BACK TO CHICAGO

On Saturday I completed my weeklong visit to see my Mom and said farewell to the 'moderate' New York Winter Weather.  This was the view of the crystal clear skies as my plane headed into the airport after crossing Lake Michigan.

What the photo does not convey is the ambient temperature. When my plane touched down in Chicago (approximately 3.5 hours later than the initial arrival time) the outside temperature was 1°F. The forecast for the rest of the week degraded from there.  I mostly enjoyed my experience flying JetBlue for the first time. I enjoyed the full can of soft drink they served, the wide selection of snacks they offered (in comparison to Southwest Airlines) and I enjoyed the complimentary wifi. What I did not enjoy so much, was that after the plane landed in Chicago, we sat on the tarmac for approximately one hour. However, with the free wifi still fired up, all I did was watch netflix, so it really wasn't so bad. 

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Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, December 30, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Bagel, Lox and Cream Cheese	400	49	12	27	1,556	9
Trader Joe's Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal	320	64	4	8	480	26
	720	113	16	35	2,036	35
L U N C H
Trader Joe's Soft 10 Grain Bread	180	30	5	8	320	2
Trader Joe's Sliced Cheese	220	0	18	12	360	0
	400	30	23	20	680	2
D I N N E R
Bagel, Lox and Cream Cheese	400	49	12	27	1,556	9
	400	49	12	27	1,556	9
S N A C K S
Brownies	300	47	12	4	231	27
JetBlue Terra Chips - Sweets and Blues	140	17	7	2	115	2
JetBlue Abby's - Chocolate chip cookies	120	21	4	2	0	13
Homemade Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus	100	10	3	13	0	4
	660	95	26	21	346	46
Totals	2,180	287	77	103	4,618	92
Your Daily Goal	2,185	273	73	110	2,300	82
Remaining	5	-14	-4	7	-2,318	-10
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 255 extra calories from exercise today

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I thought my weight would have dropped more than the half pound that it did drop during my New York trip. But it is what it is. Sunday weight 239.9 lbs.

THINK PINK

The various subway lines in Chicago are color coded. Before making a trip to Midway Airport to fly to New York my first stop was at the dentist for a checkup and routine cleaning.  My wife dropped me off at 9:30AM for my 10:00AM appointment. Directly from the dentist my plan was to take the subway, which is right across the street from the dentist, and travel to Midway Airport. The one wrinkle in that plan was that the 'pink' line train near my dentist does not go the Midway Airport. I figured out that I was going to have to take the train back to downtown Chicago and transfer to an 'orange' line train to get to the airport.  Due to Hurricane Matthew, still more than 2000 miles away from New York, my original Southwest flight scheduled to depart at 3:00PM was delayed 3 hours. In the early morning, I rebooked my flight to the 1:00PM flight which was also delayed, but only by 2 hours and 20 minutes, which meant that it was scheduled to depart at 3:20PM (a mere 20 minutes later than my original flight.) My dentist visit was completed at 11:30AM.  I had plenty of time to get to the airport, and then I had an idea.  I decided to THINK PINK. I would take the 'pink' line train which does not go to Midway Airport and get off the train and walk to the airport.  That walk turned out to be 4 miles. When I arrived at the airport, my 1:00PM flight, which had been scheduled to depart at 3:20PM, had been pushed back even further to 3:55PM.  This gave me time to walk a bit more.  So after I ostensibly had arrived at Midway Airport, I 'circumnavigated' the airport, and by the time that I actually entered the terminal at 2:30PM, I had walked 8 miles.  I was very pleased to have squeezed in an 8 mile hike on a day that I thought I would surely not get a chance to walk or do any exercising at all. This particular walk was accomplished in my street clothes, wearing my backpack and wheeling along my carry-on luggage.  I did not walk at my normal 'blistering pace' of 13 minutes per mile, but I wasn't cheated out of a day of exercise either, so it felt great.  My flight did finally depart at 4:00PM, and I finally arrived at my Mom's home at around 8:30PM. We had a delicious Chinese dinner at a nearby restaurant, as guests of my Mom's friend, John.

After getting off the pink line subway train, I walked 8 miles before I came to this spot just before finally entering the airline terminal and subjecting myself to a full body search by TSA agents who didn't like how my entire upper body lit up in their body scanner. I guess the heat emanating from my body after walking 8 miles was mistaken by the machine as residue from a bomb-making factory.

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Eight mile urban hike from the Pink line train to Midway Airport

I usually weigh myself on Saturday, but this time I weighed myself on Friday before I left for New York.  I am simply going to pretend that this was my weight on Saturday.  I actually have gone on trips and brought my scale with me, but for this trip to New York I only brought 'carry-on' luggage, so there was no room to bring a bathroom scale. My weight this week is 219.4 (still down 90 pounds from where I started on December 24, 2014)

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, September 30, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Roundy's - Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal	600	120	10	20	1,300	20
	600	120	10	20	1,300	20
L U N C H
Subway - Footlong Turkey Breast on Wheat	560	92	17	36	1,890	11
	560	92	17	36	1,890	11
D I N N E R
Miso Soup	100	9	4	7	1,188	3
Tempura Vegetables	400	91	3	4	134	23
Chinese Beef and Broccoli	300	7	17	28	592	2
Shrimp With Brocolli	300	40	14	26	0	22
Chinese - Fortune Cookie	30	7	0	0	22	4
	1,130	154	38	65	1,936	54
S N A C K S
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup	110	12	6	2	75	11
Southwest Airlines Lightly Salted Peanuts	70	2	6	3	95	0
Generic - Luna Chocolate Dipped Coconut	200	24	8	9	190	8
Red Delicious Apple, 1 medium apple	95	25	0	1	2	19
Chocolate Brownie	200	37	4	8	134	18
Sprinkles - Cupcake	250	29	15	2	0	0
	925	129	39	25	496	56
Totals	3,215	495	104	146	5,622	141
Your Daily Goal	3,336	417	111	167	2,300	125
Remaining	121	-78	7	21	-3,322	-16
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,406 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 208 lbs in 5 weeks.


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Your Exercise Diary for:

         Friday, September 30, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
8 MILE URBAN HIKE	124	1,328
Daily Total / Goal	124 / 30	1,328 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	851 / 210	12,400 / 4,130

OCTOBER 1, 2015 
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY....
THIS IS WHERE I WAS...
...ON THE SUMMIT OF HALF DOME IN YOSEMITE PARK.

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Hurricane Matthew which as of Friday Night was 1221 miles southeast of Tampa, Florida was already causing airline delays in Chicago yesterday?  This does not bode well for my return trip to Chicago on Tuesday.

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