Diet day 25

domingo, setembro 30, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

77,9 kg, 13%fat and 22,5 BMI

No diet this weekend, today i am back on taking care

i drank wine both saturday and Sunday and eat a lot of sugars, i ate all i wanted

let's see if it's like last week that i came down very easily during the week days

Don't stay home

sexta-feira, setembro 28, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

The secret of my success is a two-word answer:

Know people

Harvey Firestone, tire pioneer

Diet day 22

quinta-feira, setembro 27, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

74,8 kg, 15,6% fat and 21,6 BMI
Jesus this is starting to move fast.....
yesterday i ate big portion of Green Asparagus 50
A portion of Black beans 350
1 big coffee
1 vitamin c in the water
1 peach 11 am 50
2 slices of Brazilian Picanha steak 500
a portion of black beans 300
1 glass of red wine 100
1 peach 2 hours after 50
1 energetic bar before workout
1 bottle of Evo Race Drink 150 during class
2 classes of spinning from 18h30 to 20h, 1100 calories
a bif of veggie soup 200
a bit of black beans and spinach 200
1 lemon juice

total calories in 1950

i don't understand why the % of fat is moving this way?

am i burning only muscle?

yesterday i did a very good workout, i felt very good with a good position on the bike. i had 2 series above 300 watts and felt ok

Don't be incremental, make a big change

quinta-feira, setembro 27, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Time to pay attention to the Weber-Fechner Law.

It's easier to tell the difference between two bags of flour that are three ounces apart in weight when one weighs a pound, than it is to tell the difference between two bags that are three ounces apart when one weighs twenty pounds.

It's easier to tell the difference between two flashlights that are 6 lumens apart when one is just 2 lumens bright than it is to tell them apart when one is 200 lumens.

The more stimulus you're getting (light, sound, pressure, delight, sadness) the less easily you can notice a small change. That seems obvious, but it's worth saying.

If you're entering a market filled with loudness, it's harder to be noticed, even if the incremental benefit you offer seems large to you. If you're trying to delight existing customers, the more delighted they already are, the more new delight you need to offer to turn heads.

One more reason to seek out those that are both interested and underserved.

Seth Godin

PS When you create something different everybody notices. When you want to change/improve something it's better to be a big change, incremental moves nobody notices.

Diet day 21

quarta-feira, setembro 26, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

76 kg, 13,3% fat and 22 BMI
This is very good news because yesterday i spent the day in Geneva and i manage to diet while traveling.
I ate some tuna at breakfast 300 calories
1 big coffee
ate scrambled eggs with salad at airport in Geneva 200
coffee
on the plane i ate nothing, zero just sparkling water
lunch
chicken 200
Black beans 200
salad 100
1 peach 1 hour after 50
1 orange at 5 pm 50
1 class Pilates at 6,30 pm + 1 class of Spinning 45 minutes total 700 calories
dinner
1 slice of fish 200
lentils 300
salad 200
lemon juice no sugar
1 tea before bed

total in 1800 yesterday

i am very happy with the % of fat, 11% would be a great target

People vs Goverment

quarta-feira, setembro 26, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Diet day 20

segunda-feira, setembro 24, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

It's 5 am and I am in a rush to leave for Geneva
77,7 kg, 13% fat and 22,5 BMI
yesterday was a diet day. No mistakes
Today i am going to fly and have 1 lunch and 1 dinner out.
Let's see if i can stay unchanged!
over & out have a nice day.
I hope to read a lot in the plane.

Going up

segunda-feira, setembro 24, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Diet day 19th

domingo, setembro 23, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

I did'n do diet during the weekend, zero
78,4 kg, 12,2% fat and 22,7 BMI
I hope it's like last weekend
i did a very big effort on the bike on Saturday and i hope the body after the big effort stores water and food big time. After the workout i jumped to the scales and weighted 74Kg!
i drink a lot of red wine saturday night and sunday at lunch, i ate suchi and almost everything.
let's see how the week progresses! If it's like last week i will go back to 76kg and the % of fat will go up to 14% or 15%.

