Healthy Habits - After 40 - What will you do?
When we're young we have energy ... we have a high metabolism and vigor and muscle-tone. To some extent, this is automatic. Young bodies are growing taller and burning lots of calories. Young adults are up early and stay up late. Their bodies don't tire easily.
Somewhere in our 30's ... I started noticing it around age 35 ... our youthful energy begins to fade. Our bodies don't want to do as much anymore. We begin to dread the alarm clock and consider going to bed earlier.
If our habits don't change, we gain weight, we lose muscle, we accomplish less as energy needs to be rationed.
I've noticed the divergence of healthy and unhealthy people over time. One uncle who was tall and lean into his 30's is now obese and risks serious health problems (now nearing age 70). Two cousins (brothers, 2 years apart)... one is still active and average size while the other is now partially disabled from too many years being overweight and smoking. They are age 63 and 61. One friend from high school has already had heart bypass surgery.
Too many just live life as they always have. They accommodate weakness and encourage its progression. Some have always had good habits.
Many, like myself, have needed to learn better habits.
What will you do? What have you done?
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And never SKITE about it!!!
You like appels too, me too i devour them every day
Hmm ... belly dancing ... yeah, not sure I want to see that.
Vibration - That one is interesting to me because it isn't common here. What does this help with?
(the incline bench for abs... I need to add something like that to my routine
Inthemind, yes I have been told why I don't show all my teeth like in a Hollywood smile but it's just that my lips can't go so wide, my mouth is small
Good evening Parti
(and for people who cause us stress... they probably need the same thing but can't bring themselves to ask for it or to allow it... but that's for another day and another blog)
And of course! ... The health of our outlook! Good habits in our personality help us shed stress! Laughter is the obvious one but there are many more........
I love strawberries i can eat 2 kilos a day untill i say ouch my tummy.. Yummyy!
Thanks that also true
Do you know that we all smell/taste what we eat? Including all the body liquids mother's milk, and others ;) So if you are a mother with baby or want to please your lover, eat food which smells/tastes good! :))
That's a comfort.
Sleep - yes, thank you. I've had this 3 hour wake-up thing going on lately... I get back to sleep but wake about about every 3 hours ... part of the seasonal changes for me I think (and deliberate effort to get more exercise).
Hopefully you've been sleeping well too... haven't see you on CS as 'the last European to go to bed' too often lately.
Okay ... reverse-osmosis water filters ... (where's 10k on this science stuff?) ...
I'm fortunate - I drink water directly from the sink. There's a charcoal-filtered ("Brita" brand) pitcher in the fridge but 'city water' as we call it, is clean enough to drink.
The Brita pitcher for sale on Amazon...
It seems that there's something that allows water filtering without needing to replace the filters...
I've seen these as a hand-held bottle/pump. I've never used one.
Are they available in RO? Should I buy one and ship it to you? (I'm not kidding ... you can test it for the rest of us
But yes! Made it this far... had to peddle up the long hill now can pick up my feet and coast!
Well ... not really, actually ... sort of seems like it's all more work ... but I think we get to chose the kind of work ... like walking the golf course
Hopefully there are some good habits in there for you too! ... Clearly some good mental health in your sense of humor! ... I think ...
Yah i heard about the Filters i my need one yup. I saw on mall the other days but how come on amazon is cheeper.
Here are more expensive, thx for the link.
Don't you ever do that again you kill me, i love apple pie
As I mentioned about vegetables, I like fruit raw as well. Though a treat like this (or apple pie with vanilla ice cream! yum!) is nice to have occasionally.
The idea of a micro-filter screen (the reverse-osmosis idea) seems less practical currently... but it interests me.
Hopefully you'll find good options for your drinking water!
The good and strong vibration equipment can let you loose some weights of course exercising parallel-y but i use it to shake my unshakable body
It's really good for the muscles to prevent any tensions (cramps).If you want to buy one,you should take one that fit to your body weights(mass),otherwise you will find it not useful equipment.
But but ..i like coffee a lot
I know about the chaneging filter and when you buy the cup they only give u one i think.
It's very easy to make,for me of course,i make it in 45 minutes and the coffee at the expense of my house.
Learning good habits
Sleep --- yes... difficult to allow ourselves enough at times... hope you continue to work this out, Shay.
To my parents' generation, Sleep = Lazy... so this is what I was taught (and have needed to un-learn).
Hopefully this outlook is changing...
Even lil naps on the afternoon helps a lot.
Now i go rest my mind and as the Master say i need "Let it go" my thoughts each time i go to bed. I need a clear mind with no thinking at all so i can have a good rest.
Good night!
Before the age of 39, I would consider myself very unhealthy and obese. I was always feeling sick, my cholesterol was high, had ulcer problems, my legs were swollen. I wasn't fit. After my hubby passed in 2007, I came to realization that my children still need me so that's where the change came into effect.
1. My idea of remaining healthy now is to eat healthy foods which comprises of pretty much 80% living foods, i.e. vegetables and fruits and 20% dead food, i.e. cooked foods. Fish and chicken are included in my diet - boiled, steamed, baked, bbqued, grilled - oil free. I don't eat red meat or foods containing high cholesterol. This is one reason why my friends think I'm such a bore when dining out cos I'm very selective with my food.
2. Exercise. I do jog or brisk walk for an hour or more everyday. I go to the gym 3 times in a week - I was inspired by Jodie's blogs here on gym workout and off I went to the gym, got myself a private instructor and kicked it off more than a year ago. I also take up tennis and swimming for fun and burning out at the same time.
3. I used to do a 6 month health checkup. Now it's only once a year.
4. I detox twice a year!
HEALTH IS WEALTH
Does the expression "pushing your luck" sound familiar?
We hear about some who live long lives without ever developing good habits. How about a bell curve? ... I'm sure you know where I'm going with this.
So, for yourself, good habits or pushing you luck?
Personally... no one knows the future... but I'd like to improve my odds, where I can.
Two years?
Summer - Life moves right along, doesn't it? No guarantee for tomorrow and the list of yesterdays just gets longer.
Something I think is good for our mental health is to manage how busy our life becomes. It's easy to get involved in many activities to feel like you're doing more but having every day pre-planned just makes them go by faster (in my opinion).
Appreciate the time of life you're currently living... whatever time it happens to be. That's my outlook.
Okay ... I read up on reverse-osmosis last night ... not quite as wonderful as I thought ... basically you pump water through an extremely fine filter ... so it takes a good amount of pressure and you don't get much water for the effort needed ... and the filters still need to be changed ... and they are more expensive than the charcoal filters.
Charcoal filters will remove chlorine I believe... and that's used in water to kill microorganisms ... I know the water here tastes much better during the Winter when less chlorine is needed.
Of course --- Ariel --- there in Sofia --- with water coming from the nearby mountains ... makes us all a bit jealous.
No excuses! ... And ambition leads to more ambition ... right?!!