BLACKJACK 21

BLACKJACK
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Twenty-one consecutive days of maintaining a dramatically reduced calorie consumption..
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I cannot figure myself out.

Weeks ago, while on the road, I would typically have six packets of Apples & Cinnamon flavored oatmeal to START my breakfast and my day... 140x6=840 calories.
And if the hotel, had a chocolate donut or some other pastry - I would grab one or two of those too.
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Lately, I have ben restricting myself to a 300 calorie breakfast.
It has always been very easy for me to revert back to this calorie consuming monster - it does take some willpower to walk away from a buffet breakfast - even a very crappy one... but lately, I have re-discovered that willpower... And all I had to do was balloon up to 283.6 pounds before I changed course.

I cannot figure myself out.

I checked into my Days Inn Hotel in Danville last around 9PM Sunday night.
I have stayed here before.
The front desk has freshly baked chocolate chip cookies for arriving guests.
Anytime, and every time a treat like this is available - I have always grabbed at least three cookies.
Last night, I glanced at them, and walked away.
I might have been OK, for me to eat one of them... Even one cookie would have only 'catapulted' my daily calorie consumption to something like 1100.
But I thought, why bother.

I cannot figure myself out.

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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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