In the same way that a person is usually incapable of being a fan of the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, or the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox, or CNN and FOX NEWS... I am a Star Trek fan (not a Star Wars fan.) Nevertheless, today I will use a character from Star Wars to illustrate that I no longer look like I recently did.
On August 21, 2014 my family spent the day on the world famous Jersey Shore, specifically the Asbury Park Beach before attending a beautiful wedding of our friend Jack and his bride, Esther. My wife took a picture of me that I did not treasure. In fact, I wanted no part of it. The photo made me feel ill. And here it is:
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| GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, AUGUST 21, 2014 (309 lbs) |
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| I look at my photo form August 2,1 2014 - and Jabba don't look so bad.... |
Fast forward to yesterday, the first day of the Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago. The weather was glorious, and the temperature finally tipped over 80º F. (27º C) I thought that this would be a good opportunity to try to replicate my August 21, 2014 photo - so I did. My 13 year old daughter, Sara, was the photographer. Here is me today (well, actually yesterday.)
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| May 23, 2015 North Avenue Beach, Chicago, Illinois (218 lbs) |
In the August 2014 photo, your Jabba the Hutt impersonator is (un)proudly wearing 50" waist khaki shorts and an XXL (extra extra large) t-shirt and a one-size-fits-all, Glenn Beck baseball cap.
In the May 2015 photo, your intrepid blogger, weighing 90 pounds less, who much more closely resembles a normal human being is PROUDLY wearing a pair of 36" waist khaki Columbia™ shorts and simple L (large North Face™ t-Shirt) and just to be consistent, the same Glenn Beck baseball cap. Have I mentioned before that I am a fan of Glenn Beck?
SATURDAY MENU
breakfast Steel Cut OatMeal w/prune, two eggs, two strips turkey 'bacon' 505 calories
lunch *Huge Supermarket Salad w/chicken, imitation crab, ham, egg, etc
red delicious apple, 4 Medjool dates 1109 calories
dinner Spinach salad w/hearts of palm, beets, cucumber, tomato, mushroom
4 ounces Black Angus Sirloin 339 calories
total calories 1953 calories
calories burned
elliptical 32 minutes 518 calories**
*One thing I know is that I really make a feast of a supermarket salad. I add imitation crab, ham, chicken, tomato, onion, cucumber, beets, small portion of sunflower seeds, baby corn, small portion of chick peas, artichokes, sometimes maybe even ten croutons, hard boiled egg. THE THINGS THAT I DO NOT INCLUDE ARE CHEESE AND DRESSING. Previously I had estimated the calories of such a salad at 500 calories. I am going to start estimating it at 750 calories. I am extremely confident that at 750 calories I am wildly OVERSTATING THE CALORIES. However, I believe it is better to overestimate than underestimate. So, I will just assume 750 calories and 'know' that the actual number almost certainly has to be far less.
**today after my workout, I took the elevator 5 floors lower than my floor in order to WALK UP five flights. I remember so well, when I was 300+ pounds attempting to walk up twelve floors from ground level to my floor, and although I managed it - I was winded beyond winded, and in order to complete this I needed to rest multiple times along the way. Today I bounced up those five flights like it was absolutely nothing. So the next time I exercise, I am going attempt to WALK UP THE THIRTEEN FLIGHTS OF STAIRS from the 12th floor to the 25th floor where the fitness room is before I workout on the elliptical machine. I know that I could barely accomplish this a year ago when I tried it. And I better start doing some stair climbing if I am serious about training for and hiking up HALF DOME at YOSEMITE. STAIR CLIMBING WILL BEGIN IN EARNEST THE VERY NEXT TIME I EXERCISE. My building does not have a stair master machine, but I now intend to become a STAIR MASTER. Right now, I am a stair apprentice.
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More information regarding Jabba the Hutt (from Wikipedia)
Jabba the Hutt is a character appearing in George Lucas's space opera film saga Star Wars. He is depicted as a large, slug-like alien. His appearance has been described by film critic Roger Ebert as a cross between a toad and a Cheshire Cat.
Jabba the Hutt - profile | |||
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Species | Hutt | ||
Gender | Male | ||
Position | Crime lord | ||
Homeworld | Nal Hutta; resident of Tatooine | ||
Affiliation | Hutt Cartel
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