SUPERMOON TRILOGY: ACT I

Last night our planet was illuminated at night under the only Supermoon of the year.  We will have two more supermoons in January next month. So this is the beginning of a supermoon trilogy. Last night was simply Act I. A supermoon occurs when a full moon is closer to Earth than normal due to its elliptical orbit. Although my iPhone camera is incapable of properly capturing this astronomical event, at least with me behind the lens making the attempt, I am sharing a couple of photos I took as the moon rose over Lake Michigan in Chicago shortly after moonrise.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, December 3, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Grits	400	88	6	8	1,240	4
Corn Bread Muffin	300	48	8	4	599	12
	700	136	14	12	1,839	16
L U N C H
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich	700	55	31	17	286	31
Campbell's Chunky Manhattan Clam Chowder	240	36	6	10	1,600	6
	940	91	37	27	1,886	37
D I N N E R
Sushi - Tuna Roll Maki w/Avocado	400	51	9	31	0	0
	400	51	9	31	0	0
S N A C K S
Fudge bar	300	51	6	9	0	0
Oreo Cookies	320	50	14	2	280	28
	620	101	20	11	280	28
Totals	2,660	379	80	81	4,005	81
Your Daily Goal	3,374	422	112	169	2,300	126
Remaining	714	43	32	88	-1,705	45
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,444 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 220.3 lbs in 5 weeks     

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from forbes.com posted last night:


DEC 3, 2017 @ 06:26 PM 38,609 
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Don't Miss Tonight's Supermoon: The Biggest Full Moon Of 2017

Trevor Nace , CONTRIBUTOR

Tonight (December 3), skywatchers will be treated to the only supermoon (scientific name: perigee syzygy) in 2017. If you step outside you'll notice the Moon is especially large and bright, which is because the moon is at its closest distance to Earth.

The perigee moon (prerequisite for a supermoon) exists because as the moon orbits the Earth it does so in an oval or elliptical shape, meaning sometimes the moon is closer to the Earth and other times it's farther. For a supermoon to exist, there must both be a full moon as well as a perigee moon, hence why the moon tonight will look especially close, full, and bright.

This is your opportunity in 2017 to see a supermoon. The most recent supermoon was around a year ago on November 14, 2016. However, 2018 will delight skywatchers with two supermoons, one on January 2nd and another just a few weeks later on January 31st. The supermoon on January 31st will also be a blue moon as it is the second full moon in the same month. NASA has tokened this the supermoon trilogy, with three supermoons occurring in just a few month timespan.

When stepping outside tonight, the moon will be 7% larger and 15% brighter than normal, which may be hard to discern without a direct comparison of a normal moon beside it. The moon will be brightest around midnight when it is highest above the horizon, but that, of course, will depend on local cloudiness and weather.

While the difference between a normal moon and a supermoon isn't as large as people make it out to be, sometimes optical illusions can create the appearance of a bigger moon. For instance, if the moon is on the horizon our brains are tricked into viewing the moon larger and brighter than it really is. This is called a "moon illusion" and results because your brain compares the moon's size with adjacent objects such as buildings or trees and interprets the moon to be much larger than it actually is.

The 2016 supermoon on November 14, 2016, was the closest the moon got to the Earth since 1948, which won't happen again until November of 2034, 17 years from now.

Tonight's supermoon will be 222,761 miles from Earth, 16,139 miles closer than the average distance of 238,900 miles from the moon to the Earth. If you do go outside be sure to dress warm and try to drive to a location away from light pollution so you'll be able to see the moon better.

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Each time I take a walk or hike anywhere, I am always searching for something new that I have never seen or noticed before. During an afternoon hike in Chicago on Tuesday, I discovered this long mural overlooking an empty lot that was out of this world (at least part of it)

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I used my 'panorama' option on my iphone to try to capture the entire mural in one photograph.

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Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Lewis bakery - Hawaiian special recipe bread	80	14	1	3	95	4
Eggs - Poached	300	2	20	26	600	2
Cheerios	400	80	8	12	640	4
	780	96	29	41	1,335	10
L U N C H
Hawaiian special recipe bread, 2 slice	160	28	2	6	190	8
Egg Salad	100	1	10	3	0	0
Chunky New England Clam Chowder	360	36	20	10	1,780	2
	620	65	32	19	1,970	10
D I N N E R
Home Made - Garden Salad	100	6	0	4	400	4
Johnsonville - Polish Kielbasa, 2 link	440	6	40	18	1,020	1
Seeds of Change - Seven Grains	240	47	3	6	340	1
Oreo - Thins, 12 cookies	420	63	18	3	285	36
	1,200	122	61	31	2,045	42
S N A C K S
Zico - Pure Coconut Water	280	52	0	0	640	48
UNREAL - Crispy dark chocolate	200	20	14	3	86	14
	480	72	14	3	726	62
Totals	3,080	355	136	94	6,076	124
Your Daily Goal	4,040	505	134	203	2,300	151
Remaining	960	150	-2	109	-3,776	27
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 2,110 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 215.6 lbs in 5 weeks 

