Looking good past 40

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Tricon7

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Now with Facebook to go to and connect with long-lost friends, I've been able to see my old school chums, and I've noticed very few are in shape or height in proportion to weight. Almost all of them (me included) have at least 20 lbs. to lose - and many much, much more.

It's very true that once over 40 one becomes much more sedentary as one's responsibilities increase, leaving less time for activities and exercise, and having an over-40 glacially-slow metabolism doesn't help. Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm well into heart-attack country, and it's more important than ever to keep my body fit. But it's also more difficult than ever to keep the weight off. I think there has to definitely be a lifestyle-change and a shift in one's thinking about eating to keep it off.

It would sure be nice to be fit and trim when the class reunion rolls around. I think it's one of my many goals for getting back in shape.
 
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Hi, I'll be 54 in a couple of weeks and I have never found it as easy to keep weight off as I do now. As you say it is because of changing the chip in your head and making it a lifetime change rather than just being on a diet with a beginning and end. I have just pigged out for 3 days solid and in years gone by it would have resulted in weeks or months of overeating until I decided to go on a diet. This time now that xmas is over I am able to just go back to my normal healthy eating. I really think that it is because I haven't got the 'being on a diet' mentality but have learnt to accept that in some circumstances I will eat too much but it is a temporary blip and I will go straight back to healthy eating.
Making that change in your head to living a healthy lifestyle MOST of the time but letting yourself go a bit mad occasionally really seems to have worked for me.
 
ecky said:
Hi, I'll be 54 in a couple of weeks and I have never found it as easy to keep weight off as I do now. As you say it is because of changing the chip in your head and making it a lifetime change rather than just being on a diet with a beginning and end. I have just pigged out for 3 days solid and in years gone by it would have resulted in weeks or months of overeating until I decided to go on a diet. This time now that xmas is over I am able to just go back to my normal healthy eating. I really think that it is because I haven't got the 'being on a diet' mentality but have learnt to accept that in some circumstances I will eat too much but it is a temporary blip and I will go straight back to healthy eating.
Making that change in your head to living a healthy lifestyle MOST of the time but letting yourself go a bit mad occasionally really seems to have worked for me.
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I think that's great advice. I know that right now I'm trying to lose about 30 lbs. by calorie-counting, but I can totally see the mentality of just eating at the level to maintain your weight (along with exercise) and it not being a "diet" anymore. I think you've done it for so long that it's ingrained in you, and it would be strange to deviate from it.
 
Tricon7 said:
I guess this isn't the most popular topic.
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I think there are a lot of younger people on this site but I am almost 47 now and I learned in our 40's we have to work harder to stay in shape and look good.

- Gym work maintains muscle, tone and fitness.
- A healthy and balanced diet in all ways maintains a good body weight.
- Quality skin care products maintains supple skin.
- A good hairdresser, make up and good dress sense sorts the rest.

At this age it takes discipline and hard work to get what we once got for free when we were younger! I can deal with all of that but I do find that I no longer have unlimited energy so I have to pace myself and get plenty of rest to stay in peak condition.

Emotionally I like being older - less worries, insecurities and confusions - but physically it can be frustrating - we are aging no matter how much we try and avoid it!

Like you I did catch up with old school chums recently and I was surprised at how old they all looked and they were all a little chubbier! They were kind of the same but not the same. It was kind of weird...
 
Yeah, from what I've noticed many of the people here are in their 20s and 30s. I think there is also a 50+ club here too though. Nice insight there, spinner. LOL nice makeup and skin treatments may work for the ladies but us guys have to rough it though :)
 
I'm fast approaching the 40's club and have wasted the last 9 years of my life being overweight and going on faddy diets. I swore I'd be thin at 30 and I didn't do it, instead I sat around feeling sorry for myself and ate stupid rubbish for instant gratification. I didn't think long term. Nowadays everything takes a little longer but my mindset is fixed on having a long heathly life.

The last time I was a healthy weight I was 27. I am 37 this year and WILL get back to that weight. I plan to be a fabulous 40 not a flabulous 40 :D I think basically its never too late to make a change for the better. I don't know if you all saw it but there was a program on called 'are you fitter than a pensioner?' I found it totally inspiring and it certainly gave me hope :D
 
Kramer said:
I'm fast approaching the 40's club and have wasted the last 9 years of my life being overweight and going on faddy diets. I swore I'd be thin at 30 and I didn't do it, instead I sat around feeling sorry for myself and ate stupid rubbish for instant gratification. I didn't think long term. Nowadays everything takes a little longer but my mindset is fixed on having a long heathly life.

The last time I was a healthy weight I was 27. I am 37 this year and WILL get back to that weight. I plan to be a fabulous 40 not a flabulous 40 :D I think basically its never too late to make a change for the better. I don't know if you all saw it but there was a program on called 'are you fitter than a pensioner?' I found it totally inspiring and it certainly gave me hope :D
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i`m trying to get fit and flat for my 30`s, i`m 30 now and yeh i feel old to be joggin and going gym but i`m out there doing it and its working. i just cant wait for the months to fly by becuase i know i`ll have lost some becuase this diet lark isnt to bad.
 
Kramer said:
I'm fast approaching the 40's club and have wasted the last 9 years of my life being overweight and going on faddy diets. I swore I'd be thin at 30 and I didn't do it, instead I sat around feeling sorry for myself and ate stupid rubbish for instant gratification. I didn't think long term. Nowadays everything takes a little longer but my mindset is fixed on having a long heathly life.

The last time I was a healthy weight I was 27. I am 37 this year and WILL get bac to that weight. I plan to be a fabulous 40 not a flabulous 40 :D I think basically its never too late to make a change for the better. I don't know if you all saw it but there was a program on called 'are you fitter than a pensioner?' I found it totally inspiring and it certainly gave me hope :D
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I remember going to a shuttle launch a few years ago when it was summer and warm, and I saw this couple standing on the pier who were probably at least 50. The woman clearly worked out and was in shape, and she was wearing these short-shorts. I must say she was a real head-turner and she looked great in them (I can't remember her husband - must have been the short-shorts!)

I also know a couple from my church - he's 60 and she's 53. He's quite trim at 170 lbs, and she's probably 125 lbs. They both look great and run about three miles three times a week. All this to say that even in one's fifties and sixties one can have an attractive figure.
 
Yeah, you guys are sounding pretty old, lol.

Daybehavior no one would know if you guys would use a little Jergens Overnight Repair after your shower, heeee.

I have a 63rd birthday coming Noon!!
 
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