It often takes someone close to us dying for us to have a good look at ourselves. We know the statistics, we know the dangers of our lifestyle and we know we have just the same chance of croaking as anyone else who lives the same lifestyle. But. Deep down I reckon most of us think “I know the risks, but it won’t happen to me just yet” … “I’ll sort myself out when I turn 30 or when I turn 40” …
Friend of mine died of lung cancer aged 28. Myself and his other friends vowed to quit smoking when he died and within 3 months we had all started again. Poor willpower?.. or secretly thinking “It won’t happen to me just yet”?
So yes. Take a good look at yourselves. There’s always a good reason to put off healthy lifestyle changes till Monday, or after Easter or after Summer or after xmas or when you turn 40 or 50. Never a better day to make changes than today.
Ched:
Hope something happens soon to change those views, Scanny.
you never know what is round the corner so it is possible but right now i have no desire to live to an old age. others have different lives and views and i respect their right to have them
i suppose that joining the army was a fantastic decision and i dont regret it for a second but since coming back home i have become completely detached from everything i had in my pre-military life. life went on and i returned as a stranger in my own home
Ched:
Hope something happens soon to change those views, Scanny.
you never know what is round the corner so it is possible but right now i have no desire to live to an old age. others have different lives and views and i respect their right to have them
i suppose that joining the army was a fantastic decision and i dont regret it for a second but since coming back home i have become completely detached from everything i had in my pre-military life. life went on and i returned as a stranger in my own home
You may have done so already, but you should google PTSD. Or better still take action and mention it to your GP instead of just reading about it. The least he could do is rule it out. Might look like a load of mumbo jumbo at first and that it doesn’t apply to you, but there is help out there.
wing-nut:
Hopefully these changes might make me last a bit longer if only to outlive the bloody mother-in-law (the evil ■■■■■ is 93 and still going strong )
She told me that she’s a member on here.
Good luck on Sunday, when you go to visit her. [emoji1]
She knows exactly how I feel about her
It was her birthday couple of weeks ago, I was going to buy her a necklace but I couldn’t find a shop that sold rope.
A driver at work has just survived bowel cancer, thank god.
Doc reckons he had it for a few months.
The driver now campaigns all the time for drivers to be tested regular.
Ive just had the full MOT medical, and passed with flying colours(thank god).
Once you get to 50, its worth paying for a full medical every year, iirc, it’s about £300 all in.
toby1234abc:
My surgeon told me gyms do not work, it is all a con.
Your surgeon might be good at surgery but he’s a bit stupid about other things. There is a massive program these days where medical practitioners and the NHS refer people to the gym and the person gets 30 reduced price gym sessions and a program designed to meet their requirements, I train people on that program and it gets results. The NHS also refer people to the gym for stroke or cardiac rehab, I work with those as well, and for other issues such as COPD and MS. It works out cheaper in the long run than constant treatment and hospital visits or the patient living on medication for the rest of their days. People I and the other trainers have worked with over the last year have started the program on medication for high blood pressure or diabetes and are now no longer on the medication because their blood pressure has come right down and they are no longer diabetic after losing weight/body fat.
toby1234abc:
All you do is build up muscle mass so you weigh more,
More nonsense. Yes you can build muscle mass, that’s what body builders do. However with the right program you build lean muscle and reduce body fat, especially visceral fat which is the stuff you carry round the belly and around your major organs and is a major contributor to Type II diabetes. and if you didn’t have excessive weight to lose weigh pretty much the same as when you started but have a different body shape and be a lot healthier.
Also, FYI, it’s another myth when people say muscle weighs more than fat, it’s nonsense as a pound of muscle and a pound of fat weigh, err, well, a pound. The pound of fat is bigger and takes up more room than the pound of muscle but they weigh exactly the same.
toby1234abc:
if you stop, the muscles turn to flab.
