February Shave Club

Got my box

The February DSC box hit my porch recently, and in it a couple new products. I ordered myself a new toothbrush & toothpaste, as well as the usual 4x blade refills that come each month.

What do I think?

Thanks for asking, I love the new toothbrush. When I first looked at it I wondered why is it shaped so weird? Long, skinny & way more angled than my previous tooth scrubber. But, what the heck, I paid for it, I might as well squeeze some paste on it and shove it in my mouth. At first it felt weird, but that was just because I was not used to the new shape, after a couple minutes & getting used to the shape – Well, I love it. It easily reaches the back molars (the wisdom teeth that should have been extracted) and delivers the minty freshness to the backside of those bad boys with ease. AND, the toothpaste…… I gotta say- I love that too. I didn’t think much about it at the time, just a minty toothpaste, no big deal… But, a few hours later sitting in my office, I realized I was still tasting the minty freshness. That impressed me. So, I am sold. I will be reordering my replacement toothbrushes from DSC in the future…… probably more often than I was replacing my previous ones 😐

 

HEY! What about the Hair Fiber?

Dang, I was hoping you wouldn’t remember that… I haven’t tried it. I’m not much of a hair paste kinda guy, more of a hair gel guy. I will try it, soon.

 

If you are interested in trying any of these products, please use my link here or on my resource page. If you do, I get a little credit at no additional cost to you.

Thanks, and happy grooming.

Health Tracking with my Fitbit

Small steps in my health journey.

As I get older, the dietary choices of my younger days are manifesting themselves with a vengeance not seen since the fat guy in ‘Stand by me’ drank the ipecac before the pie eating contest. In my teen years and early twenties, I could eat anything in any amount with, seemingly, no affect to my metabolism, weight or belly size. As time marched on with little change in my diet, the extra calories, sugars and shear volume of food I consumed started to slowly stick around taking up residence packed about my belly. Now, I am in the mode of ‘try to loose the old guy gut’. That is my goal. It’s not ambitious, it’s not glorious or glamorous. It is basic. Loose the old guy gut.

Lose the gut

Part of reaching my fitness and health goal is tracking. I got a Fitbit a while ago, and use it to make sure I get my steps in. Like so many who don the unmistakable Fitbit ‘watch’, my step goal is 10,000 per day. I figure that if I can get those steps in each day, that will help with creating my calorie deficit. Part of my challenge is that most of my day is spent at a desk doing paperwork & administrative work. I have the not so infrequent need to get up and move around, and the freedom to do so as I see fit. On a normal day it is not difficult for me to get my 10,000 steps in. Ironically, however, the weekends are usually more difficult for me to get my steps in. My weekends are spent mostly around my home. Working on the ‘honey-do list’. Working on one of my web projects, like PoserDad.com. Driving tour groups in the wine country (another side job). So, weekends continue to challenge my trackable mobility, motivation and accountability.

Challenges

During the time when my friends and I were most active together with challenges, I was able to not only very regularly hit my 10,000 steps in a day, but frequently blow past that goal and tackle some of the high step challenges within a couple days. Lately, almost all of my friends have gone inactive for various reasons, and my motivation to push that little extra on the days that I am ‘stepping’ short is lacking. The various daily challenges have been great to do with friends. Do you use a Fitbit? If so, I want to challenge you to one of the daily challenges!

Friend Me

Motivation and accountability are two important keys to success. The Fitbit app & website make these easy to accomplish by finding friends to both spur one another on to work harder & do better and to have friendly competitions with. I find the Fitbit app & site helpful because of these features. The days and weeks that I did the best, reached my step goals and kept my caloric intake in line with weight loss were the times that I had a friend (or friends) pacing with me on challenges. If you are using a Fitbit, you are welcome to add my to your friends list – I am listed as PoserDad (no surprise there). I would love to have more friends to pace with and challenge to daily goals. Like I said, the accountability is motivating and is a key to success in all things.

 

Do you even Church?

Do you attend Church?

Are you a regular or a semiannual worshiper?

Are you there overtime the doors are open, or is it just Christmas & Easter for you?

Are you involved with any groups at your chosen house of worship?

Are you an usher? Do you sit behind the mixing board or the computer? Do you teach any classes?

Does your commitment extend to any time other than a Sunday morning?

Work days? Service time at your house of worship?

Do you hang out or spend time with other men from your house of worship outside of ‘Church-time’?

Home groups? Mens group? Weekend retreats?

Do you spend time with other men outside of work?

Hunting? Fishing? Sports league? Or just showing down a beer?

Do you belong to a group, club or service organization?

Rotary? Chamber of Commerce? Prayer Breakfast?

 

Please share your answers in the comments.

 

Me?

I’m in Church 99% of the Sundays in a year. Most of the time I’m sitting in the Media booth manning the Mixing board & overseeing the presentation computer operator. I don’t have any close friendships with, or hangout with any of the men from Church outside of Sunday morning (I’m working to change this). I don’t hang out with my co-workers and I’m not a member of any other club/organization. I have a very few friends, only 1 of which I’ve had since 4th grade.