I weighed in this morning after my shower and lo and behold I'm not one ounce smaller than I was a month ago. So, this leads to the issue of failure and acceptance. As I have noted before I hate to lose, but I have to accept what is. That's a big part of life, because we all lose.
Next week is my 60th birthday and my goal was to lose 56 pounds before Sept. 8th. I have lost
all but ten pounds of that goal, and I have kept it off. I feel better than I have in a long long time. Many of the aches and pains I had are gone and I associate that with the weight loss. I can climb mountains now without too much strain.
Geri thinks the reason I haven't lost more weight is that I now have more muscle. If you look at my legs that is certainly the case. My stomach on the other hand is still flabby. I still see a fat man when I look at my silhouette.
Without going into great detail of analysis the bottom line is I still have four months to lose 30 pounds in my goal to attain an optimum weight of 180 pounds, which would make a total weight loss of 76 pounds in one year, more or less, or around 25% of my body mass. I was obese, and now I'm just overweight.
210 is my hump, the one I've got to get over. How I do that remains to be seen. The suspense continues.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food Consumption;
Breakfast; 4 strips of bacon, fried potatoes (not much)
Lunch; cliff bar, hamburger w/lettuce, tomato & onion, fruit drink
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Dinner; Cuban food with our dear friends Brendan and Mabel (my Super Bowl pay back bet) Pinon'
which is a plantain lasagna with masa and ground beef. Brendan's peach upside down cake.....the whole meal was rocking.
Exercise; 3 hours of cycling, 2 miles walking the dogs
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Fasting + War + Chewing + Ashamed + Hilary Clinton
Another fast day came and went. They all go by fast these days. I love slow. Slow food, slow going, low and slow, slow gin fizz, and the ever popular, take it slow.
My fast went great today. After Alice showed up any hunger pangs I had went away. Good ol' Alice. I usually take the day off when she shows up. I cleaned the stove today too, so something productive got accomplished.
I'm catering my own birthday party along with my old friend Erwin, who was one of my instructors in culinary school. Same birthday, 10 years apart. I'm glad he's 70 and I'm only 60, and I can't believe I'm saying only 60. I ordered 10 chicken, 12 pounds of andouille sausage, and 10 additional pounds of grilling sausage. My friend Erwin and I are making gumbo as the main course. More on this down the line.
Wouldn't it be nice if democracy actually worked, and we could put something like bombing another country up for the popular vote. We have the technology to do it right now. Instead of American Idol we can call it American War or American Bombing. A military strike on the Assad regime yes, no. One vote per citizen over the legal age to go into military service. If you're old enough to go to war you should be old enough to vote about it. If it's 16, so be it.
For Christ's sake they don't even have conclusive evidence that Assad regime actually did it, or did we pay someone to do it. Some sources are saying it was the rebel forces, so who the fuck did it? Doesn't it remind you of the time, a whole 13 years ago, when we went to Iraq because of WMD's that never did exist. That's a Dick Cheney tactic. The UN can't agree on who killed these poor innocent people. No evidence of guilt in a court of law is grounds for acquittal. Or how about how we armed the mujaheddin in Afghanistan to beat the Russians way back in the 80's. Tom Hanks did a great movie, "Charlie Wilson's War" about that. That kinda backfired on us. We got short memories here in America. Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies, dirty little fingers in every body's pie. Bringing it back to the food.
Another war for what. Some our closest friends growing up in Connecticut were Syrian. Wonderful people. All the killing for oil. Control the energy, and you control the world.
Mother Russia can't loose on this one. All she's gotta do is sit back and do nothing, and then just wag her Miss Manner's finger at the US and say, " imperialists", and who can disagree with her? I got news for the world, Russia is still a superpower with a robust economy and thousands of nuclear warheads armed and pointed directly at western Europe.
On top of that our staunchest ally, Great Britain, tells us to go piss up a tree. You know these cock-suckers, the US and GB, are in bed together blowing each other. This could be Barack's Bay of Pigs/ Cuban missile crisis, but since he has the support of John McCain we should all feel better that's he's finally reaching over to the other side of the aisle. How lovely, a bipartisan bombing.
Obama's biting off more than he can chew if you ask me. See how I brought the whole story back to eating again? Crafty ha?
I'll bet our boy's smoking a pack a day now, and man, he sure is getting white on top. White on rice, brown rice.
I wish someone would tell me what we can do to stop this sick cycle. I hate to be a downer, but more bombing, eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth. I'm ashamed to be an American today. The door to Iran goes through Syria.
In the words of the great American songwriter Country Joe McDonald; "And it's 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Iran. And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates, well, ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die."
Daren and I made a bold prediction that Hilary Clinton, if she lives, will be the next president in 2016, and that Bill will die of a massive heart attack in her 3rd year as president, which will give her enough of the pity vote for a second term as Ms. President. No one would ask why he had a heart attack since he has a well documented heart condition. That's what he gets for all his philandering. Hell hath no furry like a woman's scorn.
