I’m turning 54 this year and yeah, everything is harder and takes more time.
This is why, without effort, your mind and body start getting older much quicker than you want them to.
You have to keep your mind and body occupied with tasks, other than the daily routine.
15 minutes of daily workout do miracles. A body without motion starts degrading at a steady pace.
Also, “it’s never too late” doesn’t apply here.
There will be a time, when it’s just too late and your body can’t hold up to any exercise and start building on it.
I’m not talking about lifting or building muscle. It’s about keeping the body in motion, daily.
I’m the laziest person and started doing my band exercises at 49 years and my only regret is not having started much much younger.
From 30 on my life consisted of developing websites, mostly work at home and after separating from my ex wife, unhinged on the bad eating habits…
During the pandemic, idk why, i got the urge to buy some bands and start stretching those bands until i could get to the next resistance level.
Orange = easiest / Black = hardest
You get red, green and blue in between.
This is all i needed as a motivator for my lonesome exercises lol.
I was a taxi driver for 8 years. We had a regular, an old lady who worked 2 days a week in a kitchen. She did not want to drive the car herself, because she herself said that she was too old for that and wouldn’t want to risk anyone’s life just because she felt the need to drive (side note: it’s cheaper for most elderly folks to go by taxi when there’s one near them than by their own car)
Anyway, that woman was mentally and physically not much different from someone in her late 50s. A friend who’s still there told me she’s still the same. She’ll be 88 in a couple of months.
I also had countless elderly people who just jumped into the VW-Van. Most impressive one was a 103 year old French lady, about 5 ft (150cm) tall.
And then there’s 50/60 year olds who need walkers, oxygen, crutches, more meds than a battery hen and such.
My late 20s I started falling into less than stellar habits. Alcoholism, overeating, not exercising. Few years of that my body weight was a full third higher, I was getting winded going up one flight of stairs, my knees hurt always. It was enough for me to see the writing on the wall so I’ve changed habits hard. Quit drinking, started tracking calories, biking most days, rock climbing 1-2x a week, it took a year but I got back to a healthy weight. There’s still some damage done, my knees suffered some long term damage, it’s easier for me to be in pain so I need to be mindful, but I no longer feel like I’ll be a broken lump of meat by 40
Remove as much refined sugar from your diet … remove it all if you can. Also remove or reduce refined carbs … like bread, especially plain white bread products.
I have arthritic problems because it runs in my family … my mom had crippling arthritis starting at about age 45 / 50 (which is where I am) and she was completely unaware of her diet. She just didn’t know although she didn’t become severely overweight, her diet was filled with sugars, sugar products and she only ate plain white bread. She could hardly walk in her 50s, wheelchair bound in her 60s, lingered in pain in her 70s and basically lived in pain because every joint and at the end every organ was affected with arthritis. I really, really, really, really don’t want that to happen to me. I accept death … but I really don’t accept surviving in pain for decades.
All that white stuff is inflammatory … arthritis is an inflammatory disease. So you want to reduce or remove the things that cause inflammation.
I control my sugars now … side benefit is that it protects against diabetes anyway.
When it comes to bread … stay away from any plain white stuff … it has to do with Glycemic Index but I forget all the science and explanation of it (all I know is that we have to keep it low) … an easy way to do it is to do a calculation with the bread you select ->
look at the Carbs and divide it by Fiber listed
if the value is 6 or less, then it is good for you
if its 6 or more, don’t eat it
plain white bread is usually about 30 or more!
Consuming refined sugars and carbs is basically like eating sand paper … everything it touches inside your body just inflames everything … its also the cause of heart disease … the excess sugar acts like sand paper in your arteries and slowly just inflames everything, causing scarring and build up and give it 20 years, it will lead to heart problems.
So I’ve reduced sugars and carbs in my diet and my arthritis is not as bad as it could be … I have several siblings, they all have terrible diets and they are suffering with early onset arthritic problems, faster than me.
BTW … good for you for making the change … your 50 year old self will kiss you a thousand times for doing that
So I haven’t cut sugar and white bread out entirely, but in general sugar makes me sick to my stomach so I avoid it especially in concentrated form like soda or candy. For bread I’ve been learning to bake though too! And because sugar makes me feel so sick if I’m baking things like bread I usually leave out the sugar entirely and if it is something like cookies or muffins I’ll cut it down by 1/3-1/2 (depends on the recipe, some things lose structure if you cut too much sugar). I’ve also been playing around with more whole wheat and bran. I’ve got a killer whole wheat, bran, reduced sugar blueberry muffin I’ve been making lately. I do have a weakness for a mug of hot chocolate with some whipped cream at night but even then I’m making my own whipped cream with very little and sometimes no sugar
Greatest lesson I learned about taking care of your health from a health care professional at a conference one year
It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you’re trying … anything is better than nothing
Keep it going and it’s good you’re doing things now in your 20s, I wish I had, but I’m catching up and doing my best. Stay safe, stay well and I’m happy for you
I’m turning 54 this year and yeah, everything is harder and takes more time.
