Today's blog is called EPIC FAIL. This is not because of any recent horrific failures on my part. In fact, I have had numerous setbacks over the past 18 months since I made the decision to change my lifestyle. My change began while I was visiting my doctor for my annual checkup, which I made sure to have at least every ten years or so. I can almost pinpoint the time that I clicked the switch in my head and I said to myself: I start today, in fact, I start now. For the most part, I have been successful. On December 24, 2014, I weighed 309 lbs. Last Saturday when I weighed myself, as I do every week, I checked in at 233 lbs. A seventy six pound weight loss, eighteen months after changing one's life is surely some kind of accomplishment. Why then is today's blog titled: EPIC FAIL? I was thinking about my 'normal' daily 'diet' before I made that decision to reverse the direction of my life on December 24th at approximately 10AM in the morning. I discovered MyFitnessPal, an application for entering one's daily food intake on December 26th two days after my decision point. Since that day, I have (more or less) entered all (OK, let's say most) of what I have eaten every day. I thought it would be amusing (even if only to me) to enter a 'typical' daily food diary for a typical day prior to the decision that I made to discontinue my daily, EPIC FAILS. So, I did. I entered this typical 'menu' of food (poison) that I ate just about every day for nearly 10 years as I saw my weight balloon up from about 220 lbs when my daughter started kindergarten to the 309 lbs I was when my daughter was on winter break in 7th grade. In the past eighteen months, I have never, not once consumed 5000 calories in one day. Even on the day that I climbed and made the summit on HALF DOME in Yosemite Park and packed my bag with a dozen different snacks - I was still under 5000 calories - and that was a day that I accumulated more than 50,000 steps, ascending nearly 5000 feet and back on a hike that lasted more than 12 hours. So, without further adieu, I present my typical EPIC FAIL food diary, which I have retroactively entered with the date of December 23, 2014, exactly one day, 24 hours prior to making on of the biggest decisions of my life. The decision was to live. Live healthy.
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Your EPIC FAIL Food Diary For:
| BREAKFAST | Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | |
| Mcdonalds - Bacon, Egg, Cheese Bagel (2) | 1,240 | 134 | 54 | 50 | 2,080 | 12 | |
| Hostess - Ho-Ho's, 3 cakes (1 package) | 360 | 54 | 16 | 2 | 190 | 43 | |
| Nestle Nesquik - Low Fat Vanilla Milk, 8 oz | 170 | 30 | 3 | 8 | 130 | 29 | |
| Oreo Cookies - 10 Cookies (1 package) | 600 | 85 | 25 | 5 | 475 | 45 | |
| 2,370 | 303 | 98 | 65 | 2,875 | 129 | ||
| L U N C H | |||||||
| Mcdonald's - -McChicken, 3 SANDWICH | 1,110 | 120 | 51 | 42 | 1,950 | 15 | |
| M&M's - Chocolate Mint, 1.5 oz. | 210 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 30 | 26 | |
| 1,320 | 150 | 61 | 44 | 1,980 | 41 | ||
| D I N N E R | |||||||
| Burger King - Cheeseburger (four burgers) | 1,080 | 108 | 48 | 44 | 2,520 | 28 | |
| Klondike - Klondike Bar | 250 | 29 | 14 | 3 | 70 | 23 | |
| 1,330 | 137 | 62 | 47 | 2,590 | 51 | ||
| Totals | 5,020 | 590 | 221 | 156 | 7,445 | 221 | |
| Your Daily Goal | 1,880 | 235 | 63 | 94 | 2,300 | 70 | |
| Remaining | -3,140 | -355 | -157 | -62 | -5,145 | -151 | |
| Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | ||
I have probably understated the amount of garbage that I stuffed into my mouth each day... but I don't want to make it appear to be even more unbelievable than it was. This 'typical' diet that I 'enjoyed' for nearly ten years was truly pathetic. Back in those days when I was consuming a minimum of 5000 calories per day, I was also engaged in zero exercise. This is not an exaggeration. Even as I write these words, I am disgusted at the way that I used to 'live'. I have made many changes in the past eighteen months. I am sure that nutritionists might observe what I eat these days and still not be very impressed. All I know is that I am eating better than I used to eat. There is always room for improvement. In my case, there is lots of room. The goal is to continue to make better decisions each day. The goal is often not met. Obviously in the 'old days' there was no goal.
That's enough ancient history... Here's what I did yesterday...
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Yesterday, began a long holiday weekend. I did what any Dad would do, walk my daughter one mile to her junior lifeguard camp. That walk is precisely one mile. I dropped her off at noon, and I picked her up again at 4:00PM. During those four hours I walked an additional 17 miles. I am expecting that my weigh in on Saturday should show some results from my increased activity lately. At least, that's the plan.
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| The weather was favorable for a extra long hike on Thursday. |
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| Northerly Island |
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| Northerly Island, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
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| Most presidents have monuments built after they have served and passed away. Our next president, will take office next January with monuments to himself already in place. How's that for efficiency? |
After dinner our family drove to Mariano's to pick up some groceries. After completing the shopping, my daughter suggested that me and her walk home. I wasn't sure I even had it in me to walk the three miles after my 18 mile hike earlier. However, there was no way that I was going to reject this proposal from my daughter. So, we walked home. Three miles.
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Your Food Diary For:
| BREAKFAST | Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | |
| Grits - Grits, 4 packet | 400 | 88 | 6 | 8 | 1,240 | 4 | |
| Maltomeal - Honey Nut Scooters, 2 cup | 240 | 48 | 3 | 6 | 420 | 18 | |
| 640 | 136 | 9 | 14 | 1,660 | 22 | ||
| L U N C H | |||||||
| Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese | 425 | 0 | 21 | 28 | 650 | 2 | |
| Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple (170g) | 190 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 38 | |
| 615 | 50 | 22 | 29 | 654 | 39 | ||
| D I N N E R | |||||||
| Manhattan Clam Chowder, 2 cup | 240 | 36 | 6 | 10 | 1,600 | 6 | |
| Roundy's - Artisan Bread Sourdough, 4 oz | 260 | 54 | 1 | 8 | 600 | 0 | |
| Cheese, provolone, 3.01 oz | 300 | 2 | 23 | 22 | 748 | 0 | |
| Pineapples - Pineapples, 2 Cup | 172 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 33 | |
| 972 | 125 | 30 | 42 | 2,950 | 39 | ||
| S N A C K S | |||||||
| Louis kemp - Salmon Delights, 2 stick | 120 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 560 | 2 | |
| 120 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 560 | 2 | ||
| Totals | 2,347 | 321 | 66 | 93 | 5,823 | 103 | |
| Your Daily Goal | 5,839 | 730 | 194 | 292 | 2,300 | 219 | |
| Remaining | 3,492 | 409 | 127 | 198 | -3,523 | 116 | |
| Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | ||
| *You've earned 3,909 extra calories from exercise today | |||||||
Your Exercise Diary for:
| Cardiovascular | Minutes | Calories Burned | |
| 242 | 3,424 | ||
| 50 | 462 | ||
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N/A | 23 | |
| Daily Total / Goal | 293 / 30 | 3,909 / 590 | |
| Weekly Total / Goal | 883 / 210 | 11,022 / 4,130 | |
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random 'FAILS' that might amuse you....
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| probably not the worst error ever....This should have been Starship Enterprise. |
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| While there is no 'I' in team, there is a 'U' in failure. |
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| THE DUMB STAR. Incompetent Staff, rubbish pilots and the worst marksmen in the galaxy. |
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| There must be some amusing story behind this photo - but I don't know what it is. |
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| SELF EXPLANATORY |
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