creating my own.
These three changes made my weight loss journey a success.
- I accepted that I had to take care of myself. I had to accept that to take care of those around me, I had to put myself and my health on the pedestal. By focusing on me, I’ve been able to extend my life and heal parts of my body that I was told would keep me in pain my entire life.
- I accepted that food is fuel, not the enemy! I learned this lesson from My 600-Lb. Life, and it’s stuck with me through my entire journey. If you live your life miserable with your restrictions, then you need to change your methods because your mental health is just as important as your physical health in this journey. As someone with multiple chronic illnesses, I can vouch for the fact that bodies do an extreme amount of constant work to keep us functioning. Giving our body what it needs and what it deserves to thrive is so important.
- Don’t live, breathe, or eat to see number on a scale. With keto, I was counting every little half-pound that I shed on my bathroom scale.
Scales are inaccurate, and I can attest to the fact that my greatest weight loss successes came after I threw mine away! I began looking for the change and having faith that I knew I was making progress with my body.
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I have lost a total of 85 pounds.I think it’s so important to remember that our bodies are so amazing! They do every single function for us, voluntary and involuntary. We have to put that same love, respect, and work back into it. I didn’t just get my confidence back—I literally got years of my life back.
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"It's show business, baby!" - Cheggy - LiveJournal
In our musical-cynical radio show “Mimonot”, Sasha Ratmansky and I got into the habit of entertaining ourselves and our listeners with a funny attraction. They send us a date of birth, we look for a song on the Billboard website that on that day of such and such a year occupied the first line of their Billboard hit parade.
Be sure to put it on the air and already on the go, if the song is unfamiliar, we are looking for information on it. And sometimes amazing stories come up. Here's one I want to share with you...
February 1965 song by Gary Lewis and The Playboys - This Diamond Ring.
Brief history of the song.
There was a guy in Los Angeles named Gary. His father is the famous comedian Jerry Lewis in those days.
So 18-year-old Gary and his buddies decided to play guitars in their garage. To be more precise, Gary sat behind the drums and sometimes sang something along the microphone. Called "Playboys" for fun. (Gary and The Playboys). We rehearsed some kind of repertoire and went to get a job at the local Disneyland.
Gary's mother, Patty Palmer Lewis, was a singer in the successful Ted Fio Rito band. She supported her son in every possible way, bought the guys equipment and was generally their main sponsor, while Jerry's dad so far put a bolt on his son's hobbies.
At the very case for the tonsils. Show business, sons.
I note for the mood that my mother named Gary after her favorite actor Cary Grant (Cary Grant), but someone at the local maternity hospital got it wrong and wrote him in as Gary.
In short, our Gary got a job with his "playboys" to play music on the weekends at Disneyland. According to legend, Gary did not tell anyone that he was the son of that same Jerry Lewis, and just went and got a job.
"On your own?" - you will be surprised.
“Sam!” - admiringly asserts the official biography.
But soon the conductor of the Disneyland Orchestra Les Brown, who knew our hero's father, Jerry Lewis well (cough-cough-cough), called the producer Snuff Garrett (Snuff Garret), who lived in Los Angeles on the same street as the Lewises (cough -cough-cough), pay attention to the guys.
Garrett, with his experienced producer's nose, sniffed out that the name of Lewis can be easily cut down bubbles.
The first thing he did was put the last name Lewis in the name of the group - Gary Lewis & The Playboys.
"Don't be shy, son! It's show business."
Then, with money from Patty's mom, they ordered a hit,
called The Diamond Ring, from songwriters Al Cooper and Irvine Levine. The song was written in the then fashionable style of British Invasion - that is, under the Beatles, Rolling Stones and "Gary and The Peacemakers" - the very one whose You'll never Walk Alone - is sung by Liverpool fans.
Licked mostly from the Beatles' "Please Please Me" and "Do You Want To Know The Secret".
Came to the studio to record.
And here, attention, focus! Our Gary didn't really know how to sing, as it turned out in the studio, drumming in general, too. The musicians of the band were also so-so labukhs, and our producer Snuff Garrett actually had plans to cut down the dough in an easy way .... In short, all the instruments were recorded by the session group The Wrecking Crew. (With the money of Patty's mother, of course).
The lead vocals were recorded by session vocalist Ron Hicklin (Ron Hicklin - by the way, he had such anonymous sessions in those days on stream).
No one was told about Ron. Ron was anonymous for a long time.
But the voice of our Gary Lewis, for decency, was recorded on a couple of tracks.
“Himself???”
“Sam!”
Then producer Garret, using the connections of father Jerry Lewis, dragged the group to the famous Ed Sullivan Show. (The Ed Sullivan Show). But here, as it were, a snag, Ed Sullivan has a strict rule - to play and sing live. No "plywood". And the guys, as we remember, can neither play nor sing properly.
“A few words!” - in the spirit of Karachentsev in the film "The Man from the Boulevard des Capucines" Ed was recalled to the corridor, and oh, a miracle - "all Jews have Saturday, and I have Thursday."
Gary Lewis and The Playboys play to the veneer, but for the sake of propriety, Gary sings something into the microphone over the "phonogram".
What is the result?
February 20, the song takes the first line of the Billboard hit parade, stays there for a week.
By April - sold 1 million copies and acquired the status of a gold disc. Old Garrett with his friend Ed Sullivan, smiling slyly, smoke hundred-dollar bills.
And our hero Gary Lewis gets the title of "Singer of the Year" according to CashBox magazine, having beaten Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
It's show business, baby!
Things like that.
