WELCOME TO ELKHART

Yesterday I planted myself in Elkhart, Indiana which was centrally located between my two business appointments, one in Middlebury and the other in South Bend. The temperature during the day was close to 90 degrees and by the time that I set off on my urban hike at 6:05PM it had cooled to 86 degrees. As much as I enjoy my indoor sessions on the elliptical and treadmill as it gives me the opportunity to while the time away watching netflix, it is much more rewarding to be outdoors.  The MapMyWalk application on the phone is great as it calculates the distance, the route and the calorie burn.  Its best feature is that one cannot get lost as long as the phone is in contact with a cellular network. This is very handy feature when one is walking in strange neighborhoods.

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You might wonder: How do I find time in the day to walk two hours?  I have basically removed TV from my life. I can remember a couple of years ago, I would settle into my hotel room and watch 4 or 5 hours of TV each night.  Watching that much TV is a kind of existence which I knew too well. It is a complete waste of time. Now if one is on a treadmill or elliptical machine and watching TV or netflix instead of lying on the couch eating potato chips while video watching - That is a different story.  It may still be somewhat of a waste of time, but it is not a COMPLETE waste of time.
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Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
KELLOGGS - RAISIN BRAN	380	92	2	10	420	36
Instant Oatmeal Apples & Cinnamon	480	99	6	12	600	36
	860	191	8	22	1,020	72
L U N C H
Reduced Fat Turkey Bacon	230	28	6	13	560	3
Activia Peach Lowfat Yogurt	100	19	2	4	60	16
Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple	190	50	1	1	4	38
	520	97	8	18	624	57
D I N N E R
Bbq Boneless Chicken Wings, 15 pieces	675	62	30	42	0	0
	675	62	30	42	0	0
S N A C K S
M&M's - Crispy, 36 g	180	28	7	2	55	22
	180	28	7	2	55	22
Totals	2,235	378	53	84	1,699	151
Your Daily Goal	3,911	489	130	196	2,300	146
Remaining	1,676	111	76	112	601	-4
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 1,981 extra calories from exercise today

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Your Exercise Diary for:

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking	131	1,981
Daily Total / Goal	131 / 30	1,981 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	568 / 210	6,192 / 4,130

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After logging over 50,000 steps on Sunday, 20,000 steps may seem like a mere pittance.  It is not.

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5000 STEPS? THAT'S IT?

After a long weekend juggling family pressures with out-of-town guests for my daughter's Bat Mitzvah, I think that I ran myself down. Perhaps last weekend, I didn't get enough sleep and I was running only on adrenaline. Whatever the case, this week, I have been battling a mild headache, and perhaps a mild fever.  It was real rough visiting a customer yesterday. When I returned to my hotel room, after a quick stop for dinner at Panera Bread, I climbed back into bed again. This morning, I think I am feeling better. I certainly hope so.  On Monday, I drove to Cincinnati.  Yesterday, Tuesday, I had only one appointment which I knew would take a few hours.  On neither day, did I take a genuine exercise walk, or walk too much at all for that matter.  For two consecutive days, I had to walk in place at 11:30PM just to hurdle over 5000 steps for the day.  Just two weeks ago, November 22-28, I logged over 300,000 steps for the week. I really am a bit unwell, because my lack of activity has been matched by a loss of appetite. The last two days, I consumed about half the calories that I have been consuming in recent weeks. So two questions arise:  Did I eat so many more calories when I was exercising? Did my body crave less calories when my energy output was greatly reduced? The logical answers to those questions should be yes and yes. Although back in the old days, one year ago, I had no problem consuming 5000+ calories per day, every day,  when I also was doing absolutely nothing to burn calories other than respirating.

As anyone with a fitbit knows, earning this particular badge is not particularly impressive. In fact, it is about the equivalent of a participation trophy.  I think it is difficult for a person to keep under 5000 steps if one is not lying in bed all day.  Since that practically is what I did yesterday, lie in bed, with a break to see one customer, I just managed to achieve this dubious accomplishment.

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Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Quaker - Instant Original Flavor Oatmeal, 3 pack	300	57	6	12	225	0
Evolution - Organic Orange Juice, 8 ounces	120	26	0	2	15	26
	420	83	6	14	240	26
L U N C H
Nature Valley Granola Bar Oats and Honey, 4	380	58	14	6	360	22
	380	58	14	6	360	22
D I N N E R
PANERA TURKEY SANDWICH, 1/2 SANDWICH	220	34	2	16	890	2
Panera - TURKEY CHILI BOWL, 1 bowl	280	34	12	20	1,070	9
Panera - Apple, 1 apple	80	21	0	0	0	15
	580	89	14	36	1,960	26
S N A C K S
Power Bar Chocolate Peanut Butter, 1 Bar	220	32	6	11	170	13
Reeses - Peanut Butter Cup, 1 piece	170	18	10	4	135	16
	390	50	16	15	305	29
Totals	1,770	280	50	71	2,865	103
Your Daily Goal	1,957	244	65	98	2,300	73
Remaining	187	-36	15	27	-565	-30
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 27 extra calories from exercise today

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Daily Total / Goal	0 / 30	0 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	2 / 210	86 / 4,130

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total calories consumed 1770 calories

total calories burned (no additional exercise) Not Applicable

total net calories 1770 calories

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fitbit day 97

5043 steps

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Two days ago, I logged 5060 steps which was my worst day ever.  What an accomplishment to come back one day later and 'improve' on the lameness of that total!



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