May 10

Post 826, Day 129 of 2013
- and 860 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Naps don't work for me. After work, I was tired, had it in mind to go out and see some friends play. Took a nap. Four hours later, woke up too tired to move.

Another day of nothing. The Fugs would be proud.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         207.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     205.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 1.8 lbs

Diet Comment

After one day where my late night snack didn't interfere with weight loss, today, it did. And just like that, my weight is above the line.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia seeds, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch
Wild-caught salmon salad on almond Paleo bread with a salad of Spring Mix, baby spinach, cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Pepperoni.

Snack
Hard-boiled eggs with home-made mayonnaise, cottage cheese.


Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  22 oz.   Water:  96+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 9

Post 825, Day 128 of 2013
- and 859 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Sleepwalking through my day today. Feeling no momentum, no inertia. Some days are just like that, I guess.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         205.2 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     206.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

The health value of what I ate late last night must have something to do with my weight loss today - I was expecting the opposite.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
At Ruby Tuesday's.

From the salad bar: Spring Mix greens with baby spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, cucumber, tomato, peas, bacon, peppers, egg and ranch dressing. 

Caribbean chicken breast with sauteed spaghetti squash.

Dinner

Pepperoni, salad of Spring Mix, baby spinach and cole slaw mix with balsamic vinaigrette.

Snack
Pepperoni, hard-boiled eggs with guacamole, cottage cheese.


Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  22 oz.   Water:  104+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 8

Post 824, Day 127 of 2013
- and 858 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I had such a weird disconnect on a gig last night.

Spring weather has arrived here, and I'm doing some duet stuff with a singer-songwriter-guitarist, and last night I sat in with him at a place I'd never been to before. I don't know what I was expecting - a coffee shop, a fern bar - but instead, it is a neat-as-a-pin bar-restaurant, with the emphasis on restaurant.

On my own, I would never have found this tucked-away-in-a-strip-mall, off-the-road place. But, in the Spring warmth, the clientele were out and representing on a Wednesday night. The restaurant and the bar was humming. It is a small place, and the bar was often 3-deep.

But it was the clientele that were disorienting to me.

They looked so not-from-CNY. I could have been in Santa Barbara, or Long Island, or Cary, North Carolina. This was a uniformly white, middle-class crowd. Much higher up the socioeconomic ladder than I am used to seeing in the Syracuse area, and they looked it. They looked Country Club. I haven't done a whole lot of hobnobbing with that set. 

And, of course, I hang out with musicians a lot. And in dive bars, too.

I think that fact has more to do with my slight disorientation at my environment than discovering a secret enclave of higher income WASPS. And it is all about my perception, and that is so subjective. It wasn't a judgment about the place and its clientele, it was an observation, and how I was entertained purely by the difference. Entertained by being disconcerted? 

That happened.

And, you know what? At the end of the night, I judged the success of the evening based on the music, anyway. So, I had a good time.

It's a nice place, with a pleasant ambiance and the food appears to be good - the meal they sent me home with (see below) was very good. I'll go back.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         206.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     203.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 3.0 lbs

Diet Comment

Sometimes I hate being right, but I knew that when I started snacking at 11pm last night it would mean a bad blip on the chart. I hate being right about my own missteps.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Chia gel.

Lunch
IItalian-style chicken sausage on Paleo almond bread with guacamole and a salad of Spring Mix, baby spinach, coleslaw blend and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Wild-caught salmon patty on almond Paleo bread with cole slaw. 

Snack
Grilled salmon with bacon on a mixed green salad with ginger dressing, and hard-boiled eggs with guacamole and homemade mayonnaise.


Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  22 oz.   Water:  64+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 7

Post 823, Day 126 of 2013
- and 857 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Ah, rehearsal. I look forward to the frustration of working stuff out. Then, I remember it more fondly than it deserves.

It's a difference in practice styles, and a difference in rehearsal goals, and a difference of opinion on what needs to be done to improve the band.

And I defer.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         203.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     205.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 2.2 lbs

Diet Comment

That is a nice correction. However, I ate most of my calories of the day after 11 o'clock, and tomorrow will go against me.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia gel, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast on Spring Mix, baby spinach and cole slaw mix with balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Chili (ground beef, red beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, spices) and broccoli.

Snack
Chili, hard-boiled eggs with guacamole on almond Paleo Bread, cottage cheese.


Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  32 oz.   Water:  104+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 6

Post 822, Day 125 of 2013
 - and 856 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Still not 100%, I am just taking it easy as best I can.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         205.2 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     201.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 3.4 lbs

Diet Comment

Well, that's a pretty strong and abrupt return to the 'mean'. I'm not exactly certain what eating contribution I made to this weight gain - maybe there was secret sugar in the meal at the bar last night .

Food Log 

Breakfast
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia gel, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch
Wild-caught salmon with home-made mayonnaise, and a salad of Spring Mix greens, cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Chili (Ground beef, mushrooms, red beans, tomatoes, spices) on cauliflower. Not shown: cottage cheese.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  22 oz.   Water:  128+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 5

Post 821, Day 124 of 2013
 - and 855 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Feeling mostly better today.

I missed yesterday's 'landmark' day: 1000 days until retirement. Today, I am 999 days away, and counting.

Today, for the first time this year, I am at my December 31, 2012 weight, the lowest weight on the chart.

As I recover from my recent weight-losing illness, we'll see how that holds.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         201.8 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     202.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 1.0 lbs

Diet Comment

Still attribute the loss to my illness, which led to yesterday's lowest-calorie High-Calorie, High-Carb day ever. Lowest weight of 2013.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia seeds, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Dinner
At the Bridge Street Tavern, I ate from a buffet: sausage and peppers, italian-style vegetables (zucchini, broccoli, string beans, peppers), and a mixed salad with Italian dressing.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  0 oz.   Water:  100+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 4 - HCHC Day

Post 820, Day 123 of 2013
 - and 854 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Still sick, but getting better, slowly. Forced to go out by running out of essential food (eggs, in this case), I cut my shopping trip short. After I got some OTC meds for my post-nasal sore throat, and got the eggs and some sweets at the Regional Market, I couldn't finish my Big Anthony half-fritatta for the first time ever. I was so tired, I called it a day then - just after noon, and went home to bed.

See you all tomorrow.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         202.8 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     202.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.0 lbs

Diet Comment

Stable. Hopefully, that signals a return to norm. Notable today: I think that may be my lowest recorded water consumption ever.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
At Mama Nancy's:

Half a "Big Anthony Fritatta" which includes eggs, poratoes, sausage, pepperoni, broccoli, Swiss cheese, ham, peppers and onions and rye toast (dry). Not shown: A home-made chocolate chip cookie and a brownie square from the Regional Market. 

Dinner

Ezekiel Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal with blueberries, almond milk and stevia-inulin.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  16 oz.   Water:  40+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 3

Post 819, Day 122 of 2013
 - and 853 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Still sick, but marginally better.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         202.8 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     202.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

Sick weight gain, due, doubtless, to the plus 10-hour shift in eating yesterday, that ended with most of my calories and water consumed after 10pm. And that last off-plan meal.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia gel, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Dinner

Ezekiel Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal with blueberries, almond milk and stevia-inulin. Not shown: hard-boiled eggs and home-made mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  24 oz.   Water:  128+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 2

Post 818, Day 121 of 2013
 - and 852 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Still sick. That's all I have to say about that.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         202.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     204.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 2.0 lbs

Diet Comment

Sick weight loss. Slept all day, mostly, so lunch was at nearly 5pm, 'dinner' was correspondingly very late.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia gel, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Dinner

Ezekiel Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal with blueberries, almond milk and stevia-inulin. Not shown: hard-boiled eggs and home-made mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  24 oz.   Water:  72+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 

May 1

Post 817, Day 120 of 2013
 - and 851 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I woke up sick. I didn't go to sleep that way, although I sneezed twice during practice.

Post-nasal drip had given me a sore throat. I felt feverish. My ears hurt.

I persevered, and went in to work, but by the afternoon, I was feeling so tired and miserable, I went home.

Where I was unable to rest. If this continues, plans I made for the weekend are totaled.

Yes, it is a Man plans God laughs moment here.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!

 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         204.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     204.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

Weird day yesterday, and I woke up feeling unwell (cold, allergies?) today.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Cocoa-kale-hemp-chia protein shake: Almond milk, kale, cocoa, hemp seeds, chia gel, a large egg, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, vanilla, psyllium and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch
At Ling-Ling's Chinese Buffet and Grill:

Brussels sprouts, kimchee, and, from the "Mongolian Grill", my go-to dish, pork and chicken with cabbage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers, snow pea pods and broccoli. Not shown: a little beef and broccoli.

Dinner

Pepperoni, hard-boiled eggs and cole slaw. 

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  24 oz.   Water:  58+ oz.

Please leave a comment if you visit my blog. Thank you!