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Sunday, November 22, 2015

NO ISSUES WITH TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA

I enjoyed my first day at 217 lbs since July 4th of this year. My lowest weight during the past year was 213.9 lbs on April 25th. My recent high over the past few months 226.9 lbs which by sheer coincidence was the actual day that I purchased my fitbit. Perhaps I am completely wrong (as I often am) and it was not coincidence at all. In the 79 days that I have been a 'fitbitter' I have dropped 10 pounds. With that success so apparent, there was no way that I was going to let a sloppy, rainy, cold, snowy, and icy day thwart my daily 10 mile walk. Before the day ended, I logged my 13th consecutive day of walking 10 miles outdoors. (I have no issues with triskaidekaphobia!)

Once the snow stopped, the air was crystal clear and I snapped this photo from the lakefront as I approached the 9th mile of my 10 mile walk.

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I did have some morning errands to attend to, and the combination of rain/snow/sleet did not make a morning walk seem like an amazingly great idea. I waited until late afternoon. The precipitation had ended although it was cold outside. Conditions when I began my walk were less than ideal - although much better than conditions in the early morning.

Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
365 Organic - Water Crackers, 8 crackers	140	24	3	2	100	0
STARBUCKS - BACON & GOUDA BREAKFAST SANDWICH, 1 sandwich	350	30	18	17	820	0
Starbucks - Reduced-fat Turkey Bacon Sandwich, 0.5 sandwich	115	14	3	7	280	2
Sage - Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple (170g)	190	50	1	1	4	38
Add Food Quick Tools	795	118	25	27	1,204	39
L U N C H
Kashi - Cherry Dark Chocolate Chewy Granola Bar, 2 bar (35g)	240	48	4	10	130	16
Add Food Quick Tools	240	48	4	10	130	16
D I N N E R
Sage - Red Delicious Apple, 2 medium apple	190	50	1	1	4	38
WHOLE FOODS 8497 - CHERRY VANILLA GRANOLA, 110 g (3/4 cup)	480	80	14	10	120	30
WHOLE FOODS 8738 - DRIED MANGO SLICES, 40 g (approx 6 pieces)	110	28	0	2	1	20
WHOLE FOODS 9246 - 100% RAW CACAO GOJI, 70 g (approx 2 chunks)	250	38	15	5	13	25
Add Food Quick Tools	1,030	196	30	18	137	113
S N A C K S
Dark Chocolate Covered Raisins - Whole Foods, 35 raisins	160	27	7	1	40	22
Add Food Quick Tools	160	27	7	1	40	22

Totals	2,225	389	65	56	1,511	190
Your Daily Goal	4,967	621	165	249	2,300	186
Remaining	2,742	232	99	193	789	-4
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 3,037 extra calories from exercise today

Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace	129	2,017
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	1,020
Add Exercise Quick Tools

Daily Total / Goal	130 / 30	3,037 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	914 / 210	15,945 / 4,130

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total calories consumed 3917 calories
total calories burned (20 miles, four walks) 4289 calories
total net calories 372 calories deficit
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fitbit day 80

42114 steps

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ten mile walking streak reached 13 days

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Even whenI look at these photos... and I ask myself: What am I so happy about? I think I know. It is that my 10 mile walk in dark freezing temperatures is coming to a conclusion. I learned last evening that my leather gloves are simply not effective for combatting cold if one is out and about for two hours.

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triskaidekaphobia
noun tris·kai·deka·pho·bia \ˌtris-ˌkī-ˌde-kə-ˈfō-bē-ə, ˌtris-kə-\
Definition of TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA
: fear of the number 13

Thursday, July 9, 2015

McALISTER'S DELI

Yesterday I visited a customer in Evansville, Indiana. We have a tradition of going out to enjoy a Sushi lunch after all the buying is completed. Sushi has always been, and will likely remain, my favorite food. I am sure that if I was compelled to eat only one thing for the rest of my life and it was sushi - I'd be fine with that. (really fine) However, on the way to the store I passed a Jason's Deli. Sushi can be purchased virtually anywhere. Jason's Delis are a bit of a a treat as they are not ubiquitous in the states that I travel.

I mentioned this to my customer and she first proposed that we go to Jason's Deli as she sensed that I would prefer that. But then she recommended yet another regional chain, much like Jason's Deli which until yesterday I had never heard of.

So yesterday was my first meal at a McAlister's Deli. I had an Angus Club Sandwich with Chicken Tortilla Soup. Everything was quite tasty. I looked up McAlister's on the internet to find out a little bit more about chain. This came from their own website:

Founded in 1989, McAlister’s® Deli is a fast casual restaurant chain known for our sandwiches, spuds, soups, salads, desserts and McAlister’s Famous Sweet Tea™. In addition to dine-in and take-out service, we also offer catering with a selection of sandwich trays, box lunches, desserts, a hot spud bar and more. With numerous industry accolades, the McAlister’s brand has 341 restaurants in 24 states.

It is very good to have another place where I can enjoy a good meal. Who said eating 'on the road' was difficult?

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 Wednesday MENU

breakfast Apples/Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal, two apples 680 calories
lunch McAlister's Deli Angus sandwich, Chicken Tortilla Soup 970 calories
dinner FRESH THYME bulk foods (various) 1612 calories
SNACK GRANOLA 520 calories

total calories consumed 3782 calories

calories burned

Elliptical machine (Evansville YMCA)Precor 100i INTERVAL, 65 minutes, 5.64 miles 908 calories
five minute break, changed machines
Elliptical machine (Evansville YMCA)Precor EFX 576i Interval 65 minutes, 5.54 miles 877 calories
CALORIES BURNED 1785 CALORIES

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Monday net calories 1997 calories

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using a mirror to take a 'selfie' while on the elliptical machine, Evansville YMCA

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

WHO ARE YOU

WHO ARE YOU (1978) is great album from the The Who, although not quite as classic as Tommy (1969), Who's Next (1971) and/or Quadrophenia (1973). Still WHO ARE YOU is undeniably a great album.

