Scuba Diving – Exercise and Seafood
Scuba diving – that’s the kind of exercise we all should seek – it’s fun, burns calories, and we come home with healthy food for dinner.
My husband and I dive off our our 32 foot Radon out of King Harbor in Redondo Beach. Besides being good exercise, I think that the cold water requires extra energy from the body to stay warm. The water is usually in the 50’s here sometimes warming up to the 60’s. Today I picked up a crab and my husband speared some sand bass. We eat good!
For dinner I made a sort of crab stuffing to go with the bass – celery, onions, pepper, garlic, cajun seasoning sauted in olive oil with just a bit of butter. Then add some bread crumbs and stuff the fish. I do believe that to be able to stick with a diet it can’t be too strict and has to have some flavor. I just learned this trick:
It’s Friday night and I had a little fine wine too (lifes too short to drink cheap wine), a small glass and then I put the bottle away so not tempted to have more.
And I was up 1 pound this morning but that could be water weight. I sure didn’t eat that much yesterday. There are some that say don’t weigh everyday, just weigh weekly to see the trend. The main negative of weighing daily is that it can be depressing to see upswings. However, a recent study says that daily weighins are helpful to keep weight off.
You’re more likely to catch small changes in body weight if checking weight daily. It’s much easier to get back on track if you’ve just gained a pound or two.
The full article is here at MSNBC.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Wow, i admire you. You’re one total health conscious person. Glad to know you’re into diving too – good way of keeping up my fitness and health for years as well.. It’s a seriously good work out for anybody. Imagine burning 300 to 400 calories while you’re just down there, enjoying the good view, right? What else can be better than that?