December 19

Post 1030, Day 353 of 2013
- and 1083 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

New Year's Eve is taken care of - I picked up a gig. I'm looking forward now, to a pretty great 2014.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         204.8 lbs

Previous Weight:        205.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

A step in the right direction will be undone after my late-night high-calorie, high-carb 'snack' - really, dinner redux.

Food Log 

Breakfast

Skipped.

Lunch

Scrambled eggs with onions and peppers, chicken-feta-spinach sausage, quinoa-lentil pilaf. Not shown: a salad of baby kale, baby spinach and chard with cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Chili (organic beef, tomatoes, black beans, chili spices) and Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain toast.

Snack

Chili (organic beef, tomatoes, black beans, chili spices) and Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain toast. Also some Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted-grain cereal with blueberries, almond-coconut milk and stevia-inulin blend.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 120+ oz.

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December 18

Post 1029, Day 352 of 2013
- and 1082 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

A busy day, a good practice session with Chad and Jim. Then, out to catch the last two songs of some friends' gig. Then, home to watch the finales of Homeland and Masters of Sex from the weekend, and the first episode of The Returned. So, I was up late.

It ain't much, but it is what I have.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         205.6 lbs

Previous Weight:        204.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 1.4 lbs

Diet Comment

Not surprisingly, my two-thousand-plus calories of nuts and sugar, loaded as it might be with anti-oxidants, took a toll, and will take some time to remove.

Food Log 

Breakfast

Skipped.

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 and broccoli. This is the same picture, as always.

Dinner

A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia gel, whey powder (30g protein), cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend).

Snack

Egg salad on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain toast with cole slaw.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  30 oz.   Water: 120+ oz.

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December 17

Post 1028, Day 351 of 2013
- and 1081 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Two weeks before the end of the year, and I have no plans. Christmas falling on a Wednesday puts the kibosh on a long weekend in New York or Vermont - I can't take off any days on either side of the holiday. 

I have no New Year's plans, either, although I will be taking time off on the days leading up to it - I haven't decided what to do with them, and time's running out.

Ha-ha. Not really. If I need more time, I'll invent some.

And, I had a weird experience tonight. After rehearsal with i am Fool, I drove downtown to go to an open mic. Just as I parked, I got a call from Alex - we had a nice conversation, which I cut it short because I knew people were waiting for me. I hung up, grabbed my bass, and made my way across the slushy street to the bar. I opened the door, a friend was playing solo acoustic.

Someone shouted, "Reverend Ken" and the whole bar erupted in sustained applause. Norm from 'Cheers' has nothing on me.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         204.2 lbs

Previous Weight:        203.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      + 1.2 lbs

Diet Comment

Not surprisingly, my two-thousand-plus calories of nuts and sugar, loaded as it might be with anti-oxidants, took a toll, and will take some time to remove. Worse, late-night cravings hit again tonight, so another day headed in the wrong direction.

Food Log 

Breakfast

Skipped.

Lunch

Wild-caught salmon salad (salmon, celery, red kidney beans, hard-boiled egg and mayonnaise) on a salad of baby kale, spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.

Dinner

Chicken-feta-spinach sausage with scrambled eggs, and cole slaw.

Snack

Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain toast with guacamole and Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted-grain cereal with almond coconut milk and stevia-inulin blend.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  30 oz.   Water: 120+ oz.

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December 16

Post 1027, Day 350 of 2013
- and 1080 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Follow-up on yesterday: People are stepping up to buy the tickets, which we don't yet have in hand. It looks like playing the gig may not cost us much, if anything, and we will have a great, on-our-side audience to play for. Also, it is pretty cool opening for Rusted Root.

Otherwise, it was a day of not-much-happening. So, I bought an acoustic-electric classical guitar and a little amp to play it through.

Learning to play them on guitar might be the only way I get to sing the songs I want to sing - nobody knows them, or shows a lot of interest when I show up at jams. We'll see how that goes.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         203.0 lbs

Previous Weight:        203.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.0 lbs

Diet Comment

I am approaching my lowest weight of the year. A few more good days, and I'll blow right through it, but first a pause while I give in to an impulse and eat a treat I haven't had in four months... Tomorrow will not see a loss.

Food Log 

Breakfast

A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia gel, whey powder (30g protein), cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend).

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast salad on a salad of baby kale, spinach, chard, red kidney beans and cole slaw with Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain bread.

