It's hard to believe that my daughter who was born on a snowy day in March in the second year of this century will be graduating from elementary school today. When this summer ends, she will be a high school student. One personal statistical oddity about all this is that when my daughter started kindergarten, all those years ago, I had lost 80 pounds and briefly weighed 220. By the time Thanksgiving rolled around that same year, my weight was already steadily increasing and it wasn't too long before I gained back every pound and tacked on nine more for good luck. As my daughter receives her diploma tomorrow, my most recent weight was 232 pounds. So although it is technically true that one can say that my weight is up about 12 pounds in the nine years that my daughter has been going to school - there is a bit more to that story. I have only been 'fit' during two slivers of my daughters educational years, at the start and the beginning. Four years from now, when I proudly watch my daughter graduate from high school, I expect to weigh somewhere near where I am now (hopefully a bit less). I also expect not to have another massive weight gain and massive weight loss in between. That's the plan. And since the subject of graduation has been raised, I would like to publicly congratulate my daughter for her many academic achievements over these past nine years. I am looking forward to seeing what she will accomplish in the next four years! I could never have predicted her level of accomplishment so far. I know she will continue to amaze me.
Your Food Diary For:
| BREAKFAST | Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | |
| Ham w/Mustard Cheese White Bread | 500 | 54 | 5 | 34 | 2,300 | 10 | |
| Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple | 190 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 38 | |
| 690 | 104 | 6 | 35 | 2,304 | 48 | ||
| L U N C H | |||||||
| HUGE SPINACH SALAD | 1,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| D I N N E R | |||||||
| Crockpot Chicken Noodles | 720 | 5 | 15 | 133 | 584 | 0 | |
| Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple | 190 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 38 | |
| 910 | 55 | 15 | 134 | 588 | 38 | ||
| S N A C K S | |||||||
| Chocolate Cookie With Creme Filling | 280 | 42 | 14 | 1 | 180 | 26 | |
| 280 | 42 | 14 | 1 | 180 | 26 | ||
| Totals | 2,880 | 201 | 35 | 170 | 3,071 | 112 | |
| Your Daily Goal | 3,021 | 377 | 100 | 152 | 2,300 | 113 | |
| Remaining | 141 | 175 | 65 | -18 | -771 | 1 | |
| Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | Sodium | Sugar | ||
| *You've earned 1,091 extra calories from exercise today | |||||||
Your Exercise Diary for:
| Cardiovascular | Minutes | Calories Burned | |
| 99 | 1,182 | ||
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N/A | -91 | |
| Daily Total / Goal | 100 / 30 | 1,091 / 590 | |
| Weekly Total / Goal | 582 / 210 | 7,623 / 4,130 | |
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| 1182 calories burned during my one session on the elliptical machine |
There is nothing 'heroic' about a day with 15000 steps, but it is very respectable. Most people strive for 10000 per day. I have every reason to be pleased with a total step count that reaches 15000. And I am.
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From the first day that my daughter walked into her kindergarten classroom I weighed about 220 pounds. Nine years later, when she graduated, I weighed 232 pounds. I gained an average of 1.33 pounds per year over the past nine years. Although technically true - that doesn't exactly tell my real story! This reminds me of one of my favorite book titles of all time.
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| HOW I LOST 5 POUNDS IN 6 YEARS by Tom Arnold |
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