Yesterday, the MARC JACOBS WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL crossed the threshold of it's 10,000th visit, I thought I would tell you, my readers, WHO YOU ARE. Since December 24, 2014 when I embarked on my weight loss journey, I have developed two new hobbies: LOSING WEIGHT and BLOGGING ABOUT MY WEIGHT LOSS. The blog has been written for it's one most royal reader, that is, me. I have enjoyed revisiting some of the things that I wrote earlier as the journey began. I try to make each post interesting. One of the purposes of the blog is to serve to document how and where my successful weight loss came from in case I should ever regress. Today, I speak with great confidence that I will not revert back to my old moronic lifestyle. Now that I think about it, the way I was living prior to December 24, 2014 shouldn't have been called a lifestyle as it was probably leading more to death than life. It was more of a deathstyle. Enough of kicking myself, that old me is gone. Just as President Ronald Reagan, in a 1982 speech to the British Parliament predicted the eventual fall of Communism by stating that "it will be left on the ash heap of history" so, too, have I left my old stupid habits on the ash heap of history.

WHO ARE YOU?

TODAY'S BLOG IS ABOUT YOU - MY READERS. One of the very cool things about hosting a blog on Google's BLOGGER is the ease in:
keeping track on how many people visit
keeping track of when they visit
keeping track of what countries they visit from
keeping track of the most popular blog entries over various periods of time.

AND TODAY, I AM GOING TO SHARE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU AS THE MARC JACOBS WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL HAS HOSTED ITS 10,000th VISIT!

Who Are You? Let me tell you...

Google's 'blogger' allows me to see from what countries, the visitors to my blog come from. This can be broken down so that one can see the 'all-time' list, or just the list from the past month, week, day or even the past two hours. It has been great fun to see the wide variety of countries that are represented. Here is the all-time top ten list as of Tuesday morning, April 14, 2015

TOTAL PAGEVIEWS TO THE BLOG 10,019 (broken down by the top ten countries)

UNITED STATES 7426 74.1%
UNITED KINGDOM 823 8.2%
INDIA 515 5.1%
CANADA 368 3.7%
AUSTRALIA 171 1.7%
RUSSIA 123 1.2%
IRELAND 92 0.9%
FRANCE 64 0.6%
GERMANY 38 0.4%
NEW ZEALAND 23 0.2%

Google's 'blogger' also will make a list of the top ten most visited blog posts. These lists can also be viewed in the same time frames as the list of home countries of the visitors. All-time list, the past month, the past week, the past day or the past two hours. Here is the top ten blog posts with the number of visitors during the life of the blog. Remember, that it is much harder for a recent blog post to compete with an older popular post as there is simply less time that it has been available to be viewed.

TOP TEN POSTS (all-time)

Entry

Pageviews

RABBI HILLEL DIET

Jan 19, 2015

195

BEFORE/(no after) PICTURES

Dec 26, 2014

142

MY NEW FAVORITE RESTAURANT

Jan 9, 2015

HOMER SIMPSON CALORIE CONUNDRUM

Jan 7, 2015, 2 comments

EXERCISING EPIPHANY

Jan 4, 2015

885 CALORIES

Dec 29, 2014, 2 comments

THE RETURN OF TRADER JOE'S

Jan 19, 2015, 1 comment

CONFESSIONS

Dec 28, 2014

UP, UP, AND AWEIGH!

Mar 14, 2015

LOST MY THIRD TURKEY

Mar 15, 2015

Pageviews by Browsers

Entry	Pageviews
Safari	270 (41%)
Chrome	196 (30%)
Internet Explorer	100 (15%)
Firefox	51 (7%)
OS;FBSV	11 (1%)
CriOS	4 (<1%)
Mobile Safari	4 (<1%)
Silk	4 (<1%)
Mobile	3 (<1%)

Pageviews by Operating Systems

Entry	Pageviews
Windows	2934 (29%)
iPhone	2898 (28%)
Macintosh	1997 (19%)
iPad	818 (8%)
Android	772 (7%)
Linux	542 (5%)
Other Unix	29 (<1%)
BB10	24 (<1%)
iPod touch	3 (<1%)
BlackBerry	1 (<1%)

So that, dear readers is WHO YOU ARE. I think that who you are, are people who might be seeking their own answers to their own battles with weight. Some of you are just family (Hello Jennifer, Hello Mom, Hello Sara, Hello Andy) Some of you are friends (Hello Jack) My intentions are to continue to blog daily as long as I have something that seems interesting (at least to me) to say. I can anticipate that once I get down to my goal weight, which I don't know precisely what that is - a whole new set of challenges will present themselves - number one on that list is maintenance. Maintenance is probably not quite as fun as the ski-slope of weight shedding that I am on now - but without proper maintenance - this journey would be a useless endeavor.

I do want to thank you, my dear readers, for reading what I have been writing for these past few months. I feel like I am writing a book, publishing one page per day. I know that I have enjoyed revisiting some of the emotions that I was experiencing along the way and I hope that in some very small way, my journey has enriched your life at least a little bit. SEE YOU TOMORROW, Marc

TUESDAY MENU

breakfast two poached eggs, oat meal w/prune, two slices turkey 'bacon' 365 calories
lunch spinach, hard-boiled egg, tomato, imitation crab legs 195 calories
dinner Jimmy John's bootlegger UNWICH, Chicken Tortilla Soup 490 calories

total calories consumed 1050 calories

CALORIES BURNED
7AM elliptical 32 minutes 492 calories

MONDAY NET CALORIES 558 CALORIES