April 2019 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

No caculated risk.....we are family.....a little crazy but family.

 

I pushed a metal staple into an electrical outlet once. That was enough for me to fully understand electricity.

Then there was the time I tried to dig a piece of toast out of the toaster with a butter knife. I probably should have unplugged the toaster first. Now I know what makes them little red wires hot.

I was just a kid (or maybe a teenager that liked toast), so these first two examples were indeed childish (teenagerish).

And if a light bulb breaks out of the base when you try to remove it from a ceiling fixture, don't try to pry the base out with a screwdriver unless you shut off the breaker first. I'm glad it was a Craftsman screwdriver. A lifetime replacement guarantee can be a handy thing. I was an adult this time, so I'm happy to report this was not a childish act.

Who says MAYhem is only for shaving? Danger is my middle name. See the CT.

 

Chasing the baby is trying too hard for the BBS instead of letting it come to you, Paul. Kinda like “killing” the golf ball instead of taking a nice relaxed swing at it. Bad results are likely to occur in both cases. Another example would be Charlie attempting to fix things instead of calling an electrician, as demonstrated above, although that’d be more like “chasing the voltage”.

 

I'm almost 45, stand 6'5",


I'll share too. I weighed 305 in 2005. 46 inch waist and 54 chest.

Natural foods only now, and my weight is stable around 185ish. 36 waist, 48 chest.

Anyone can do it. It's about making better food choices, and allowing time to aggregate those choices into a better body and life.

Eat real food... from scratch.
Stay active and upright each day as much as possible.
Hydrate.

Your DNA will do the rest.

 

Good advise and congratulations.

 

@wristwatchb

Charlie, do you feel the difference in back, knees and feet?

 

I have the Professional and the Pro Super blades. The Pro Supers are thicker and provide more blade exposure...my favorites. I have some ready to load into my Mongoose in the next couple of days.

 

Absolutely, Chris.

I was having minor, intermittent knee pain. It's gone now.

My feet would throb after a long day of being on my feet. Not now.

My back and hips were stiff every time I rose from a seated position. It felt like I needed to oil my hip joints. It took 30 to 60 seconds to loosen up. No more.

I was having difficulty getting out of chairs without having to push on the arms to lift myself up. It was literally embarrassing for me to rise out of a chair in front of someone. I actually broke the arm off my friend's folding chair last summer. I delivered a new chair to him a few days later along with another apology. In the past year, I remember straining my lower back severely getting up from a sitting position using my core muscles only. This is absolutely not a problem now. This is how I visualize the results. For every 8 lbs that I have lost, it's like getting out of the chair with 1 less gallon of milk resting on my shoulders. Having lost 70 lbs, I can now rise without the extra "9 gallons of milk" weight. This was actually the main reason I wanted to lose weight.

I was short of breath just climbing the basement stairs. Last Sunday, I did 16 flights of stairs (up and down) at church. I'm adding a flight here and there to see if I can eventually get to 50 flights. I met a guy a few months ago that was doing this routinely. Because we like to travel -- and stairs are always involved in the cool places we want to visit -- this is important to me.

For the last few years, I had struggled with sleep apnea. I kept putting off a visit to the doc...which was stupid and a source of family frustration. The sleep apnea stopped after I had lost the first 20 pounds.

I used to get up multiple times during the night to relieve the fluid that accumulated in my legs during the day. Laying in the bed eventually caused the fluids to look for a way out. I rarely get up during the night now...which also helps my sleep.

After 4 months or so of eating properly, my doc declared my blood work to be "perfect." It was borderline on everything bad when I started my journey. Same with my blood pressure.

I figured all of this would keep getting worse (and quick) if I took no action.

I could probably come up more benefits if I think on it. All things considered, this stuff is worth more to me than the momentary pleasure of eating whatever I want.

 

Love the trip.


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Great shave and photo Jim.


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Wow. Congrats Jim.


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This is quite similar to my experience. I never realized the strain that carrying 120 extra pounds was placing upon me. The human body is very resilient if we care for it properly.

 

Congrats on the razor Danny. Looking forward to your thoughts.


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Thank you Danny.


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Great shave and photo


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Thank you Charlie.


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Lovely photo and shave Joe.


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Thanks Clint! I am steadying both hands much better to take finer pics!

 

i am in..

 

ouch..