November 8

Post 1000, Day 312 of 2013
- and 1042 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

It's a travel day - always exciting. The trip was pretty smooth, beginning at 11:45, when my friend Al picked me up and took me to lunch, then to the airport.

It had snowed, and was snowing slightly when I boarded the jet to New York City. I checked in with Facebook and mentioned that the season's first snow seemed like a great day to fly to sunny, warm Los Angeles, even if the sleet building up on the jet's portholes was a little worrying.

My fortune cookie told me I made impossible things possible (cognitive dissonance, anyone). I told Al, at least it didn't warn me not to fly. 

After a three-hour layover in beautiful Terminal 5, JFK Airport, it was six-and-a-half hours in the air, and I landed at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank - my first time at that airport. There, I got my exercise carrying my bags from the gate at one end of the airport to the Hertz rental booth at the extreme other (this is literal: I walked from the tarmac past the terminal into one end of the terminal, walked completely to the other end of that building, and walked outside to within fifty yards of the airport exit; it was at least a mile).

Within an hour from touch-down, I was hanging with Alex. 

Oh, and this is my thousandth posting! Number 1001 will come in 10 days.

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 Food and Diet Section

December 31, 2012 to November 7, 2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         209.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     209.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:     -  0.0 lbs

Diet Comment

I didn't weigh myself. The day's eating was crazy, consisting of a bit of overindulgence at lunch - and then, large quantities of off-plan foods during the trip. The only almost-healthy part was the protein bars I brought, which I used instead of sweets during the twelve-and-a-half hours I spent at airline terminals, or in jets.I ended the day with a salad eaten in a bar in Sherman Oaks.

 Next weight/diet update will be November 18

Food Log 

Breakfast
A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia seeds, whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend).

Lunch

At Ling-Ling's Chinese Buffet and Grill:

Brussels sprouts (pictured, but hard-boiled eggs were substituted this time), kimchee, and, from the "Mongolian Grill", my go-to dish, pork and chicken with cabbage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers and broccoli. This is the same picture, as always, but this time, there were variations. Besides the hard-boiled eggs substitution, I had a plate of pastries at the end of the meal, to formally start my vacation.

Snack

A protein bar. Followed by a bunch of in-flight nut mixes. And another protein bar.

Dinner

At a bar in Sherman Oaks, whose name I didn't get: A chopped Mediterranean salad.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  16 oz.   Water: 84+ oz. One Blood Mary, in-flight.

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