WHO ARE YOU

WHO ARE YOU (1978) is great album from the The Who, although not quite as classic as Tommy (1969), Who's Next (1971) and/or Quadrophenia (1973).    Still WHO ARE YOU is undeniably a great album.

Yesterday, the MARC JACOBS WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL crossed the threshold of it's 10,000th visit, I thought I would tell you, my readers, WHO YOU ARE. Since December 24, 2014 when I embarked on my weight loss journey, I have developed two new hobbies: LOSING WEIGHT and BLOGGING ABOUT MY WEIGHT LOSS.  The blog has been written for it's one most royal reader, that is, me.  I have enjoyed revisiting some of the things that I wrote earlier as the journey began.  I try to make each post interesting.  One of the purposes of the blog is to serve to document how and where my successful weight loss came from in case I should ever regress.  Today, I speak with great confidence that I will not revert back to my old moronic lifestyle.  Now that I think about it, the way I was living prior to December 24, 2014 shouldn't have been called a lifestyle as it was probably leading more to death than life. It was more of a deathstyle.   Enough of kicking myself, that old me is gone.  Just as President Ronald Reagan, in a 1982 speech to the British Parliament predicted the eventual fall of Communism by stating that "it will be left on the ash heap of history" so, too, have I left my old stupid habits on the ash heap of history.

WHO ARE YOU?

TODAY'S BLOG IS ABOUT YOU - MY READERS.  One of the very cool things about hosting a blog on Google's BLOGGER is the ease in:
keeping track on how many people visit
keeping track of when they visit
keeping track of what countries they visit from
keeping track of the most popular blog entries over various periods of time.

AND TODAY, I AM GOING TO SHARE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU AS THE MARC JACOBS WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL HAS HOSTED ITS 10,000th VISIT!

Who Are You?   Let me tell you...

Google's 'blogger' allows me to see from what countries, the visitors to my blog come from.  This can be broken down so that one can see the 'all-time' list, or just the list from the past month, week, day or even the past two hours.  It has been great fun to see the wide variety of countries that are represented.   Here is the all-time top ten list as of Tuesday morning, April 14, 2015

TOTAL PAGEVIEWS TO THE BLOG 10,019   (broken down by the top ten countries)

UNITED STATES       7426     74.1%
UNITED KINGDOM   823        8.2%
INDIA                           515         5.1%
CANADA                     368         3.7%
AUSTRALIA               171         1.7%
RUSSIA                        123         1.2%
IRELAND                      92         0.9%
FRANCE                        64         0.6%
GERMANY                    38         0.4%
NEW ZEALAND           23         0.2%

Google's 'blogger' also will make a list of the top ten most visited blog posts.  These lists can also be viewed in the same time frames as the list of home countries of the visitors.  All-time list, the past month, the past week, the past day or the past two hours.  Here is the top ten blog posts with the number of visitors during the life of the blog.  Remember, that it is much harder for a recent blog post to compete with an older popular post as there is simply less time that it has been available to be viewed.

TOP TEN POSTS (all-time)

Entry	Pageviews
RABBI HILLEL DIET Jan 19, 2015	195
BEFORE/(no after) PICTURES Dec 26, 2014	142
MY NEW FAVORITE RESTAURANT Jan 9, 2015	88
HOMER SIMPSON CALORIE CONUNDRUM Jan 7, 2015, 2 comments	80
EXERCISING EPIPHANY Jan 4, 2015	79
885 CALORIES Dec 29, 2014, 2 comments	71
THE RETURN OF TRADER JOE'S Jan 19, 2015, 1 comment	60
CONFESSIONS Dec 28, 2014	59
UP, UP, AND AWEIGH! Mar 14, 2015	58
LOST MY THIRD TURKEY Mar 15, 2015	44

TOP TEN POSTS (last 30 days)

Entry	Pageviews
LEGO Mar 16, 2015	33
RABBI HILLEL DIET Jan 19, 2015	30
CABBAGE SOUP Mar 22, 2015	29
MY NEW FAVORITE RESTAURANT Jan 9, 2015	28
LOST MY THIRD TURKEY Mar 15, 2015	26
UP, UP, AND AWEIGH! Mar 14, 2015	25
STAIRWEIGH TO HEAVEN Apr 11, 2015	24
SWEET HOME CHICAGO Mar 30, 2015	23
LOOKING LIKE MYSELF Mar 18, 2015	22
GLUTTONY Mar 17, 2015	22

Pageviews by Browsers

Entry Pageviews Safari 270 (41%) Chrome 196 (30%) Internet Explorer 100 (15%) Firefox 51 (7%) OS;FBSV 11 (1%) CriOS 4 (<1%) Mobile Safari 4 (<1%) Silk 4 (<1%) Mobile 3 (<1%)

Pageviews by Operating Systems 

Entry Pageviews Windows 2934 (29%) iPhone 2898 (28%) Macintosh 1997 (19%) iPad 818 (8%) Android 772 (7%) Linux 542 (5%) Other Unix 29 (<1%) BB10 24 (<1%) iPod touch 3 (<1%) BlackBerry 1 (<1%)

So that, dear readers is WHO YOU ARE.  I think that who you are, are people who might be seeking their own answers to their own battles with weight. Some of you are just family (Hello Jennifer, Hello Mom, Hello Sara, Hello Andy)   Some of you are friends (Hello Jack)  My intentions are to continue to blog daily as long as I have something that seems interesting (at least to me) to say.  I can anticipate that once I get down to my goal weight, which I don't know precisely what that is - a whole new set of challenges will present themselves - number one on that list is maintenance.  Maintenance is probably not quite as fun as the ski-slope of weight shedding that I am on now - but without proper maintenance - this journey would be a useless endeavor.

I do want to thank you, my dear readers, for reading what I have been writing for these past few months.  I feel like I am writing a book, publishing one page per day.  I know that I have enjoyed revisiting some of the emotions that I was experiencing along the way and I hope that in some very small way, my journey has enriched your life at least a little bit.   SEE YOU TOMORROW, Marc

TUESDAY MENU

breakfast   two poached eggs, oat meal w/prune, two slices turkey 'bacon'              365 calories
lunch         spinach, hard-boiled egg, tomato, imitation crab legs                             195 calories
dinner       Jimmy John's bootlegger UNWICH, Chicken Tortilla Soup                    490 calories

total calories consumed  1050 calories

CALORIES BURNED
7AM elliptical 32 minutes  492 calories

MONDAY NET CALORIES   558 CALORIES