Living Longer & Healthier - Tips & Advice

[Ozy_Flame]

Don't feel about being 30 and feeling the health thing.

Most of the people I know don't truly take their health and their own bodies seriously until around 30 anyways.

Not so sure your body is slowing down, but it's just at the point where you realize you've been through enough crap to know what makes your body work and what doesn't.

[Muta]

Stay single (just date and mess around, nothing more), don't get married or have kids, go to the gym 4 times a week (50% cardio / 50% weights), don't smoke, eat healthy (use the perimeter rule at the grocery store), and keep your house clean and organized. Also, travel when you can and pursue only what your passion is career-wise.

Follow this and you'll love long, happy and healthy!

[Devils'Advocate]

Someone asked me last year if I felt older at 40... Did the turnover into another decade concern me? My response was that I feel much better at 40 than I did at 20 and plan on only getting younger. If you are losing vim and vigor at 30 you might want to get checked out.. (Blood tests). Could be a lack of iron or other vitamins.

BTW - I am not just talking feeling younger physically, but mentally. When most of my friends have a free night without the family they just want to sit back with a brew and watch the game. I want to go to a club or at the very least go to a rowdy sports bar to watch the game.... I think the old adage is right.. Age is a state of mind.

[rotten42]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Someone asked me last year if I felt older at 40... Did the turnover into another decade concern me? My response was that I feel much better at 40 than I did at 20 and plan on only getting younger. If you are losing vim and vigor at 30 you might want to get checked out.. (Blood tests). Could be a lack of iron or other vitamins.

BTW - I am not just talking feeling younger physically, but mentally. When most of my friends have a free night without the family they just want to sit back with a brew and watch the game. I want to go to a club or at the very least go to a rowdy sports bar to watch the game.... I think the old adage is right.. Age is a state of mind.

I agree with this one. I'm 49 now. I exercise 5 times a week......my eating is inconsistent....But I feel way better and have more energy than I did 10 years ago. I now hang out with people that are younger than me because people my age act like they are 65. They don’t do anything.

I think one of the things that might have been over-looked here is the benefit of mental health. I wasn't kidding about my post about divorce. Stress is a killer. I started back into cycling (road bike) during the divorce and I’m sure it saved me a heat attack and/or mental breakdown.

[flamesfever]

Originally Posted by Muta

Stay single (just date and mess around, nothing more), don't get married or have kids, go to the gym 4 times a week (50% cardio / 50% weights), don't smoke, eat healthy (use the perimeter rule at the grocery store), and keep your house clean and organized. Also, travel when you can and pursue only what your passion is career-wise.

Follow this and you'll love long, happy and healthy!

However, it may become a little lonely...especially in old age.

Also, I seem to remember reading that married people tend to live longer. Although for the 50% that end up getting divorced, or suffer poor marriages, I can see this not being the case.

[1stLand]

Originally Posted by rotten42

I agree with this one. I'm 49 now. I exercise 5 times a week......my eating is inconsistent....But I feel way better and have more energy than I did 10 years ago. I now hang out with people that are younger than me because people my age act like they are 65. They don’t do anything.

I think one of the things that might have been over-looked here is the benefit of mental health. I wasn't kidding about my post about divorce. Stress is a killer. I started back into cycling (road bike) during the divorce and I’m sure it saved me a heat attack and/or mental breakdown.

No doubt stress is a killer. I find when I get really stressed out with work, I don't sleep well and I eat unhealthy fast food because I have no time to prepare meals or plan for them.

In my line of work, I see first hand how divorce can be a real nightmare stress wise. That is why I have chosen to stay single (unless something great comes along).

I can also see how kids can take their toll. I think this is particularly the case when kids are younger and they have sporadic sleep patterns and throw temper tantrums. As kids get older and become adults, I think its great for ones health to have them around and have them as a support system.

Good for you on getting into biking during a time of stress. I know playing beer league hockey once a week acts a great stress reliever.

So I guess the consensus is:
- Eat Right
- Exercise A lot
- Avoid / mitigate stress

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by 1stLand

So I guess the consensus is:
- Eat Right
- Exercise A lot
- Avoid / mitigate stress

…and wear sunscreen.

[TurnedTheCorner]

I don't know why anyone would want to do this. Live your life in the best, most enjoyable way you can until it's done. Bargaining and manipulating yourself to squeeze out a few extra days, months, years, or whatever just seems distasteful to me.

[Tron_fdc]

Geez. Did you guys miss out on making party from age 20-35 or something? At 38 I'd rather jump off a bridge than go to a club.

I've always kept myself in decent shape, but the urge to go clubbing left me looooooong ago.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by tron_fdc

i've always kept myself in decent shape, but the urge to go clubbing left me looooooong ago.

Your avatar begs to differ!

[TheSutterDynasty]

Stop looking for easy ways out.

Eat right and exercise. It's pretty simple. You get out what you put in.

[endeavor]

Yeah, recognize the fact that there are no short term fixes. Make exercise a habit and understand it needs to be a life long commitment.

And laugh a lot

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

I don't know why anyone would want to do this. Live your life in the best, most enjoyable way you can until it's done. Bargaining and manipulating yourself to squeeze out a few extra days, months, years, or whatever just seems distasteful to me.

