Mature women putting themselves down

[Sunshine 1528]

Completely agree with it being yet another excuse. Have a young lady, 33, who is very overweight at work. She does work out and has been fairly regularly for a couple of years. Has hired personal trainers a couple times. Just can't loose the weight though, "because she isn't like us skinny people".

So sick of hearing that one! Then you see her with Taco Bell, hear of her parties loaded with alcohol, etc. Always another excuse.

Then we have the 50+ who is overweight and has been all her life. She has aches and pains and could never be like us "skinny people" who were "born" like that.

Ha ha ha - having been athletic all my life, I was overweight in high school do only to my diet (meaning the foods I ate). Have to work hard and if I ate like my co workers, I could be nearly as big as they are.

Don't want the excuses - that's why this board is so wonderful

People are much more honest and supportive - my coworkers constantly try to get me to indulge like they do. I make my own choices which are very different than theirs.

Mind you, I am very far from completely "clean" eating and very regular excercise, but I eat clean probably 90 - 95% of the time and occasionally fall of my excerise regimen for a few days up to a week a couple times a year.

I get right back on - no excuses for this nearly 50 year old "mature" lady.

:7

 

[Juliebeth]

Briee:

You can and will.

My next door neighbor is 76. He began running and cycling at 46. He continues to compete in dualathons, completing them with good enough times to qualify for some of the big ones, including overseas. (Just watching him head out in the morning was enough inspiration to me to get out there and become a wannabe runner myself.) The only modification he made was when, after a pretty bad bike wreck caused by his avoidance of a stray dog while going 30 mph on his bike, he bought himself a recumbant. He said it was gonna make it harder to fly off and over the front of it, so maybe he could avoid more broken ribs.

He did not get flowers or balloons from me after his cancer surgery this week...he got a copy of "Runner's World" with Lance Armstrong on the cover. What else??

Julie

 

[Amy Steppe]

Age is a number. Now I am 52 and I do feel some wear in my joints, but I danced for years and ballet is very hard on the body.

I got my last three tattoos and my navel pierced when I was 50.

And I never feel too old to do anything.

Finding Nemo is one of my favorite movies.

And I am proud that my arms don't flap like chicken wings.

I know a woman who never works out. She is very skinny. But her sagging flesh is a sight -- I know since I've been with her while she neurotically searches for "The Perfect Bra".

Her triceps are shot!

She bought dummbells but won't use them.

 

[candi]

Well,

I can tell you that I am 51 and still going strong!

Lately our company has been hiring new people even younger than my daughter. To my amazement a three of them have recently asked me how I stay in such great shape. I've shared my eating and exercising secrets with them as well as let them borrow my Cathe tapes and BFFM book. They hand them back to me that what I do is too difficult }(

 

[lioness]

I think many women (and men too) put themselves down because they don't know how to think any other way. To most people, getting old means getting slow, bent and sick. I've worked with people barely out of their 20's saying things "I'm getting old" when trying to get up or "I'm having a senior moment" when they forget something. I don't think these people realize what they are saying. They are just repeating what they've heard. I've been lucky enough to have parents that are very young at heart. My dad is 83 and still mows the lawn. My mom is 72 and although she isn't physically fit, is outgoing and vivacious.

I am 45 and feel like I'm 25. The other day at the grocery store, my mom was introducing me to an acquitance and the lady thought I was my mom's granddaughter. She thought that I was in college. Wow! That made me feel so good. I don't want to be 25 again but I don't mind that I look 25! I intend to workout for the rest of my life.