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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