I'm not sure what you mean by "bargaining" and "manipulating". But I can tell you that the lifestyle changes I made were not so that I'd have a few extra days at the end, but so that the days between now and the end would be better. That's what I never got about Dennis Leary's justification for his smoking. "Meh, so I die a few years earlier… those are the years that suck anyway." Yeah, well, I know a few people in their 70s that are going very, very strong. Actually, the guy at the pool who is 92 swims about as fast as I do (though that's more of a statement about how poorly I swim than anything else ). You can live longer AND BETTER if you make the right choices now.

[DuffMan]

Grandpa: Well, I'm going to give it to you, anyway. I don't want you making the same mistakes I made when I was young. Dwayne, that's your name, right? Dwayne? Listen to me, this is the voice of experience talking. Are you listening? #### a lot of women, Dwayne.

Grandpa: I got no reason to lie to you kid, #### a lotta women. Not just one, a lot. So are you gettin' any? Is it going anywhere?

Grandpa: No? Jesus! What are you? Fifteen? You should be gettin' that young stuff! That young stuff is the best stuff in the world!

[Travis Munroe]

I consider myself to have a balanced lifestyle. I work out 4-5 times a week for 2 hours and.....thats it. My diet sucks as I am always eating out, attend most flames games which is a minimum 2 beers.

Point of my story is that exercise alone has been able to counteract every other unhealthy lifestyle choice I make. Nothing replaces exercise and it has to be the easiest thing to change as it becomes enjoyable after a month or 2.

Everytime I think about changing my diet I read something new about a "bad" food. Joe Rogan recently had a podcast talking about how America gets the worlds garbage coffee because regulations won't allow it anywhere else. Who would have thought a cup of coffee could be a problem.

Some other interesting points made... good quality thread!

[Travis Munroe]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

I'm not sure what you mean by "bargaining" and "manipulating". But I can tell you that the lifestyle changes I made were not so that I'd have a few extra days at the end, but so that the days between now and the end would be better. That's what I never got about Dennis Leary's justification for his smoking. "Meh, so I die a few years earlier… those are the years that suck anyway." Yeah, well, I know a few people in their 70s that are going very, very strong. Actually, the guy at the pool who is 92 swims about as fast as I do (though that's more of a statement about how poorly I swim than anything else ). You can live longer AND BETTER if you make the right choices now.

Agreed on the first half but I don't mind kicking the bucket in my 70's/80's...as long as I gave it my all up until then. If I had it my way I could crush 2 Dr Oetkener pizza's with ranch and hot sauce every single day. I am not manipulating or bargaining myself because I don't.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by Realtor 1

I consider myself to have a balanced lifestyle. I work out 4-5 times a week for 2 hours and.....thats it. My diet sucks as I am always eating out, attend most flames games which is a minimum 2 beers.

Point of my story is that exercise alone has been able to counteract every other unhealthy lifestyle choice I make. Nothing replaces exercise and it has to be the easiest thing to change as it becomes enjoyable after a month or 2.

Everytime I think about changing my diet I read something new about a "bad" food. Joe Rogan recently had a podcast talking about how America gets the worlds garbage coffee because regulations won't allow it anywhere else. Who would have thought a cup of coffee could be a problem.

Some other interesting points made... good quality thread!

Not sure how old you are, but I used to do the same thing. I always thought that my activity level would easily counteract the garbage I put in (and it was a lot). That was until I was told I had high cholestorol, high blood pressure, and gout. At the time I was about 6' tall, 190lbs, and quite fit.

What I learned is that there is an ungodly amount of crap in the food we eat every day, and even though you follow a healthy lifestyle you're still at just as high risk as the fat guy eating chicken wings every night. North America is going to be riddled with heart disease from all the processed foods that are found EVERYWHERE these days.

Everyone's different, but it's food for thought.

[rotten42]

THis is why you should stay in shape so that when you get to your later years you are physically able to do the things you want to. My brother is only 3 years older than me but he is out of shape and smokes. I can already see his body breaking down and he now complains of back trouble. Yeah, A big beer gut will do that to you.

On the other side, my dad is 82. He worked in the concrete industry all his life. He has always been in good shape. Last year down in Mexico I shot my best game of golf ever. A 86. He shot a 79. Infact he still shoots in the low 80's on a consitant basis.

[GGG]

Shooting your age in golf is amazing.

The key for me is do things that make me feel better. This is why I eat healthy. If I eat like crap I feel like crap, need to drink coffee to be alert, can't sleep as well becasue of all the caffine, feel to tired for exercise etc, The unhealthy choices really stack well on each other.

So eating healthy and exercise for me isn't to live longer, it is to feel better now. I don't go crazy on diet and let myself eat whatever I want. The only thing I should change is too eat out at lunch less but part of that is social so it is a tough habbit to break.

Im not sure why people say don't have kids as a secret to living longer. I find that kids in general make me happier and therefore overall improve my quality of life therefore should help me live longer. Yes there are stressful eppisodes but I think they are a net benefit.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by GGG

Im not sure why people say don't have kids as a secret to living longer. I find that kids in general make me happier and therefore overall improve my quality of life therefore should help me live longer. Yes there are stressful eppisodes but I think they are a net benefit.

Cuz they don't have them.....

One tip that is helping me is to not worry about what you can't control or change. It has helped at work and home.


Also masturbate daily.