Monthly Weigh In

208.6-->206.8-->209.8

Well, I'm 20 lbs heavier than my lightest abaout a year and a half a go, and I'm 20 lbs lighter than my heaviest, about 3 years ago. However, most of the clothing I bought a year or two ago still fits, and my health in terms of physicality and mentality are worlds better than I was three years ago, maybe even a year and a half ago. Weight is not a perfect measure of health (though I imagine it's a spectacular measure of vanity, which makes me think twice about these monthly check-ins...)

I've had a good month, professionally and personally. I'm happier than I've been in a while. My bike injury is receding nicely, and I've done a few high-intensity rides between 30-50 miles in the last few weeks to no negative consequence. About to resume long-distance riding, hopefully I won't have missed out too much before the season is over.

I know what I have to do, it's obvious -- I started regaining weight when I started to feel hungry all the time and upped my daily calories from 2300-2500 to 2600-2900. How can I get back to the original calorie goal without tripping the HUNGRY HUNGRY HUNGRY alarm recessed deep somewhere in my brain?

I'm gonna think about it, no time to obsess about it now. I'm fatter, but I'm fine with it, and don't feel hopeless.

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WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2784

Mostly a good eating week, but don't think I don't notice the high average.

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MONDAY COUNT: 2580

SLEPT: 2am-7:30am, 5.5 hrs

AM SNACK: 7:45 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 10:30am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:30pm, falafel, chicken soup, pickles, 520 cal

BREAKFAST 1: 5:45pm, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

PM SNACK:  6pm, momma salad, 100 cal

DINNER: 6:45pm, mahi mahi,  asparagus, poppa salad with dressing, 650 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:15pm, popcorn, +/- 400 cal

EVENING SNACKS: 7:30pm, 2 kids granola bats, almond butter & chocolate syrup, +/- 400 cal
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TUESDAY COUNT: 2960

SLEPT: 9pm-4:30am, 7.5hrs

AM SNACK: 4:45 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, fruit smoothie, 450 cal

PM SNACK: 1:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 2:45pm, kind bar, 200 cal

DINNER: 7pm, French Bread pizzas, poppa salad with dressing, 1080 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, almond butter & chocolate syrup, +/- 300 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, beef patty, 360 cal
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BIKE CREDIT: 800 cal
WEDNESDAY COUNT: 2880

SLEPT: 9pm - 1am, 5am - 6am 5 hrs

AM SNACK: 1:15am, iced green tea

 BREAKFAST: 8:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BIKE SNACK: 10:45am, homemade granola bar, 330 cal

BREAKFAST 2: noon, fage yogurt with honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:45pm, shrimp & mushrooms, poppa salad with dressing, 630 cal

PM SNACK: 2pm, watermelon, +/- 400 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, veggie straws, 160 cal

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, cashews, 250 cal

DINNER: 8:30pm, steak, summer roll, crepe, ice cream, +/- 1300 cal
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THURSDAY COUNT: 2570

SLEPT: 11pm-6am, 7 hours

AM SNACK: 6:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 10am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, chicken sausage, steamed string beans, madras lentils, pickles, 640 cal

PM SNACK: 3:45pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, poppa salad with dressing, veggie straws, 360 cal

DINNER: 7pm, meatballs and polenta, gnocci, tomato salad and roasted peppers, bread, glass of wine, chocolate pudding, +/- 1200 cal
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FRIDAY COUNT: 2930

SLEPT: 11pm-4am, 5 hours

AM SNACK: 4:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 8:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10am,watermelon, +/-400 cal

LUNCH: 12:45pm, beef patty, poppa salad and dressing, 600 cal

PM SNACK: 1pm, momma salad, peanut butter crackers, 300 cal

PM SNACK: 4:15pm, nutella, 270 cal

DINNER: 6:15pm, veal parm, spag, salad, stuffed mushrooms, half a beer, +/- 1200 cal

Coke, it's the Real Corporate Thing

Will DeBlasio stop worrying about the boobs in Times Square and maybe pick up on the Soda Ban where Bloomberg left off? Oh, wait, the boobs don't have unlimited funds to pay lobbyists? Never mind.

When I started this blog, it was daily, and it wasn't hard to pick apart the science and research all pointing to how sugar's upsides (tastes universally delicious, helps preserve processed food, creates interesting flavor profiles when cooked) is laughably outweighed by it's downsides (makes you fat with excess calories, makes you fat in ways not just from excess calories, addictive, pushes out nutritive food from your diet, and on and on) So it's gratifying when the media does it's job and looks at the major cash a major corporation spends in the name of "research" to defend the indefensible.

