BACK TO WORK

I am pretty sure that it will be good to get BACK TO WORK.  For one thing, as a salesman, my income exists only when I do work.

I am also fairly certain that during the downtime of the past two weeks, I have eaten too much too often.  At least when I am working, it is a bit more difficult to be constantly eating, snacking and noshing. While it is true that I did not use this time to ignore my workouts, it is also true that it is virtually impossible to 'erase' calories by working out. Our bodies are extremely efficient at storing energy.  That is what fat does - store energy. It is easy to see why this would have been quite advantageous to our cave-dwelling ancestors during times of famine. Most Americans today, are really not so worried about where their next meal is coming from, and/or if there will be a next meal. If this trend can continue for a few hundred generations perhaps the human being will evolve into a less efficient fat storage unit. Right now, we all have to deal with the efficiency of fat storage that God has implanted in us all.

Now I am not guilty of this during the past two weeks - but it is easy to imagine that this caloric crime might have been committed by many people the past few weeks.  The caloric crime that I am thinking of would be the person who eats not one slice of chocolate cake but two slices of chocolate cake.  A binge like this could easily exceed 1000 calories.  How long does it really take to eat two slices of cake. I am sure that if I tried will all my willpower to eat two slices of cake really slowly, they still would not last more than 15 minutes.  One might have to walk at a brisk pace for one hour to come close to 'erasing' this.  And as Dr Melarvie wrote in his DTOE (Diet Theory of Everything) which I spoke of yesterday:

IT IS MUCH EASIER TO CONSUME 3500 CALORIES THAN IT IS TO LOSE IT. 

THE NATURAL TENDENCY IS TO OVERESTIMATE THE CALORIC EXPENDITURE OF EXERCISE.

When it comes to love it has been said: It is better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all. This little piece of wisdom does not translate to diet. It is NOT better to have eaten empty calories and lost than to never have eaten empty calories at all. IT WOULD BE BETTER TO NOT HAVE EATEN EMPTY CALORIES IN THE FIRST PLACE. Surely, that is the best way to manage one's weight, avoid the empty calories in the first place - as much as possible.

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Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, January 2, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Whole Foods - Oatmeal, 1 cup	300	54	5	10	180	2
WHOLE FOODS - WHOLE CASHEWS (RAW), 43.75 g (approx 1/4 cup)	225	10	18	6	0	3
WHOLE FOODS 8738 - DRIED MANGO SLICES, 40 g (approx 6 pieces)	110	28	0	2	1	20
	635	92	23	18	181	25
L U N C H
WHOLE FOODS 8497 - CHERRY VANILLA GRANOLA, 110 g (3/4 cup)	480	80	14	10	120	30
FRESH THYME - JOYVA. SESAME CRUNCH, 45 g (3 pieces)	240	21	12	3	75	21
WHOLE FOODS 5938 - UNSWEETENED BANANA CHIPS, 60 g (1/4 cup)	340	32	20	4	10	2
	1,060	133	46	17	205	53
D I N N E R
S. Rosen's - 100% Whole Wheat Bread, 2 slice	200	38	2	10	380	6
Omaha Steaks - Gourmet Jumbo Franks-beef Hot Dogs, 2 frank (84g)	480	8	40	22	1,560	2
EARTHBOUND FARM - ORGANIC BABY SPINACH, 85 g (approx 3 oz, two cups)	20	0	0	2	65	0
libby's - Sweet Corn, 0.88 cup	105	16	3	4	350	12
Louis Kemp - Crab Delights Leg Style, 3 legs (85g)	70	11	0	6	430	1
KROGER 54060 - SOY NUTS, 50 g (approx 1/2 cup)	240	14	13	18	110	3
	1,115	87	58	62	2,895	24
S N A C K S
WHOLE FOODS - MILK CHOCOLATE CHERRIES, 60 g (approx 9 pieces)	270	38	15	3	15	32
WHOLE FOODS 7882 - GIN GINS ORIGINAL CHEWY GINGER, 36 g (2pcs)	120	30	0	0	0	30
	390	68	15	3	15	62
Totals	3,200	379	141	100	3,296	163
Your Daily Goal	4,328	541	144	217	2,300	162
Remaining	1,128	161	2	117	-996	-1

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Your Exercise Diary for:

      Saturday, January 2, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 5.0 mph	13	211
STAR TRAC ELLIPTICAL	92	1,955
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	232
Daily Total / Goal	106 / 30	2,398 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	867 / 210	17,885 / 4,130

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total calories consumed 3200 calories

total calories (92 minutes elliptical, walking) 2166 calories

total net calories 1034 calories

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fitbit day 121

24819 steps

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I was looking for 'back to work' themes - and although this does not meet that criteria - it still amused me.