Myth, muscles cannot turn to anything. They can get bigger or get smaller but they cannot turn into fat or flab; fat and muscle are totally different things and one cannot become the other. Yes, some body builders who spend years building muscle mass and when they stop training do get fat but that’s not muscle turning to fat. It happens because when they were body building they would be consuming vast amounts of calories to feed and grow the muscles, far more than required just to get through a day, and when they stop they don’t adjust their calorie intake downward and they are so used to eating 6 or more meals a day they continue to do so. They aren’t exercising so their muscles reduce in size and the extra calories they consume are stored as fat instead of feeding and growing the muscles, Their muscles are still just muscle and haven’t turned into anything else.
toby1234abc:
They make billions on selling the promise of losing weight.
I joined a gym 3 years ago last week, cost less than a quid a day and lost 9.5 stone over the next 11 months. They didn’t promise me I would but I did and the important point was although I was using the gym for both cardio and resistance training the gym wasn’t the main contributor to the weight loss, that was the kitchen and my dinner plate.
People think all they have to do is go to the gym and they will magically lose weight but you can undo all the good work of a gym session in minutes with poor food choices.
Oh, and during those 11 months I wasn’t on a diet, didn’t cut anything out completely except fizzy drinks, and most days consumed more calories than I was doing each day as a fat [zb]
wing-nut:
Hopefully these changes might make me last a bit longer if only to outlive the bloody mother-in-law (the evil ■■■■■ is 93 and still going strong )
She told me that she’s a member on here.
Good luck on Sunday, when you go to visit her. [emoji1]
She knows exactly how I feel about her
It was her birthday couple of weeks ago, I was going to buy her a necklace but I couldn’t find a shop that sold rope.
when i served there was only one conflict that started and that was Kosovo. my unit went out for 6 months but i was left behind so i dont have any operational experiences to suffer from. i am fairly content as i am anyway and although some day to day annoyances do arise, i am not stressed or depressed. i used to suffer from depression but i dealt with the underlying issues on my own ie certain people in my life who i had to remove for my own good. getting rid of them got rid of the unpredictable bursts of depression and that has been the case for 2 years now and it has helped at work. i come across as very light hearted, chatty and friendly which is pleasant for other people but i suppose in truth it is because at the end of the shift i am out of there and away from them. liking or disliking is irrelevant because they are only professional acquaintences so i only need to tolerate them for short periods of time but i have a very deep mistrust of people. the last one i got rid of (and the depression) did a lot of damage and even though it was my choice, the effects will be long lasting. i may have no desire to live a long life but at the same time i have no intentions of hurting myself in any way
the only thing bothering me right now is the fact that i am doing backshift then switching to dayshift which i really hate doing but i cant rock the boat right now. i got a shift yesterday and not one other driver was in. by rights i should be at the back of the queue since i disappeared for 7 weeks (sat at home with my feet up) and only went back last week but i was offered the only available shift and i dont know why i am at the front of the queue or who has put me there. i am suspicious but its a 15 minute walk to work and its not bad money for this area so i really dont want to open my gob especially since i will hopefully be accepted for something completely different this year (which is why i need to build my fitness level up) so i need the financial security for now
I’m 72, led the life I wanted to, never subscribed to a fitness regime, nor dieted. Drunk a few pints every week, and now walk two miles every day with my dogs. Diagnosed asthmatic two years ago, but controlled by inhalers. Life is good, and I hope it may continue for another few years. So, my advice? Live the way you want to, not what somebody else tells you!
bald bloke:
As i’m the big 50 this year i treated myself to one of these all dancing all singing medicals where you are tested for just about everything, well all the results and there was a lot of them come back spot on except one which was the PSA test which as older folks would know as the prostate test so now iv’e been referred to the specialist which will be Thursday, so in answer to your post yes i did have a good look at myself.
3.9 by the way and i’m 49.
I was told by a specialist that anything under 3 is pretty much ok, so you’re not far from that but the big thing is having it tested regularly to see how it’s trending - my father in law had 22 but it was brought down and kept under control with drugs and he went on for another fifteen years like that until he died of an unrelated illness.
I have my PSA checked regularly but when I try to get my mates to go I get shrugs of indifference - it really is important - prostate cancer when ignored is a killer. Left too late it’s game over.