My anecdotal evidence is in, and for me, it is irrefutable (unless coke wants to send some of that sweet, sweet cash my way!) I've been looking to get healthy and stay that way for more than a few years now.  I've been a distance cyclist for years, and stayed fat because the hunger generated by cycling would cause me to take in more calories than I expended. Once I started counting and restricting calories, seeing what I was actually burning and actually consuming, and cutting back on sugar and grains, the weight came off and mostly stayed off. The key was never to do more, it's always been to eat less, and less Coke and Coke products in particular.

If I was a journalist and not an amateur blogger, I'd write that NY Times piece linked above. So go read it. -drops mic-

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WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2456

Relatively good eating week, despite only a few meeting out and about on Monday and an office gig on Tuesday. Was very busy professionally from home W-F which prevented me from indulging too far in my kitchen.

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MONDAY COUNT: 2410

SLEPT: 10:30pm-6am, 7.5 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

LUNCH: 12:30pm, Maoz falafel salad, +/- 700 cal

PM SNACK:  4:30pm, momma salad, 100 cal

DINNER: 6:45pm, mahi mahi,  asparagus, poppa salad with dressing, 650 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:15pm, popcorn, +/- 400 cal

EVENING SNACKS: 8pm, watermelon, +/- 400 cal
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TUESDAY COUNT: 2670

SLEPT: 9pm-5am, 8hrs

AM SNACK: 5:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 7:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:15am, fruit smoothie, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, chicken meatballs, steamed string beans, mushroom curry, pickles, 620 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 7pm, French Bread pizzas, poppa salad with dressing, 1080 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, kind bar, 2 kid granola bars, 400 cal


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WEDNESDAY COUNT: 2560 cal

SLEPT: 12am - 5am, 5 hrs

AM SNACK: 5:15am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11:30am, fage yogurt with honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

PM SNACK: 1pm, momma salad, 100 cal

LUNCH: 3pm, grilled chicken breast poppa salad with dressing, pickles, 420 cal

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, cashews, 250 cal

DINNER: 8pm, chipotle burrito, ice cream, 1180 cal

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BIKE CREDIT: 1300cal
THURSDAY COUNT: 1950

SLEPT: 10:30pm-3am, 4.5 hours

AM SNACK: 3:15am, iced green tea, 150mg caffeine

BIKE SNACK: 5am, homemade granola bar, 400 cal

BIKE SNACK: 7am, homemade granola bar, 400 cal

BREAKFAST 1: 10am, watermelon, +/- 400 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 12:45pm, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

LUNCH: 2:30pm, chicken soup, poppa salad with dressing, veggie straws, 480 cal

PM SNACK: 3:45pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 6pm, vegetarian dim sum, ice cream, +/- 1200 cal
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FRIDAY COUNT: 2690

SLEPT: 9pm-3:30am, 6.5 hours

BREAKFAST: 3:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11:30am, fage yogurt with honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

LUNCH: 2:45pm, sardines & avovado on whole wheat toast, pickles, poppa salad and dressing, 850 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, veggie straws, 230 cal

DINNER: 5:30pm, burger, fries, corn, ice cream, +/- 1000 cal

Drill Down: Ice Ice Baby, Too Cold Too Cold

He was once the Donald Trump of Hip Hop. Now he is a gag in a blog post about ice.

It's nice to think we make our own decisions, eat the food we choose to eat, and regardless of our education or experience, are smart enough to be the owner/resident of a healthy, human body. But truth: we our choices are created & influenced by our eras.

My parents were smart, relatively sophisticated and earned solid stable livings their whole lives. And yet, the diet they raised me was primarily Kraft dinner, McDonald's, Hamburger Helper, Shake & Bake and Sara Lee, with dueling momma or poppa salads pushed in from their own parent's earlier era. The 70s was the Industrial (Convenience Foods) Revolution. I recent read a blurb on the inter webs that got me thinking about bigger revolutions that probably changed the food culture of my grandparents and their parents dramatically, from the actual Industrial Revolution.

