Wednesday Weigh-In 20230118

The Valentine's M&Ms are very special.  They come packaged with Red, two shades of Pink, plus White.  It's difficult to convert a bag of ordinary M&Ms into a set of colors appropriate for this holiday.  Maybe if you separate all the Reds, then leave some in water for varying amounts of time, the red will fade to different shades of pink and maybe even to white.

Yet even if you can get the right colors, you'll be missing the design that serves as a border to the M&M logo.  On some candies the border looks like luscious lips.

I guess it's funny to be talking about M&Ms in a post devoted to weight-consciousness.

Waist = 37.5"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Easy Indoor Edible Garden

Imagine if you could grow vegetables indoors without dirt or an expensive lighting system or cats nibbling on them.

You can!  You can grow bean sprouts!  And that’s just what I’ve starting doing.

I soak mung beans in water for a half day or overnight, then I rinse them twice a day.  Otherwise they stay in a dark place, such as my oven or a covered tub.  After about a week, I harvest them.

I got the idea when I went shopping on iHerb¹ for Broccoli Seeds, which were mentioned in David Perlmutter’s “Drop Acid” book² as something to sprinkle on salads.  When I added the broccoli seed bottle to my cart, the website displayed a Sprouting Jar in its list of suggestions.  And so I added that to my cart along with a bag of organic Mung Beans suitable for sprouting as a Christmas present for myself.

I’d been buying mung bean sprouts for a while.  They’re inexpensive, but they are far too perishable, lasting only a few days.  I was attracted to the idea of eliminating both the waste due to rotting sprouts and the hassle of going to the store more than twice a week.

It’s working out well.  I sprout and use about 1.5 ounces of mung beans per week.  I consume about a handful of sprouts raw every day.

I could sprout the broccoli seeds as well, but I prefer to eat them as they are.  The texture of broccoli seeds reminds me vaguely of nonpareils or fish roe.  However they have a green taste with a slightly bitter undertone.

Anyway, don’t wait until 2024 to resolve to start sprouting.  Do it now!

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¹ https://www.iherb.com?rcode=DOJ209 The author may receive a 5% or 10% reward from purchases made after a buyer clicks this link.

² https://books.google.com/books/about/Drop_Acid.html?id=JU0yEAAAQBAJ

Wednesday Weigh-In 20221229

After I created the 14-year graphical summary of weight, I realized that I've returned to the state I was in ten years ago. Before seeing that, I thought I've reverted back to the condition I was in before I got married, which was nearly thirty years ago. Maybe I'll continue to lose weight. My waist continues to shrink, and I've ordered pants that have a smaller waist.

Waist = 37.5"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Weigh-In Fourteen Year Graphical Summary

Here is a fourteen year graphical summary of my weigh-in data.

The sudden drop in 2022 was due to intermittent fasting.

I think the decrease in 2019 had something to do with the advice I received while working with a Naturopathic Doctor.

I think the increase from November 2015 to June 2016 is because I was taking Lexapro.

I think the longer-spanned increase from about September 2013 to about November 2014 is related to a malfunctioning CPAP machine.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20221222

I'm excited that with this weigh-in my body fat percentage dropped below 20%!

Waist = 37.75"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20221213

Last week I wrote about getting an Agatston Calcium Score over 300 on a recent CT of my heart. But the doctor who requisitioned it said that the really critical heart artery is the descending aorta. The score for that artery is 82.

Waist = 38.0"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20221206

Whoa, I just got back the results of a recent CT scan of my Heart with scoring. The Agatston Calcium Score is over 300! According to this calculator, my score is near the 90th percentile for white men of my age. Oh Freakazoids!

Waist = 38.0"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.