Benefits Of Understanding And Using The Glycemic Index!

 Not all carbohydrates are the same.  
The glycemic index, glycaemic index, or GI is the measurement of glucose (blood Sugar) level increase from carbohydrate consumption.  Peanut butter reacts much differently than white flour or sugar in your body and you should try to stick to low GI foods.  Another interesting fact is that raw vegetables have a lower GI index than boiled ones, take carrots for instance, raw carrots have a GI index of 16 where boiled carrots have a 41.  If you use a food journal like MyPlate at Livestrong.com it gives you carbohydrates in grams but it also gives you sugar as a percentage of your carbohydrates.  Through lunch I have had 55 grams of Carbohydrates and 33 grams were from a sugar (my fuji apple and the frozen pineapple) none of the carbohydrates came from high GI foods such as white flour or sugar.  

The article below is a good read on the Glycemic Index.

Bodybuilding.com - Benefits Of Understanding And Using The Glycemic Index!

How is everyone doing on the CCC?  The Willow Creek Canyon Crawl is happening on the 27th of October for the next run/hike/walk.

Keep it up!

Magic Mike's Kale and Frozen Fruit Smoothie

Green Kale and Frozen fruit smoothie
Total time: 5 minutes
Needed tools: Blender
Ingredients
Kale or Spinach-3 cups
Aloe Vera Juice- 1 cup
Crystal Light Lemonade-2 cups
Very Green Dietary supplement- 2 scoops (green fiber and root fibers)
Maxpro vanilla flavored protien- 1 scoop
Frozen fruit- 1.5-2.0 cups
1 banana

You can add add or subtract any of the fruits
I've added carrots, celery, apples, pears, aprocots, peaches.

As far as the liquid goes you can subsitute with coconut water and use pineapple for a delicious pina colata taste.  Play around with it and then you'll get the hang of it. 

You can get 5-7 servings of fruits and vegetables in this if you play it right and the protein and frozen berries make it delicious.

The serving information is based off of tropical/pineapple as the fruit, berries like blueberries and blackberries lower the amount of carbohydrates and sugars lower than the stated amount.

Serving Size: 1 glasses

Amount per Serving

Calories 271

Calories from Fat 15.8

Total Fat 1.75g

 

Saturated Fat 0.25g

Cholesterol 7.5mg

 

Sodium 185.5mg

Total Carbohydrate 42g

 

Dietary Fiber 7.5g

Sugars 23.5g

 

Protein 18.5

Thoughts become things.
The more you tell yourself, good or bad, the more that becomes a fact.  You mind can guide you to those things you want, your mind can guide you away from things also.  The universe forgets negative things quickly and moves on, your self thoughts sometimes can keep a negative feeling much longer than needed.
Correy and I were noticing that our self image has been much better since starting boot camp and the feeling of looking better affects other aspects of our life.

Keep it up and remember

THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS!

Be ready for Carlos to come back
Start doing extra things

Community Cardio Challenge

My first day of the 2012 Community Cardio Challenge
30 minutes of Circuit Training
35 minutes of Running (See my route below) 

Day one total: 65 minutes