Jaba's Diet Blog

Bad process

Okay, I've fallen a few days behind in my updates. I'm still gathering the data, don't worry.

Blogger sucks for uploading pictures! I can do it in batches of five, at most, and often the site times out. At that point, if I haven't saved the post as a draft, it means I lose all the work I've done. This week they added a word-verification step for each and every update. So, every time I want to save a draft, I have to enter a code too.

So, I'm going to write a script that will generate this page automatically, from the photographs. I'll add the weight, bp, and pulse data from a delimited text file. This means I'll have to host the site myself, but over the long run it should save me a lot of time and frustration.

Ah, I see. Blogger added the word-verification step because they think I'm a spam-blog. Something about having a lot of pictures. The funny thing is that I don't have links to ads, or anything else for that matter. Maybe it's the Google Analytics javascript?

I'm still going to write that script, though.

2006-08-04: 217

Weight: 217 lbs
Pulse: 74 bpm
Blood Pressure: 132/89 mmHg

beef samosa
orange juice

montreal smoked meat on rye
bean soup
pickle

water

grande soy latte with 2 packets of brown sugar

brio soda
pepperoni pizza slice

sugary iced tea

2006-08-03: 219

Weight: 219 lbs
Pulse: 56 bpm
Blood Pressure: 129/81 mmHg

cereal with soy milk
coffee with soy milk and sugar
2 fish oil capsules
multivitamin

steak sandwich with mushrooms, onion, tomato, dijon, and steak sauce

grande soy latte
(note: I had 2 packets of brown sugar in this and all previous lattes)

cider 500 mL
key-lime pie slice

cider 500 mL

water

beer pint

water
beer pint

tex-mex burger (burger with salsa, possibly cheese)

water
fish oil capsule

water

2006-08-02: 218

Weight: 218 lbs
Pulse: 63 bpm
Blood Pressure: 133/89 mmHg

I went to a sit-down Vietnamese lunch with my co-workers. Sadly, I forgot the camera. So, I didn't eat. I picked up some Italian on the way back, and photographed it at my desk.

People were trying to be polite, and encouraging me to eat -- to cheat on my system. I was polite, but stuck with my system. This is an all-or-nothing deal. The whole point of this photo-blog is to be insanely detailed about documenting what I eat. I don't want to corrupt the data by cheating. I picked up some Italian on the way back to the office.

coffee with soy milk and sugar

2 fish oil capsules
multivitamin

egg on english muffin with black pepper

gnocchi in tomato-basil sauce
brio soda
2 cherries
2 pieces of bread

fruit smoothie (with yoghurt)

2 pieces of bread

jamaican chicken pattie
iced tea (all the iced tea to date is from mix: it's basically sugar-water)

iced tea
fish oil capsule

iced tea

water

2006-08-01: 219

Weight: 219 lbs
Pulse: 61 bpm
Blood Pressure: 137/83 mmHg

water 500 mL
jamaican chicken patty

diet coke
avocado crab spring roll (not fried, wrapped in rice paper)

grande soy latte

water 500 mL

gyros on a pita with veggies (no sauce)

water 500 mL

chocolate mousse
cherries

cherries

iced tea

2006-07-31: 218

Weight: 218 lbs
Pulse: 67 bpm
Blood Pressure: 126/86 (mmHg)

I got my blood-pressure machine back from my parents. This reading is a lot lower than one I took yesterday. I took that one after climbing some stairs, then resting for about 2 min. That reading was about 20/10 higher. It's suggested that you rest for 10 min before taking a reading.

I'm measuring my BP and pulse just after waking, sitting up in bed, but before getting out of bed. Oh -- all measurements are on my left arm.

coffee with soy milk and sugar
2 fish oil capsules
multivitamin