Dinner

Second Nature Wholesome Blend: peanuts, cashews, almonds, raisins, cranberries and dark chocolate.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  24 oz.   Water: 80+ oz.

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December 15

Post 1026, Day 349 of 2013
- and 1079 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

It is one of those good-news, bad news kinds of things.

The good news is that i am Fool is opening up for Rusted Root, a great band with two decades at the forefront of world/rock music.

The bad news is that we had to guarantee (that is, purchase) over a $1200-worth of tickets to get the gig. 

It is incredibly exploitative,  and I hate the deal, and voted not to do the gig. Mine was the only "no" vote.

But, we're doing the gig, my out-of-pocket costs will not be too large, and it is a great opportunity for the band, so...

I am on board, now.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         203.0 lbs

Previous Weight:        203.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

I am approaching my lowest weight of the year. A few more good days, and I'll blow right through it.

Food Log 

Breakfast

Skipped.

Lunch

A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia gel, whey powder (30g protein), cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend), with Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain and guacamole.

Dinner

Buffalo chicken breast on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted-grain bread with mayonnaise and cole slaw, with a salad of baby kale, spinach and chard with balsamic vinegar. 

Snack

Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal, hemp, blueberries, almond milk and stevia-inulin blend.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 100+ oz.

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December 14

Post 1025, Day 348 of 2013
- and 1078 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

In the face of some unpleasant changes at work, I took the day off to catch up on my rest, which I needed to do, thanks to my busy playing schedule the last few weeks.

Things always change, of course. There have been changes outside work, as well.

Changes with the music - I'm enjoying playing with more musicians, many of whom I didn't know before this past Summer. That's a bittersweet thing, because it was made possible by i am Fool's dysfunction last year.

Due mostly to J., the leader, needing to take time off for medical and personal reasons,  the band was only active for half-to-two-thirds of the year - and I am calling active, getting together for two hours in a week.

But that's all good. My playing time, which I was complaining about some months back, is now at its peak.

There have been changes in my health status - weight up, now back down; getting diagnosed as diabetic (even though I continue to control my blood sugar adequately with only diet).

But here's how I feel about all these changes: They are productive. Yes, they largely have to do with responding to external stimuli, but the result of change has always, in the long run, benefited me.

Think Serenity Prayer.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         203.8 lbs

Previous Weight:        204.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.4 lbs

Diet Comment

Feeling good about the direction since vacation.

Food Log 

Breakfast

Skipped.

Lunch

Frittata with onions, peppers, spinach, eggs, and quinoa-lentil pilaf.

Dinner

Chicken-spinach-feta sausage on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread with whole grain dijon mustard and quinoa-lentil pilaf and cole slaw. 

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  32 oz.   Water: 64+ oz.

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December 13

Post 1024, Day 347 of 2013
- and 1077 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

In the face of some unpleasant changes at work, I took the day off to catch up on my rest, which I needed to do, thanks to my busy playing schedule the last few weeks.

Things always change, of course. There have been changes outside work, as well.

Changes with the music - I'm enjoying playing with more musicians, many of whom I didn't know before this past Summer. That's a bittersweet thing, because it was made possible by i am Fool's dysfunction last year.

Due mostly to J., the leader, needing to take time off for medical and personal reasons,  the band was only active for half-to-two-thirds of the year - and I am calling active, getting together for two hours in a week.

But that's all good. My playing time, which I was complaining about some months back, is now at its peak.

There have been changes in my health status - weight up, now back down; getting diagnosed as diabetic (even though I continue to control my blood sugar adequately with only diet).

But here's how I feel about all these changes: They are productive. Yes, they largely have to do with responding to external stimuli, but the result of change has always, in the long run, benefited me.

Think Serenity Prayer.

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 Food and Diet Section

2013 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         204.2 lbs

Previous Weight:        205.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 1.4 lbs

Diet Comment

Easy on, easy off. Back where I was.

Food Log 

Breakfast

A cacao-kale-hemp-chia protein shake (almond milk, kale, a large egg, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, chia gel, whey powder (30g protein), cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend).

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast salad on a salad of baby kale, Swiss chard, raddichio, and cole slaw mix.

Dinner

Egg salad and Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread with guacamole. 

Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal, blueberries, almond milk and stevia-inulin blend.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  24 oz.   Water: 80+ oz.

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