Aging + The Daily Choices You Make

Last week I had the pleasure of talking to 30 women on Mastering Menopause and how to small changes to nutrition, training, sleep, stress management and mindset can help offset the menopausal rollercoaster that we have to get on and ride at some point.

So what does this have to do with aging and the choices we make??

Well, no matter if male or female, we are ALL at risk for muscle loss, bone loss, strength loss and loss of our independence as we age if we don't take action on the controllables!

I wanted to share a message from Thomas Plummer on aging that I think will help put it all into perspective.

"Aging is a series of bad choices made daily. You turn 60 and struggle to tie your shoes, your hips are tight from too many years sitting on your backside. You have a decision to make that day.

You either find a coach, maybe sign up for yoga, take a stretching class, or you give in, just an inch, just on this one thing, and buy slip on shoes.

You push into your later years and decide, hey, I worked hard for so many years, so you sit, watch too much television, scroll for hours, eat too much and give in... while your friend, who is your age, signs up for college courses, joins a gym, takes up a new sport and learns how to eat better and take care of himself.

Every day, a hundred times per day, you have a choice to give in and grow older or fight back and grow younger.

Personally, I hate seeing people my age clinging to the back of shopping carts because they are too lazy to walk upright.

I find people sitting on a bench, just watching the world go by, scary as hell because they have quit, accepted, want to grow old and die young.

Every day a choice... fight back and grow young, or give in and deny to yourself growing old is mostly a self-inflicted disease of bad choices you can control.

You won’t live forever, but you can live young until you die."

Food for thought today.....