Getting Older

[Ciclone]

27. Getting older. LOL

[drmwevr08]

Beer has been shown to be fine as well, and even helpful, in the right amounts.

I dont want to live to be 115 so I will skip the pickled herring... ick

[RyCy04]

Originally Posted by superdorf

What is this blasphemy?

I am assuming he is recommending moving to Jack and Cokes. And this jogging? I am going to have to assume there is somebody chasing you as I can see no other reason to run.

[wartknight]

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

I agree with most of this here - the only problem is I never had a metabolism to begin with. You know how they talk about the freshman 10? For me it was a freshman 30. And a sophomore 30. And a junior 10. And a senior 10.

I turn 30 towards the end of this year and now I'm desperately trying to get the weight off because I know that once the kids come (and they're not that far off) and what little metabolism I actually do have goes by the wayside it's going to be next to impossible for me to get rid of the weight. What also really makes it rough is I'm a slacker by nature. I can find almost any excuse in the world not to work out - I have to psych myself up to actually work out.

75% of the weight you lose is through dieting, not working out. I used to hate to run, but try to get out 4-5 times a week now.
I could hardly even walk a mile before I really started paying close attention to what I ate.

You'd be surprised about how little time you have to eat when kids come. I lost 80 pounds between my daughters first and second birthday. My wife, who is not big in the first place, was 15 pounds lighter before she got pregnant with #2 than she was with #1, through no working out or conscious dieting.

[superdorf]

Originally Posted by RyCy04

I am assuming he is recommending moving to Jack and Cokes. And this jogging? I am going to have to assume there is somebody chasing you as I can see no other reason to run.

Oh... ok then. I can switch to captain and coke.

[wartknight]

Originally Posted by RyCy04

I am assuming he is recommending moving to Jack and Cokes. And this jogging? I am going to have to assume there is somebody chasing you as I can see no other reason to run.

When I walk into Benchwarmer's, Mel has a Jack and Diet waiting for me before I can even sit down. It's pretty much all I drink anymore.

[wartknight]

Oh, and one other thing. Marg Helgenberger looks better and better every time I watch CSI.

[jdoggivjc]

Originally Posted by wartknight

Oh, and one other thing. Marg Helgenberger looks better and better every time I watch CSI.

Yeah, she's aging like a fine Italian wine...

[mfelske]

I'm 38 and doing pretty good. I play basketball 2 or 3 times a week and I can still get quite a bit of rim, not bad for 5'11". I had no problem when I turned 30, but 40 kinda freaks me out.

I like to think my mind is still sharp (I started a new, very challenging job less than a year ago), although I had to do a little arithmetic to "remember" what my exact age was when I started this post. That's never a good sign.

[Wesley]

Let your best friends by Captain Morgan and J ack Daniels - they are a fine pair of lads.

[BryceC]

I recently turned 27 and I really haven't given a thought to getting older. Every day you wake up you get older. Like Larry Fishburne said in Boyz in the Hood, "I'm not getting older, I'm getting better - you're the one getting older".

Getting older is part of life. I work out 6 days a week unless I get lazy and my back hurts more than I wish it did, but I'm in the best shape of my life and I'm having as much fun as I ever have, even if it's doing things differently than I did in the past.

Age is one of those things that people get bent out of shape about that I just don't get - my parents retired a few years ago and they just got back from Ireland, they go white water rafting, and they travel 90% of the year. They are in their mid-60s.

[cycloneworld]

Originally Posted by superdorf

Oh... ok then. I can switch to captain and coke.

Captain and DIET is the key. ;)

Instead of a hangover for an hour (or no hangover at all) like it was in college...Mine now seem to linger 1/2-1 full day and I'm only 26.

I echo the comments about the metabolism too. A weeklong food bender = 5 lbs now.

[cybsball20]

My wife starte planning my 30th birthday bash yesterday (Birthday in September). I don't feel a whole lot different than I did when I graduated college... Maybe it's just Peter Pan syndrome...

[Palmer]

turning 30 seems like yesterday.

the road to 40 is indeed very quick.

[Angie]

Originally Posted by wartknight

So Sunday was the big 2-7 for me. Got to double up with Father's Day so it was a fun day all around. Later in the day I stopped and visited my 85 year old grandfather-in-law in the nursing home who is physically not able to do a lot of things he used to, and now to the point where getting out of his chair requires help. Mentally, he is still "there" to the point that he can carry on a pretty good conversation, but will repete himself several times.
He said something that stuck with me though, and that was "getting old ain't easy, even after a lot of practice"
I've been thinking about getting old quite a bit, especially as I creep closer to the dreaded 30.
I'm noticing already that some things don't come as easily as they used to, mainly recovery after working out. I hang out at the bar with a group of guys in their mid 40's, and they don't seem so old. A 21-year old woman sounds pretty young to me now, and when I make references to movies that were popular when I was in high school, some guys that I coach haven't even heard of the movie.
My question is how is age treating everyone. I know we have a wide variety of people on this board. Anything you miss being able to do? Being able to get away with? Maybe you love getting older. I don't mind it, but being in that nursing home made me realize we aren't young forever.

27 was bad for me - it was no longer 26, which could round down to 25, which was still halfway between 20 and 30. I turn 30 in about 6 months - not looking forward to it.