This blog disappeared from December 1, 2018 thru May 25, 2019

This blog disappeared from December 1, 2018 thru May 25, 2019
When I am not blogging, I am gaining weight.
Publicly logging my meals keeps my caloric intake within normal human levels.
When I am not blogging, I eat with reckless abandon.
Is this stupid?
Obviously.
What is the answer?
Keep Blogging.

During my hiatus... I did take three notable hikes in December 2018 and one hike in April which I saved to my phone, but now want to post here... so I can delete them from my phone.

I also achieved a notable milestone on fitbit, which has thus far not been memorialized on my blog...

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Lynbrook - Rockville Centre Hike

JFK Airport Hike

Sharon, Connecticut Hike

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Notre Dame

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VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

I am still in Lynbrook visiting my Mom. After Wednesday's 'epic' hike to Long Beach it was time to stay a bit closer to home for Thursday's hike. The balmy weather of Wednesday had dissipated and dropped another six degrees to 14°F when I set out. I decided to start my hike by walking to my old high school which I graduated from a bit more than 42 years ago - Valley Stream South. I was curious just how long that walk was. Back in the old days, my home was the furthest away from the high school of any home in the district. I am sure that it still the case. Anyway, I logged my hike and 'discovered' that it was merely 2.2 miles door-to-door.

This was the route I took when I walked (or rode my bike) to my high school. I was convinced that I lived 2.5 miles from my school, it turned out to be a little bit less.

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I thought that this street sign in Millbrook (formerly Green Acres) had a snappy name.

Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, December 28, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Trader Joe's Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal	320	64	4	8	480	26
Bagel, Lox and Cream Cheese	400	49	12	27	1,556	9
	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 Cheddar Cheese	220	0	18	12	360	0
Shrimp	100	0	2	21	468	0
	500	30	25	41	1,148	2
D I N N E R
Chicken Parmigian	350	46	11	18	594	14
Rataouille	200	44	3	8	216	44
Garden Salad	100	6	0	4	400	4
Spaghetti With Meatballs	400	105	3	18	0	0
	1,050	201	17	48	1,210	62
S N A C K S
Cookies, Brownies	300	47	12	4	231	27
	300	47	12	4	231	27
Totals	2,570	391	70	128	4,625	126
Your Daily Goal	3,123	390	104	157	2,300	117
Remaining	553	-1	34	29	-2,325	-9
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,193 extra calories from exercise today

VALLEY STREAM STATE LAKE PARK

In between taking care of my Mom who is just getting used to 'enjoying' life with a broken ankle, and shortly after a wonderful home aide worker showed up, I found time to take quick 90 minute hike to Valley Stream State Lake Park.  My iphone battery was expiring, so I 'ended' the MapMyWalk hike at the five mile mark, but still did walk home an additional two miles making my afternoon jaunt 7 miles. 

Your Food Diary For:

Monday, October 3, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Great Grains - Raisins Dates & Pecans	500	98	10	10	321	31
	500	98	10	10	321	31
L U N C H
Great Grains - Raisins Dates  & Pecans	500	98	10	10	321	31
	500	98	10	10	321	31
D I N N E R
Beef - Brisket	500	0	38	36	327	0
Kroger - Apple Sauce	100	26	0	0	50	18
Challah	400	67	9	12	1,088	0
Potato pancakes	400	41	22	9	1,139	3
	1,400	134	69	57	2,604	21
S N A C K S
Brownie	300	24	21	6	188	21
Nestle - Milk Chocolate Bar	400	51	23	4	38	48
	700	75	44	10	226	69
Totals	3,100	405	133	87	3,472	152
Your Daily Goal	3,337	417	111	167	2,300	125
Remaining	237	12	-22	80	-1,172	-27
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,407 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 206.4 lbs in 5 weeks.