The Ten Commandment for Business Failure

sexta-feira, setembro 21, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

The Ten Commandment for Business Failure by Donald R. Keough, a former president of the Coca-Cola

Quit Taking Risks
Be Inflexible
Isolate Yourself
Assume Infallibility
Play the Game Close to the Foul Line
Don't Take Time to Think
Put All Your Faith in Experts and Outside Consultants
Love Your Bureaucracy
Send Mixed Message
Be Afraid of the Future
Lose Your Passion for Work - for Life

Douro Bike Race - Amarante

sexta-feira, setembro 21, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

How much you should give your kids

sexta-feira, setembro 21, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

I like Warren Buffett's philosophy towards his kids. He said, "I gave them enough so they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing." I'm with you, Mr. B.

Richard Russell

You could think of Portugal too

sexta-feira, setembro 21, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

When we ask our clients to name a country where the president is a communist, where the leader of the parliament is a communist and where nine ministers out of twenty are communists, we usually get answers such as China, Russia or a plethora of eastern European countries. Few think of Italy.

Louis Gave

I think a lot about this quote

sexta-feira, setembro 21, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Today, Indurain still lives in Pamplona with his wife Marisa and their two children Miguel and Jon. Big Mig continues to ride his bike regularly, and has attended the Tour de France as a guest every year since his retirement. Although it's family first for Miguel, Indurain is a member of the Spanish Olympic committee, dabbles in real estate and writes a column for the Spanish sports daily Marca.
"I am a happy man," he says, "because I can determine my own rhythm of life. No money in the world could persuade me to tie myself to something. I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now. To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is."

From the book We might as well win, Johan Bruyneel

Diet day 16th

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

76 kg, 15,7% fat, 22 BMI
I am happy with the 76 kg but i am surprised with the % of fat. Looking at myself i don't see the fat at all.
yesterday i ate
1 orange 50
1 non fat yogurt 50
a bit of muesli 100
1 peach at 11 am 50
lunch
1 slice of fish 100 gr 100 calories
a portion of black beens 300
1 salad 100
1 peach 1 hour after 50
1 non fat yogurt at 5 pm 50
a bit of muesli 100
1h30 of Spinning from 18h30 until 20h, burned 1300 calories, average hr of 142
1 veggie soup 200
1 big plate of salad 150

total calories in 1200

Problems make us think, we now have many problems

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Elections

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

It doesn't matter how people vote; what matters is who counts the votes and how they do it.

Joseph Stalin

Long term plans

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

The second purpose of contact with the management is to have management tell you their long-term strategy. Most of the time it’s a bunch of nonsense. Running any business is mostly a matter of trying to see and size opportunities. It’s not a matter of having a long term plan. If it were a matter of having a long term plan, the Soviet Union would not have dissolved.

Jean-Marie Eveillard

Jean-Marie Eveillard is a French international investor who currently serves as the senior investment adviser to First Eagle Funds.^[1] Eveillard, who served more than a quarter century as a portfolio manager, was co-honored in 2001 by Morningstar, Inc. as "Stock Manager of the Year" and was a finalist for their 2009 "fund manager of the decade award for non-U.S. stocks". In 2003, the group gave him a "Fund Manager Lifetime Achievement" award.

What is charm?

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question

Albert Camus

Obsession

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Then one day I read something that Freud wrote. Freud said that artists are very fortunate because they can make a living by projecting their unconscious into their work. In fact, the best artists and their unconscious are one.

I thought about that a lot. And I realized that the closest thing to an entrance to the unconscious was INSTINCT.

And it seemed to be that the people were closest to their instinct were the ones obsessed with their work, with what they are doing.

Obsession was the key, and boy, was I obsessed with the markets.

I don't care whether you're an athlete, a painter, a musician, a soldier, a politician, a physician or even a lowly investment advisor, you probably won't succeed unless you're obsessed with what you do. Obsession might be a kind of madness, but it's also a very valuable madness. Most of the great works and most of the progress of the world has been done by people who are obsessed. Show me anyone who has risen to the top of their profession who has done it casually or by mistake.

Richard Russell

Marketing first

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Most of our competitors were manufacturing-oriented, generations of fine pickle makers and proud of it. We came in exactly the opposite, as marketers who manufactured (in order) to have something to sell.

Robert Vlasic

Vlasic Pickles is an American brand of pickles currently owned by Pinnacle Foods. Since its introduction in 1942, it has become one of the most popular pickle brands in the United States.

What do you do in the evenings?

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

The way a young man spends his evenings is part of that thin area between success and failure!

