Old-timers like me....how you get along in your later years.

[Seamuss]

I'm spending my last years doing what I want to(detecting, prospecting...) and comparing health problems with other people drastically cuts into my fun time. I go prospecting with a one armed man that digs circles around me and I can't keep up with him when I'm concentrating on MY prospecting. I'm in my mid sixties with my own issues and younger then him.
My advice, take care of your health now because you will never get it back if it's a big problem and sitting around talking about it cuts into your fun time and it's beginning to sound like we're already there.

Getting out does keep me in shape(round is a shape, LOL) and I feel younger when I stay active.

 

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[piegrande]

Someone said if he went off low-fat he ends up in the hospital. Actually, there is a difference, based on genetics, haplotype. The majority of people of European ancestry need high fat; low carb. I am talking like 70% of people.

That means maybe 30% do not fit that program. Some need low fat. Some need low fat; low carb; and high protein.

That is why one must study this out, and find out what their personal need is.

For most of us, it is simple. Low carb; high fat.

 

[63bkpkr]

Thanks deepskyal for starting this thread,

I'm 67 years of age, almost 68, notice I did not say my age as old. I'm not old yet just older than some, I'm far from being old. I've had two knee surgeries, a few broken bones, a few aches I do not complain about and I KNOW that piegrande added a good thought to this thread that I'd like to add to. There is a documentary DVD called "Forks over Knives", it can be found at Netflicks, or however it is spelled. If you want to learn about where your life could go watch this DVD. There is also a companion book by the same name with some recipes in it and once you get the hang of how to eat right a Lot of GOOD things begin to happen to your body as well as your mind and life. I try to follow what the DVD/Book explain about eating right, I am NOT perfect so I go off it every now and then but I do get back on the right track.

So, my life right now is like being somewhere between 18 and ~ 34 years of age. I backpack in the summers, this year I was out for a total of 3 months which sounds awesome (and it was) but when one is out of work and homeless backpacking is a good way to cut down on expenses. Then each time I hiked in my pack weighed at least 85 pounds and the last trip in late October well, I did not even weigh the pack as it was just too heavy and that was all I needed to know about it, two weeks worth of food and gear. I prospected for gold, tried to learn from what I was doing as I do not need to repeat some of what I did, I did find a little gold, met quite a few folks and made friends of some of them and I've grown from the experience. During the rest of the year I ride my bicycle as much as possible, I expect to fire up the motorcycle again one of these months (2000 Kawasaki Concours, 1000cc two up sport touring bike) and I plan on getting a job in early 2012 extruding some medical device catheters. Right now I weigh in at 165 lbs dressed in the suit I was born in, I have a pony tail at the back of my head to give me something to brush into place and I need to wear a hat summer or winter. That's just a fact of life neither good nor bad. My health is super and I give thanks for that every day. A lot of my way of life is mental, I like to think good, do good, be good and share good things with others. I know that years of working hard or having a hard life can take a toll on a body but some of it can be overcome but one must try and try and try and never give up trying regardless of how many times you have to pick yourself up from where you've fallen. If you are younger than I am then you are ahead of me in some respects and you can do so much good for yourself by deciding you want to positively improve your life. Start by improving the health of your own body and keep it healthy. Do good works (return a found item if you can to its lost owner), say hello to Friends and strangers alike, wish them a good day and mean it! We have one shot at this life on earth so make it worthwhile, live healthy that's physically and mentally, enjoy life as it is just so simply good. If you come form a hard life then understand it and make it better, just do it!

Merry Christmas to all, I wish us all a happy New Year I'd like to visit with you around a campfire sometime...63bkpkr

Me kneading yeast risen dough for bread in a canyon this summer in the Sierras. (note the bread kneading board)

And just some of the beauty I put myself into this summer (cut a trail up to the top of the hill in center of picture with the bald spot on it)

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

GREAT post!!

Your bread-kneading board - I always like double use items. Depending on where we are going, ours quite often doubles as
a table and/or countertop.

Treasure every day.

Merry Christmas -

Beth

 

[Goodyguy]

I'm only 62 and most days feel 22.

Before the Atkins diet I always felt like an old man, aches, pains, fat, lazy, weak, and miserable............
If I went too long between meals, I would get shaky, my fingers would start to tingle my nose would tingle my hands would shake and I would feel faint and break out in a cold sweat.

Then after I did get something to eat it would take at least an hour or more before I would feel normal again. I also used to get throbbing migraine headaches just behind an eye, sometimes the left eye sometimes the right eye (I used to call them eye aches) Had to go straight to bed and turn out all lights as the light would make me nauseous, and the headaches would usually subside after sleeping.

I was fat but couldn't cut back on eating because of the above symptoms, I felt helpless and hopeless. The extra weight was also killing my knees and I was in constant pain due to my job requiring me to stand 8 hours a day. (I had knee surgery on both knees as a teenager due to a motorcycle wreck)

The Atkins diet completely changed my life! Lost over 50 pounds, no more knee pain, plenty of energy, could go all day without eating, no more hypoglycemic symptoms as above, no more headaches, I had become a new man!

The last 20 years since going on the Atkins plan have been the best years of my life!
I feel great and am looking forward to the next 20 years and beyond

Happy Hunting,
GG~

* I did fall off the Atkins wagon a couple of times over the years and each time the above symptoms would re surface.
Needless to say, I'm going to stick with it for the rest of my life.

 

[piegrande]

A second thought on barber's posting. I cannot doubt his observation. But, it does bother me that he is on a diet which only monitors one parameter, which in his case is fat.

There are three elements of food (ignoring dirt from the great outdoors.)

Protein; fat; and carbohydrates.

One of the reasons medicos jumped the wrong way on diets involved many studies which only monitored fat, with no look at carbs. Since populations which became more westernized ate more fat, they concluded fat is what causes the health problems of the modern diet. But, later studies showed that as fat increased somewhat, carbs also exploded.

The three elements are digested and consumed by different means, yet they can interact. So, it bothers me somewhat to be told only that he has to cut back on fat.

What the 70% do is more fat, less hunger.

Not at all doubting his personal needs, just pointing out something that bothers me in his posting.



Goodyguy, my experience is much like yours. But being hypoglycemic, it is much harder to make Atkins work for me. I have to constantly experiment to keep from gaining weight on a very low carb diet. But, my energy levels way, way up. Also, endurance.

For those way overweight, pre-diabetic, etc., Atkins or one of the other low carb diets could be the most important thing in your life in many years.

 

[Goodyguy]

Believe it or not you would be much healthier eating foods that are compatible with your blood type, while avoiding foods not compatible with your blood type.

In other words "Eat Right For Your Type"

This book will educate you on why diets that work for some people don't work for others, and why the same thing applies to medicine.
http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=r9PfTtO4I5Tnggfw6PD4BQ&ved=0CGwQ8wIwBA

Eat Right For Your Type Website: http://www.dadamo.com/

Be Healthy
GG~