AFRICA

All 'fitbitters' know that as one accumulates 'lifetime' miles, one will be rewarded with imaginary 'badges'. Apparently on October 8, the day before my 33 miles of accumulated miles walking, I earned the 'AFRICA' badge for the accomplishment of walking 5000 miles since I purchased my fitbit on September 3, 2015. I suppose it would be fairly simple to find out how many more miles I must walk to earn my next badge, but it is fun to be surprised.  So, for the time being, I will remain in the dark.

I had been convinced that yesterday, which was one day after my 33 mile day on Sunday would be a day of complete rest. In fact, it was. Nevertheless, I did join my family for an extremely leisurely walk downtown which added up to six miles by the time I returned home. There is no doubt that I have influenced my family over the past couple of years. Two years ago, we regularly would take the subway or a bus to travel as little as even one mile. These days no one in my family unit would suggest such a mode of transportation to travel such a short distance. 

Your Food Diary For:

Monday, October 10, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Grits - Instant - Original, 6 packet	600	132	0	12	1,860	0
Post - Great Grains	400	72	11	10	286	15
	1,000	204	11	22	2,146	15
L U N C H
Quaker Rice Cakes White Cheddar	630	112	14	14	1,400	0
Read - 3 Bean Salad	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
	930	177	14	19	2,900	40
D I N N E R
Epic - Pub Burger, 1.0 burger	600	38	34	34	0	0
	600	38	34	34	0	0
S N A C K S
Powerbar - Harvest Energy Chocolat Bar	210	23	9	10	110	15
C2o - Pure Coconut Water 16 FL OZ	100	26	0	0	150	24
YOGURT ALMONDS	300	30	19	5	27	26
Whole Foods - Vanilla Granola	400	69	12	8	127	33
	1,010	148	40	23	414	98
Totals	3,540	567	99	98	5,460	153
Your Daily Goal	3,305	413	110	166	2,300	124
Remaining	-235	-154	11	68	-3,160	-29
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,375 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 216.4 lbs in 5 weeks.

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Monday, October 10, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
LEISURELY 6 MILE WALK	91	1,044
Daily Total / Goal	91 / 30	1,044 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	91 / 210	1,044 / 4,130

Usually when I take a walk with my family, they have trouble keeping up with me as I naturally walk a bit quicker even when I am not in 'workout mode'.  After walking 33 miles on Sunday, I had trouble keeping up with them on Monday during our extremely leisurely stroll in downtown Chicago. My wife and I stopped to take a photo on the State Street Bridge.  Our daughter was the photographer.

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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