Robert Young

No war no Inflation

quinta-feira, setembro 20, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

From A.Gary Shilling

Diet day 15 th

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

77 kg, fat 15,6% and 22,3 BMI

yesterday i ate

breakfast

1 non fat yogurt 50

1 orange 50

a bit of Muesli 100

1 peach in the middle of the morning 50

I did a Pilates class where i estimate 200 calories burned

1 veggie soup 200

1 big plate of Salad with almost no olive oil. 200

1 peach 1 hour after lunch 50

1 plate of Lupine before dinner (Tremoços) 100

2 Chiken Brests no skin with lemon 200

1 salad 100

1 plate of lentils 200

total calories in 1300

Diet day 1 i was 79,5 kg before breakfast, 17,7 % fat and 23 BMI. The move is not huge but i look much thinner and the belt moved 1 notch.

Happiness

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness

Bertrand Russell

Success

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way

Christopher Morley

The obvious doesn't work

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope

Albert Einstein

I prefer to betray the electorate

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate

Charles de Gaulle

A democracy is always temporary

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a

permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until

the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts

from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for

the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with

the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal

policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship

Alexander Tyler

Praise effort

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Praise effort and strategy, not intelligence. as Dweck's research has shown, children who are praised for "being smart" often belive that every enconter is a test of weather they really are. So to avoid looking dumb, they resist new challenges and choose the easiest path. By contrast, kids who understand that effort and ward work lead to mastery and growth are more willing to take on new, difficult tasks.

Dan Pink, Drive

Romney 47% comment is on the spot

quarta-feira, setembro 19, 2012 David Barradas 2 Comments

I believe Romney 47% comment on the spot. There are so many people that pay zero taxes that they will always vote for big Government. A lot of people are just free riders and they love socialism. The only way out is for people who have enough to retire and go live in a farm the way the great novel Atlas Shrugged.

The book explores a dogmatic dystopian United States where many of society's most productive citizens refuse to be exploited by increasing taxation and government regulations and go on strike. The refusal evokes the imagery of what would happen if the mythological Atlas refused to continue to hold up the world. They are led by John Galt. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the minds that drive society's growth and productivity. In their efforts, these people "of the mind" hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where every person is a slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry. (From Wikepedia)

Diet day 14th

terça-feira, setembro 18, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

77,9 kg, 13,1% fat and 22,5 BMI
yesterday i had the usual breakfast
1 non fat yogurt 50 calories
a bit of muesli 100 calories
1 orange 50 calories
1 can of tuna with oil 400
Lunch
huge portion of Sashimi 800 calories
A bit of rice in 3 Uramakis 100 calories
Lemonade without sugar
1 peach at 5 pm
1 h30 Spinning class at 125 hr average (really easy) 1100 calories burned
dinner
1 big plate of salad 200 calories
1 plate of Lentils 200 calories
1 veggie soup 200 calories
lemonade without sugar

total in= 2100

Too many?

terça-feira, setembro 18, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Spain built on average 675,000 homes a year from 1997 to 2006, more than France, Germany and the U.K. combined, according to a report by a unit of Spanish savings bank Cajamar.

Source Zerohedge

Gold is going up

terça-feira, setembro 18, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

To finish things off, we'll revisit the chart from earlier in this piece that shows the massive expansion in the monetary bases of global central banks, only this time, by way of a little perspective, we will add in the expansion of the world's supply of gold during the same period (2007-2012)

http://www.mauldineconomics.com/ttmygh

from

Things That Make You Go Hmmm...

No babys

terça-feira, setembro 18, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Rank (total)	Country	Median Age (years)	Date
1	Monaco	48.9	2010 est.
2	Japan	44.6	2010 est.
3	Germany	44.3	2010 est.
4	Italy	43.7	2010 est.
5	Jersey	43.4	2010 est.
6	Hong Kong	42.8	2010 est.
7	Guernsey	42.7	2010 est.
8	Austria	42.6	2010 est.
9	Finland	42.3	2010 est.
10	Greece	42.2	2010 est

http://world.bymap.org/MedianAge.html

We have the power to change a lot

terça-feira, setembro 18, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

G. K. Chesterton
English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936)

Diet day 13th

segunda-feira, setembro 17, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

79,3 kg, 12,3% fat and 22,9 BMI

yesterday i ate the usual

breakfast

1 yogurt non fat 50 calories

a bit of muesli 100 calories

1 orange 50 calories

1 peach at 11 am 50 calories

1 veggie soup 200

1 big Salad 100

1 peach 1 hour after lunch 50

1 yougurt non fat at 5 pm 50 calories

1 plate of Endamame 100 calories

2 pieces of fish 200 calories

1 plate of boiled vegetables 100 calories

total 1050 calories

Character, even more than IQ, is what leads to real and lasting success.

