Good reminder Rockdoc, never too late to do things to change/improve our lifestyle.
I wrote this awhile back, but this thread has reminded me of it. Several years ago I found myself, after installing a satellite TV system, enjoying the hunting/fishing shows so much that I practically skipped the first whole hunting season that I had it due to sitting on the couch. It's hard to imagine now that I ever enjoyed most of those shows, but they were new to me then. I awoke from my TV induced stupor to realize what an idiot I was, and immediately changed into some camo, picked up a double and some shells and went straight to a harvested peanut field and began calling crows from the cover of an adjacent pine plantation. It was bitter cold, but I felt great. Never looked back. I shoot doves 12-15 times a season now, shoot sporting competitively when work allows, and duck hunt with a passion. Gave up deer SHOOTING years ago. No challenge to killing something while it's standing eating from a camouflaged elevated stand with a rifle that will hit him in the head at 400 yards.
I will be 55 on Friday, the 13th
of this month. I'm 6'2", weigh 165 lbs., and farm 1400 acres of cotton and peanuts with my youngest son. Don't let anyone tell you farming isn't still hard work physically just because of a/c and big equipment. Not eating ain't what keeps me skinny. I do believe strongly in eating healthy, balancing my protein, fat, and carb intake as nearly to a 7-3-9 ratio as possible. And in taking large doses of Omega-3 fish oil daily. I take 4000 mg a day, and may up that to 6000. Since beginning to eat better and taking the fish oil several years ago my triglycerides have dropped to the point that my HDL is now higher than the tryglycerides. I have my blood work done every 6 months and the HDL slowly improves each time while the triglycerides continue slowly dropping.
I would like to live to see many more birthdays and bird seasons, and stay healthy enough to enjoy them. It takes active participation in improving your health to do that, it seems. There are those rare individuals who smoke, eat anything they like, and never break a sweat that live to get old, but there ain't many of them. And when the day comes that my Maker is ready for me to join Him, I'll be quite content to leave here for a better place, whenever that may be. I intend to go kicking and scratching, though. He has given us a beautiful and wonderful world to enjoy, and I want to do so for as many years as I can. And take out as many limits of birds as I can in the meantime!!
Here's to good health for all who desire it. Stan