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Monday, October 3, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
7 MILE HIKE	90	1,425
Daily Total / Goal	90 / 30	1,425 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	91 / 210	1,611 / 4,130

TOBACCO FREE CAMPUS

During my ten mile urban hike close to home in Chicago yesterday, I passed by the elementary school that my daughter attended from Kindergarten through fifth grade. I saw a sign that stopped me in my tracks. The sign appears to be brand new.  I can imagine the parents of the kindergarteners arriving next September, the 8th grade CLASS OF 2025.  What will they think? Will they think that this sign was posted because smoking was ubiquitous at this school?  When my daughter attended this school I hardly saw any of the elementary school kids chewing tobacco or smoking.  Not a cigarette, not a pipe, not a cigar.  I never even saw someone vaping. (Of course, vaping had not been invented yet when my daughter started kindergarten. Besides the sign does not prohibit vaping as there is no tobacco used with that system.) I graduated from grade school in 1969.  We were not the beneficiary of such a sign. And yet, I never saw anyone smoking on my 'campus' at the William L. Buck Elementary School on Horton Avenue in Valley Stream.  Back then, smoking was actually a popular activity among the adult population. Smoking never really took off among us elementary school kids. We were too busy trading and flipping baseball cards. And yet, I never once, saw any child or adult smoking anywhere on that 'campus.' Not only is BIG GOVERNMENT harmful, it is also silly.

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47 years after I graduated 6th grade from William L Buck School - The school looks the same from the outside.  I wonder if that school now finds it necessary to post signs advising all that it is Tobacco Free. Somehow I managed to avoid all tobacco products without similar warning signs within ten feet of the monkey bars. How ever did I manage?

ten mile urban hike in the early afternoon

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four mile urban hike in the late afternoon

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I squeezed in another 30 minutes on the elliptical machine from 11:30AM to Midnight

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Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, July 23, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Nabisco - Ritz Crakers, 15 Crackers	240	30	14	3	315	3
Creamy - Peanut Butter	300	13	25	11	221	5
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal - Blueberries & Cream	390	78	6	9	510	33
	930	121	45	23	1,046	41
L U N C H
Sweet Potato Mashed Potatoes	200	46	0	4	80	14
Meatballs with Cheese	599	27	30	54	1,935	3
Mashed Potatoes With Ham	300	30	12	14	876	0
	1,099	103	42	72	2,891	17
D I N N E R
Double Luck - Sweet Peas	280	53	0	14	1,330	14
Read 4 Bean Salad	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
Double Luck - Corn	245	46	4	7	1,260	21
	825	164	4	26	4,090	75
S N A C K S
Kind - Dark Chocolate Chunk Bar, 2 bar	300	50	9	6	130	18
	300	50	9	6	130	18
Totals	3,154	438	100	127	8,157	151
Your Daily Goal	3,543	443	118	178	2,300	132
Remaining	389	5	18	51	-5,857	-19
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,613 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 212.1 lbs in 5 weeks     

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Your Exercise Diary for:

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking	131	893
Walking	65	443
MATRIX TREADMILL	30	450
Daily Total / Goal	226 / 30	1,786 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1134 / 210	8,263 / 4,130

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Vaping

The process by which one inhales vapour from a personal vaporiser, or e-cig. 

Used instead of 'smoking' to describe the action of someone sucking on the business end of an e-cig 

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e-cigarette

[ee-sig-uh-ret]

noun

a device used to simulate the experience of smoking, having a cartridge with a heater that vaporizes liquid nicotine instead of burning tobacco. Also called electronic cigarette, Informal, e-cig

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SINCE VAPING (SMOKING AN E-CIGARETTE) DOES NOT USE TOBACCO - I TAKE IT THE LITTLE KIDS IN KINDERGARTEN CAN USE THIS PRODUCT?  Certainly their parents waiting on the playground to pick up their kids after school will be able to use e-cigarettes, yes?  Why have this tobacco-free sign?  Why was there not a sign proclaiming that this was an alcohol free zone? Or a drug-free zone? I looked, but I didn't even see the my favorite stupid sign proclaiming a gun-free zone. (I may have to look closer next time - gun-free signs are a favorite among school administrators)