Hotels have also had a longstanding interest in ice. When industrial-size ice machines were introduced in the 1890s, in the days before modern refrigeration, hotels—along with dairies and breweries—were among the first businesses to embrace them. Not wanting to be at the mercy of the natural ice industry (in which ice was harvested out of lakes and ponds and transported all over the country—like in the movie Frozen), hotels installed ice machines that would be able to provide the stuff on demand for all their varied icy needs: keeping food fresh, making ice cream, serving cocktails, helping guests cool down via the tried and true ice-to-forehead method, and more. Back then, you’d have to ring up room service for the stuff; thanks to Wilson, you can now go get it yourself.

I have an antique ice box I inherited from my parents. It has a top-loading area, framed out in thin metal, and a front loading space below with a drip tray. A big block of ice would go below, and whatever needed to be cool above. Both chambers are now full of various liquors, at room temperature. The reference above to who embraced mechanical refrigeration first -- dairies and breweries -- got me thinking. A cow is a bit of a temperature controlled environment. Up until the milk is squirted out, it's factory is pretty much a sealed unit. A brewery is not. I know enough about brewing and yeast to know if you don't have some control over the temperature, yeast can under/over perform, die or become explosive under contained vessels, like, say, a beer bottle...

Sealed Cow Unit

There’s no question that the brewing industry was one of the first to realize the significant benefits that refrigeration offered. German lager beer came to America with the German immigrants in the 1840s, tasting a lot better than American ale. Refrigeration enabled the breweries to make a uniform product all year round. Brewing was the first activity in the northern states to use mechanical refrigeration extensively, beginning with an absorption machine used by S. Liebmann’s Sons Brewing Company in Brooklyn, New York in 1870. Commercial refrigeration was primarily directed at breweries in the 1870s and by 1891, nearly every brewery was equipped with refrigerating machines.

Just as porn drives communications technology, alcohol drove food and preservation technology. Because everything great invented by man comes back to porn and booze. Anyway, yes, beer and ice cream, two staples in many of our diets that would not be so prevalent if it wasn't for the ice revolution. Thinking of it that way, was the invention of modern refrigeration good or bad for us?

Because refrigeration facilitated the hygienic handling and storage of perishables, it promoted output growth, consumption, and nutrition through the spatial and temporal integration of markets for perishables. We estimate the impact of mechanical refrigeration on output and consumption, and hence on human nutrition, concentrating on the contribution from refrigerated dairy products, an important source of nutrients, particularly proteins and calcium. We conclude that the adoption of refrigeration in the late-nineteenth-century United States increased dairy consumption by 1.7% and overall protein intake by 1.25% annually after the 1890s. The increase in protein consumption was particularly important to the growth of the human organism. 

Moments after two human organisms shared hopefully more than one human orgasm to create one or more human organisms.

Yes, more protein is wonderful, but if I allowed my six year old daughter to eat multiple ice creams and multiple ice pops daily as she requests on the regular, perhaps this scientist wouldn't be so gung ho. Still, point is, before refrigeration, nutrition was a lot more scarce. Now it ain't. Too bad if we're wired to over-eat.

The idea of refrigerating ourselves via air conditioning is making us fat is not a new one. Just as a cow is a perfect mechanism for regulating it's own temperature for creating milk, the human body also regulates it's own temperature. But that regulation ain't free -- it takes energy a.k.a. calories to turn up the internal furnace when you're in the cold and it takes energy to sweat off the excess temp and push blood closer to the surface of your skin to help cool it. Air conditioning short-wires the need for this calorie-expending internal thermostat.

Ice, ice cream, a cool room and/or a chilled beverage in the summer, it's a pretty awesome thing that makes being alive fun. As my 1900's ice box attests too, people haven't always had it so comfortable. Gratitude.
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WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2948

Frustratingly high. I need to look back at when I was regularly keeping it closer to 2700 and see what I was doing differently...

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MONDAY COUNT: 2930

SLEPT: 11pm-6am, 7 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 8:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 9:45am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:30pm, falafel, onion soup, health salad, pickles, 560 cal

PM SNACK:  3:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 6:45pm, mahi mahi,  asparagus, poppa salad with dressing, 650 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:15pm, popcorn, +/- 400 cal

EVENING SNACKS: 8pm, 2 kid granola bars, peanut butter crackers, 400 cal
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TUESDAY COUNT: 2690 cal

SLEPT: 9pm-6am, 9hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 7:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 9:45am, Fage with honey, vanilla and almontsl 450 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, chicken meatballs, steamed string beans, lentil curry, pickles, 620 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, 100 cal