Democrats/Republicans, can anyone tell the difference?
That's a lot to digest. Brought it back to gastronomy again. Clever eh?
That's it for sure.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food Consumption;
Breakfast; 1 cup coffee, cream/one sugar
No Lunch
Snack; Cliff bar
Dinner; I'm taking Geri out tonight, Italian.
Exercise; 6 miles hiking, 1/2 hr. cycling
My fast went great today. After Alice showed up any hunger pangs I had went away. Good ol' Alice. I usually take the day off when she shows up. I cleaned the stove today too, so something productive got accomplished.
I got some good exercise in today. It's hot in the hills and I worked up a good sweat with the dogs and my buddy Daren. We worked up a a nice lather about Obama's new war in Syria. I'd love to stay the fuck away from politics, but VI Lenin said we're all political creatures and he was right. Obama's starting to make old W look like a third grader.
For Christ's sake they don't even have conclusive evidence that Assad regime actually did it, or did we pay someone to do it. Some sources are saying it was the rebel forces, so who the fuck did it? Doesn't it remind you of the time, a whole 13 years ago, when we went to Iraq because of WMD's that never did exist. That's a Dick Cheney tactic. The UN can't agree on who killed these poor innocent people. No evidence of guilt in a court of law is grounds for acquittal. Or how about how we armed the mujaheddin in Afghanistan to beat the Russians way back in the 80's. Tom Hanks did a great movie, "Charlie Wilson's War" about that. That kinda backfired on us. We got short memories here in America. Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies, dirty little fingers in every body's pie. Bringing it back to the food.
Another war for what. Some our closest friends growing up in Connecticut were Syrian. Wonderful people. All the killing for oil. Control the energy, and you control the world.
Mother Russia can't loose on this one. All she's gotta do is sit back and do nothing, and then just wag her Miss Manner's finger at the US and say, " imperialists", and who can disagree with her? I got news for the world, Russia is still a superpower with a robust economy and thousands of nuclear warheads armed and pointed directly at western Europe.
On top of that our staunchest ally, Great Britain, tells us to go piss up a tree. You know these cock-suckers, the US and GB, are in bed together blowing each other. This could be Barack's Bay of Pigs/ Cuban missile crisis, but since he has the support of John McCain we should all feel better that's he's finally reaching over to the other side of the aisle. How lovely, a bipartisan bombing.
Obama's biting off more than he can chew if you ask me. See how I brought the whole story back to eating again? Crafty ha?
I'll bet our boy's smoking a pack a day now, and man, he sure is getting white on top. White on rice, brown rice.
I wish someone would tell me what we can do to stop this sick cycle. I hate to be a downer, but more bombing, eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth. I'm ashamed to be an American today. The door to Iran goes through Syria.
In the words of the great American songwriter Country Joe McDonald; "And it's 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Iran. And it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates, well, ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die."
Daren and I made a bold prediction that Hilary Clinton, if she lives, will be the next president in 2016, and that Bill will die of a massive heart attack in her 3rd year as president, which will give her enough of the pity vote for a second term as Ms. President. No one would ask why he had a heart attack since he has a well documented heart condition. That's what he gets for all his philandering. Hell hath no furry like a woman's scorn.
Democrats/Republicans, can anyone tell the difference?
That's a lot to digest. Brought it back to gastronomy again. Clever eh?
That's it for sure.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food Consumption;
Breakfast; 1 cup coffee, cream/one sugar
No Lunch
Snack; Cliff bar
Dinner; I'm taking Geri out tonight, Italian.
Exercise; 6 miles hiking, 1/2 hr. cycling
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Thursday 8-29-13
Just the fact today. I have too much to do. More exciting nonsensical garbage to come in the future.
School today. Fast day tomorrow.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; hard boiled egg, peanut butter sandwich, peach
Lunch/Dinner; left over teriyaki chicken, green beans, quinoa,
Exercise; 3 miles walking, 1/2 hour cycling
School today. Fast day tomorrow.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; hard boiled egg, peanut butter sandwich, peach
Lunch/Dinner; left over teriyaki chicken, green beans, quinoa,
Exercise; 3 miles walking, 1/2 hour cycling
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Wednesday 8-28-13
A hot day in Oakland. This is the last day to drive over the of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which my wife did this morning.
It only took 24 years to build it. It cost 4 times what it was projected to cost originally, total 6.5 billion dollars, and it's still not built well. It looks great, but will it hold up in the Big One? Only time will tell. I hope I'm not on it when the Big One hits.
This is Caltrans at it's finest. If you want to fuck something up let the government do it. There will be thousands of on line postings about, much more impressive than this dumb ass blog, so I'll just leave it right here.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; granola w/almond milk, on hard boiled egg
Lunch; Peace, small piece of chocolate
Dinner; Teriyaki chicken, quinoa, green beans w/garlic and fresh lemon
Dessert; water melon, biscotti from Geri's visits to North Beach today
Exercise; 6 miles walking, 1/2 hr. cycling
It only took 24 years to build it. It cost 4 times what it was projected to cost originally, total 6.5 billion dollars, and it's still not built well. It looks great, but will it hold up in the Big One? Only time will tell. I hope I'm not on it when the Big One hits.
