100 DAYS

By the time that Saturday rolls around, President Donald Trump will be in his 100th day in office. The reason that the first hundred days are typically said to be so important is that there is a presumption that a newly elected president has his most power during this time period. It has been disappointing that Trump and the Republican Congress have so far failed to repeal and replace Obamacare which has been a promise endlessly made and repeated. As far as a major accomplishment to relish was the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch. One of the main reasons that Trump was elected by millions of conservatives around America was their belief that Trump would keep his promise and nominate a conservative to the court. This important promise was kept. A presidential term is 1461 days. (I included one leap day in this calculation.) Donald Trump still has at least 1361 days left to keep his promises. If this was a golf game, we'd still be on the first tee. If this was a baseball game, we'd still be in the first inning. If this was a bowling tournament, we'd still be in the first frame. If this was a.... enough already, I know you get the point.

Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, April 22, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal - Original	500	95	10	20	375	0
	500	95	10	20	375	0
L U N C H
Panda Express - Broccoli Beef	150	13	7	9	520	7
Panda Express - Mushroom Chicken	180	10	9	14	0	4
Panda Express - Brown Fried Rice	520	85	16	11	850	3
	850	108	32	34	1,370	14
D I N N E R
Potato - Baked	160	37	0	4	15	2
Dole - sesame asian salad kit	600	52	44	12	1,520	24
	760	89	44	16	1,535	26
Totals	2,110	292	86	70	3,280	40
Your Daily Goal	3,021	377	100	152	2,300	113
Remaining	911	85	14	82	-980	73
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
6.67 Miles Urban Hike	106	1,091
Daily Total / Goal	106 / 30	1,091 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	576 / 210	5,822 / 4,130

Dad and daughter met Mom at the supermarket for some shopping. Dad and daughter walked 6.67 miles to the market, although we did accept the ride home along with the groceries.

ONE QUARTER OF A MILLION

I received my weekly fitbit report card on Wednesday as always.  I wish I had known how close I was to exceeding ONE QUARTER of a MILLION STEPS for the week...  

Nevertheless, my personal 'bar' is set high... it might be awhile before I can exceed this number.  I know myself too well.  Surely, at some point, perhaps at some point in the not-too-distant future...I will try. Still...248,182 steps in one week is somewhat impressive from this former couch potato.

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 Wednesday MENU

breakfast  CANTALOUPE, toast w/button & jam, two granola bars  700 calories

lunch        MISO SOUP, Alaska Roll (sushi)                                       465 calories

dinner       SUSHI, SEAWEED SALAD, yogurt almonds                 1247 calories

SNACK    CHICKEN JERKY, three honeycrisp apples                      480 calories

TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED 2892 CALORIES

WEDNESDAY'S WORKOUT - NOT APPLICABLE
Perhaps it looks silly that I write calories burned for the day was Zero.  What I mean is that I did not burn many more additional calories over and above the calories burned based on my Basal Metabolic Rate.

Basal Metabolic Rate is the number of calories one burns if one stayed in bed all day.


CALORIES BURNED 0 CALORIES 

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Wednesday net calories 2892 calories

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fitbit day 42

15050 steps

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It was approximately 11:45PM when I glanced at my fitbit and discovered that I was a little more than 1000 steps away from hitting 15000 steps for the day.  I was staying at a friends home for the past two days, so I have been breaking my pattern of daily workouts.  Still, I wanted to at least break through the 15000 barrier for the day.  I was running in place, on tip toes, trying to be quiet, and still breaking into a pretty good sweat as I made my last 1000 steps last evening in about 13 minutes or so...

This graph shows my small outburst of activity with minutes to go before midnight.   Since I was running in place, which I do not normally do.... when I was done, I had discovered new muscles.... as the calves in both my legs were immediately sore.