IT'S ELECTION SEASON - LET'S HAVE A POLL

Here in the United States our 2016 Presidential election is already underway.  There are candidates from the Republican and Democratic sides vying for support to be the nominee of their respective political party.  Every week, there are scores of new polls being released to show that this or that candidate's support is rising or falling.

So, I thought, maybe the Marc Jacobs Weight Loss Journal should have it's own poll.

I am planing on letting this poll run through the end of the year.

On the right of this blog entry you will see a poll where you can select your favorite blog entry from a list of twelve that I have selected.  These blog entries are among my favorites.   If you have not seen some  of these posts - I fervently recommend them.

I have not voted in my own poll - but if I did - I am sure that my favorite blog post was the one from Sunday July 5th, 2015 where  I discussed where weight 'goes' when one is dropping pounds.  (LOST WEIGHT? WHERE DID IT GO?) I am most proud of that post - as it is informative and (mildly) amusing.

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Two days ago I was wondering if I still had the ability to limit myself to 1000 calories in a day.  I did precisely that successfully on Wednesday.   Yesterday, I was back at it with a relatively high calorie day.  This time, I balanced my eating with a wildly rigorous workout schedule.

I spent 90 minutes on the treadmill at 12:30AM Thursday morning.

and then I was back at it at 3:30PM completing another 90 minutes.

For the day, I burned 4000+ calories.

As we have discussed in prior posts, the calories burned that various exercise equipment report is some approximation of what is actually burned.   However, I am certain that if one spends a total of 3 hours within a 24 hour period on an elliptical machine set to maximum resistance - that there is little question that the calories burned = MANY.  (Whether it really is 4000, or 3000.... who knows, but it surely is a lot!)

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 Thursday MENU

breakfast  two apples                                                                                190 calories
lunch        spinach, tomato, hearts palm, lentil soup, corn thins                322 calories
dinner      Mariano's salad, codfish, mango, granola, trail mix                 1949 calories
SNACK    chewy ginger, zing granola, red delicious apple, wasabi           822 calories

total calories consumed 3284 calories

calories burned

Thursday Morning 12:30AM Star Trac elliptical machine 92 minutes 2189 calories
Thursday Afternoon 3:00PM Star Trac elliptical machine 92 minutes 2198 calories

TOTAL CALORIES BURNED 4387 CALORIES

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Wednesday net calories NEGATIVE 1103 calories

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These two recent polls show support for various candidates in Nevada as of July 2015. As of today, July 30, 2015 Americans have not seen the first televised debate, most of these candidates are unknown to most Americans, and most Americans are too busy enjoying their summer to be bothered with a minor detail like presidential politics 16 months before the actual election in November 2016!

 It will be interesting to see how this particular election cycle develops.  At this time, inexplicably Donald Trump is atop the candidates in the Republican Party and Hillary Clinton is the Queen of the Democratic Party.  America will likely not survive another 'flaming socialist liberal.'   Let me amend that.   America will survive.   It will simply be completely unrecognizable - as it is starting to become already.   

As you know, I have tried to be apolitical with my blog.  That will become increasingly difficult as this election cycle unfolds.  I will try to be as apolitical as possible.  Or as Bart Simpson says: "I will try to try"

"I'll try to try."  - Bart Simpson

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At the very bottom of the pack of the Republican candidates is former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.  He is a good man with good values. Apparently he will not be the President of the United States.   Nevertheless, It was an honor for me to meet him four years ago when he was campaigning in Iowa.

Back then, in 2011, I likely had not reached 309 lbs yet, but  I was well on my way....

This photo, also from 2011 shows my daughter with a 'cardboard cutout' of President Ronald Reagan.  Dixon, Illinois is a town that young Ronald Reagan lived in as a young boy.  His Dixon, Illinois home is now a museum and open to the public, I thought I would post this picture as a public service. That way people from around the world could see what a genuine American Leader looked like in the past. President Ronald Reagan was admired by his friends and respected by his enemies.  For the past 35 years, American Conservatives have been wondering where a leader like this might be found once again.   If you ask me, and I know you didn't - I nominate Ted Cruz or Scott Walker.