Mumonkan

didnt mean to seem like i was attacking, a lot of people just dont know about celiac

ps: being vegan is really hard.

sucks when that kinda **** happens man, get lost on the road for a while. i still miss my doge best friend and he left 15 years ago

Huffandstuff

I had a buddy who was told he had a gluten intolerance like ten years ago, he's the only person I actually acknowledge in this fad diet.

Being vegan is easy if you live in any good sized city, it only gets difficult if you are traveling or live in a small town.

sheepdog84

I understand the whole "fad diets" thing... my last gf was a dietitian in training and she was constantly changing her diet and always singing praises about whatever she was or was not eating - sounds like that placebo effect to me.

......She also thought GMO's, chemtrails, and gluten were all a part of a plot devised by the illuminati to mind control the population and keep everyone complacent. NWO. so there's that

For myself however, I've had sensitivity to other foods in my lifetime i've been to the allergist for so it makes sense to me even though as @prooftheory pointed out - it's self diagnosed with no professional diagnosis.

I'd rather try it out for a while and see how well it works. It's not like I need to lose weight or anything either sitting at 180lb 6'1" i think i'm relatively average and fit from cycling..

I'm mostly tired of being fatigued all the time and the chronic headaches.

I've also heard of people doing this just for a little while to "reset" their body and everything- which also seems to have value to it.


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so sorry about your dog @Kindaslow - that's honestly one of my biggest fears is losing my pup, and unfortunately it'll inevitably come true.

Mumonkan

i tried it last year and i got through about a week and a half. i just dont have the patience to plan out and prepare every meal ahead of time.
i dont like to eat out much either, not like there are a lot of vegan options on the island anyway

my little experiment got me eating a lot better in general though, i consider myself vegan-ish now. i have a carnivore meal maybe 1-2 times a month, rarely red meat anymore. every other week i try and strictly eat vegan meals, otherwise its mostly vegetarian and as vegan as possible within my patience level. been almost a year now and i just feel less tired and just better overall, its great for expanding your palette ill tell you that much

Huffandstuff

I just spend an hour cooking lunches every Sunday night and then have a week of lunches with a lot of fruit/veggies as mid day snacks/breakfast. Black beans, brown rice, broccoli and sometimes soyrizo, best lunch ever.

Mumonkan

i cant get a salad to keep fresh more than a day and it really pisses me off.

T13

Yeah, ya gotta learn to shop like the French do, and only buy it, if yer gonna eat it that day...



Sheepdog: Everybody knows that the NWO has been using FLOURIDE in the water supply to make everyone stupid........

Kindaslow

Thanks guys!

Went down to my bike, flat f'ing tire!!!!!

changed the tube, off riding...

Started pouring down raining, and it was not supposed to rain today...

F'ed day....

but, it was a nice 25 miles in which I explored an area I have not ridden before.

Kindaslow

Are you sure you tossed the salad really well.... They seem happier when well tossed....

sheepdog84

@T13 oh yeah man... that too.

spRICE

You have a recipe or anything you add to that mixture? I have a really hard time cooking ahead of time because I usually don't even know what to prepare

Mumonkan

not to sound like one of the pumpkin spice latte girls i was bashing earlier, but pinterest is a great source for food stuff

SpeshulEd 

I like to make a big batch of something that's easy to reheat at work on Sunday, like chili or pasta or something.

Of course, I'm a lazy SOB and this only happens maybe once every three months or so.

Huffandstuff

No, that's pretty much it, I'm incredibly lazy and not a "foodie" by any means, just three cans of refried black beans, about one cup of brown rice, one package of Soyrizo(cook it with a can of black beans to make it go further) and like two lbs of broccoli that I steam. Best part is it's like 15 bucks for a week of lunches.

Nagrom_

Gorilla tape makes good glueless patches.

Also, its hard to find narrow 24" tubes in bike shops.

jlafitte 

feelin your pain man

spRICE

I like it. Easy, cheap, and nutritious. Thanks

hairnet

To one up the beans, fry up some diced onion and jalepenos and add to the mix. Oooooooooh man

Dannihilator

May have scared myself some.

GENESTARWIND

There isn't a gluten sensitivity/intolerance, you either have celiacs or you don't. It's been shown that it isn't gluten but we aren't sure what it is in wheat.

mike868y

not saying there is or isn't a gluten intolerance, but the paper that was cited as disproving it was unconvincing, at best.

Mumonkan

47 miles this morning before most people were awake. feels good man.
@TMonk - aka 3 hrs @ zone 2, i think im beginning to see why you like this whole "training" business. i couldve done that all day and its kindof interesting how you get a feel for your hr without looking down at the computer or waiting for beeps

TMonk

Now you're speaking my language!

FWIW z2 is a very broad zone, and 3hrs near the top of it should be a moderately difficult effort, but do-able any day of the weak unless you're real tired. I do agree with that last sentence - with experience, HR/Perceived Exertion (PE) becomes pretty solidly calibrated, and you can tell what your HR is by how you feel.

Feel free to PM me if you ever have any additional questions about testing, training, zones or just general HR stuff.

Mumonkan

i would say i was 90% of the time in the 65%-70%range , but i wasnt really letting it slip below 66% for more than a minute

i think just being more aware of my hr:effort is gonna help me more than anything on big rides, but obviously this is only my second go round with zones so there isnt much to see in terms of progress, nor have i gone on any real rides since i started messing around

i havent done any intervals or anything yet but so far i dont hate it as much as i thought i would

TMonk

70% of what? Max HR?

Basing zones off of max HR is wack, as it is highly variable from individual to individual and day to day. Therefore, any formula used to determine it is also wack, like 220-age or whatever. I'm 28, and I can ride at 220-28 (192bpm) for nearly 10 minutes.

If you're ever interested, I recommend the Joe Friel method of HR training: setting zones based off your Lactate Threshold Heart Rate (LTHR). The test is quite awful though, 30min all-out, take average of last 20min to be an approximation of LTHR. Than set up your zones based upon that. For example, if I rode 3hrs pretty hard I would aim for like 85% of my LTHR.

The upside to that awful test is that if you stay relatively fit/active, you only really need to do it once, as your HR zones don't change unless you become a couch potato for like 6 months. I trained this way for years until I got a powermeter about 18 months ago. The powermeter is totally objective, but because it's a moving target you get the joy of having to continually re-test .

Even if you're not as into the training/methodology as much as I am (who is around here????), the LTHR is an important physiological concept. Knowing this number can be interesting for your everyday riding, and extremely useful too if you wish to "train" with it.