ECLIPSE

Totality. My family needed to be 350 miles away from Chicago to see totality. We bucked the traffic trend from northern Illinois and drove northeast to St Clair, Missouri after spending a couple of days in Branson. The difference between seeing a 99% eclipse and totality is huge. While the slimmest sliver of the sun is showing, you need your protective goggles. When totality begins, you enjoy the show with your naked eye. I didn't remember to experience everything. I was unaware of the sounds of cicadas ratcheting up. The temperature did drop in the last moments before the sun disappeared altogether. The bright sunshine of the day made it feel like the light of the last few moments of a day before the sun hides under the horizon. It took a lot of effort to get this experience and it was well worth it. The weather forecast was depressing with 24 hours to go, but miraculously, on the dot on the map that my family selected to experience this, the sun was shining brightly when it counted. This photo is not mine. It was the closest photo that I could find online so that I could remember what I did see with my naked eyes. My next eclipse posting will be April 8, 2024. I will likely recount my adventures from somewhere in Ohio. One thing I might do differently next time? Find a hotel room to stay over wherever I am after the event. That 350 mile trip home from St Clair, Missouri to Chicago took about 11 hours.
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This blog that I did everyday for nearly two years was a good idea. It was a very bad idea to cease blogging. The blog kept me in check. My weight this morning is 261 lbs. Oh yeah, I started at 309 llbs a long time ago. So technically I could say that I lost 47 lbs. The problem is, my low weight was under 220 lbs. So really, I have recently gained 40 lbs. Within a day, a week or sometime soon... I am going to rededicate myself to a eating healthy and exercising. Why this blog was so important to keeping my focused? I don't know... I just was. I will be back.

ROLLING STONES (POUNDS & KILOGRAMS)

I am a reader of various international articles and blogs on diet and weight loss.  I know that my readers come from all over the world.   Some of my readers probably don't understand exactly how much a pound is, and conversely, until this morning, I had no idea what a 'stone' was.   So today, I provide a public service:

1 STONE = 14 POUNDS
1 KILOGRAM = 2.2 POUNDS

I weighed 309 lbs on December 24, 2014      
Last Saturday, January 18, 2015 I weighed 284.7 lbs

Therefore, on December 24, I weighed approximately 22 Stone, 140.5 Kilograms
Last Saturday, January 18, I weighed approximately 20.3 Stone, 129.4 Kilograms.

As of last Saturday I had lost nearly 2 STONE, or 11 Kilograms.

I plan on ROLLING away quite a few more STONES in the coming weeks.

Now if you want to weigh less, without dieting.
The solution is simple.
Weigh yourself on the Moon.  Due to the lower gravity there, you would weigh less.
Approximately 1/6th less.
Unfortunately, your mass would be the same, so you might weigh less, but if are wearing a 48" waist pair of Levi' or wearing a size 20 Chanel dress, you would be wearing the same clothing on the Moon.   So the best plan to lose weight remains diet and exercise no matter whether you are measuring your success in pounds, kilograms or stone.

Moon Weight measured in 'Newtons' (N) is 1/6th the weight on Earth.  Unfortunately the mass is the same.  

THURSDAY MENU

BREAKFAST   three poached eggs, 2 slices turkey 'bacon'                   280 CALORIES
LUNCH             5oz. Mahi Mahi, 1 cup Sweet Potato Bisque Soup       290 CALORIES
DINNER            1 cup Sweet Potato Bisque Soup, Polish Sausage         
                            two tablespoons Trader Joe's Sauerkraut                    365 CALORIES

TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE      935 CALORIES

EXERCISE

5:00AM  60 minutes @ 4mph - 4 miles         600 CALORIES
6:00PM   60 minutes @ 4mph - 4 miles         600 CALORIES

THURSDAY CALORIC DEFICIT 265 CALORIES


My January 3rd post, 'RALPH LAUREN SAYS THAT I AM BIG' spoke of my excitement to fit back into a pair of 48" waist Ralph Lauren pants.   Yesterday, January 22, was the day that those pants have been retired and put in a pile to be donated.   My waist size in now 46"    I purchased an inexpensive pair of black pants yesterday, size 46" waist and they fit perfectly.  I have lost 4" from my waist in 30 days.   Thursday January 22 was DAY 30 of my new program, which I have dubbed the 'Rabbi Hillel Diet.'

It is Friday morning as I post this.
I don't know precisely what time I am going to wake up on Saturday to step onto my scale - but I am guessing it is going to be early.    See you tomorrow!

I have consistently been having the same breakfast every day that I am home.  Three poached eggs and two slices of turkey 'bacon'   (Note: no pigs were harmed in the production of this 'bacon' - but some turkeys were)  280 CALORIES