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Monday, February 10, 2020

GOATS HEAD SOUP

I had a hearty soup for lunch, not quite as hearty as this faux choice from Campbell's, but hearty nonetheless.

Thursday, November 15, 2018

The morning temperature in Danville, Illinois when I woke up was 15° - a perfect day to return to the elliptical machine for the second day in a row, after not working an elliptical machine for more than a year.

Oh boy, did I fall off the wagon yesterday.
Ate far too much.
All I have to do is stop it.

Did I really 'need' the popcorn that I bought when I went to see 'Bohemian Rhapsody?'
I did walk over to the theatre from my Baymont Hotel in Litchfield, Illinois.
I don't think the theatre was more than 300 steps away.

The movie was very good. The actors that played the band members of Queen - looked like their counterparts. What a great reminder about how great Queen music is. Turns out, I don't need to be reminded... I have liked Queen for a very long time.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT

During the month of August I have had an amazing active hiking streak - I have not missed a day (yet). Lots of hiking. Each day, I try to find a new trail or park. For the past ten months or so, I have had a free BLUE ÖYSTER CULT concert in Skokie marked on my calendar. A normal person would have driven to this Chicago suburb or taken the CTA (subway). I am not a normal person. I took an urban hike which I extended to 13 miles before I found a seat at the SKOKIE BACKLOT BASH STREET FESTIVAL. The first time that I saw BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, I was a young lad, 18 years old. The date was December 31, 1975. During the interim 40+ years since that first show and the show that I saw last evening - I have probably seen this band at least 30 times. Virtually all of the shows in the past 20 years have been free concerts at various street festivals or 'fests' (for example, Cornfest and Ribfest are two that I remember well). My day started with an errand downtown, and that was turned into a four mile walk. My day ended after the concert, and I did chose to take the CTA (subway) back home, but still I had to walk one mile more to catch the 'YELLOW' line. By the time that the clock struck twelve on Friday, I had walked/hiked 18 miles. I call that a good day of fitness.

Blue Öyster Cult at Skokie Backlot Bash Street Festival August 26, 2016

After my 13 mile urban hike from Chicago to Skokie I found a spot about 15 feet from the stage.

Thirteen mile urban hike from Chicago to Skokie

After arriving home from my Kentucky trip at 2:30AM early Friday morning, I was getting tired, and although I considered walking back from Skokie after the concert, I was overtaken by common sense and took the CTA (subway) back home. The 'YELLOW' line is the extension from Evanston that runs into Skokie. I had always thought that it was fairly new. It is not quite as new as I thought. This extension has been running since 1964. Last night was the first time that I had utilized this part of the subway system.

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210.2 lbs

I weighed 214.6 lbs just one week ago on August 20, 2016

I weigh 210.2 lbs. today, August 27, 2016

I lost 4.4 lbs this week
(I did cut back on my walking - this week I 'only' walked 84 miles)

I have lost 98.8 lbs in 611 days. Today begins Day 612.

I will always be at the beginning of a journey that never ends.

I weigh 210.2 lbs (611 days ago I weighed 309 lbs)

I have lost 32% of my weight since Dec 24, 2015

I have a BMI, body mass index of 28.12

I had a 42.0 BMI on Dec 24 just 604 days ago (Class III obesity)

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ACCORDING TO MY BMI APP... even now, 98.8 lbs less than when I started on December 24, 2014 - I am 'officially' overweight. C'mon, really?
Even f I weighed 186.9 lbs, my BMI would be 25.00 and still classified as overweight!
I will need to get down to 186.8 lbs (BMI 24.99) to finally be considered NORMAL.
There is a possibility that I am not destined for life of normalcy...

Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Questbar - Cookies & Cream	190	20	9	21	210	0
Oatmeal	300	54	5	10	180	2
Bacon Slice - Bacon	320	0	20	6	420	0
YOGURT ALMONDS	250	25	16	5	23	22
	1,060	99	50	42	833	24
L U N C H
Read - 3 Bean Salad	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
Kind Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Protein	200	17	13	7	50	9
	500	82	13	12	1,550	49
D I N N E R
Pot Roast Pork	200	1	9	28	0	0
Fried Shrimp	100	4	0	42	0	0
Roasted Cauliflower	100	3	10	1	497	1
	400	8	19	71	497	1
S N A C K S
Dark Chocolate Bar	500	48	34	9	341	34
	500	48	34	9	341	34

Totals	2,460	237	116	134	3,221	108
Your Daily Goal	6,081	760	202	305	2,300	228
Remaining	3,621	523	86	171	-921	120
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 4,151 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today... You'd weigh 168.1 lbs in 5 weeks

Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
4 mile walk	58	707
13 Mile Urban Hike	195	2,228
1 mile walk	18	148



Daily Total / Goal	272 / 30	4,151 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	852 / 210	10,785 / 4,130

Ever since my high weight of 241.9 lbs during my recovery from my hernia surgery - my weight has been steadily headed downward - it is down a very significant 31.7 lbs since May 7, 2014

My weight loss journey began on December 24, 2014 when I weighed 309 lbs. For one week, I actually touched down at 209 lbs on December 12th. I came to realize that this was an aberrant false reading, as the very next week, December 19, 2015 my weight popped back up to 218 lbs. This current particular glide down that I am on has seemed much more real. My weight this morning at 210.2 lbs is down by a full 98.8 lbs from the day that I changed my life. I am convinced that this weight is real.

