Staying Active While Aging ... Bowling at 104 ... Losing 24 Pounds in 5 Weeks ... Making Money With Art
May 30, 2007
- I hope to be working and traveling overseas for the rest of my life. In fact, one of my lifelong goals is to stay active and productive as long as I possibly can. I refuse to accept the idea that I should stop doing something I like just because I've reached an age where people usually stop doing things. That's why I so admire Randy Couture, the mixed-martial-arts champion who recently reclaimed the heavyweight title of the Ultimate Fighting Contest at the very advanced age of 44. Randy is an amazing person with an incredible work ethic. He has beaten the odds and remains extremely humble. I've met him on several occasions, and have always found him to be extremely considerate and friendly.
- Randy Couture would admire Bill Hargrove, a 104-year-old bowler from Atlanta who just qualified as a sanctioned, U.S. Bowling Congress Bowler. At a recent league game in a suburban Atlanta strip mall, he rolled three games, averaging a very respectable 93. Hargrove, who plays with a team called "Bill's Bunch," started bowling 83 years ago, in 1924. What do you plan to be doing on your 104th birthday?
- I was almost shocked when I saw BC in Paris. He had lost 24 pounds and looked amazingly fit. The last time I saw him, about five weeks ago, we had a "workout" contest. I surprised him then by outpacing him in the various events: push-ups, pull-ups, dips, chins, and sprints. But looking at him now, I would be afraid to compete with him again. I asked him what he did to lose all that weight. He has been eating pretty much like I eat (five or six small meals a day, emphasizing protein over carbohydrates) but with one significant difference. He eats all his carbohydrates at the beginning of the day. After lunch, all he eats is protein and green vegetables. This is a good eating strategy for several reasons:
1. You put calories in your body when you are most likely to burn them, rather than later in the evening when you tend to be sedentary.
2. You can't eat too many carbohydrates if you don't consume them at all during your last two or three meals.
3. Learning to live without starchy carbohydrates in the evening will break the body's need to consume them at almost every meal. Eating starch makes you hungry about two hours later. If you can battle through that feeling at, say, 2:30 p.m. (two hours after lunch) and snack on nuts, for example, it will be pretty easy to do without starch at dinner and, likewise, avoid the post-dinner, sugary treat.
4. Ultimately, this is an eating program that should be increasingly easier to maintain.
- When I started collecting art back in the 1980s, I had no idea that I was starting a hobby that would one day be worth a lot of money. I bought my first work of serious art, a small drawing by Rufino Tamayo, for $1,500. Today, it is worth at least $10,000. Several years later, I spent $35,000 on a painting by Jose Clemente Orozco. Today, it's worth at least $100,000. But it has not been my collection of Mexican and Latin American masters that saw the biggest appreciation. It's been all the abstract art I bought in the early 1990s. Pieces that I bought for $5,000 are now worth more than $50,000. And a painting by Karel Appel that I probably paid $25,000 for has just been appraised at $135,000.
posted by M. Masterson @ 8:41 AM,
1 Comments:
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At 9:18 AM,
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This is great advice, my weight is down about 15 lbs after since dropping the carbos from my evening meals. Thanks
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