#1573. Monday, January 4: Welcome to year 5

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Post 1573, Day 4 of 2016
- 1,830 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Welcome to the blog's fifth year!

On New Year's Day, 2011, I began a successful weight loss plan that lasted six months. Part of the plan was keeping track of everything I ate, and I decided to blog that publicly, as a way of adding a little accountability in (even if it was just in my mind).

The initial idea was to take a picture of everything I ate. That was fun. And, I think, had a lot to do with my achieving success in meeting my weight loss goal in six months.

After that, as part of maintaining the weight I had lost, I kept the weight loss blog going. It had become part of my new low-weight lifestyle.

In the first year, the blog began evolving. I had begun to have some exposure with my music, and appearing at clubs, and began seeing pictures of me on Facebook. I started adding a pic of me at the top of the page.

About halfway into the second year, two things happened: 

First, I ran out of space in my picture vault, and had to continue under a different id. 

Then, a little out of boredom, and a little because I wasn't having many conversations with other people, I started a Daily Comment. I'd pick a topic, and see where it goes, riffing on a theme. I dropped the 'weight loss' from the title to reflect that I was in maintenance mode, with my weight and my life.

Shortly after, I started taking weekends, holidays and vacations off from recording my weight and doing the blog.

That brings us up to date, and now I have posted a lot. No time to stop now.

The Daily Comment will probably change tone, as I am retiring at the end of the month (eighteen more work days!), and will no longer be writing it in bits and pieces on the job.

Welcome to 2016, year five of Reverend Ken's Blog. 

Food and Diet Section


Too few data points to chart. Watch this space for a new chart soon.

Today's Weight:                   204.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (1/1):            204.6 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                   +  0.2 lbs.

Diet Comment

I weighed myself New Year's day for continuity. The weekend was spent eating lightly, but skewed towards eating late at night. Sunday night I didn't eat dinner until almost eleven o'clock, and then woke up very early and couldn't go back to sleep. Otherwise, I believe I would have posted a loss.

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast chopped salad: shaved Parmesan cheese, baby kale, baby spinach, chard, cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner
I got a Christmas gift of home-made venison pepperoni, and wow! is it good. I just ate slices, dipping each in a little Philippe's famous hot mustard. Then I had a huge dish of Dal Tadka (lentil curry) and broccoli.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 1  Coffee:  24 oz.;  Water: 80+ oz.

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