Take Control of Your Aging Health
When you become an aging baby boomer the last thing you want to experience is the side effects. The stiff joints, aching low back, fatigue and memory problems starting to creep up out of no where. The ability to multi task is slowly diminishing. The ease of bending to put on your socks and shoes and forget women’s pantyhose is a distant memory. You look in the mirror and wonder how you got here.
So stop right there. Take back control of your life. Some think it is easier said than done. Not so, take it one step at a time. Health over fifty becomes your own personal responsibility. What you eat is just as important (if not more) now than twenty years ago. Just because you strayed from eating properly until now doesn’t mean you should give up and just rely on medicine. You can find better ways to eat, exercise for your ability and eliminate some of those bad habits. Turn your life into a new hobby and put the failure thoughts out in the trash.
Instead of trying to tackle all aspects of your life, try one step in each category per week and let your motivation to succeed take over. Each week do one more positive thing to improve the enjoyment of the age you are. If you sit and whine about where you used to be those moments of now will pass you by. You’re not going to get younger in chronological aging but you can get more youthful in your movements, looks, thoughts and health issues. Here are 10 Simple steps you can do starting today:
1. Park your car 3 spaces farther away than you do now and walk.
2. Eat fish 1 more meal per week than you do already.
3. Do stretching exercises or yoga (lots of discomfort feels like bone but is tight muscles.)
4. Add 2 glasses of water per day to get closer to your needed body amount of at least 8 – 8 ounce glasses per day.
5. Eliminate the starch from one meal of your diet and exchange it for vegetables and fruits.
6. Drink 1 less alcoholic drink than you normally do.
7. Lower your cigarette smoking by 1 cigarette less each day until you can quit.
8. Forgive yourself or someone else of a wrongful deed.
9. Compliment yourself for doing 5 positive things for yourself each day before bed.
10. Get to bed at a decent time to achieve 7 to 8 hours of sleep….late shows on TV can wait for weekends or use the recorder to watch at a better hour.
Health over fifty does not need to be a chore. Do something to improve your life. Smile at the reflection in the mirror and you will start to smile at others as well. Your life isn’t just about everyone else and their needs. Your health, youthfulness, flexibility and quality is about you and what you are willing to do for the most important person in your life…you.
Enjoy!
