INAUGURATION DAY YESTERDAY

Yesterday the 45th President of the United States of America was inaugurated. The direction of the country has been spun around a full 180°.  Lefties everywhere are going nuts. Righties, like me, everywhere are celebrating. OK, Mr. President, now the real work begins. You have made a believer out of me. I actually think that you are going to try to be a different type of leader and that you really care about being judged by your accomplishments, not by your soaring rhetoric. This is good, because soaring rhetoric is not your strong point. You are known for speaking clearly. Right on cue, the lefties all dismissed your inaugural speech. Me? I loved it. No soaring rhetoric. Just plain spoken words. Words that can be understood by everyone (except over-educated, indoctrinated, mind-numbed robots in the universities). Still today, I am talking about a different inauguration.

Today, I am going to re-inaugurate the healthier lifestyle which I professed to discover a couple of years ago and have turned away from over the past days, weeks and months. I weighed myself today and I checked in at 244 lbs. (Yes, I can even now, still take some solace as I remember that I used to be 309 lbs.) This rationalization is becoming harder and harder to mollify myself. In fact, it no longer can mollify me at all. I am disgusted with myself.  Today I am inaugurating a return to a time when every decision made to stick something in my mouth, is carefully considered.  I do not intend to return to the 1000 calorie days of two years ago, but I will try to keep the calorie count under 2000. Just as the voters turned the country around by electing Donald Trump, my mind is going to turn myself around by electing to be a bit smarter in my dietary choices. This starts now. Today.  That was my inaugural day speech. 

Your Food Diary For:

Friday, January 20, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal- Maple	800	160	10	20	1,300	60
Generic - Cinamon Roll	400	46	22	4	280	23
	1,200	206	32	24	1,580	83
L U N C H
Cracker Chips Sour Cream and Onion, 2 packages	240	44	8	4	460	4
Sanwich Artisan Smoked Turkey Chedder	700	74	21	50	2,047	4
	940	118	29	54	2,507	8
D I N N E R
Stuffed Cabbage	825	30	60	77	2,517	3
Pepperidge Farm - Sourdough Bread	300	55	4	10	550	5
	1,125	85	64	87	3,067	8
Totals	3,265	409	125	165	7,154	99
Your Daily Goal	3,011	376	100	151	2,300	113
Remaining	-254	-33	-25	-14	-4,854	14
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,081 extra calories from exercise today

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Friday, January 20, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
FIVE MILE URBAN HIKE	69	934
Daily Total / Goal	69 / 30	934 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	166 / 210	1,710 / 4,130

CONGRATULATIONS, PRESIDENT OBAMA ON BEING DECLARED 5th BEST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.  QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT! (and this assessment was made after only his first five years in office!)

THAT'S BRISK, BABY!®

Brisk is well known for its high-profile “That’s Brisk, baby!” campaigns. The J. Walter Thompson ad agency first launched the campaign in 1996, featuring pop-culture icons in claymation, and was revived in 2010 by creative agency Mekanism. The advertisements highlight exhausted celebrities who are dramatically reinvigorated by drinking Brisk. Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Bruce Lee, Danny DeVito, Bruce Willis, Ozzy Osbourne, Sylvester Stallone, Danny Trejo and Eminem have all been featured in Brisk spots.

So, you are of course, wondering why am I talking about BRISK today?  I have two applications on my phone that communicate with each other: Map My Walk and My Fitness Pal.  When I record a workout on Map My Walk, it automatically records the workout with a short description onto My Fitness Pal.  My TEN MILE walks are recorded like this:

EXERCISE
Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace

Yesterday afternoon in between the time that my daughter checked in for a Swim Meet and the time that she did actually swim in a race, I had about a hour or so.  I decided to take a quick walk around the neighborhood, and as I knew that my walk was going to be a bit shorter, I walked a bit faster than normal.  In fact, I did manage to log three miles in just under 36 minutes.  The application does not bother to label this walk at a brisk pace.  It simply logged this walk like this:

EXERCISE
Walking, 5.0 mph
(if 4.5 mph is very, very brisk - 5 mph is should have been 'brisker!' - Why didn't this faster pace rate an adjective?)

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The reason that I was able to take a THREE MILE walk in the afternoon was that I had already logged my TEN MILE walk in the early morning.  Very early morning.  I knew that I would not have a lot of free time during the day, so at the stroke of midnight on Saturday, I departed from my home for my daily 10 mile walk.  I returned home around 2:15AM,  took a quick shower, took a quick sleep and I was ready to start my day on Saturday morning.  It is extra fun to wake up in the morning and already have 15000 steps 'in the bank.'

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Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, November 28, 2015

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
John McCann Steel Cut - Oat Meal, 1 cup	600	108	0	16	0	0
Starbucks - Reduced-fat Turkey Bacon Sandwich, 1 sandwich	230	28	6	13	560	3
	830	136	6	29	560	3
L U N C H
Roundy's - Center Cut Bacon, 6 Slices	140	0	8	14	440	0
Eggs - Grade A Large, 2 egg (50g)	140	0	10	12	140	0
Nice! - Toasted O's, 1 cup	120	23	1	4	160	2
	400	23	19	30	740	2
D I N N E R
Roundy's - Center Cut Bacon, 6 Slices	140	0	8	14	440	0
Quaker - Rice Cake - Buttered Popcorn, 14 cake (9g)	490	112	0	14	630	0
	630	112	8	28	1,070	0
S N A C K S
Quaker - Rice Cake - Buttered Popcorn, 14 cake (9g)	490	112	0	14	630	0
Campbell's - Grilled Chicken and Sausage Combo Soup, 2 cup	280	38	8	14	1,560	0
Heb Organics - Toasted O's, 3 cup	330	66	6	12	480	3
	1,100	216	14	40	2,670	3
Totals	2,960	487	47	127	5,040	8
Your Daily Goal	5,710	714	190	286	2,300	214
Remaining	2,750	227	143	159	-2,740	206
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 3,780 extra calories from exercise today

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace	132	1,942
Walking, 5.0 mph	36	663
Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace	27	390
Walking, 3.5 mph, brisk pace	106	940
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-155
Daily Total / Goal	302 / 30	3,780 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1353 / 210	20,191 / 4,130

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total calories consumed 2960 calories

total calories burned (10, 3, & 2 mile walks) 2995 calories

total net calories 5 caloric deficit

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fitbit day 87

48479 steps

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ten mile walking streak reached 20 days.

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