This is Caltrans at it's finest. If you want to fuck something up let the government do it. There will be thousands of on line postings about, much more impressive than this dumb ass blog, so I'll just leave it right here.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; granola w/almond milk, on hard boiled egg
Lunch; Peace, small piece of chocolate
Dinner; Teriyaki chicken, quinoa, green beans w/garlic and fresh lemon
Dessert; water melon, biscotti from Geri's visits to North Beach today
Exercise; 6 miles walking, 1/2 hr. cycling
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Tuesday 3-27-13
I did nothing yesterday, literally. I laid around and watched TV, contemplating composition, and slept on and off all day. I didn't sleep for three nights in a row. The dogs got one walk in the AM and that was it. Frida can be a real bitch when she doesn't get her exercise. So can I for that fact.
Today was much better. I made it through 3 hours of class lecture today at Berkeley Community College, and got a good 6 miles of walking in before the day was over.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; black coffee one sugar
Lunch: small salami sandwich w/mozzarella cheese on sourdough baguette, 2 handfuls nuts,
chocolate bar
Dinner; 1 piece of lasagna, 3 baby back ribs
Exercise; 6.5 miles walking
Today was much better. I made it through 3 hours of class lecture today at Berkeley Community College, and got a good 6 miles of walking in before the day was over.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; black coffee one sugar
Lunch: small salami sandwich w/mozzarella cheese on sourdough baguette, 2 handfuls nuts,
chocolate bar
Dinner; 1 piece of lasagna, 3 baby back ribs
Exercise; 6.5 miles walking
Monday, August 26, 2013
No Blog Weekend + G's Birthday
I never got it together to blog this weekend, not even stats. We also never made it over the GG Bridge to Sausalito to have breakfast at Fred's on Sunday. I haven't been sleeping well. I have a sleeping disorder called sleep apnea, and sometimes I just don't get enough sleep, and therefore my energy level is very low. I haven't slept much in the last three days.
Today is Geraldine's birthday and we had a few friends over for pizza last evening. I ate so much pizza I was uncomfortable. You know that feeling?
I always want to do all these special things for Geri's birthday, but she's not into it and I completely understand. So, the request is for a big salad tonight and that's what's on the menu.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food, Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; 2 oatmeal chocolate chip cookies,
Lunch; 2 pieces of leftover pizza
Dinner; big salad, 2 cup cakes (German chocolate)
Exercise; 3 miles walking
Today is Geraldine's birthday and we had a few friends over for pizza last evening. I ate so much pizza I was uncomfortable. You know that feeling?
I always want to do all these special things for Geri's birthday, but she's not into it and I completely understand. So, the request is for a big salad tonight and that's what's on the menu.
That's it.
Peace,
Make Food, Not War
Food consumption;
Breakfast; 2 oatmeal chocolate chip cookies,
Lunch; 2 pieces of leftover pizza
Dinner; big salad, 2 cup cakes (German chocolate)
Exercise; 3 miles walking
Friday, August 23, 2013
Mac D's + Cycling
After class last night I was ravenous. I stopped at McDonald's. This was my bi-yearly visit to mass fast food. It tasted great of course, because that's what they do. They know how to put the combinations of fat and more fat together. I felt like shit for eating there, but hey. I vowed I would be completely honest during this whole process. The occasional fuck-up is part of the process, ces't la vie.
Next week I'll pack a sandwich and some fruit.
I think I'm going to change my fasting day from Thursday to Friday. Class is 4 hours. One and a half hours lecture and 2.5 hours lab. I need to power up before I go there. It's a long day.
I'm biking again today. A short ride to a client's home to walk the dogs. I'll see how the calves feel. I'm ready to hit the road. I feel bloated. The battle continues.
That's it today.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food Consumption;
Breakfast; black tea
Lunch; 1 scrambled egg/chicken sausage potato combo w/one piece of brown toast and raspberry jam
Dinner;
Exercise; 7 miles hiking, 1 hr. cycling
Next week I'll pack a sandwich and some fruit.
I think I'm going to change my fasting day from Thursday to Friday. Class is 4 hours. One and a half hours lecture and 2.5 hours lab. I need to power up before I go there. It's a long day.
I'm biking again today. A short ride to a client's home to walk the dogs. I'll see how the calves feel. I'm ready to hit the road. I feel bloated. The battle continues.
That's it today.
Peace,
Make Food/Not War
Food Consumption;
Breakfast; black tea
Lunch; 1 scrambled egg/chicken sausage potato combo w/one piece of brown toast and raspberry jam
Dinner;
Exercise; 7 miles hiking, 1 hr. cycling
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