Getting Old

[Yournamehere]

My two penn'th - just quickly whilst I'm waiting for a call: 

Get out of the armchair: me being tall and thin always used to suffer from a bad back <snip edit> and then it got worse. While it was so bad I stopped sitting in an armchair and used a wooden (?Welsh kitchen) chair with arms and a cushion tucked behind my back so that my spine curved out forwards rather than backwards as it does when sitting in an armchair. This was as pain relief at the time but 25 years later, I'm still using it and no further recurring back pain.

As others have said Exercise: I've always been out and about active but never done any 'gym' type stuff: a few years back I started doing some sit ups - just by tucking my feet under the bed - just to make sure I could. Started out doing 20 once or twice a year now do 50 once or twice a month: but the result is much improved core strength (I was shoveling some wet clay: I just stood up straight and threw it over a high bank: I remember thinking, "how the hell did I manage to do that?")

Both of which of the above help with posture: your spine is like a radio mast: long and thin sections held in place with stays/muscles: if any of them weaken or shorten through disuse the mast/spine buckles and bends - hence old people being curved over as the muscles in front lose their stretch.

Diet: your metabolism slows right down: any extra food becomes extra weight: stop eating when you stop feeling hungry ie eat as little as possible, give up the crap (salt mush, sugar mush): your body can deal with it when you're younger, not any more.

I stopped eating bread a few years back due to incredible indigestion: the effect was phenomenal: I now sleep better, I'm more alert, I feel better all round: the result was probably equal to giving up smoking (which I assume you have) or drinking (which I have but that's another story, I 'd recommend it but I'd never hear the last of it  )

That's about it: that's what works for me and what I've changed: exercise as much as you can (which is easy for me and most on here: work is exercise) and eat as little as you need to (ie cut out 'reward' & 'social' eating).

Bit more than two pennorth huh? 

Hey ho.

Look after y'selves,

Happy days

Yourn.

 

Edited Monday at 07:56 by Yournamehere
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[oldwoodcutter]

You’re as young as the woman you feel.

And  the new Mrs Oldwoodcutter is into her 70s

[Mike Hill]

I try and get the tractor close to anything large or strenuous these days. I don't do many section fells anymore,if I can't crane it, I cane it with the price so someone else gets it.