Listen to us every Friday on Radio Russian Advertising program "Mimonot" from 5 to 7 pm NY or from 1 am to 3 am Moscow time. The site has an archive. https://radio.rusrek.com/
This is Peter Dostoyevsky, baby! - Journal on Nevsky
"Give this envelope to Dostoevsky, please." - "To whom???" - “Here is the fee for his publication in the journal “ On Nevsky ” ”... Of course, if you come to the Dostoevsky Museum and ask to give him money, you may be mistaken for a city madwoman. Although, in fact, it seems to many that we are still living in Dostoevsky's Petersburg, who was born exactly 200 years ago.
Text: Svetlana Mazur
In fact, the museum did not immediately understand that the envelope was intended for Dmitry Andreevich Dostoevsky, the great-grandson of the writer. He wrote an article for our magazine, and asked to bring the fee to the last apartment of his great-grandfather, in Kuznechny Lane. This is one of the addresses of Dostoevsky's Petersburg.
During the time of the writer, capitalism invaded the capital: “as if they had jumped off the roots, as if the floor had slipped out from under everyone’s feet,” says Possessed. Near the palaces there are mansions of merchants and entrepreneurs. And Dostoevsky's Petersburg is a city of the middle and lower classes. It is inhabited not only by ordinary people, but also by the intelligentsia, who found themselves in a difficult situation, and impoverished nobles. Pale green sick faces. Yards-wells, black stairs, miserable closets, homeless and beggars. Restaurants with a noisy revelry. Creditors threaten with jail.
Gloomy, gloomy, foggy, fantastic and possessed, this city looks into poor dwellings with a sour grimace.
And most importantly, the world is already ruled by money. “Money is the only way that brings even a nonentity to the first place,” the young hero of “The Teenager” believes. He dreams of becoming a millionaire Rothschild. “There are no moral ideas at all now; suddenly there wasn’t a single one, and, most importantly, with such a look that it was as if they had never existed, ”the novel says. And the maniacal goal of enrichment reigns everywhere.
All the acute social problems that Russian society then faced were reflected by Dostoevsky. He posed the so-called cursed questions, the answers to which no one knows so far. Type - how to equip Russia; what to do when nothing can be done; who is to blame when no one is to blame.
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At the age of 28, the young writer, but already the author of Poor People, was almost shot on the Semyonovsky parade ground.
For being present at the reading of Belinsky's letter to Gogol in a circle of Petrashevists. In this letter, Belinsky, among other things, argued that the Orthodox Church had gone very far from Christ, that it was a champion of serfdom, a servant of autocracy, a whip of power ... That is, Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for blasphemy and criticism of the government. Then they were spared and sent to hard labor.
The minute before his then-unfortunate death was reflected in his outlook. From that moment on, he made it a rule to live “as if the fate of the world depended on you.”
Perov's portrait of Dostoevsky
But the fate of the world did not depend on him. The revolutionary devilry that he warned about in Possessed has come to pass. Raskolnikov's theory - a crime in the belief that you have the right - has grown into mass terror. Of course, the communists could not stand him. But even more disliked were the liberals, about whom he said: "If anyone destroys Russia, it will not be communists, not anarchists, but damned liberals.
" By the way, his sworn ideological opponent was the liberal Turgenev. Wow level of discussion!
After penal servitude, he himself began to adhere to conservative views and preach the Orthodox faith. Not churchliness, ritualism and mysticism, but the ideals of sacrificial love and mercy. But he always remembered the humiliated and offended.
Now that the president has proclaimed healthy conservatism a national idea, Dostoevsky was immediately remembered. I wonder what he would say about this? For some reason, it seems that, first of all, I would think about those for whom healthy conservatism is when there are still usable canned food in the refrigerator.
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“Listen, once for all,” Aglaya finally broke down, “if you talk about something like the death penalty, or the economic state of Russia, or that “beauty will save the world” , then ... I, of course, will rejoice and laugh very much, but ... I warn you in advance: do not appear before my eyes later! She said this to Prince Myshkin, the protagonist of The Idiot.
They were madly in love with each other, but happiness did not happen. For Dostoevsky, love is a maddening element. There are so many seductive exalted women in his novels - and not a single happy one. Unless Raskolnikov and Sonya Marmeladova are going to the wedding, and even then in hard labor.
Well, yes, Dostoevsky's novels are not a training "How to become happy". He is not a light writer. His characters sometimes endure the brain with their reasoning and suffering. And this is no coincidence.
“Suffering is the only cause of consciousness,” says the hero of Notes from the Underground. “Although I reported at the beginning that consciousness, in my opinion, is the greatest misfortune for a person, but I know that a person loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction.”
Dostoevsky. Sculpture by Leonid Baranov. Photo by Natalia Shkurenok
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Scientific fact: psychiatrists, psychotherapists and neurologists of the world often quote Dostoevsky.
Because all his work is a spiritual striptease. All his heroes sooner or later bare their sick souls, and it turns out that in each of them an angel and a devil coexist at the same time, love and hatred, faith and doubts, lofty thoughts and low thoughts, outrageousness and shyness, and you never know what else - the most ordinary and the most fantastic. In general, ordinary people live in Dostoevsky's Petersburg, just like us, only not yet digitized.
Some changes, however, are evident. For example, the old pawnbroker from Crime and Punishment is 60 years old. It is written in the novel, and today's young pensioners cannot forgive Dostoevsky for her age. There's nothing to be done, in his time life was shorter, old age came earlier, and no cosmetology for you, not to mention plastic surgery. Live his heroine now, she would just be not very young, but a successful banker.
Dostoevsky himself did not consider himself a psychologist: "I am only a realist in the highest sense, that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul.