This is why, without effort, your mind and body start getting older much quicker than you want them to.
You have to keep your mind and body occupied with tasks, other than the daily routine.
15 minutes of daily workout do miracles. A body without motion starts degrading at a steady pace. Also, “it’s never too late” doesn’t apply here. There will be a time, when it’s just too late and your body can’t hold up to any exercise and start building on it.
I’m not talking about lifting or building muscle. It’s about keeping the body in motion, daily.
I’m the laziest person and started doing my band exercises at 49 years and my only regret is not having started much much younger.
From 30 on my life consisted of developing websites, mostly work at home and after separating from my ex wife, unhinged on the bad eating habits…
During the pandemic, idk why, i got the urge to buy some bands and start stretching those bands until i could get to the next resistance level.
Orange = easiest / Black = hardest
You get red, green and blue in between.
This is all i needed as a motivator for my lonesome exercises lol.
Seriously, find your thing and move that body
I was a taxi driver for 8 years. We had a regular, an old lady who worked 2 days a week in a kitchen. She did not want to drive the car herself, because she herself said that she was too old for that and wouldn’t want to risk anyone’s life just because she felt the need to drive (side note: it’s cheaper for most elderly folks to go by taxi when there’s one near them than by their own car)
Anyway, that woman was mentally and physically not much different from someone in her late 50s. A friend who’s still there told me she’s still the same. She’ll be 88 in a couple of months.
I also had countless elderly people who just jumped into the VW-Van. Most impressive one was a 103 year old French lady, about 5 ft (150cm) tall.
And then there’s 50/60 year olds who need walkers, oxygen, crutches, more meds than a battery hen and such.
I get the feeling that with sloth comes sickness,
You should absolutely be trying to gain muscle, though. Definitely not body building levels, but as much as you can painlessly put on.
My late 20s I started falling into less than stellar habits. Alcoholism, overeating, not exercising. Few years of that my body weight was a full third higher, I was getting winded going up one flight of stairs, my knees hurt always. It was enough for me to see the writing on the wall so I’ve changed habits hard. Quit drinking, started tracking calories, biking most days, rock climbing 1-2x a week, it took a year but I got back to a healthy weight. There’s still some damage done, my knees suffered some long term damage, it’s easier for me to be in pain so I need to be mindful, but I no longer feel like I’ll be a broken lump of meat by 40
Remove as much refined sugar from your diet … remove it all if you can. Also remove or reduce refined carbs … like bread, especially plain white bread products.
I have arthritic problems because it runs in my family … my mom had crippling arthritis starting at about age 45 / 50 (which is where I am) and she was completely unaware of her diet. She just didn’t know although she didn’t become severely overweight, her diet was filled with sugars, sugar products and she only ate plain white bread. She could hardly walk in her 50s, wheelchair bound in her 60s, lingered in pain in her 70s and basically lived in pain because every joint and at the end every organ was affected with arthritis. I really, really, really, really don’t want that to happen to me. I accept death … but I really don’t accept surviving in pain for decades.
All that white stuff is inflammatory … arthritis is an inflammatory disease. So you want to reduce or remove the things that cause inflammation.
I control my sugars now … side benefit is that it protects against diabetes anyway.
When it comes to bread … stay away from any plain white stuff … it has to do with Glycemic Index but I forget all the science and explanation of it (all I know is that we have to keep it low) … an easy way to do it is to do a calculation with the bread you select ->
Consuming refined sugars and carbs is basically like eating sand paper … everything it touches inside your body just inflames everything … its also the cause of heart disease … the excess sugar acts like sand paper in your arteries and slowly just inflames everything, causing scarring and build up and give it 20 years, it will lead to heart problems.
So I’ve reduced sugars and carbs in my diet and my arthritis is not as bad as it could be … I have several siblings, they all have terrible diets and they are suffering with early onset arthritic problems, faster than me.
BTW … good for you for making the change … your 50 year old self will kiss you a thousand times for doing that
So I haven’t cut sugar and white bread out entirely, but in general sugar makes me sick to my stomach so I avoid it especially in concentrated form like soda or candy. For bread I’ve been learning to bake though too! And because sugar makes me feel so sick if I’m baking things like bread I usually leave out the sugar entirely and if it is something like cookies or muffins I’ll cut it down by 1/3-1/2 (depends on the recipe, some things lose structure if you cut too much sugar). I’ve also been playing around with more whole wheat and bran. I’ve got a killer whole wheat, bran, reduced sugar blueberry muffin I’ve been making lately. I do have a weakness for a mug of hot chocolate with some whipped cream at night but even then I’m making my own whipped cream with very little and sometimes no sugar
Greatest lesson I learned about taking care of your health from a health care professional at a conference one year
It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you’re trying … anything is better than nothing
Keep it going and it’s good you’re doing things now in your 20s, I wish I had, but I’m catching up and doing my best. Stay safe, stay well and I’m happy for you