Fitness includes good looking legs, I guess
I’m not so naive to think that I’ll win any Handsome Hunk of the Year Honors, at my age, no matter how much I improve my currently poor level of physical fitness. (I’ve hinted to my wife that she should think of me as a real “hunk” in the making. She seems to think the word “chunk” is more appropriate.)But today, I read a news story on an Internet site that a major manufacturer of fitness equipment has launched a campaign that’s a “Search for the Best Calves” — and they don’t mean baby cattle. They’re inviting people to send them pictures of their lower leg muscles, i.e., their calves. The whole idea, I guess (my calves are so riddled with near-varicose veins I hate to look at them myself), is to crown some fitness fanatic as having the best calves in the world??
If you’re seriously interested in the “contest,” and have an urge to show off your calves, look for the contest on Google or some other search engine. I failed to find a link for it to include here. But I have been getting out for regular brisk walks more this week. Important to work on those old calves, I guess.
Moo.
New ‘diet plan’ works for me, my wife — diabetes diagnosis
I may have mentioned somewhere here a few months ago that my wife was hospitalized briefly for a heart flutter. (She’s doing very well now, thank you.) While she was hospitalized, she got another big surprise: She was diagnosed with diabetes. The diagnosis is that her blood glucose levels make her diabetic, but the good news is, she should be able to control it with a proper diet, regular exercise — and no need for medication.That may have been the best medical diagnosis for her and me BOTH that we’ve gotten in decades. Because it served as a great wake-up call for us both. We’re both overweight and out of shape, mostly from sloppy eating, i.e., food portions too big and food quality too little.
Nowadays, in the two-plus months since her hospitalization, our meals are much better in quality and in portion size. We’re taming our “inner gluttons” and, wow, we’re actually enjoying meals more — as well as losing serious body fat! (I’ve lost about 15-18 pounds; she’s lost 5-6 pounds.)
So, throw away all those diet pills, special supplements, instead of fat blockers or hgh supplements, etc., to feel healthier, happier, and younger, I highly recommend a moderate calorie, low fat, LOW CARB (special emphasis there), moderate protein, high fiber diet combined with a brisk walk or two every day.
A diet plan, lifestyle change like that has worked wonders for us.
Gulf dodges first hurricane bullet of oil spill season
For a few days there it looked like the cry throughout the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent states was “batten down the hatches” for Hurricane Alex. Fortunately, the storm turned sharply to the west, away from the oil spill area, and averted a worse disaster.Of course, folks living in Mexico and south Texas may not be too enthused about Alex’s travel pattern. From what I’ve seen, the wind forces tamed considerably but there was substantial (at this writing, there still IS) flooding. So those good folks better hope they had good homeowners insurance, flood insurance, reliable, cheap car insurance, and all the other brands of financial safety we put in place to protect ourselves from disaster.
My wife has a distant cousin who lives in the area of south Texas that was expecting Alex. She sent out email to the family just to tell them she and her husband were boarding up their windows and getting ready for the worst. We haven’t heard yet whether they got the worst, but I think they’re probably all right.
Meanwhile, as our Independence Day celebrations approach here in America, I wish all well. May the Gulf oil clean up go better than expected, and may anyone hurt by Alex find a speedy recovery!