segunda-feira, setembro 17, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Instead, it seems, the most valuable thing that parents can do to help their children develop noncognitive skills—which is to say, to develop their character—may be to do nothing. To back off a bit. To let our children face some adversity on their own, to fall down and not be helped back up. When you talk today to teachers and administrators at high-achieving high schools, this is their greatest concern: that their students are so overly protected from adversity, in their homes and at school, that they never develop the crucial ability to overcome real setbacks and in the process to develop strength of character.

American children, especially those who grow up in relative comfort, are, more than ever, shielded from failure as they grow up. They certainly work hard; they often experience a great deal of pressure and stress; but in reality, their path through the education system is easier and smoother than it was for any previous generation. Many of them are able to graduate from college without facing any significant challenges. But if this new research is right, their schools, their families, and their culture may all be doing them a disservice by not giving them more opportunities to struggle. Overcoming adversity is what produces character. And character, even more than IQ, is what leads to real and lasting success.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443819404577635352783638934.html

Normal people can't win

segunda-feira, setembro 17, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

You have to be a little bit crazy to achieve extreme success

Mayra Jimenez

Douro Bike Race

domingo, setembro 16, 2012 David Barradas 2 Comments

Diet

domingo, setembro 16, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

I stopped the diet during the 4 day race in the north of Portugal

I did 17 hours and 27 minutes time in the race

Normally i burn 800 calories in a race day

let's assume 700*17=11,900

To be able to do this kind of effort i had to eat a lot of junk food

today before breakfast this is the situation

81 kg, 11% fat and 23 BMI

Since my last post i put 3 kg and the % of fat came down from 17% to 11%

I look good but heavy

so i am back on my diet

4 Days in the bike

domingo, setembro 16, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

I spent the last 4 days in Amarante doing the Douro Bike Race.

Amarante in beautiful

The Hotel Casa da Calçada is one of the best in Portugal

Classification was losy, 73rd in 303 competitors

I din't felt great, the peak of my season was in May and i guess now i feel heavy

I am overweighted with 78 kg and suffered a lot during the 3 days

The landscape is top

If you haven't visit Parque do Alvão you have too. Take a dive in Fisgas do Ermelo and drink the water while swiming

Tomorrow i will post some more pictures and the final classification.

i am very tired and i am going to sleep a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkbUuo4wxiY&feature=youtu.be

http://www.dourobikerace.com

Diet Day 8

quarta-feira, setembro 12, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

5.41 AM Race Day still in Lisbon
78,1 kg, 16,2% fat and 22,6 BMI
1 peach 50 calories
1 non fat yogurt 50
a big bit of muesli 200
1 orange at 11 am
2 chicken beef 250
1 big salad 150
1 plate of Black Beans 350
1 Peach 1 hour after lunch 50
1 non fat yogurt 50
a bit pf muesli 100
2 slices of Hake (Pescada) 200
1 cup of lentils 300

1 tea before bed

total 1650

I didn't eat the usual pasta or rice before race day, but i feel great. tomorrow i will start at 4 minutes before 5 pm my time trial inside the town of Amarante. I plan to do a 1 hour warm up session. it's a 10 k time trial. i will try to report later.

Obama might win?

quarta-feira, setembro 12, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

As Jim Stack pointed out, the incumbent has historically won reelection nearly 90% of the time if the Dow is up for two months before the election.

From the Aden Report

PS I guess it means September and October up!

Desire

quarta-feira, setembro 12, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Bobby Unser, car racer

Now the world is regulated.

quarta-feira, setembro 12, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

From the IBD

Diet Day 7

terça-feira, setembro 11, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

7 Am before breakfast.
78 kg, 16,5% fat and 22,5 BMI.
1 Peach 50 calories
1 non fat yogurt 50
a bit of muesli 100
Big Coffee
1 orange 50 at 11 am
2 chicken beef 260
Big plate of greens 100
1 glass red wine 70
1 peach 1 hour after lunch 50
1 not fat yogurt 50
1 muesli bat 80
1 h 30 Spinning class slow burned 1,150
dinner
2 chicken beef 260
big plate of broccoli&Endamame 150
tea before bed

total in 1470

Not bad, today i will eat a little of pasta because tomorrow the Douro Bike Race starts in Amarante and i need some sugar in the muscles .