DINNER: 7pm, French Bread pizzas, poppa salad with dressing, 1080 cal

EVENING SNACKS: 8pm, 2 kid granola bars, pirate booty, 280 cal


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WEDNESDAY COUNT: 3650 cal

SLEPT: 10pm - 6am, 8 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:155am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 7:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 9:45am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:45pm, grilled pork tenderloin, poppa salad with dressing, pickles, 420 cal

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, cashews, 250 cal

DINNER: 8pm, chipotle burrito, ice cream, 1180 cal

EVENING SNACKS: 9pm, nutella, pirate booty, +/- 800 cal
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BIKE CREDIT: 680cal
THURSDAY COUNT: 2850

SLEPT: 10:30pm-2:30am, 4 hours

AM SNACK: 3am, iced green tea, 150mg caffeine

BIKE SNACK: 5am, homemade granola bar, 510 cal

BREAKFAST 1: 7am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 9:15am, Fage with almonds, honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, grilled pork tenderloin, poppa salad with dressing, sautéed mushrooms pickles, 590 cal

PM SNACK: 3:15pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, cashews, 250 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, peanut m&ms, 260 cal

DINNER: 6:45pm, fancy gyro, eggplant, halava & baklava, +/- 1000 cal
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FRIDAY COUNT: 2620

SLEPT: 9pm-6am, 9 hours

BREAKFAST: 6:15am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 9:30am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, sardines & avovado on whole wheat toast, pickles, poppa salad and dressing, 700 cal

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 6:30pm, lomein, beef patty, +/- 1000 cal

Optimism for Our (Dietary) Future

Yay! I lost a pound! Let's get triple cheese burgers!

It's easy to be cynical and see the bad side of things. Holy crap, anyone within media-ear shot of this week's Republican debates could not be blamed for thinking our democracy is being subsumed by idiots, clowns and he-man woman-haters. Despite those same right wing lunatics insisting climate change isn't real despite all evidence to the contrary, major projects at my doorstep are being planned to account for the rising sea levels, regardless of any politician's anti-science dogma.

Republican Party, circa 1930

But the thing that motivates this blog is more narrow. It's my health and the health of my children and everyone else's too, and the food that we consume that affects it. Well, maybe it's not a lost cause.

Calories consumed daily by the typical American adult, which peaked around 2003, are in the midst of their first sustained decline since federal statistics began to track the subject, more than 40 years ago. The number of calories that the average American child takes in daily has fallen even more — by at least 9 percent.

That is a mouthful, and is huge, if you believe it. Lies, damn lies, and statistics....but I'm going to go and believe it, given the seemingly credible multi-year wide-ranging studies the piece cites. Doesn't hurt that my anecdotal evidence -- which is recorded here every week for years and years, as well as my awareness of how I feed my own kids -- seems to fit neatly into the hypothesis.

The encouraging data does not mean an end to the obesity epidemic: More than a third of American adults are still considered obese, putting them at increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Americans are still eating far too few fruits and vegetables and far too much junk food, even if they are eating somewhat less of it, experts say. 

OK, sometimes it's totally legit to hate on fruit.

As can be seen by my monthly weigh-ins and the trends that can only really be seen in annual-increments, what all this information is saying is that we might finally be past our maximum-fatness, but we still have a ways to go to get back to where we were....before sugar became cheap, plentiful and processed into a plethora of foods to make them cheaper. And there is no other source of concentrated, cheap sugar than soda.

The anti-obesity public health campaigns have focused on one subject more than any other: beverages.
Anti-soda messages hit their target. Americans, on average, purchased about 40 gallons of full-calorie soda a year in 1998, according to sales data from the industry trade publication Beverage Digest analyzed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. That fell to 30 gallons in 2014, about the level that Americans bought in 1980, before the obesity rates took off.

If we want to get serious about the realities of what climate change is doing, it's probably too late to just cut carbon emissions -- we have to start building walls to keep the oceans out of our urban centers. And if we want to get serious about the realities of what sugar is doing, addicting people to cheap food and corporations to easy profits, there has to be a campaign similar to the one that got us hooked off of cigarettes and tobacco. Once sugar and excess calories are recognized as a addiction-manipulated health threat on the level of nicotine cancer-sticks, then maybe we'll have a change at real progress in our life times. The cause is not lost.

WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2866

OK eating week, not great but not an embarrassment. Bike riding is starting to come back to me, feeling a lot of gratitude about being healthy.

