Here's a prescription for you:
Get up off your fat a$$ and move!
Amen!
Put down the phone, turn off the tv, exercise at least 150 min a week, cut out the sugar, give up the bread and stop snacking between meals and no food after 8pm. There are lots of other things you can do but if you install these few things I go your life style in a short time, you’ll start to feel better and lose a little weight. It’s working for me.
And take K2 &B3 :) oh, and zinc, vitamin C and plenty of beer.
Yep, stay active.
And you don’t have to eat super healthy all the time.
Just stop eating mostly crap.
It’s the pain from old injuries and general wear and tear that keeps people sedentary.
I would assume cutting down trees, clearing/burning brush and splitting firewood at age 71 would kinda fall into the “move” category? /s
I’m a believer. At 72 I walk, run some, lift weights and do planks, etc. I’ve been doing a 3 mile walk with short runs interspersed along the way 3 days a week. Last weekend I went to a school track and took off to see how far I could jog. Made it 3 miles without any walking, was shocked.
Yeah, the average life span was mid-thirties a couple of hundred years ago, but there was much higher infant mortality.
Mother and child die during child birth, mother 19, child 1, man dies at age 70. Average age of death is around 30.
Go to an old cemetery and look at all the headstones for under age five. After surviving childhood, average age was maybe only slightly lower than now.
Medical advancements have made a difference, too. Before hip replacement, a broken hip was a death sentence.
What?? You mean I can't just take Vitamin D and Intermittent fast and live forever?
Absolutely. Dad was doing physical work that even most men in their prime could not keep up with when he was 78. Pushing 87 now and still very physically fit for his age and still pushes himself with physical work.
I stay active and I practice my 12 ounce curls daily.
I agree. I see guys my age that have rotted from within. I see guys my age that stay active stay youthful.
Just watched a guy rent an auger and pay someone with a trailer to fetch it from the store and take it back when he was done. To dig just four post holes...
I’m knocking on 60.
Lost 60 lbs, eating right, no junk food, pumping iron, walk 4-5 days per week on trails and have more energy than when I was in my 40’s. Started Jan 2021 when my BP was 220/125-now it’s back to normal.
Experiencing morning wood first time in years
Kind of a pity when this is not just common sense, ya know? But here’s the rub: People have to make time for TV in this day. I never watch TV and I start getting fidgety if I have to sit for a long time; I want to get up and do something. (The exceptions to this are various, however, and include meditating, embroidery - which I will do until I suddenly realize I have to use the bathroom REALLY BAD - playing a game, and painting, which I have to do standing up leaning against something or my back will get tired. However, these things are not the motionless-except-for-snacking activity of watching TV.)
If you want start losing weight and becoming more fit immediately, stop watching TV and cut out all the snacks in your diet you would normally consume while watching TV. (If you try to include all those snacks and you’re NOT watching TV, it starts to turn into a job.)
If you spend more than an hour or so on the internet a day you might want to curtail that as well.
No one ever wants to blame TV - but think about this: TV makes you feel bad about being overweight and slack, but it’s really one of the biggest reasons you got that way.
I agree. Whenever I’m confronted with a choice - hey should I walk to xyz, or should I take the stairs or the elevator... I always opt for the walk/stairs. My motto is “use it or lose it.” If I want to keep the ability to have walking/stairs as an option, I had better keep doing it. I also hike and have a hobby that involves significant full-body / core strength - though I don’t get to do that nearly enough.
People invest 40 years in those extra 30-50 lbs and poor health.
Then whimper because they cannot turn it all around in a month.
500 calories a day deficit (exercise and diet) is all it takes to turn it around in a single year.
Don’t let the old man in........Clint