September 5th, 2015

Weight

Happy to see my weight was finally down after eating like a bird and walking like a marathon walk racer. I weighed myself 3x. 161.4, 162.2, 162.2.  for an avg of 161.93 lbs. My goal is in sight of W<160.

The trick was to finally poop. I didn't want to write this but due to its importance I did. This is because you can get upset that what you're doing isn't working. So you want to look at trends in your weight and not just the number. By the way I lost 2.2 lbs. today but it may have been mostly poop.

Blood Sugar

I'm doing an actual blood sugar test this morning. I suspect that certain quest bars affect my blood sugar more than others. 

Test: Does the Cookies and Cream Questbar raise my blood sugar more than the Smores?

Time: Saturday 10:18 am BS = 100

Ate bar and drank a tea. Now it's possible that the tea will affect my blood sugar but the test against the other bar will use the same time. Time: 10:49 am BS = 120. Now that is higher than I expected. Tomorrow I'll do the same test with a Smores Questbar. In looking closely at the packages I notice that the Oreo has more fiber. 17G vs. 13G but lower "Net" Carbs. The "Net" carbs is the carbs from Sugar which is 1g Sugar and 2g Erythtritol. Below are the blood sugar numbers from my quest Oreo bar test.

9/5/2015 10:18	100
9/5/2015 10:45	120
9/5/2015 11:15	127
9/5/2015 11:45	112
9/5/2015 12:15	98

Problem

Bars and low carb foods. I'm looking for low carb foods but can't seem to find them. Is there a low carb flower that doesn't raise blood sugar? The bars should be larger and have less carbs in them. They shouldn't taste terrible but they don't have to taste great so that I can't stop eating them. Their main goal should be to stop me from being hungry for the lowest calories possible.

Productivity

I'm getting annoyed that in Blogger if I want to set text as a heading it takes too many steps. I'd like a shortcut key to do this.

    "Don't complain create a solution"

This idea is definitely doable. I have to monitor a key combo, and do mouse positioning and clicking based on where the control is. This won't work all the time but it should work.

My Droid Turbo phone shows me how to turn on my flashlight by shaking it. So I try it and it works. But this is also something I do to turn on my phone. So I try to turn on camera but flashlight goes on and I don't know how to turn it off. I find that the flashlight app has a setting that allowed me to not turn on if I shake the phone.

Business

Stock market dropped 272 points on Friday. I've been mostly in cash for the last 6 years and am pissed off that I missed the big advance. I have money in HGFSX - Hussman Growth Fund who's done horribly in the 6 year bull market.  I was pretty close to dumping him but felt I would feel horrible if the market crashed and he made money. The question of would I invest with him now would be a yes as he does better in bear markets than the stock market does. He's predicted a bear market just way too early.

And relative to the stock market I've done horribly. I wanted to split up money 1/3 S&P 1/3 Hussman and 1/3 my own trading, but never did it.

I was thinking about some pattern matching code for the market and maybe I should get back into analyzing the market. The problem is that I can't trade easily at work and must hold for 30 days.

News

Presidential candidates are in the news. I've decided I don't like Trump. What kind of president acts like an idiot when Megan Kelly asked him difficult questions. Seems like a bully. 

Hilary Clinton's email is still in the news 

There are a lot of stories on migrants from Syria entering Europe. I feel sorry for these people, but I wonder what type of affect this will have on these countries in the future.