Big bearded fat men

I was at my doctor's on Tues and a man said he had just seen me in a restaurant about an hour prior.  I told him that I had not been there but that a lot of obese men tend to have beards.  I think it's primarily to hide the double chin.  In my case, I started growing a beard when I was thin and have shaved it off only a couple times since then--once as a birthday present for my Mom.  But, I usually start growing it back within a day.

I've seen many men post here who have shaved off their beards when they've lost weight.  Maybe they are looking to see if they do look thinner in the face.  That may be one way to convince some men that they have lost weight.  Of course, they can always grow it back.

 Nope, just lazy on my part....

I agree totally.  I had one for my first wedding and quite honestly it looked pretty bad.  It was totally to hide.  I spent the last few years as a fat guy without a beard.  There is a fellow at work that gets his balls busted because of his but he is the classic three chin hider.  There is definitely something too it.

Fat or thin I feel most comfortable with a beard.  Maybe it has something to do with motorcycles and Winter!  Kissing a man without a beard is like eating fish without salt (so I've been told!!!). 

For many years as a security guard I've had to be clean shaven.  When I took a couple years off I did grow one beard.  Over the years, I usually would grow my beards during the winter and shave them off for the summer.  I have always kept my mustache over the years (I think it was a 70's type of thing that never died with my generation).  My daughter was telling me how bad it looked over several days...I then went for about a year completly clean shaven.  Now I go back and forth on this stuff...But no beards in the summer!! 

I have had a mustache and goatee for as long I was able too.  It was more for fashion originally but also double to hide the second chin.  I have had my facial hair since I have been out of highschool some 19 years ago I can not remember what I look like without it.

I have had a mustache since my junior year of high school, some time in the 80s.  I was in ROTC and that was the only facial hair I was allowed.  I have had a goatee since I graduated in 87.  I can never make it to the full beard as it starts getting itchy and annoys te crud out of me so I usually shave it off.  Sometimes I don't shave when I am in a bad mood or ovely stressed.  For the most part I am just to lazy to do it every day.

Also being big and hairy makes me appear more intimidating to some coworkers or so I have been told in the past.

And then... there are those of us who after trying to grow a beard after a few months are asked .... "are you trying to grow a beard?"

It's been interesting reading your replies.  I first started to grow a beard aroung my junior year in college in the early 70s.  My Mom thought I was on drugs just because of that.  I thought that was weird and couldn't believe she didn't trust me that much.

After I graduated, I started dating the woman who became my wife.  The first time I introduced her to my Mom, my Mom asked her, "don't you think he's look better without a beard?" To which Karen replied, "I've never seen him without one."  Strangely enough, within a week she met one of my aunts on my Mom's side and we had the exact same conversation.  Note that I had a neatly trimmed Van Dyke and mustache.  I swear that my Mom and her sisters shared the same brain.  Now I have a full beard and occasionally I get it trimmed.