BENEFIT OF LATE NIGHT DRINKING

Today is a completely tongue-in-cheek look at the benefits of late night drinking.  Yesterday, I spent too much time with the dentist getting a temporary tooth which will eventually become a permanent implant.  By the time 5:00PM came around, I noticed that my fitbit had only recorded something in the neighborhood of 4000 steps.  Last week, after spending one night drinking and socializing until 2:00AM, I woke up the next day with nearly 5000 steps!  The silly lesson to be learned here is that when one is active, steps accumulate.  And the steps one takes in a bar late at night still count.  The steps one takes walking in the early hours of the day back to your hotel, or walking home still count.  There is something invigorating about waking up and realizing before you shave, that you already have 5000 steps 'in the bank.'   Likewise, it is 'alarming' to glance at one's fitbit at 5:00 PM in the afternoon and discover that one only has 4000 steps.  I suppose that the only reason that this is important to me is that I have vowed to myself to try to never let a day pass with less than 10000 steps.  I noticed too, today, that a step earned on an elliptical machine set to the highest resistance is a lot tougher to earn than a simple step walking outside, even at a 4.5mph pace.  Obviously a step earned on the elliptical machine is harder to earn by several orders of magnitude, the steps earned just shuffling back and forth from the refrigerator.  The best gauge of measuring physical activity still comes from stepping on the scale.  The scale does not lie. Although sometimes it does appear to be fibbing...

Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, October 29, 2015

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Whole Foods 365 - Seaweed Rice Crackers, 52.5 Crackers	420	88	5	7	210	4
Clif Bar - Mint Chocolate , 68 g	250	43	5	10	170	22
	670	131	10	17	380	26
L U N C H
FRESH THYME - JOYVA. SESAME CRUNCH, 30 g (3 pieces)	160	14	8	2	50	14
Generic - Fresh Homemade Fruit Salad, 2 cup	480	88	18	0	420	56
WHOLE FOODS 5938 - UNSWEETENED BANANA CHIPS, 120 g (1/4 cup)	680	64	40	8	20	4
	1,320	166	66	10	490	74
D I N N E R
Campbell's Chunky - Manhattan Clam Chowder, 2 cup	240	36	6	10	1,600	6
Nabisco - Oyster Crackers, 66 crackers	180	30	6	3	420	0
	420	66	12	13	2,020	6
S N A C K S
Totals	2,410	363	88	40	2,890	106
Your Daily Goal	3,923	490	130	197	2,300	147
Remaining	1,513	127	41	157	-590	41
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 1,993 extra calories from exercise today

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
elliptical	22	473
elliptical	22	508
elliptical	22	535
elliptical	22	545
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-68
Daily Total / Goal	89 / 30	1,993 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	409 / 210	8,449 / 4,130

For some reason, I could not set the timer on the elliptical machine to 60 or 90 minutes.  The workout cut out after 20 minutes, with a 2 minutes cool down.  I simply had four (4) sessions of 22 minutes.  What I found interesting is that although, I felt as if I was getting tired as the nearly 90 minutes session continued.  I increasingly had more endurance with each passing session as the calories burned continued to climb, just a bit from one workout to the next. 

TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED 2410 CALORIES
TOTAL CALORIES BURNED 1993 CALORIES
TOTAL NET CALORIES 417 CALORIES

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fitbit day 57

13585 steps

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The Tongue-in-cheek figure of speech is used to imply that a statement or other production is humorously or otherwise not seriously intended, and it should not be taken at face value. The facial expression typically indicates that one is joking or making a mental effort.