Restart at the gym between holidays and all the X-mas food. I tried the running belt - and it felt just OK! No sense of stiffness from my knees, so this will become a slow rehab into a possible running outdoors in early spring. I hope the belt with it's built-in cushion will enable this recovery. Last winter's experience with a possible injury of my left knee wasn't very encouraging. I'm now also fighting a weight increase due to the loss of calorie burning exercises. The gym training doesn't really help in this - muscle mass is heavier than fat! I decided instead to use the tape measure. Waist and breast, biceps and forearm. I won't reveal my measures yet, but one target is to reach 40 cm for biceps - which may happen soon.
I came across an interesting diet during a work mission a couple of weeks ago. My colleague was caught and also bought the cook book, LCHF by Annika Dahlqvist. It is a form of an extreme GI-diet with focus on very low carbohydrate intake. All carbohydrate food exceeding 10 grams per 100 g is not allowed or should be minimised. But it's recommended to eat high protein and high fat, in this way you will be encouraged by more tasty food and also to feel satisfied or done after a meal. The fat should preferrably be based on pure butter or organic rapeseed oil or olive oil. I'll try to gradually transfer to this diet. I took one step in mid-September, by omitting candy and sweets from my intake. The reason then was tooth ache and although the tooth is fixed now, I lost my taste for sweets. The LCHF diet is supported in parts by a well-known Swedish physician, Martin Ingvar, who recently published a book about brain function and food intake in different popular weight loss diets. Martin, who is neurologist, discussed the LCHF diet in an interview in a Swedish news paper, explaning that fat is essential for body functions and that carbohydrates are playing a major role in welfare diseases.
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