I don’t want to sound patronising but you have so done the right thing having a thorough checkup so’s you can stop things before they start.
switchlogic:
. i am 37 now, another 23 years is enough for me. if someone tells me i have another 10 years after that then i might take matters into my own hands. bugger that!
Are you being serious?! I’m 37 too and desperately hope I haven’t got half way yet. You’re setting your sights very low planning to die at 60. If you can’t see the point in living beyond 60 then maybe you could do with changing your life so you actually enjoy it. 60 isnt old anymore. Not even close.
bald bloke:
As i’m the big 50 this year i treated myself to one of these all dancing all singing medicals where you are tested for just about everything, well all the results and there was a lot of them come back spot on except one which was the PSA test which as older folks would know as the prostate test so now iv’e been referred to the specialist which will be Thursday, so in answer to your post yes i did have a good look at myself.
3.9 by the way and i’m 49.
I was told by a specialist that anything under 3 is pretty much ok, so you’re not far from that but the big thing is having it tested regularly to see how it’s trending - my father in law had 22 but it was brought down and kept under control with drugs and he went on for another fifteen years like that until he died of an unrelated illness.
I have my PSA checked regularly but when I try to get my mates to go I get shrugs of indifference - it really is important - prostate cancer when ignored is a killer. Left too late it’s game over.
I don’t want to sound patronising but you have so done the right thing having a thorough checkup so’s you can stop things before they start.
Hope everything goes ok tomorrow.
I’m here waiting now to see the Doc, it’s a bit like an RDC no one talking, you get here on time and they still make you wait.
EU law allows you to drive for 4.30 hours then a break, never do this, stop frequently to relax the digestive system as sat down that long is not good for the body and blood.
rigsby:
careful with the grapefruit , if you take medication for blood pressure or statins grapefruit negates the drugs . most of my medications have " do not consume grapefruit " on the box . shame really , grapefruit was my favourite .
Very true rigsby, the amount of people that have mentioned this is unreal.
Luckily @ 56 I`m “drug” free…nothing whatsoever
72 next time around and apart from a daily aspirin, notwithstanding I’m a diet controlled diabetic, and I’m drug free!
I went back to work in Canada last year, but after a few months two drivers dying (one in his bunk and one beside his truck) , along with my constantly aching legs gave me a wake up call. It was the 13 hr drives that were causing it, with little time for exercise, and although it had never affected me before I was worried about the ‘jelly’ legs when I got out of the truck after the long drives, so I packed in.
You only get one life so, if you think your health is suffering, and you are able… do something about it.
I reckon the next thing which will be found to be doing folk in is… Vapeing, so, come on lads, do you really need to be seen to be sucking on a plastic contraption, it makes you look like a junkie.
I would bore you to tears if I start on medical issues, as a 90 year old I take shopping etc, says to me a “little bit of what you fancy is okay, just don’t over do anything, and look after yourself, and take one day at a time, and enjoy life” This lady has her problems but gets on with living her life to the full, there is only one life live it, you check your motors out every time you take them down the road, check yourself out as well once a week,
15 years ago when doing fancy European coach tours I was in Norway. We had a rough boulder strewn 20 minute walk to get the the glacier. Most of the passengers were in their 50s or 60s. All but two passengers looked at the walk and decided not to go, so I walked with the two that went for it, a 93 year old man and an 87 year old one. I truly believe that you have a certain amount of control over how you age. Dont give up and resign yourself to a life on the sofa. My gran did this and it was depressing to watch such a previously active woman decline. Keeping active is so important. Many people in their 80s and 90s lead very fulfilling active lives. Look after yourself and you can too, barring major illness.
ffs am 6’3 and 18stone
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I’m just under 6ft,used to be 12stish when I was playing football and doing kick boxing reguarly.
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Sounds like getting near to 12 st would be a good weight for you then, good luck.
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for me to get to 12 stone I would need HIV or to move to Africa, when I boxed I was 14stone and doubt I will ever get under that again!
The pound of fat is bigger and takes up more room than the pound of muscle but they weigh exactly the same.
