MARC BY MARC JACOBS

Somewhere within the past decade, the term, BLACK FRIDAY, became a marketing sensation.  When I was younger, Black Friday, simply meant the busy shopping day on the Friday after Thanksgiving that retailers finally went 'into the black' and starting actually booking profits for the year.  Nowadays, whether that it still true or not, is no longer the point.  BLACK FRIDAY, today, means that retail stores are making extraordinary efforts to earn the dollars of consumers.  Some stores offer impossibly low prices on very limited numbers of items, other stores have markdowns on the entire inventory of their store and still more stores open for business on Friday morning at ridiculous times like 5:00AM.  The latest trend has been for BLACK FRIDAY to start on Thursday.  More and more stores are opening sometime on Thanksgiving Day and then staying open all through the night until closing time on Friday.  In Chicago, we took notice of this trend at Banana Republic, The Gap and Macy*s. Our family had some minor shopping to do for the final preparation of our daughters' Bat-Mitzvah next weekend.  Me?  I am always looking for an 'excuse' to walk downtown and build up my 'steps.'  My family walked along Michigan Avenue, we took a detour to check out Millenium Park and then we finally headed to the legendary Macy*s store on State Street. (This location was the original home of Marshall Fields flagship store)  Before a dress and shoes were purchased for my wife and daughter - we stopped by the Marc Jacobs section where his handbags were for sale. Our shopping expedition was complete by 1:30AM early Friday morning, and since it was raining, we relented and took the subway home.  

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Yesterday morning, I awoke around 7:30 for my 10 mile walk.  Although when I started it wasn't exactly raining, it wasn't exactly not raining either.  The gusty winds were quite evident and the temperature had dropped around 20° from the relative warmth of the night before.  It wasn't too long during my walk that it started to unambiguously rain.  The lakefront looked much more like an ocean than a lake.  I was walking on a paved path close to the waters, and a wave surprised me and I found myself standing in 2" of cold lake water.  This made the last 1.5 miles of my walk just a bit more uncomfortable.  (note to self: when the Lake Michigan waters are so evidently choppy - stay away)

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, November 27, 2015

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Quakers - Rice Cake Lightly Salted, 14 Cake (9g)	490	98	0	14	210	0
michiganApples - red delicious apple, 1 large	130	34	0	1	0	25
Kind Healthy Grains - Dark Chocolate Chunk, 1 bar (35g)	150	23	5	2	70	8
	770	155	5	17	280	33
L U N C H
Libby's - Whole Kernel Sweet Corn, 1 3/4 cup cooked	210	32	5	7	700	25
Campbell's - Home Style Mexican-Style Chicken Tortilla Soup, 2 cup	260	40	4	14	1,700	8
	470	72	9	21	2,400	33
D I N N E R
Bobak's - Polish Sausage, 1 link	230	1	21	10	0	0
Wegmans - Herb Stuffing, 4 oz	160	20	7	4	360	2
Broccoli - Broccoli, 1 cup	60	6	1	5	49	0
	450	27	29	19	409	2
S N A C K S
WHOLE FOODS 7700 - ORGANIC DATE PIECES w/OAT FLOWER, 80 g (2 TBSP)	240	60	0	2	20	44
WHOLE FOODS 8497 - CHERRY VANILLA GRANOLA, 77.0 g (3/4 cup)	336	56	10	7	84	21
	576	116	10	9	104	65
Totals	2,266	370	53	66	3,193	132
Your Daily Goal	5,043	630	168	253	2,300	189
Remaining	2,777	260	115	186	-892	56
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 3,113 extra calories from exercise today

Your Exercise Diary for:

Friday, November 27, 2015

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace	132	1,968
Walking, 3.5 mph, brisk pace	123	1,091
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	54
Daily Total / Goal	256 / 30	3,113 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1050 / 210	16,306 / 4,130

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total calories consumed 2266 calories
total calories burned (10 mile walk) 1968 calories
total net calories 298 calories

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fitbit day 86

40912 steps

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ten mile walking streak reached 19 days.

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214.8 lbs

I weigh 214.8 lbs.

I lost 2.2 lb this week

I have lost 94.2 lbs in 339 days. Today begins Day 340.

I will always be at the beginning of a journey that never ends.

I weigh 214.8 lbs (339 days ago I weighed 309 lbs)

I have lost 30.48% of my weight since Dec 24.

I have a BMI, body mass index of 28.73

I had a 42.0 BMI on Dec 24 just 339 days ago (Class III obesity)

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My daughter does not share my opinion that this is a clever photograph.