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Taurus.(The Bull) I like to laugh and make my kids laugh. Love to dance and goof off with my kids. Have lots of patients (except for the process of loosing weight). Married for 16 yrs to the same man.(Maybe that's why I have so much patients LOL) Love the rain and the sound of it raining. Like walking in the rain on warm summer evenings.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

I need answers

I have a few questions if anyone has the answers: 1st. When is the best time of day to exercise? 2nd. When is the best time to eat, an hour or so before exercise or 1/2hour after wxercise? 3rd. Does tea and coffee count as water intake for that day?
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  1. KarenJanuary 16, 2009 at 6:07 AM

    HI!!! I didn't realize I had a fellow Pictou County person in the challenge with me! Yay!!!!
    Getting together sounds great. As for your questions:
    1. I fit exercise in whenever I can but I try to do it in the morning. I find if I do it in the evening it winds me up too much. (except for yoga because it is only available in the evening)
    2. I try to have something with protien (yogurt, cheese string etc) within a half hour of finishing a workout. I can't eat too close before because it makes me ill. I've been told that having the protien quickly after helps repair the muscles and buld more muscles.
    3. I don't think tea, and I know coffee doesn't count to fluid intake. Coffee is a diuretic and actually purges fluid from your system. I've heard (no real research here) that for every cup of coffee you should drink 2 cups of fluid.

    Hopes this helps! Talk to you soon.

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  2. Marisa @Loser for LifeJanuary 16, 2009 at 9:39 AM

    I'm no expert for sure, but here's what I do:
    1. I exercise in the a.m. pretty much before I do anything else. I have read that it gets your metabolism going if you do it in the morning, but my reason for doing it then is that if I wait until later, I will MOST DEFINITELY talk myself out of it!!

    2. I don't eat before I exercise. I end up waiting about an hour after before I eat mainly because I am busy getting kids out the door, so it just works out that way!

    3. According to Weight Watchers new information from the Momentum Plan, all liquid (well, not ALL - I mean all NON ALCOHOLIC!)counts toward your water intake. There used to be restrictions with regards to caffeinated beverages, but they have dismissed that and count it all now.

    Hope that helps :)

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