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ALBUMS RELEASED BY BLUE ÖYSTER CULT...

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

HECTIC TRAVEL SCHEDULE

Right now I am in the middle of a very hectic travel schedule. I will have had 5 consecutive days of trade shows, divided between three different cities, and three different trade shows. When I looked at this schedule as it was approaching it appeared to me that there was no way that I could keep up my consistency of working out each day.

It appears that I was wrong (as I often am...)

I did have to schedule two workouts at 2:00AM and 3:00M in the morning. Last night I did not get to exercise until 10:00PM and this morning I was back at it again at 6:00AM. It appears that my last challenge will be to get to the elliptical machine before midnight on Wednesday evening and I will have successfully not missed a day.

MAY 30 TNNA SHOW COLUMBUS, OHIO
MAY 31 TNNA SHOW COLUMBUS, OHIO
JUNE 1 CHICAGO TEXTILE SHOW CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
JUNE 2 CHICAGO TEXTILE SHOW CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
JUNE 3 SHIPSHEWANA FABRIC SHOW SHIPSHEWANA, INDIANA

I even managed to SQUEEZE IN a Rolling Stones concert along the way!

When criss-crossing the countryside on a tight schedule it is very helpful to have a reliable car.
I enjoy my 2012 HONDA CR-V (with approximately 115,000 miles...and counting...)

MONDAY MENU

breakfast cup oat meal w/prune, two eggs, two slices turkey 'bacon' 355 calories
lunch MARIANO'S HUGE SPINACH SALAD with all the fixin' 750 calories
dinner spinach salad w/hearts of palm, beets, onion, tomato, mushrooms, etc
salmon burger, bowl MISO soup, potato pancake, cucumber salad
fresh corn on the cob 449 calories

calories consumed 1554 calories

calories burned
stair climbing from ground level to 25th floor 80 calories (4 MINUTES, 43 SECONDS)
10:00PM elliptical machine 32 minutes 479 calories
stair descending from 25th floor to grind floor 20 calories (2 MINUTES, 43 SECONDS)

total calories burned 579 calories

MONDAY NET CALORIES 975 CALORIES

Monday, June 1, 2015

OFF THE TRACKS

OFF THE TRACKS. DERAILED. That's me. Eating far too much. Perhaps drinking a bit too much. Surely eating too many bar snacks while drinking. Losing track of what I have eaten, not recording EVERYthing I have eaten. Gaining weight. NOT GOOD. Still have not had to loosen my belt another notch - THAT'S GOOD. So although the scale had indicated some weight gain in recent weeks - I am getting more toned as the weeks and months have slipped by. THAT'S ALSO GOOD.

Recently my lifestyle changes have been a bit OFF THE TRACKS

There is no particular reason to get too angry, upset or disappointed about having a setback. Getting angry would simply be unproductive. In fact, I am going to concentrate on reminding myself what I have been doing right. Still I have not missed a day of exercise since early January. It certainly can be said that I have successfully integrated a workout into my daily routine.

I have just returned home from my second national trade show in as many weeks. Starting today, I will return to a very calculated, very specific home-prepared meals and get my body back in weight shedding mode. OK, that's the plan.

Regarding daily exercise... The rational part of my mind advises me that I SHOULD skip a day or two of exercise in order to allow my body to heal as I continue to strengthen my muscles. I am not guided by rationality (probably nothing to brag about) I am currently in the mode where I am still trying to prove to myself that daily exercise is important and must be done...every day. I know that I have an 'addictive' personality - I want to remain addicted to exercise (I do not want to be lured by becoming addicted to days off) As I said, this is not completely rational. Imagine that, a human being not behaving in a completely rational way. Like everyone else, I am doing my best. There will ALWAYS be room for improvement with my lifestyle.

SUNDAY MENU

breakfast oat meal, granola, eggs, bacon, fresh fruit bowl 1617 calories
lunch two bananas, two apples 430 calories
dinner (eaten while driving back from Columbus to Chicago) Rice Cakes 490 caloires

Sunday calorie consumption 2537 calories

calories burned
Hilton AMT elliptical (2:30 AM - after Saturday night Rolling Stones concert) 725 calories

SUNDAY NET CALORIES 1812 calories

MARC JACOBS WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL