Diet Day 7

Wow! This is the big check in and sets the tone for the next month of weight management. Now a full week into it, weigh in at class had me down 3.1 pounds compared to a week ago. Not bad, but I'd like to think that I could do better. We came home with $120 in low cal groceries.

Before class I had a complete physical at my Doctors office. Mostly all routine. Results of blood tests in a few days. Yes, I had fasted. We discussed my O2, diet (hunger pains), Radiculopathy (Hand Pain) and my Torn Meniscus (Knee Pain). Then he froze that old wart on my big toe, AGAIN, causing more (Toe Pain). To top it off, I was on the receiving end of a rectal exam. Oh BOY! He claims that he is not sadistic.

To celebrate, we had a big salad and baked potato with salsa.

Anyone have a recipe for a salad?

More tomorrow.

Diet Day 5 & 6

Dang, lost my Bluetooth. I've looked everywhere twice. I hope whoever has it has poor luck with it.

Did Friday with only 1,975 Calories consumed. Saturday came in at 2,162. I am still in the box, meeting minimum requirements (a good thing); but I just like to eat. Nuts. Oh darn, them too. But not on this diet.

My daughter scared me. I know she didn't mean to. She said she couldn't contact her brother. Boy did I worry. Everything is OK though. He just had his phone turned off.

Diet Day 4

Day 4: 1830 Calories consumed yesterday.

Today I had for lunch, a potato topped with chili and stewed tomatoes. Planning on Salad at Carlos O'Kelly's tonight. This is great, I'm on a diet!

I keep forgetting to upload some pictures, to Twitter or Flickr. I need to get busy.

Diet Day 3

Opps, forgot to post on day 2; sorry. Not much to say about it anyway. 1800 Calories consumed yesterday on day 1.

Day 3: 1900 Calories consumed yesterday. OK, for those who know, that's NOT much of a strict diet; but the food I am restricted to IS very restrictive IMHO.

I'm fine with the diet. I think I'll do OK. Cheryl thinks I won't.

I do not feel hungry much. I have no cravings, per se, though it is my habit to grab something to munch on now and again. I AM fighting that.

Check my twitter feed for other, unrelated stuff.

Gained 3.0 pounds at weigh in this AM. Slightly depressed about it all. I haven't been able to do my normal Physical Activity; walking at the mall; because my Knee it out.

Tomorrow is the start of my diet push called Blitz. The Via Christi Weight Management program  http://www.hmrprogram.com/ is rather strict.

I may use this blog to denote my progress. Or not.

Instagram stole my ID

Well, this is old news by now. I wish I didn't have so many irons in the fire.

It goes like this ...
The guy's over at Instagram, made a decent product. It became a hit on the iPhone. It was the cool, "in thing" to have. Install it, take a picture of your cat, tint it; then post it to a social network.That was cool, for about half the smartphone world. The app is really pretty good! It is a great resource for creative inspiration. Though it does lack basic editing like crop and re-size.

People like me kept crying: When will Instagram get ported to Android? When? We want to be cool too! Heck, our droids run a Google+ circle or 2+ around the iPhone. Sometimes. Hows' about some Instagram/Android love? When?

Just when we were about to give up, THERE it is! ready to download from the Android Market Play Store. Great we all say. I waited a day, expecting a server crash, Malware, Trojans and the like. No? Everything's fine. I get it, set up an account and take a picture of our cat, tint it; then post it to ... a social network?

Which social network? Oh, not much choice for me. I pick Flickr, expecting THAT to go dark soon. Once again I give out a private password to enable an app I have yet to use, so it can move 1 file. OK, it works. Do dah, do dah. OK, those aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along. Move along. Maybe I'll use this app 3 or 4 times. It could happen.

Now the kicker. a couple of days later,the news hits: Facebook buys Instagram ! :-O You see; that's the bad thing about sharing private data, like a password. Once you turn it loose, it is no longer private. Odd how Instagram did NOT get bought by Facebook until AFTER their Android app launch. Hum; $trategic thinking? More pa$$word$ per buck? I thought that Facebook spent WAY too much for Instagram.  

OK, so what did I gain or loose? Gain? Not much. An app so I can play with the Ting Tang, white cord boys and girls. What did I loose? Nothing, really. Not yet. But now, Facebook has some of my PRIVATE passwords to other sites. They can access my Google account because of Instagram being on my Droid. The same with Flicker.

I should be more careful of the TRUST I put in a small startup. They could sell out, and the next owner, having LESS compassion for me, could sell again or could become really evil. Heck they could even track me as a data mine (stream) for advertizing. :-P

Why did I think they'd keep my passwords secret from (Facebook and the rest of) the evil empire?

Guy