Well, I am sneaking up on 60. By sneak, I mean that it has snuck up on me. I know all that bs about age being a number, but when the number is 60 that little saying goes out the window. I am not sure if 60 is even considered old anymore, but just the sound of 60 sounds old to me.
While I am not sure what a 60 year old should really look like, I do have this mental image of my grandmother. She always dressed old, looked old and acted old. I have no clue when she began looking old, she just always was old.
I don’t want to look or act old. I certainly don’t feel like I am old. So why not try to prevent the “oldness” from taking over?
According to the handy, dandy internet, there are several steps that you need to take to ward off feeling old.
• Keep age in perspective. Yeah right. I know that 60 is a number, but I would rather have the number 21 in my life right now. Maybe I should start saying “I am 21 x 3 – 3”. My doctor would think I am nuts.
• Live and enjoy each day. I try my darndest to do this. I do fun stuff all the time. Painting bad and semi-bad painting, outings with friends, traveling, keeping Bob out of trouble.
• Don’t think of yourself as old. This is an interesting one to me. I don’t feel like I am old. I just don’t want to begin feeling that way. I want my grandkids to look at me and say “she is how old?”
• Take care of yourself. I am back on track to lose the weight to get back to my Weight Watchers lifetime goal weight. I take vitamins and go to the doctor on a regular basis. I get my hair and nails done. I take showers all the time (wait, they may not mean that).
• Stay hydrated. I was hoping this meant wine, but it means water. Yup, I drink at least 2 33 ounce bottle of water a day. I do add the flavor stuff. Plain water is yucky.
• Keep your mind alert. Easy peasy. Have you heard of Words with Friends? I am totally addicted. I love playing any and all mind building games. I even play the solitaire word games and Sudoku.
• Keep up with Current Events. I am a total news junkie. Love to read the real newspapers in the morning and go on the internet to read the news several times a day. I read magazines and love the entertainment gossip.
• Physical exercise. Wait….What? Um…OK? Me? Yes me. I have hired a personal trainer. His name is Eric. He understands that I am not trying to enter into a marathon or a body building contest. I simply want to get in better shape. We have agreed to a 12 week course of action. At the end of the 12 weeks we will evaluate to see what direction we think I should take.
I will be blogging about my experiences with Eric and my overall quest to grow older without actually feeling or looking older.
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