Breakfast and Today’s Workout

Breakfast today and a lot of days lately have been oatmeal. I use Coach’s Oats and usually and Chia seeds and some peanut butter. I sometimes add coconut shavings or Gigi berries. Turns out I’m not alone in thinking this is a healthy meal.

Today’s work out was thirty minutes or 10 miles in London on Zwift. That should wrap it up for London now. I took the picture below before my ride today. This menu is the only place I can find my progress in the mission. Wish it was other places.

That means I only have two worlds to worry about. Richmond and Innsbruck. I’m looking forward to knocking those out soon, but they are not offered as much as the other worlds so I think they will be the hardest for me to get done.

After Zwifting I did 30 minutes of yoga that felt great.

Eating out for Large People

In this interesting article from the New York Times, the author tells us how restaurants are changing the way they serve large customers. They are late to the game really as the ever-growing waistlines of Americans has been an issue for decades now. But it is worse than ever now.

About 40 percent of Americans over age 20 were classified as obese in a 2017 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the article, there is an app available, in certain test markets, only that is like Yelp but for big people. They can describe what it is like to eat at a restaurant for other large people.

This for me is yet another way that people outside of my core group are a mystery to me. I find it difficult to understand what they are going through. Which is why I am glad that the article also mentions a book by Roxane Gay called Hunger. In which the plus size model Ms. Gay depicts what it is like to be a large person.

Another book mentioned in the article also grabbed interest. This one is by Tommy Tomlinson, a former columnist for The Charlotte Observer, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.

Lots of great information and two books mentioned.  This is why reading the New York Times can be dangerous to my book budget.  It is one of the last great newspapers with really great writers.

Week Over Week for March 3

In brief, last week was a good week. I outdid my previous week in all three categories. Calories burned increased by 15.25% to 7,572. Exercise minutes was very high, a record for me since I’ve begun tracking at 724 which was an increase of almost 30% over the previous week. Even miles covered increased by 21% at 39 miles. It is going to be tough to beat the week of March 3rd.

Tuesday Workout

I love this workout! It kicks my butt and it’s worth 500ish calories. Just what I need to burn off that impossible burger. It’s a sweat fest too. I feel so much better after!

It also lead to hitting all my goals. I don’t worry about that Fitbit calorie one. I just want the steps above 10k.

Lunch

I’m a fan of food, but need to watch what I eat. I’m vegetarian because of the health aspect but love the other benefits as well. So this morning I had some over night oats with strawberries and chia seeds.

It was similar to the above but this picture is from last week when I did bananas and peanut butter. Also very yummy.

I had time to leave campus today and went to Ruby’s diner where they have the impossible burger for one of the lowest prices. This meal that comes with fries is only $15.07 with tax. It hit the spot!

Jaybird Ride the Worlds

I’m very excited that I finished my 15 miles Watopia last night. That’s two worlds down. I’ve got New York done too. Next up I think is London on Wednesday and Thursday this week. I’m definitely doing tomorrow in London but not today as I have Step today which is enough for my legs in one day. I’m not even sure these headphones are that great, but the competition has done its job and gotten me excited about riding and knocking out these 15 miles per world.

New Site

I add this new site today when I saw that the domain I wanted (and thought about for a whole 2 minutes) was available. I always have ideas for domains, but they are always gone before I can grab it.

Not this one. Got it!

What’s going to be on here. Good question. My immediate and thoughtless answer is everything and anything I want since it is my feed.

Grumpy Old Men | Waiting for Godot Book Review

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Remember Grumpy Old Men?

Grumpier Old Men Trailer

This book was written in 1952 well before the movie and its basically the same thing. What I originally wrote in my goodreads review was:

Strange play. Two guys that are waiting for someone who never comes. They are mean to each other and at least one seems to be a vagrant. The run into an old mean guy that has memory issues. This play is short only 100 pages, but I just summed it up 4 sentences. You’re welcome.

And that really does sum up Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. I thought it was funny and short. It gets three stars from me.