Monday, November 16, 2015

FASHION POLICE ON HIGH ALERT

The question today: Should a 58 year old man be wearing spandex shorts?  This 58 year old man did wear spandex shorts for his 10 mile trek through Chicago yesterday morning.  In fact, I had my most successful effort yet... I completed my 10 miles in two hours, forty-five seconds.  I do not attibute this improvement to the spandex shorts.  I do attribute it to an improvement in my leg strength and endurance. I thought it was OK for me to wear spandex shorts.  Nevertheless, the FASHION POLICE WERE ON HIGH ALERT!


One thing that I unambiguously know for sure:  The Fashion Police would certainly have arrested me if I had been wearing spandex shorts back in the days when I weighed north of 300 lbs.  Back in those days, that was not an issue that concerned me - I never would have owned a pair of spandex shorts.

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I set out today for my 10 mile walk with the idea of walking straight in one direction as long as I could.  The first part of my walk had me walking north on Halstead Avenue and then sliding over to the lakefront trail to return home.  The weather was beautiful, and I was able to wear shorts for the first time in a week.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, November 15, 2015
BREAKFAST Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sodium Sugar
Kashi - Dark Chocolate Coconut Bar, 3 bar 360 63 11 12 150 21
General Mills - Kix Cereal, 2.5 cup 220 50 2 4 360 6
Sage - Red Delicious Apple, 3 medium apple (170g) 285 75 1 2 5 57

865 188 13 18 515 84
L U N C H
John Mc Cann's - Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal (Certificate of Award Uniformity of Granulation), 160 g (1/4 Cup) 600 108 10 16 0 2
Kashi - Dark Chocolate Coconut Bar, 1 bar 120 21 4 4 50 7
Central Market - Chipotle lime Salmon, 6.4 oz 304 3 18 29 1,168 0

1,024 132 31 49 1,218 9
D I N N E R
Sage - Red Delicious Apple, 3 medium apple 285 75 1 2 5 57
Campbells Home Style Soup - Italian Wedding Soup, 2 cup 200 26 5 12 820 8

485 101 6 14 825 65
S N A C K S
WHOLE FOODS 8738 - DRIED MANGO SLICES, 52.0 g (approx 6 pieces) 143 36 0 3 1 26
Whole Foods - Garlic Sesame Sticks, 0.5 cup 160 12 11 3 350 0

303 48 11 6 351 26
Totals 2,677 470 61 85 2,910 183
Your Daily Goal 5,412 676 180 271 2,300 203
Remaining 2,735 205 118 185 -610 19
Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sodium Sugar
*You've earned 3,482 extra calories from exercise today         
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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, November 15, 2015
Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
Walking, 5.0 mph 121 2,173
Walking, 3.5 mph, brisk pace 175 1,562
MFP iOS calorie adjustment  N/A -253

   
Daily Total / Goal 297 / 30 3,482 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 1190 / 210 16,424 / 4,130
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TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED 2677 CALORIES
TOTAL CALORIES BURNED (10 MILE WALK @ 5MPH) 2173 CALORIES
TOTAL NET CALORIES 504 CALORIES




With the return of my daughter from her trip to Paris, we were able to take 10 mile stroll in the afternoon.  We visited Millennium Park, Maggie Daley Park and Navy Pier. We certainly were not motoring along at 5mph (but still accumulating plenty of steps to 'feed' the fitbit.)   The beautiful morning became a picture perfect, stunningly warm November day. Picture perfect days require pictures.

No special camera effects were used to enhance the blue color of the Chicago sky.

Father and Daughter happy to be re-united after daughter returned home from Paris less than 24 hours ago.

A brand new TARGET recently opened in the Streeterville section of downtown Chicago, along with a brand-new Starbucks.

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Setting aside that I was wearing spandex shorts... It was nice to be wearing any type of shorts on a November day in Chicago



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fitbit day 74
35075 steps

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1 comment:

shoom said...

"Wearing spandex is not a 'yes', a woman can wear whatever she wants" that being said... A few heads may have been turned if a 300 lbs man in spandex went strolling along. Fashion police be damned