October 5, 2011: Post 277

 Goal Weight: 188 pounds 

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Today's Weight:        203.6 lbs 
Yesterday's Weight:    202.8 lbs
Net Loss/Gain:         + 0.8 lbs

Daily weight from January 1, 2011.

Late eating, lack of sleep. That's the story behind the little gain I had at this morning's weigh-in. And, this is a no-PAGG week - that can't be helping the cause! I remember 1 time when I gained 7 pounds in a day (a cheat day, but still!) when I wasn't using the PAGG supplementation.

Daily Comment

I am blessed with having developed into a bass player who is at peace with his music. By which I mean, I know why I play bass, and, after all these years, my relationship with music and my instrument.

I am not the best bassist I know, by a long-shot, and when I see someone who is technically at the top of the game, I am just as awestruck as someone who just picked up the bass yesterday, not 45 years ago.

But what I play, and the way I play it, is a perfect summary of what I've become - a journeyman bass player. There are few genres of music I'm uncomfortable with. And while I do not have a broad range of techniques at hand - I basically play finger-style, the way some of the early electric bass-players did, or, more rarely, with a pick (the way the other early electric-bass players did). More modern playing styles (meaning the ones that came to the fore in the last 25-30 years) like slap-and-pop, I don't do; mainly because I don't 'hear' bass like that in my head. 


So, I do what I do. If you're another musician playing with me, that works or it doesn't, and I'm not sensitive about it: If your music demands something I don't do, you definitely need to get another bass player more in tune with your musical ideas. I'm easy with that.

I feel very fortunate to have found enough musicians who appreciate what I do to keep me playing regularly.

Food Log

Breakfast
Chocolate egg cream protein shake: Vanilla whey protein powder (w/36g of whey protein) plus cocoa, an egg, coconut milk, extra 5g of BCAAs, cinnamon and stevia-erythritol blend.


Lunch

Tuna salad (with celery, onions and homemade mayonnaise), on a salad with black beans, Spring Mix greens, a tomato, and red cabbage.

Snack
Celery and baby carrots with home-made spicy mayonnaise.

Dinner

Chili (grass-fed ground beef, pinto beans, black beans, shiitake mushrooms, tomatoes, spices) with broccoli.

Liquid Intake

    Coffee:  22 oz,   Water: 112+ oz.