Very true, and what we tend to forget..
I reckon thats a very good thing if you like what you do and have a reason to get up in the morning.
A few of our mob retied and dropped dead within around two years;(...
A little snooze around mid-day helps. Lifting is no problem but grip in both hands is gone to hell and kneeling,
no, getting down to kneel and getting up again, is a real bastard. Now I'm very careful where I place things.
My father died at 56. My mother made it into her seventies but suffered dementia for her last few years.
keep at it Fred, the younger generation will have to get used to working until they are 70, unless they realise you only get what you fight for in this country, they will be back to 60 hr weeks no holiday pay, save up to see a doctor etc etc.
My dad is in his eighties. He has just given up his office at work that they let him keep for some years after officially retiring, but he is still working at home on his complex mathematical modelling calculations of the Sun's oscillating modes. (He's a research physicist, specialising in the Sun.)
This might be a good time to raise the flag someone else always did - get your thyroid checked. It turned out my lack of energy wasn't just old age.
Though digging that treestump out on Saturday still hurt...
Andy
Well, as ?80k went it to the renovation of a 3 bedroomed bungalow I would call it major.
A HECK of a lot! (Sorry, Tim.) Since I dropped 5 kilos my blood figures have improved enormously, especially the HbA1C.
And that is the ONLY way! Within 24 hours of eating less my scales show a reduction. At the moment I'm trying to stick to 1500 cals a day, though it's bloody difficult as I really do enjoy food and cooking it. Hobby of mine. I'm always hungry. But I was always hungry when I weighed 90 kg at only 168cm and stuffed myself with fast food, cream cakes, and crisps. Weight down to 76kg now.
MM
Don't you just hate people who never put on weight, eat what they like and are as thin as a rake? I've known a few in my lifetime.
MM
Only this morning as I was driving to Screwfix for shopping I said over and over, how I wish, I wish, I wish I were 40 years younger! It's a real bugger growing old.
MM
My exercise bike has become a habit after a year and a half (following CABG). To begin with, I really had to force myself onto the ruddy thing each morning (at around 9am). But it gets to be addictive after a while. If you turn the telly towards you and watch some meaningless drivel for half an hour, you hardly notice that your pumping the pedals. So much so that when I can't do it due to feeling a bit under the weather or on holiday I get kind of withdrawal symptoms, like when one knows the bathroom needs cleaning, like since the day before yesterday, and it just keeps niggling till you do it.
Ah! I'm retired. I wouldn't work now if you paid me! After 44 years of grafting I reckon I've had enough of work. Besides, I have so many hobbies, including DIY, I could never find the time for working. I'm really enjoying doing what the heck I like when I like without all the stress of office politics in an environment where I was treated like a granddad as the oldest staff member. Heck, I was older than my managers! Mind you, I do miss the pretty young things in reception, a right eyeful every morning, and cheeky, too. They were as well.
MM
Her Majesty is proof of that. 89 today.
Seconded.
I was in my late Forties when thyroid troubles were picked up in connection with something else. I had suffered periods of low energy for decades which I put down to just being me and accepting that some people can be full of energy and always have get up and go and I was the opposite. Never had any ailments that took me near a Doctors surgery from my
20's till my late forties. If the thyroid trouble had been picked up earlier then I may have got a lot more done rather than coming home from work and falling asleep for hours.G.Harman
I was one of those.
Until suddenly my trousers stopped fitting.
Owain
What sort of calories per day were you on?
I'm looking forward to this.
I'm older than nearly everyone; the problem is the incompetence of management. What this means is that other people invent silly rules, and he (being weak) just agrees. It gets really annoying sometimes.
That starts happening at about age 40 IME, and I think all my managers since I was that age have been younger than me.
Update, Tim. I have been putting on a bit of weight as I haven't been sticking to the limits recently (various pains and comfort eating).
For the last week or so I've been on 1600 caloroes and kept to it. Lost
3lb, being careful to weigh under same conditions, same time of day etc.MyFitnessPal again.
The alternative isn't a good option though.
They don't exist. You can't put on weight without food.
I'm older than my manager. I find no issue because he's a damn nice bloke who knows what he's doing technically (slightly different specialism).
Also, because after a couple of goes at it, I HATE managing people so have no wish to be bothered again. I manage machines and I like it that way :)
I suspect he finds it more awkward than I do!
Thanks Bob.
I think MyFatnessPal is the key. With it you can watch what you're doing.
It's also possible that drink is a contributing factor - I like a few of an evening, which is generally a spirit with a diet mixer or Coke Life. The mixer's not got much in, but a couple of trebles of 40% probably adds up. That's high stress, mostly due to external wankery but the terminally stupid.
It would not take too much of a tweak to pull it down to maybe 1400 - but if I go much lower, I feel feel hungry and irritable and that won't last 5 minutes.
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