Get the diploma & make friends

terça-feira, setembro 11, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

From the very good site
http://www.simoleonsense.com/

Cold Showers good for depression + Prevent Flu

terça-feira, setembro 11, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

News from The Discovery Channel: “Treatments for depression range from medicines that can come with scary side effects to electric shock therapy, but a new paper suggests a simple cold shower might sometimes cure, and even prevent, the debilitating mood disorder.” Now I understand why I always feel so uplifted and, well, happy, after my morning cold shower gush. If you want to read more, here is the link to the full article. Cold showers also have other health benefits, as noted here.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/18/depression-cold-shower.html

http://ownyourhealth.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/defend-yourself-against-colds-and-flu-this-winter/

PS Michael Phelps says he eats 12,000 calores a day? How is this possible? is he lying? In competition an athlete can burn 800 calories/hour. He spends just 4 hours on the pool 4*800= 3,200.....Howcome he does not get fat? Cold expusure burns a lot of calories. Cold Showers, sleeping with no cover in bed and air conditioning can help to lose weight.

Great diet

terça-feira, setembro 11, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

I have a great diet. You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people

Ed Bluestone

Diet Day 6

segunda-feira, setembro 10, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

79,3 kg, 15,8% fat and 22,9 BMI (I started some days ago with 80,5 and 17% fat)
Breakfast
1 Peach 50 calories
1 non fat yogurt 50
a bit of muesli 100
1 big coffee
11 am 1 orange 72
Pilates class
Lunch
1 Soup 215 calories
1 big plate of salad, greens and Tomato 150
1 big coffee
1 peach 1 hour after lunch 50
1 plate of lupins before dinner 88 calories
1 big plate of boiled broccoli 100
1 Posta de Salmão cozido 200
1/2 plate os Endamame 120 calories
1 tea before bed
Total 1195
Thursday i begin the Douro Bike race Mountain bike competition. I am going to start eating some carbs.

http://www.dourobikerace.com

Are you successful? A simple method to find out

segunda-feira, setembro 10, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

A trivial and potent heuristic to figure out success:

a) you are absolutely successful if and only if you don't envy anyone;

b) quite successful if those you envy you don't know in person;

c) miserably unsuccessful if those you envy you encounter or think about daily.

Absolute success is mostly found among ascetic persons.

Nassim Taleb

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151084948833375&id=13012333374

I guess China is sick too......

segunda-feira, setembro 10, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

All is not right with the world. For instance, below we see the Shanghai Index and it gives us a good idea of what's happening in the economic engine of the world --China.

From Dow Theory Letters, Richard Russell

Two brands but only one makes real money! So only one brand after all

segunda-feira, setembro 10, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the-difference-between-apple-amazon-in-one-chart.php

Anticipation

segunda-feira, setembro 10, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it"

– Alfred Hitchcock

Diet Day 5 upps!

domingo, setembro 09, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Monday, 6 am 80 kg, 16% fat, 23 bmi

So i am back to day 1 weight

hummmm not good

in the weekend i did 1 big workout on Saturday (5 hours, 3800 calories) and a small one on Sunday (1,200 calories) = total 5,000

During the workout on Saturday i lost a lot of water

I don't know if that is the case but perhaps the body after being depleted of water on saturday retains water to prevent a further episode.

it's strange to be back on square 1 because i didn't deviate from my diet during the weekend.

what i did eat saturday?

breakfast

1 Wake up evolution shake + orange = 280 calories

1 big Coffee no sugar

during the 5 hour ride

2 Scoops of Gold Drink 300 calories

2 muesli bars 160 calories

1 gel 140 calories

lunch

300 g spinach 100 calories

1 unit of Canned Sardines 300 calories

3 Tomatos 60 calories

drink water with lemon

A bit of Brown Rice 200 calories

1 peach 1 hour after lunch 30 calories

3 hours after lunch 1 non fat yogurt and a bit of muesli 150

dinner

1 chicken breast 250 calories

1 big salad 200 calories

a bit of brown rice 200 calories

drink water with lemon again

2 coffee no sugar

total calories eaten= 2370

i feel great and my belly looks good, so i am going to stay the course and see what is going to happen in next few days. I am disappointed with the lack of progress but sometimes i put some weight of a race day. And Saturday was almost a race day!

If i see no progress in the next few days i will do a change in my diet. i will cut the fruit and i get rid of fructose.

