I'm hiding a major secret that will probably go to my grave :(.....

This is all true, and yet men get the same thing, when we see Fabio painted up, and having his hair down to his mid back, and underwear models with 5% body fat. The difference is, men seem to understand that not everyone can grow long hair, and no one who can’t eat 3,000 - 5,000 calories of protein in 6 to 10 meals a day and can work out religiously can obtain, or maintain a body like that. We know that being expected to work a 9 to 5 AND look like a person who makes thousands of dollars per hour for what they look like, but only works 5 days a month is unrealistic. Of course, we have football and other sports to teach us that some people work out twice a day 4 days a week, and then get paid for 3 hours work once a week. We also have boxing where guys work out all year and make anywhere from $100,000 to $10,000,000 once a year to drive the point home.

I wonder if the average woman understands that Super Models don’t eat at McDonalds. Fitness Models don’t drink Diet Coke. Healthy people don’t skip meals, because healthy people know that skipping meals crashes the metabolism and actually makes you fatter even if you eat less. The person you know who has 5% - 10% body fat probably eats 3,000 calories a day, and eats 4 to 10 times a day.

The normal US situation is designed to make you fat. If you work, you have to find a way to eat and get to work on time, while you are at work, you may not get time to eat on schedule, and if you do get time, you are left with the candy machine, and McDonalds if you are not organized enough to bring your own, further more the stuff called “diet” foods usually are designed to actually make you fatter. If I could just talk the readers here into dropping the NutraSweet/Aspartame and Sweet-N-Low/Saccharine most would watch as they magically lost 20 pounds without doing anything else. They would also avoid a certain hormonal reaction that causes hair growth in some females.

Hi:

I don’t think Fabio would be a big fan of the group
“A Flock of Seagulls”.

 We seem to live in a "Supersize Me" culture where people order a supersized meal and a diet soda. Some places heap enough fries on your plate to feed a family of four.

“Would you like gravy on those fries?”

Alicia

Your secret is not an uncommon secret. For your anxiety I would got see a doctor or atleast read up to see if you can get some relief. I found www.anxietyanswersforall.com

has some really nice articles to help. The idea that hair grows back thicker after you shave is just a MYTH! only a MYTH. The truth is , is that many people start shaving in their early teen years when there hair is more of a fuzz and very new. Over the next couple years the people matures and natually hair will start to be thicker because of age and age only. If you never shaved at all your hair would be just as thick. I hope this helps

DONT SHAVE. DO NOT DO IT.
Understand?
I know you all want to do it, but dont.
You know, I am sick of how the way society works, young children should be told about hair issues along with sexual issues.
People are suffering all over the world with hair problems,
I HATE THIS
If you shave, it comes back worse.
I would know.
I tried to do it when I was 13, I was so naive, my mother is one of those hippy people who have quite good relations with hair, and dont feel the need for this mass hair removal hysteria.
I’m not her.
There needs to be a MASSIVE amount of understanding all over the world, we need to the press, our families, our friends (both men and women) and everyone else to spread the message:
Life is too short to suffer this plague of our minds.
Dont let hair bother you!

And yes, I’m a hypocrite, of course hair bothers me, and probably will for ages. But still!
I wasn’t sure whether or not to put that, I dont want to depress people.
It’s absolute CRUD that humans have these issues, as I’ve said before, I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everyone feel better about themselves, but then we would all be perfect, right?
Then we’d all start obsessing about other things, and stuff would never be better…
Yeah, life bites.
Have a small amount of chocolate!
Maybe the rule of life is to not do things in excess, live the middle ground.
I dont know.
I have a mouth ulcer…
I hope it get’s better soon, I haven’t had one for years.
I might’ve hit my mouth with the toothbrush, or it could be stress, or that time of the month… which leads to stress.
Anyway.
I HOPE with all my might that all of us, and future generations will not suffer these nightmares of life, and speak about them.
Communication is the key

Everyone on this thread should reread James’ post if you’re not convinced that shaving doesn’t cause the hair to become thicker or more dense. Most people start shaving around the time when the hair starts to JUST develop, so they associate shaving with increased growth. It’s a myth. There are actually studies done and if you run a search on this site, you will find links to studies and evidence. This has been proven once and for all.

When the hair is shaved off and it’s thick enough, it can feel prickly because at THAT part of the hair shaft, it’s thicker. The tip of the hair is always thinner and you shaved that part off. You can wax once if you want the hair to go back to the same structure with the thinnest part at the top.