I think if someone told me I would ever be on a diet like this I likely would have laughed at them.
However, if you think you are going to die if you aren't on a diet like this then likely you might stay on a diet like this. I started to notice that I was starting to lose about 1 pound a day. Now obviously, your body has something to say about all this too. For example, I was hungry and got up in the middle of the night and had some Organic Mashed potatoes and I think I also had some oatmeal and I also had a power core protein drink and the night I did this I actually gained a pound instead of losing a pound. However, then I decided to sleep instead of getting up and eating in the morning and wound up losing two pounds. So, gaining one and then losing two the same day which I thought was kind of remarkable.
Also, I wouldn't say this is an easy diet to be on either unless you feel safe at home or something like this. However, this is just me Fred at 77 who has been mostly retired for a long time now.
But, also it must be said that I took me about 5 years to get used to being retired (However, people who are workaholics possibly shouldn't ever fully retire because this often seems to kill them including my father who was a workaholic.
How did he find out he was a workaholic?
Well when he was 24 in 1939 (He graduated Valedictorian of his Senior class in the Seattle Area in 1934).
So, since he was always thinking up interesting things to do because he was so very brilliant he thought that chartering a yacht (the Lorna D) out of Vancouver and then taking it down to Los Angeles which he and his brother who was 22 then did along with his first wife who he married when she was 17 while he was working on the Grand Coulee Dam with his brothers Bob and Tommy.
So, I guess in 1939 she might have been 20 years old likely and was an adventuring person like my father and his brother.
However, when they got to Los Angeles he realized that the Yacht he and his brother and wife had chartered (the owners) didn't have the money that they said for their part of the voyage and these were people close to retirement I think then.
So, in order to get more money for this voyage that basically lasted from 1939 until 1941 to Tahiti and eventually by a great white Steamship to Hawaii to Honolulu.
Also, my father took a color 16mm movie Camera to document this trip because at the time he thought he would make some sort of travelog movie that people would be interested in in the U.S. when they returned (if they ever did) from Tahiti and the Tuomoto Archipeligo and Hawaii.
However, when they got to Tahiti and all the Islands in that Archipeligo of islands he realized he really wasn't cut out for not working. They all rented a house on Tahiti for $2.50 a month and all the bananas they wanted to eat there that grew everywhere around this house then.
However, as it got to be 1941 the rumblings of war in the Pacific Reached their ears and they knew they should start heading back to Seattle where they had jobs waiting for them with their father who was an Electrical Contractor. Also, my father had been in the Marine Corps reserve from 1934 after he got out of high school to 1937 also, So, it must have been after he and his older brother got out of the reserves in 1937 that the three brothers must have worked as Dump Truck Drivers building the Grand Coulee Dam over the Columbia river.
So, the point is my father saw that he wasn't really suited for a "life of leisure" during this 2 year trip to Tahiti and to Honolulu in Hawaii.
Then my father's first wife stayed and worked at the main newspaper in Honolulu then until Pearl Harbor scared the living shit out of her (pearl Harbor is next physically to Honolulu) where the most people live then and now on the Hawaiian islands. In fact, Honolulu has the 10th worst traffic jams in the whole U.S. which is really something to think about too which is why when I got to Hawaii I usually go to Kauai and Maui because the traffic isn't usually that bad there almost ever. I usually visit these islands once a year now if possible with my wife and another couple. In fact, we were on both islands in November for 2 weeks this fall with another couple. What you do is to rent a car you all can fit in with all your luggage and rent a Condo of some sort that has a kitchen so you can cook while you are there and buy most of your food at Costco in Lihue, Kauai or in Kahului, Maui which is also the main airport city (both cities are the main airport city on those islands where you can buy your food at Costco after renting at least one car that fits both you and all your passengers for your vacation trips all over on the island. This is at least what I prefer to do to have the most fun on Kauai and Maui almost every year now since Covid stopped. (somewhat).
So, my Dad discovered he wasn't suited for a Life of Leisure. So, after he and I and friends and relatives built their retirement home ourselves between 1968 and 1980 he and my mother retired there. However, he was gone 5 years after this at age 69 so I'm thinking that retirement and not working at a job was not really good for him regarding staying alive.
So, though he retired in 1980 he was gone by August 1985 which was pretty difficult for my mother and I at the time. However, then my mother lived until 2008 about 23 years more until age 90.
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