Getting Healthy

Way to go, Chris! Kudos to everybody else.

Oh, Alex...facial hair isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'd grow a full beard, but there's this little bald spot on either side of my mouth that just makes it look weird, especially when what there is, is salt and pepper colored. So I just grow the goatee, to balance the shaved head of hair I cut last summer in part because it was receding so much. The gals all seem to like it...except the wife. Can't please everybody I guess.
 
Alex P said:
A six pack isn't a sign of health... and is as useless as tits on a bull..... I have one... Yet I am the most unhealthy person here I'd wager.... I'd rather be able to grow a beard... That would be awesome. I'd stoke it from dusk til dawn.
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I doubt ladies would be impressed by tits on a bull, but a six pack always goes down well. :)

Funny as well - I never really exercised much yet still had one - but never look a gift horse...

Beard's are over-rated, though. Once the stublle goes over a few mm's, becomes really itchy. And people complain it's itchy for them when they kiss you!

Plus when a beard really starts growing, they become famous for catching whatever you eat - the thought of egg yolk hardening in a beard is enough to put me off wanting to grow one past the itchy stage. :)

Instead, am keeping to short stubble, and may have fun shaving it into narrowed patterns like the New Romantics did.

Also, due to growing bald spot at back of head, shaved the sides and back, but left the long blonde on top - looks quite Tank Girl.

I think I must be nearing my mid-life crisis. :D
 
Oh aye! I know about the food catching in beards, I have what some (Tracy, if memory serves me right) a flavour saver.... [Soul patch] Also have like a chin/goatee/satan beard lol.. But I want like a full on jesus/hobo beard!
 
Francis king said:
small mice can live there! and voles! and woodlice!
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That isn't the worst of it! I now have a preble's jumping mouse living in mine and since they are protected I can't shave or trim the beard until it leaves or dies of old age.
The only thing I can think to do is lie on my back in the meadow and hope a falcon spots the little beastie and grabs it.
 
Hi Chris!

I had to do a search to find your most recent post. It's good to see you're serious about getting healthy, and partly explains why you haven't been posting on other topics these days.

I was getting a little bit worried because I haven't heard from you for so long. Of course I haven't been here much in the last few months either.

Love and Light,
Linda
 
Hi Linda!

I haven't been posting because I sorta hit the existential wall of despair. A number of things have been converging: like mid-life crisis stuff coupled with still trying to work through my grief over my brother's death, and some anger issues that go way back to childhood. The exercise thing kind of fits into the middle of that. The good news is that I AM actually working through the emotional sh**, but things have been dicey, and I've come close to having a real breakdown just lately. Anyway>>>it's sure nice to see you around.

L+L

Chris
 
OK, so...I did read all the wonderful posts on the thread. Thanks all!

My wife is also doing the yoga-pilates thing with her friends. She's been on the South Beach diet for a couple of years and has lost around thirty pounds in that period of time just cutting out the carbs and doing her exercise tapes. Some of her girlfriends come over Tuesday and Thursday nights and they all work it together. I'm not allowed to watch. Tuesday of this week my wife's friend Shannon brought over a Latin dance workout DVD. It looks fun, and potentially painful!

I've been rowing five nights a week, doing two reps of 5k plus a 500 meter warm down. I've been doing push ups, and I bought a stand up rack thingy you can do dips, chin-ups, and suspended leg raises on. I'm trying to educate myself about nutrition. I was raised lacto vegetarian, so I've never really had a horrible diet, but I've started taking a multi-vitamin and salmon oil capsules for omega whatchamacallits.

Chris
 
Chris,

You must be getting sleek and sexy.

We demand proof.

Poolside photos will suffice.
 
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