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BIKE CREDIT: 550 cal
MONDAY COUNT: 1970

SLEPT: 11pm-6am, 7 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 10:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 1pm, Fage with almonds, honey and vanilla, 450 cal

PM SNACK:  2:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

BIKE SNACK: 4:30pm, homemade granola bar, 350 cal

DINNER: 6:45pm, mahi mahi,  asparagus, poppa salad with dressing, 650 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:15pm, large piece of watermelon, +/- 400 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, 2 child granola bars, 200 cal
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TUESDAY COUNT: 2690 cal

SLEPT: 9pm-6am, 9hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:15am, steel cut oatmeal 450 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, almond butter and grape jelly on whole wheat, health salad, pickes, 600 cal

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, momma salad, 100 cal

DINNER: 7pm, French Bread Pizza, poppa salad with dressing, 1080 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, large piece of watermelon, +/- 300 cal

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WEDNESDAY COUNT: 3320 cal

SLEPT: 11:30pm - 5:30am, 6 hrs

AM SNACK: 5:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10am, fruit smoothie, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:45pm, chicken meatballs, steamed string beans, lentil curry, pickles, 620 cal

PM SNACK: 3pm, momma salad, cheezits,310 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, poppa salad with dressing, 200 cal

DINNER: 8pm, chipotle burrito, ice cream, 1180 cal

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, nutella, +/- 400 cal
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THURSDAY COUNT: 3440

SLEPT: 11pm-6am, 7 hours

AM SNACK: 6:15am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 10am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 12:15pm, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

PM SNACK: 1:15pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

LUNCH: 4pm, poppa salad with dressing and grilled chicken, 720 cal

DINNER: 8pm, burger, fries, diet coke, +/- 1200 cal

EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, nutella, +/- 500 cal

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FRIDAY COUNT: 2910

SLEPT: 12am-4:30am, 4.5 hours

BREAKFAST: 5am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11:15am, Fage with almonds, honey and vanilla, 450 cal

LUNCH: 2:30pm, sauteed shrimp with mushrooms, poppa salad and dressing, 630 cal

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 5:15pm, hot dog, fries, ice cream, +/- 1000 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, beef patty, 360 cal

Monthy Weigh In

207-->208.6-->206.8

July was difficult because work slowed down, and after several doctor visits, it appeared I pulled a core-muscle whose only cure is to stay off the bike until it felt better. Just rode slowly for the first time in 2 weeks on Friday, and it's gotten a lot better, so I should be back out sooner than later. Still, it's been a lot to handle. Been trying to throttle back on the eating a little, and despite some stress-related eating late this week, my weight has dropped a little. Hopefully August will see some more positive trends.

WEEKLY AVERAGE: ---

Spent a few necessary days off the reservation, making the average meaningless.

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MONDAY COUNT: 2730

SLEPT: 11pm-6am, 7 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 8am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 9:45am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:15pm, falafel, health salad, pickles, onion soup, 560 cal

PM SNACK:  3pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cl

DINNER: 6:45pm, flounder, asparagus, poppa salad with dressing, 650 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm, popcorn, +/- 400 cal

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, kind bar, 200 cal
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TUESDAY COUNT: 2150 cal

SLEPT: 9:30pm-6:30am, 9hrs

AM SNACK: 6:45 am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:45am, age yogurt wit honey, vanilla, almonds, 450 cal

PM SNACK: 1pm, momma salad, veggie straws, 360 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, kind bar, 200 cal

DINNER: 630pm, French Bread Pizza, poppa salad with dressing, 1080 cal

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WEDNESDAY COUNT: ---

SLEPT: 9:30pm - 6:30am, 9 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11pm, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

LUNCH: 3pm, sauteed shrimp and mushrooms, poppa salad with dressing, 630 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, cheezits310 cal

DINNER: 6pm, Chipotle Burrito, diet coke, ice cream, 880 cal

EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, lots of nutella, ---
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THURSDAY COUNT: ---

SLEPT: 1am-6am, 5 hours

AM SNACK: 6:15am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, fage yogurt with honey, almonds, vanilla, 450 cal

PM SNACK: 2pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 4:30pm, lots of food and sweets, ---

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BIKE CREDIT: 550 cal
FRIDAY COUNT: 1670

SLEPT: 7:30pm-7:30am, 12hours

BREAKFAST: 7:45am, iced green tea

BIKE SNACK: 11am, homemade granola bar, 550 cal

BREAKFAST 1: 2:30pm, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

PM SNACK: 4pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, kind bar, 200 cal

DINNER: 7pm, steak, fries, oysters, ice cream, +/- 1000 cal