Thursday, November 5, 2015

GOD BLESS LIGHT POLLUTION

Light Pollution is sum total of all the light that lights up the night sky and prevents those that are earthbound from seeing the stars. I live in Chicago - On the clearest night maybe a person can spot a handful of stars. When I was making my 11 mile walk in Goshen after sundown on Tuesday evening, I could barely see where I was going, although the night sky had more stars than I am used to seeing at home. I utilized the flashlight feature on my iphone as a flashlight and beacon to insure that oncoming cars could see me. After a successful one day tradeshow which took place in Shipshewana, Indiana, I returned to Chicago. Since I spent most of my day standing or sitting on one place for eight hours, followed by another three hours in the car driving - I was raring to go for walk when I returned home. It was a joy walking in Chicago at night. Compared to the true darkness I experienced walking of the night before, night time Chicago seemed like daytime! God bless light pollution!

Millennium Park, Chicago (at night)

The evening temperature when I returned to Chicago shortly after 7:00PM was still 66 degrees. I was able to go out in shorts and a t-shirt and feel completely comfortable. My walk lasted until I had logged 13.1 miles. It was warm enough that even dressed in short and t-shirt I worked up a good healthy sweat.

This is Chicago in November. It is hard to imagine better weather for this time of year.

This is an enlargement of the part of the 13 mile walk that took place in Millennium Park and Maggie Daley Park

Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Quaker Oats - Instant Oatmeal Apples & Cinnamon, 3 Bowl (43g)	480	99	6	12	600	36
Forrelli - Rice Cakes Multigrain Thin, 18 SLICE	360	72	0	0	360	0
	840	171	6	12	960	36
L U N C H
Side dishes - Potato salad, 0.33 cup	108	13	6	1	312	0
Barrel O' Fun - Pretzel, Mini Twists, Fat Free, 32 pretzels	220	46	0	6	820	2
Home Made - Sloppy Joes, 4 oz	252	5	8	18	389	0
	580	64	14	25	1,521	2
D I N N E R
Trader Joe's - Coconut Chips, 1 bag	320	30	20	2	260	18
Primal Strips - Hickory Smoked Meatless Vegan Jerky Soy, 28 g	99	8	3	10	344	3
FRESH THYME - DEHYDRATED PAPAYA (lLOW SUGAR), 52.5 g (approx 1/10 cup)	175	44	0	0	44	32
Campbell's Chunky Soup - Sirloin Burger with Country Vegetables, 2 cup (240mL)	280	34	10	14	1,580	6
	874	116	33	26	2,228	59
S N A C K S
Forrelli - Rice Cakes Multigrain Thin, 36 SLICE	720	144	0	0	720	0
WHOLE FOODS 8497 - CHERRY VANILLA GRANOLA, 66.0 g (3/4 cup)	288	48	8	6	72	18
WHOLE FOODS 7700 - ORGANIC DATE PIECES w/OAT FLOWER, 66.0 g (2 TBSP)	198	49	0	2	16	36
	1,206	242	8	8	809	54

Totals	3,500	592	61	71	5,517	151
Your Daily Goal	4,688	586	156	235	2,300	175
Remaining	1,188	-5	94	163	-3,216	24
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
	*You've earned 2,758 extra calories from exercise today


	Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking, 5.0 mph	156	2,925
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-167
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Daily Total / Goal	157 / 30	2,758 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	466 / 210	8,429 / 4,130

TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED 3500 CALORIES

CALORIES BURNED 2925 CALORIES

NET CALORIES 575 CALORIES

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fitbit day 63

45093 steps
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Three photos taken in front of Cloud Gate in Millennium Park...more commonly known as The Bean

Friday, July 3, 2015

VARIETY'S THE VERY SPICE OF LIFE, THAT GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOR

William Cowper (26 November 1731 - 25 April 1800) was an English poet. And I obviously only just learned this as I prepared my blog entry as he is credited with the expression:

Variety's the very Spice of Life,

That gives it all its Flavor

If this is true, and we all know that it is... I had a lot of spices for my expenditure of $4.65 last evening at Whole Foods. I am 'mastering' the bulk foods section. That the bulk section is self-serve makes it absolutely no problem to bulk up on variety - without actually having to request of another human being to prepare a food item with .05 pounds of anything!

Last evening, I purchased ten (10) different items... The grand total invoice was $4.65. The grand total in calories was much more - 1002 calories

Here is how I, your loyal weight loss blogger and part time food psychopath nut job did it....

MEDJOOL DATES 120 calories .84

WASABI GREEN PEAS 91 calories .40

YOGURT ALMONDS 110 calories .30

ORIGINAL CORN SNACK 14 calories .24

SUN DRIED FIG 56 calories .27

TAMARI PUMPKIN SEEDS 90 calories .31

DATE COCONUT ROLLS 58 calories .19

Strawberry Hemp GRANOLA 238 calories .46

DRIED MANGO SLICES 100 calories 1.20

BLACK MISSION FIGS 56 calories .40

SALES TAX ZERO CALORIES .14

DIME REBATE (NOT USING PAPER BAG) -.10

GRAND TOTAL 1002 CALORIES $4.65

There are easier ways of spending $4.65 and consuming 1002 calories for dinner. But, as William Cowper said apparently sometime in the 1700's - VARIETY'S THE VERY SPICE OF LIFE, THAT GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOR.

OK, This was two days in a row that I reported in great detail how I spent my money at WHOLE FOODS. I plan on continuing to eat this way as I really enjoy it - but perhaps not spending so much time recording it here in quite this detail.

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 THURSDAY MENU

breakfast STEEL CUT OATS, TWO RED DELICIOUS APPLES 640 calories

lunch granola, chewy ginger, ginger harvest mix, choc cherries 858 calories

dinner WHOLE FOODS 10 DIFFERENT ITEMS (see above) 1002 calories

SNACK THREE (3) MILK CHOCOLATE CHERRIES 120 calories

TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED 2620 CALORIES

calories burned

CHICAGO YMCA 125 MINUTES PRECOR EFX ELLIPTICAL MACHINE
9.94 MILES ('ONLY') 1568 CALORIES

WEDNESDAY NET CALORIES 1052 CALORIES

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A couple of things have been happening lately... First I have been having extremely productive, high calorie burning workouts for the past couple of weeks. Secondly, I have been shying away from having these ridiculous (and wildly tasty and satisfying) 'salads' with everything (except the kitchen sink) thrown in (sans dressing) with the assumption (likely a poor one) that it was only 750 calories. I believe that I have in recent weeks been greatly under-reporting my calorie consumption... which even under-reported has been reported at near 3000 per day. In recent days, I have reported nearly 3000 calories - but I think that it is way, way more accurate. I am anticipating a good weigh-in on Saturday morning.

Question: It is clear from the above paragraph that I have forgotten how to write a coherent English sentence. Hopefully you still managed to get the gist of what I was trying to say?