No Stress, Pico Azores

sexta-feira, setembro 07, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

I took this pic in August

No trust no money

sexta-feira, setembro 07, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

What the Maghribi knew from experience was that trust serves as an economic lubricant, lowering transaction costs by eliminationg the need for elaborate systems of oversight and strict enforcement of cumbersome rules……….

Orthodox Jews in the diamond markets in New York and Amsterdam operate according to the same principle-they don’t even check to see what’s inside the pouch when they hand over large sums of money.

from the Moral Molecule, Paul J. Zak

Do't be a me-too

sexta-feira, setembro 07, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Thou shalt not commit the "me-too' mistake
 
Many people believe that the basic issue in marketing is convincing the prospective client that they have a better product or service. They say, "We might not be first, but we're going to be better." That may be true, but if you're late into a market space and have to do battle with large, well-established competitors, then me too just won't cut it.
Regardless of a product's objective quality, people perceive the first brand to enter their mind as superior. Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products. When you're a me-too, you're a second-class citizen.

http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/2012/09/the-10-commandments-of-marketing.html

Be happy with what you have

sexta-feira, setembro 07, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Oprah Winfrey

How is my Bike Doctor?

sexta-feira, setembro 07, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Diet Day 2

quinta-feira, setembro 06, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

78,8 kg before breakfast, 16,9% Fat, 22,8 BMI (less than 0,7 kg than yesterday)
yesterday i had a 1h30 Bike workout.
Average of 152 HR and burner some 1400 calories.
Breakfast at 7 am
1 Orange 60 calories
1/2 cup cofee Muesly 140
1 Coffee
1 Peach at 10h 50 calories
1 Black Plum 20 calories
Lunch
1 Sargo/Bream 200 gr 180 calories
1 Bowl of rice 204 calories
1 portion of spinach 160
1 peach 1 hour after lunch 20
1 low fat yogurt no flavor with muesli 44+80=124
dinner
1 Gaspacho 100
Half a portion of Tagliatelle 370
1 Green salad 100
1 Glass Red Wine 80
Total calories 1604

Mistakes of others

quinta-feira, setembro 06, 2012 David Barradas 0 Comments

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself
Eleanor Roosevelt

Diet+Sleep a lot = fat loss

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1. Nedeltcheva, AV et al. "Insufficient Sleep Undermines Dietary Efforts to Reduce Adiposity." Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010. Advanced publication.

Weight loss by calorie restriction causes a reduction of both fat and lean mass, which is what the investigators observed. Both groups lost the same amount of weight. However, 80% of the weight was lost as fat in the high-sleep group (2.4/3.0 kg lost as fat), while only 48% of it was lost as fat in the low-sleep group (1.4/2.9 kg lost as fat). Basically, the sleep-deprived group lost as much lean mass as they did fat mass, which is not good!

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.pt/2010/10/big-sleep.html

PS Extra benefit, while i am sleeping i don't eat. I have trouble sleeping a lot but i will make an effort not to nap or drink cofee in the pm hours of the day.

Perception is reality

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Humans see what they want to see
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

You must accept customer perceptions as their reality, and focus your marketing accordingly. The customer defines who is the leader in each category.

You can’t change customers’ perceptions once they have been formed with your “so-called truth” about who has the best quality product.

You don’t win with a better product, you win with better perception (positioning)

From the Book Marketing Warfare, Al Ries & Jack Trout

Diet day 1

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79,5 kg before breakfast, 17,7 % fat and 23 BMI
yestarday was my rest day (no trainning)
ate 1 Orange at 7 am 72 calories
1 Peach at 11 am 50 calories
1 Vegatable soup for lunch 215 calories
1 peach 1 hour after lunch 50 calories
1 Apple at 5 pm 64 calories
1 big cup of Tremoços/ lupine 88
1 vegetable soup for dinner 215 calories
1 spinash salad with Tomato 50 calories
1 Bowl of brown rice 150 calories

Total 1,068 calories in

Today i will have a big workout at the end of the day so i will eat more carbs. I have a dinner with friends and that is going to be the big test.

Red Wine or Coffee, forget the rest

quarta-feira, setembro 05, 2012 David Barradas 2 Comments

12 ounces = 35 cl

Red Wine, 5 ounces 125 calories, Coffee 12 ounces 4 calories.

Milk 12 ounces 220 calories, Oranje juice 12 ounces 157 calories.

