Like the title of the thread very much.

Welcome, we are a good group. Feel free to add me as a friend if you need more of them :flowerforyou:

Congratulations on reaching your goal weight.

I’m almost there (age, not goal weight). I’ll be 70 in August. When I was in my 20’s and 30’s, I considered 70 as the official age of old age. In my early 60’s, I felt my body (although fat) and mind were still in my 40’s to 50’s. In my late 60’, because of several years of ill health, my body felt like I was in my 80's, and my mind felt even older. This year started out very healthy for me and my body is back in my 60’s and I feel that my mind is back in my 50’s and I have a real zest for life again. My goal for my 70’s is to get in as good health as I was in my 20’s..

It’s springtime in Northern California. My rhododendrons and azaleas are all in bloom, and my roses are getting nice long stems. I just hope we don’t get a cold snap. Don’t want the flowers to freeze.

Chuck

Life has gotten better and better with age. I love my husband of 20+ years. Have a good job, good health, good friends and family. A wonderful home in a vacation setting. And lovely kitty-babies, nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews.

And I'm wiser. It is so nice to understand life better and appreciate it more...

I feel my age (which is 61), but of course, 61 feels like 40. And why shouldn't it? My health is better now than it was then. And I've always been "young at heart." So what's the difference?

:laugh:

It’s springtime in Northern California. My rhododendrons and azaleas are all in bloom, and my roses are getting nice long stems. I just hope we don’t get a cold snap. Don’t want the flowers to freeze.

Chuck

OH this sounds so lovely right now. My husband and I were just discussing when to start seedlings in the house. On the Front Range of Colorado putting anything out in the ground before Mother's Day is asking for dead plants.

We have a lone rhododendron in the backyard that we thought had died, but last autumn it put out a few leaves and they have managed to stay alive even in the sub zero weeks we had this winter.

Just bring on the Springtime and Summer I am so over Winter Wonderland.:glasses:

Apparently I need to move to the left coast. Here in central Indiana we are bracing for yet another "polar vortex". Last week the temps reached the low 60s, by Wednesday it is supposed to be zero again with wind chills below zero. That being said, at 63 I figure I must be in the new 40s!! Works for me. Just pick an age you like and stick with it and the early 40s/late 30s were pretty good as far as I am concerned. When I compare notes with my peers and friends I feel pretty blessed. Those things I want to fix, e.g., lose some weight/inches are within my control. When compared to those who have had heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimers (the list goes on), I feel pretty great at just being 15 pounds and a couple of inches from my goal.

Love this thread. I have spent basically my entire adult life in the home health industry and I truly believe that the age you feel is a reflection of your health status - both physical and mental. Would you believe that I had one long term patient who is now 104, still lives alone, and is the caregiver for her daughter? She also continues to crochet doilies (sp? remember those???) that she sells in church sales. She starts her day with her exercise routine and that includes breathing exercises that she does with an incentive spriometer that she got during a hospital stay!

I think the things thing that I noted over the years about patients who aged the best were that they exercised - especially walking. Walking is good for so many things and particularly balance, and many of them also maintained gardens of vegetables or flowers. They ate most of their meals at home and ate real food, not processed gunk, in quantities to maintain a body weight that was not obese, and they had a positive attitude and things they were interested in! They were in church groups or had hobbies, but in any event stayed INVOLVED with life.

Just a couple of observations from many years of home health nursing.

i had such a good time in 'the sixties', i'm determined to have a good time in MY sixties. But maybe a little different

My wonderful mother will turn 95 this week - now needs a walker all the time but she is still living on her own in the home she and my dad built almost 40 years ago. I want to grow up to be just like her - her faculties still very sharp, and her sense of humor often 'shocks' the 30 year old grandkids LOL

Wonderful to read about all your great attitudes and successes!

Hello all, I did just join this group last week. I will be 60 this summer. I would like to lose a few pounds then maintain weight. I've been gaining and losing the same 15-20 pounds since my 20's. Several years back I started to walk daily, at least five days per week at least 30 minutes per day. I'm proud to say that I still do that! I have done hatha yoga in the past (+5 years ago) and fell out of the habit. I've been intermittently trying to return to doing it, at least once per week and working my way up.

I do love to cook and eat and I am admittedly, a huge sugar lover It is a constant challenge to abstain. I also have inherited the mean cholesterol gene from my Dad's side, but also his crave for nutritional information and supplementation He lived to be 92!

You all sound like a fun and supportive group here. I look forward to checking in often. You all have a great day