Am I getting younger? How Aging Affects Your Weight Loss

I have always been a firm believer that age is just a number and that you are only as old as you feel. It really is true: there are plenty of people walking around with the physical health and well-being of someone twice their age or, in some cases, the physicality and vitality of someone half their age. But aren’t we all getting older?

Of course, we are all getting older. As Mick Jagger sang: “Time waits for no one and it won’t wait for me.” But if you develop good habits, eat right, get plenty of rest, and exercise regularly, isn’t it possible to improve your health so much that you actually feel like you’re reversing the aging process? Absolutely. Granted, time will march on, but if you’re still marching around in bad clothes, believe me, your time machine is moving at an accelerated pace.

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that any of us are guaranteed another sunset, let alone another sunrise. And we should all be living life with passion, not squirming trying to gain more years by not spending the ones we are currently living with real gusto. It doesn’t matter if you live to be 50 or 150, it will apparently pass in a jiffy in the end.

And let’s be real; there is no ‘time saving’. I always find it amusing when people comment on saving time, as if it were captured in a bottle to be used at a later date. When it comes to time, you are spending it or investing it; spending it wasted watching nonsense on TV or spending it exercising and improving your health, educating yourself or in service.

But back to my point about getting younger and being as old as you feel. One of the keys to that proposition is that you adjust your routines as you age. If you’re in your late 40s and still consuming the same number of calories as you did in your twenties, chances are you’re gaining weight at a rapid rate. And that would be true even if he was expending the same levels of energy as when he was twenty years old. Scientific evidence points to the fact that our metabolism slows down as we age, so we need to adjust our intake levels at different stages of our lives. That’s a key factor to help ensure you’re getting older without getting fat.

Have you ever seen any of the stories of former professional athletes retiring, no longer performing the same regiments of extreme exercise, and still eating like they’re burning fuel on their game days? Those guys usually swell big time. And greatly affects its longevity.

So consider how you need to adjust your intake and activity levels as you age. Upgrade your clothes to improve your health. And may you have a long and prosperous life.

And I’m getting older; in fact, I had to ‘Google’ Mick Jagger to ensure correct spelling.