Beer 12 ounces 154 calories and Soda (i guess coke) 124 to 189

http://www.webmd.com/diet/calories-in-drinks-and-popular-beverages

Unemployment

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If everybody gave up looking for a job, the official unemployment rate would fall to zero.

Thomas Sowell

As we age there is less latitude for mistakes

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When younger one can make more mistakes in lifestyle and training without significant negative consequences for performance. As we age there is less latitude for mistakes. For example, temporarily cutting back on training only exacerbates the problems when the aging athlete once again trains seriously. When younger the same athlete may well have bounced back quickly from a break in training. So one example of a critical issue as we get older is training consistency.

For the aging athlete training and lifestyle must adapt. Something has to change to maintain or even improve performance. My experiences as a coach and as an athlete in my seventh decade of life tell me that the focus for the aging athlete must be in four areas:
• Workout intensity.

• Strength training

• Sleep

• Nutrition

http://www.joefrielsblog.com/2012/08/the-aging-athlete-getting-older-getting-faster.html

Joe Friel

Ps Now if i drink a lot of wine next day i can't train properly. So i control my drinking and the food i put in the system. Some year's ago i could be at a wedding until 5 am and came back to Lisbon (220 km) at 6 am without sleep. Not anymore i think.

We can't even agree!

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From the New Yorker

A Solution

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The only way the US's debts can ever be seriously addressed is to devalue the dollar.

The US owns the world's greatest hoard of gold. Here's what I think the authorities have to do. They should unilaterally, overnight raise the price of gold to a high value, maybe around $10,000 an ounce. Thus, each dollar would be worth one ten-thousandth of an ounce of gold. This would allow our enormous debt to be paid off with vastly devalued dollars.

This would be inflationary, since everyone who owned gold would own a pile of devalued dollars. The huge increase in the number of dollars would drive prices up, and that would work against the current forces of deflation.

Nations owning gold would in turn (in order to compete) -- devalue their own currencies, and thus be able to pay off their own "impossible" debts. In the end, a new world monetary system would have to be established, but the terrible problem of a planet choking on debt would be solved.

I think this is the only way the world-debt problem is going to be solved. It will, in the end, be solved by devaluation (as Roosevelt did in 1933, when he suddenly and unilaterally raised the price of gold from 20 to 35 dollars an ounce). Interestingly, we now hear an increasing amount of talk regarding gold entering the world monetary system. Furthermore, I think we are going to hear even more about gold in future months. Smart, wealthy, well-informed investors will start accumulating gold. (Soros and Paulson are doing it already. I don't doubt that Soros has inside information.)

Richard Russell

PS Careful because the Goverment can try to confiscate the Gold you have before it raises the price. Spread it around.

The Peloton is going to break after the river

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If a machine can do your job, it will

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In an interesting NBER paper (‘The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries,’ NBER WP 18334), it was pointed out that jobless recoveries in the US have occurred in only the middle-skilled jobs, i.e., not the highly- or low-skilled jobs..............................

The high- and low-skill occupations to which employment is polarizing either do not experience contractions, or if they do, rebound soon after the turning point in aggregate output. Hence, jobless recoveries can be traced to the disappearance of routine occupations in recessions.’ I find this paper fascinating, as it partly confirms the findings of work by Auter, who also found this curious fact that the US has lost more middle-skill level jobs. One hypothesis is that the highly-skilled jobs and low-skilled jobs are more difficult to out-source, or be replaced by robots or computers.

From Stephen L Jen (London), September 2012

You need to have a goal

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Just consider a winner such as Michael Phelps, who decided to move on from swimming after winning his 8 gold medals in Beijing four years ago. Very quickly, he found himself in a depression that lasted until he got back in the water and started training again, presumably hoping to recapture the feeling of satisfaction he'd lost so quickly. Whatever happens in these Olympics, Phelps must face the same question again once his races are over. "Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?" asked the poet Robert Louis Stevenson.

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2012/08/our-unhealthy-obsession-with-winning.html

Focus

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You can do anything, but not everything
- David Allen

Despite repetition, most people fail to become experts at what they do

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Despite repetition, most people fail to become experts at what they do, no matter how many years they spend doing it. Experience does not equate to expertise.

