[Leica] Last week HCB, This Week Julia Child

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Go for it! I've lost 38 pounds since the end of March with another 60
or so to go!

Funny thing: this time it all sorta makes sense. I just had to do it
to ease my arthritic knees. My wife is doing the same program with me,
it's a modified South Beach with a good exercise regimen, but I get
red wine sometimes, and a glass of single-malt, a few peanuts at the
ball game, and every once a while so I don't feel deprived: an ice
cream cone. Trips to the super market are noteworthy because we buy
almost no processed foods any more. It's more work, but it's clearly a
damn sight better for me!

Good luck!

Adam

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:55:04 -0500, Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com> wrote:
> I'm tryin'. I think that losing about 60 pounds will make me a bit
> lighter on my feet. Of course, you're always an inspiration to me. I
> hope some day to get up your direction and drop in. B.C. is one of the
> prettiest places I've ever seen in pictures.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted
> Grant
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 5:30 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Last week HCB, This Week Julia Child
> 
> Jeffery Smith said:
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Last week HCB, This Week Julia Child
> 
> > At 54, I've sworn off all alcohol and ice cream, and still feel like
> an
> old man. To live to 90 seems like
> > an impossible feat.<<<<<
> 
> Hi Jeffery,
> Not at all young lad! ;-) Think positive. It's not an impossible goal,
> aim
> for it. Always think young, screw any of that crap about getting old and
> always be ready to kick ass! :-) Of course in a friendly manner. ;-)
> 
> At one time in my life given some of the assignments I'd worked on and
> were
> working on I thought I'd be lucky to make 40. Between shooting war's,
> documenting deep sea fishing trawlers on the North Atlantic and being
> caught
> in ice storms where we were endanger of capsizing. And crashing in a
> stock
> car when I was shooting a story on car racing and the car had a seat for
> me
> to shoot from inside the car. To mention a few.
> 
> Hit by a flying wheel during a stock car race, now that one was scary!
> And
> my first question when I came to was.... as you guessed  " How are my
> cameras?" ;-) They were OK! :-) Of course there have been many moments
> as
> scary, but my plan is to make it past 96, beat my old time acquaintance,
> Esie who went to the big darkroom at 96. Hell I think it would be neat
> at,
> say 96.5 years right in the middle of an assignment to drop dead! No
> pain,
> no gain, just dead! ;-) Great way to go. ;-)
> 
> So I've made it this far to 75. Unfortunately the years between 40 till
> now
> have gone by like a flash of lightening and it kind of ticks me off I
> don't
> have as many years of shooting ahead of me as I have behind! However, as
> much as possible I'm going to use the remaining time with my Leica M7's
> at
> the moment and a "digital Leica" whatever / whenever model? I mean,
> there's
> lots more things out there to document and photograph in a way they
> haven't
> been done before.
> 
> To help accomplish that, I work out at the fitness centre down the road
> 3
> mornings a week at 6.30 a.m. and power walk as often as I can on the
> remaining mornings for 30-60 minutes. Now when we go on the road it's a
> must
> we stay in hotels with a work out room. ;-) It used to be a "must have a
> pool!" ;-) This isn't to become some muscle bound creature, but to keep
> ones
> body loose, flexible and relaxed maintaining a comfortable strength
> ability
> to lug around gear. And to maintain the ability to shoot for 12 to 18
> hours
> on any given day if necessary. Think positive and feel good is all it
> takes.
> 
> And unless yer hammering the booze pretty hard it's hardly necessary to
> cut
> it out all together. In fact the male of the human species can have a
> couple
> of glasses of wine a day for ones health. Women, one glass. Why? I
> haven't
> got a clue but I believe it has something to do how they're made up that
> we
> males aren't.
> 
> So Jeffery me young son, ;-) stay loose and keep doing what you love,
> being
> a photographer and never think there's a limit to what you can do and
> you'll
> make it to 96 along with me. ;-)
> ted
> 
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