Wednesday, April 15, 2015

#1406, Wednesday, April 15: Old-looking

Post 1406, Day 105 of 2015
- 1,566 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment
I am surprised at how old I look since letting my beard grow in. I know, you're just as old as you feel. I don't feel old. In fact, I don't about my age or looks. I neither advertise nor conceal my age. What other people think about it, people's opinions about it, just isn't any of my business.


But people do comment about my age and appearance. And it makes me think. In the recent past, people told me I looked younger than my age. Those comments have stopped, and been replaced with compliments about my beard. Compliments are more distracting than criticism. I don't understand why that is, but it is an observed truth, at least with me.
That is why I'm thinking about it today. All I can come up with, is in that in the picture above (a selfie taken today and transformed by fotosketcher), I look more like my brother Andy than ever.

Neither a good nor a bad thing, but interesting. And, of course, in the eye of the beholder.

I achieved this look by not doing something (in this case, shaving). No big deal. 

 I like to shake things up every now and then. I like the idea of reinventing myself, and do it whether I need to or not. I just like it. The result? I don't know - hard to judge. And it doesn't matter much. My appearance will change with my help or not. Resistance is futile.

It just is what it is.
Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   208.4 lbs
Previous Weight (4/14):           208.4 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 0.0 lbs

 Diet Comment
No better or worse. I think eating a day's worth of food between 6pm and 1am may not be the trick to losing weight. I also think Quest bars are my friend.
 
Food Log
Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
A bacon-cheese-greens-peppers-onions omelet.

Dinner 
At Eskapes: 
A Spinach Caprice Salad and Pumo Scallops with vermicelli . Not shown: A slice of Lemon Mascarpone cake.
Snack
A berry mix-cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, frozen organic mixed berries, kale, whey powder (24g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend).

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  34 oz.   Water: 80+ oz. and a glass of Pinot Noir with dinner.

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10 comments:

  1. andyApril 16, 2015 at 8:43 AM

    Family resemblance. The older we get the more pronounced the physical similarities seem to appear on the surface It just is what it is. By the way, have you noticed that most people, most of the time, have nothing to say, and won't shut up?

    - Light - Love - Compassion -

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  2. joanApril 16, 2015 at 9:04 AM

    I like to talk about nothing. I do think the quest bars are really filling for the calories. I don't like the beard. I do think it makes you look older.

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    1. Reverend KenApril 17, 2015 at 8:18 AM

      It definitely makes me look older. But I don't find anything wrong with that, right now. And, it makes me look thinner. So, a trade off. As soon as I'm ready for compliments about how young I look, I'll shave it off.

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  3. andyApril 16, 2015 at 9:08 AM

    At first, we struggle to fit in, as we seem so different. Later, we struggle to be different, because we seem to fit in too much. Now, we wonder - How could we have been so wrong?

    - Light - Love - Compassion -

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  4. Reverend KenApril 16, 2015 at 9:16 AM

    I see a lot more people struggling to be understood. Or should I take this personally?

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    1. andyApril 16, 2015 at 9:42 AM

      i wasn't thinking of any one in particular. Don't take this personally, please! As far as people struggling to be understood - i am probably being insensitive. i do try to be understanding. i get impatient with trying to be understood, instead of trying to understand. it seems upside down to me. i like distraction as well as the next guy, just not so much.

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    2. Reverend KenApril 17, 2015 at 8:19 AM

      "I like distraction as well as the next guy, just not so much." Hahaha! My brother and I are identical twins, except for me.

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    3. andyApril 17, 2015 at 8:42 AM

      " My brother and I are identical twins, except for me." And andy looks more like Ken.

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    4. andyApril 17, 2015 at 2:38 PM

      "I like distraction as well as the next guy ..." - Qualitative
      " ...just not so much." - Quantitative

      - Light - Love - Compassion -

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  5. Reverend KenApril 17, 2015 at 8:16 AM

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