grow older better

Tag: energy

  • Keep On Keepin’ On With A Dog

  • It’s October Again

    Last year I wrote about the sort-of-meaning of Octobers in my life.

    I still have not come up with a good reason for my mental affair with this month 🙂 but it’s happening again.

    It’s been a pleasant month here [not much rain], the temperatures are mild and I am loving this October….

    We in the United States are also into the last weeks of what has been a very long election season [season equaling years it seems] and I have been busy doing lots of campaign activities.

    For whatever the reasons – be they real, imagined, political, friends, or family, my optimism about life is quite high and so is my energy. I am feeling great and I want to keep feeling this way forever…[well – I’d go along with an increase in this great feeling…]

    Just as I said last year about that being my best October – I’m now betting that this is my best October – and November and December and on into 2009!

    Isn’t it a great internal smile when you know that life is just going to keep getting better and better? Maybe that’s why I called this blog grow older better. Names or titles just pop into my head from my unconscious – and over the decades I’ve learned to trust my unconscious [After all – I am an Aquarian :-)]. So even when some said but grow older better is not grammatical – I liked it… And now it seems even more appropriate as I age and grow older better – and better, etc.

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Wow – even more energy!

    I, a sometimes cynic, am totally impressed with the energy I have of late.

    In my cycling class, for the first time since I started over 2 years ago, I kept up with most of what the instructor was doing – I usually can not. [And she was into standing runs and sprints which I do not like and they generally wear me out quickly.]

    But not now….I have been running – I am waking up very early which is an odd Fall pattern for me as I generally only wake up this early in the summer…

    Where is all this energy coming from? The only change I have made in my life was to start taking a new fat loss product. It spares lean muscle as it targets fat. I can only guess that in losing fat [another inch in the waist and hips] I am changing something in my body balance and that is producing the energy….and I am exercising more strenuously because I have that energy…so I am burning more calories and … and … and …. Some of the ability to maintain the higher level of exercise may be the few accumulated months of taking another product that helps reduce soreness and stiffness due to physical activity or overexertion. It just may be that from now on it WILL take longer for me to wear out when I bike…We’ll see – and I’ll keep you posted.

    I also tried an experiment for a few days last week. After exercising in the AM – I kept my heart rate monitor on for several hours. It’s true – exercising does keep you burning calories for hours afterwards – 200 calories an hour for me – up to 5 hours later [when I took off the monitor as the chest strap gets annoying.] I put the monitor on one day when I did not exercise in the AM.. I burned substantially fewer calories that day when all else was the same except for not exercising.

    My body is functioning much better these days and I ain’t getting younger 🙂 so it’s got to be something else. I’ll keep taking the products because I assume it is they that are doing the good things for me as they are creating my personal version of healthy aging.

    And I really have to add this – it’s making me money ! I am an associate for the company that markets the fat loss product. Neighbors are joining my business and/or just buying the product. They are impressed with my noticeable increase in energy and the lost inches! And in this economy – they love the idea that they too can make money…so it’s a win win win. Why ? This business model works well in a recession… right now who can’t use extra money every month?

    [You can learn more about the product and the potential income by clicking on the link at the top right on this page.]

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Energy Anyone?

    This country is having an energy crisis but that’s not the one I am speaking of right now…I tend to do that elsewhere : -)

    Do you have as much energy as you did say 10 or 20 years ago? I have been thinking about this as a few friends [some older, some younger] have said how tired they are feeling lately. It has nothing to do with exercising as they all exercise to some extent.

    It may have to do with the declining daylight but I’m not sure of that as it was not mentioned in years past.

    I find that my energy varies widely depending on what I am doing and I’m not so sure it’s always age related…I recall when I was a New Yorker who lived a 24-hour-day most of the week. My friends and I lived on little sleep when we were in college…NY never sleeps and neither did we…at least for stretches of time…but I was in my late teens and early 20’s….I then moved to sleepier cities and my habits changed…or was it the fact that I was getting older? Hard to separate the factors.

    But back to 2008. I seem to have more energy than others younger than I…I just had a busy week [which helps account for the lack of posts here – it’s election season.] Here it’s been election season for a long time as our primary was in later May – but right now it’s getting very busy and I am politically active..So I’ve been to meetings and fund raisers – which are actually fun parties – but don’t tell anyone.. Most think of politics as dreary. It energizes me!

    So is my energy coming from the politics or did the new fat loss supplement give me an energy edge? The two happened simultaneously and when I was a researcher – I tended to look at correlations between factors – and I still do. I have also lost more waist inches and a few more pounds. Is it the body change that is energizing me? [or all of the above?]

    Not knowing the specific answer – my thinking is to not change any of what I am doing…Because? I prefer being energized to not being energized – it’s part of my healthy aging “program.”

    And – If nothing else I sure feel good – in fact I feel great and I love that feeling!

    New mantras for us? Feeling great at 68 ! [and soonish] Feeling fine at 69!

    And there is a link at the top right of the page or HERE so you can find out more about this product I am taking.

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,