KANKAKEE RIVER STATE PARK BIKE HIKE TRAIL

There are not too many effective ways of avoiding rush hour traffic on a Friday afternoon in Chicago. Yesterday I found one way to do it. After finishing my last appointment on in Mahomet, Illinois, I was headed home. On the way home I stopped at Kankakee River State Park and found a trail which followed the path of the Kankakee River. I parked my car. I walked 5 miles in a northwesterly direction and simply turned around and retraced my steps and walked 5 miles back to the car. By the time I arrived home, I missed most of the Chicago Friday afternoon traffic. 

I snapped this photo right before I turned around and headed back to the car

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Considering that the official start of summer is still  more than 10 days away, the temperature of 93° seemed a bit on the warm side when I started my ten mile hike.  However, the 'wind chill' made it seem like 97°!

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, June 10, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Clover Valley - 100% Whole Wheat Bread	240	44	2	16	440	4
Quaker - Grits - Instant - Original, 3 packet	300	66	0	6	930	0
Nice! - Creamy Peanut Butter, 2 Tbsp	180	8	15	7	130	3
Smucker's - Concord Grape - Jelly, 2 Tbsp	100	26	0	0	10	24
	820	144	17	29	1,510	31
L U N C H
Subway - Footlong Steak Cheese, 1 footlong	760	96	20	52	2,060	16
Sage - Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple	190	50	1	1	4	38
	950	146	21	53	2,064	54
D I N N E R
Organic baby spinach	40	6	0	4	130	0
Asparagus	23	3	0	3	510	0
Tomatoes - Cherry Tomatoes	24	0	0	0	0	3
Imitation Crab Stick	90	15	0	7	350	2
Breaded Pork Chops	315	11	21	20	62	1
	492	35	21	34	1,052	6
S N A C K S
Crunchy Oats N Honey, 3 bars	285	44	9	6	240	18
Chips Ahoy - Chunky Chocolate Chip	240	30	12	3	165	18
Keebler - Elfudge, 1 cookie	85	13	4	1	50	6
Dark Chocolate Cherry Cashew	180	22	9	4	20	14
	790	108	34	14	475	56
Totals	3,052	433	92	130	5,101	147
Your Daily Goal	4,535	567	151	227	2,300	170
Remaining	1,483	133	58	97	-2,800	23
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 2,605 extra calories from exercise today

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Friday, June 10, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking	133	1,927
Walking	75	765
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-87
Daily Total / Goal	209 / 30	2,605 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1065 / 210	13,570 / 4,130

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S A T U R D A Y  W E I G H  I N

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231.9 pounds

I am now down ten pounds from my recent high point on May 7th when I was on the 'dl' (disabled list) from the hernia.  From my initial starting point of 309 lbs on December 24th, 2014, I am down 77.1 pounds. Just this past week I successfully shed 3.3 pounds.  IT WAS EASY!  All I had to do was keep my daily caloric intake to about 3000, and walk more than 70 miles!  (Ok, I lied, it was not easy) The 'easier' way would have been to cut down on my calories far below 3000 per day. You know what? This is more or less 'working' for me - so I will stick to it...

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ANOTHER 13 MILE TREK

It has been more than a week since I have had a nice healthy enjoyable 13.1 mile walk. It amuses me a bit to say that since I have had such a walk less than 10 times in my first 57 years of life. There were several of them this past October, and never once before that.  The weather in Chicago was glorious today and the walkways, and bike paths were filled with Chicagoans and visitors alike taking in the fresh crisp November 1st air.

Each time I leave my home on one of these extra long outings, I don't have an exact plan in mind for precisely where I intend to go. Lots of micro decisions are made along the way. The one thing that I do try to do, only because it amuses me, is to not retrace any part of my path on any given day.  I enlarged sections of my route where it might have appeared that I had retraced steps, when in fact I did not.  As I said, I do this only because it amuses me.

These last two maps show my 2 mile walk home from downtown Chicago after a lunch stop at Whole Foods

Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, November 1, 2015

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Target Market Pantry - Dipped Granola Bar - Chocolaty Covered Chewy Chocolate Chip Bar, 2 bar	280	44	10	2	90	30
Roundy's - Center Cut Bacon, 6 Slices	140	0	8	14	440	0
	420	44	18	16	530	30
L U N C H
Quaker Chewy Dipps - Chocolate Dipped Granola Bars, 2 bar	280	46	10	2	120	26
Jongold - Apple, 3 large	240	66	0	0	0	48
Taco Meat - Home Made, 6 oz	255	0	11	37	108	0
Homemade - Pasta W/Marinara, 5.2 oz	142	22	4	3	667	14
	917	134	25	42	895	88
D I N N E R
Generic - Broiled Whitefish, 1 filet	265	0	12	38	0	0
Campbell's Chunky - Manhattan Clam Chowder, 2 cup	240	36	6	10	1,600	6
	505	36	18	48	1,600	6
S N A C K S
WHOLE FOODS - CHEDDAR SESAME STICKS, 32.2 g (1/3 cup)	172	15	11	3	552	1
WHOLE FOODS - NATURAL WASABI GREEN PEAS, 0.40333294271564485 cup (30 grams)	145	23	4	5	290	2
WHOLE FOODS 8497 - CHERRY VANILLA GRANOLA, 54.45 g (3/4 cup)	238	40	7	5	59	15
WHOLE FOODS 7700 - ORGANIC DATE PIECES w/OAT FLOWER, 74.0 g (2 TBSP)	222	56	0	2	19	41
WHOLE FOODS 8738 - DRIED MANGO SLICES, 46.0 g (approx 6 pieces)	126	32	0	2	1	23
Trader Joe's - Pumpkin O's, 3 Cup	330	75	3	6	420	27
	1,233	240	25	23	1,341	109
Totals	3,075	454	86	129	4,366	233
Your Daily Goal	5,159	645	172	258	2,300	193
Remaining	2,084	190	86	128	-2,066	-40
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 3,229 extra calories from exercise today

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 5.0 mph	158	2,915
Walking, 5.0 mph	24	466
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-152
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Daily Total / Goal	183 / 30	3,229 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	981 / 210	16,643 / 4,130

Strength Training	Sets	Reps/Set	Weight/Set
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TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED 3076 CALORIES
TOTAL CALORIES BURNED 3381 CALORIES
NET CALORIES 305 CALORIE DEFECIT
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fitbit day 60

30137 steps

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