In field after field, when it comes to centrally important skills—stockbrokers recommending stocks, parole officers predicting recidivism, college admissions officials judging applicants—people with lots of experience were no better at their jobs than those with less experience. ^{Talent Is Overrated}

Research concludes that we need deliberate practice to improve performance. Unfortunately, deliberate practice isn’t something that most of us understand, let alone engage in on a daily basis. This helps explain why we can work at something for decades without really improving our performance.

Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works. More of it equals better performance and tons of it equals great performance.

Most of what we consider practice is really just playing around — we’re in our comfort zone.

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/07/what-is-deliberate-practice/

Ps To get ahead you need to exit your confort zone and explore. To get ahead in the Bike i need to do intervals at a pulse way out. Then i get scared and then i improve. I think this guy is on the spot.

Central planning failed in the old eastern Bloc

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Grant on what the Federal Reserve needs to do now to get new best practices:

“It needs to get out of the central planning business. The Fed was organized in1914 and opened its doors to conduct a more or less traditional central banking business, meaning it would lend against good collateral to solvent institutions in times of cyclical or seasonal need. It would defend and protect the gold dollar. That was all that its original remit contained. fast forward many decades, and we see the Fed in the business of steering, guiding, manipulating the economy, financial markets, the yield curve. It manipulates and pegs interest rates. It is all over the joint doing what failed in the old eastern bloc.”

On whether the U.S. needs a more rules-based central bank to provide discipline and protection:

“What we need is a central bank that has the humility not to do what it cannot do. And the Fed cannot do what others have failed to do, namely to plan an economy from a central desk in the capital city.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jim-grant-refuses-get-lost-hall-mirrors-market

PS Poor journalist! So sad!

Bad Omen in Europe (another)

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There’s enough to go round for everyone

Favourite SP slogan, Dutch Socialist party

UK GUARDIAN

PS After Syriza…….

Up's and downs

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome

Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Allways Summer

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This innate fear of falling, common to all human beings, may go some way towards explaining the obsession the world seems to have with preventing recessions and avoiding deflation. Recessions are always seen as a bad thing for the economy and, since the days when Alan Greenspan’s bony fingers were wrapped around the Federal Reserve’s monetary levers, there has been a war waged on the downward half of the business cycle in an attempt to literally abolish it as though that were a) possible or b) desirable.
Just as a world filled with only sunshine would eventually be uninhabitable or a forest without the occasional fire would ultimately stifle itself, the business cycle needs the occasional bust to counteract the booms that cause overheating and excess. That’s just the way it is I’m afraid. We may not like it. We may be afraid of falling, but nature need take its course.

Grant Williams

Things That Make You Go Hmmm.....

ttmygh@me.com

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Diet day 25

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Don't stay home

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Diet day 22

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Don't be incremental, make a big change

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Diet day 21

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People vs Goverment

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Diet day 20

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Going up

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Diet day 19th

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The Ten Commandment for Business Failure

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Douro Bike Race - Amarante

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How much you should give your kids

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You could think of Portugal too

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I think a lot about this quote

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Diet day 16th

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Problems make us think, we now have many problems

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Elections

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Long term plans

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What is charm?

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Obsession

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Marketing first

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What do you do in the evenings?

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No war no Inflation

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Diet day 15 th

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Happiness

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Success

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The obvious doesn't work

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I prefer to betray the electorate

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A democracy is always temporary

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Praise effort

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Romney 47% comment is on the spot

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Diet day 14th

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Too many?

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Gold is going up

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No babys

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We have the power to change a lot

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Diet day 13th

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Character, even more than IQ, is what leads to real and lasting success.

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Normal people can't win

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Douro Bike Race

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Diet

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4 Days in the bike

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Diet Day 8

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Obama might win?

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Desire

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Now the world is regulated.

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Diet Day 7

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Get the diploma & make friends

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Cold Showers good for depression + Prevent Flu

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Great diet

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Diet Day 6

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Are you successful? A simple method to find out

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I guess China is sick too......

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Two brands but only one makes real money! So only one brand after all

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Anticipation

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Diet Day 5 upps!

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No Stress, Pico Azores

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No trust no money

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Do't be a me-too

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Be happy with what you have

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How is my Bike Doctor?

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Diet Day 2

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Mistakes of others

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Diet+Sleep a lot = fat loss

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Perception is reality

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Diet day 1

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Red Wine or Coffee, forget the rest

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Unemployment

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As we age there is less latitude for mistakes

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We can't even agree!

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A Solution

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The Peloton is going to break after the river

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If a machine can do your job, it will

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You need to have a goal

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Focus

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