getting older and feeling it
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getting older and feeling it
| Wed, 03-12-2008 - 6:10pm |
OK So I found a grey hair. OK two of them. Bf pulled one out yesterday but I found one on my birthday of all days a few months ago. I am 34. I have gained ten pounds over the past year and look older, and have wrinkles!!! HOw can this be happening? I am slightly horrified and yet I think I might still be abel to save myself. So....I joined a gym again. I have been in in great shape before and I also have done bikram yoga all within the past five years so I hope my body remembers this. I have my first training session tomorrow to remind me. Wish me luck. I think it will be slightly embarassing to take the fitness test, admit I have a broken tail bone - you know, the usual.
Now to the wrinkles....mainly around my eyes a bit and on my forehead because I worry and squint a lot. I bought myself some sunglasses. DUH. I also invested in some different skincare that I have been looking at for months. I have good skin for the most part but I havent been really taking care of it. I dont always take off my make up properly ( I know, yuck but I get tired and just cant be bothered) and even though I do use moisturizer, I am not using anti aging stuff regularly. I need a routine. So I got that Clarisonic thing. That whirly brushy thing that looks like the toothbrush but is for your skin. I am psyched to try it. I dont know what anti aging products to look into but I figured I would take it one step at a time. A cleanser comes with the clarisonic and I have a day moisturizer from Olay with SPF and I will use that for now. I am OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS!!!
I need to feel sexier and younger again. I dont really know when I let myself off the hook over here but I think some of the weight is love weight ( thats what I call it) SYB has gained weight too so we joined the gym together. I have never had a bf that went to the gym with me. I think it will help to do this together. We are also both really good cooks so I think we will be eating in more. The gym is actually walkable from our place and there are stores in between that have fresh fish and produce - really my favorite market, plus bank and pet store, etc. Very convenient.
Is anyone else feeling suddenly older and wrinkly? Misery loves company and all that. It is just rough to realize I am not that cute girl in my twenties anymore. Where did she go??
Now to the wrinkles....mainly around my eyes a bit and on my forehead because I worry and squint a lot. I bought myself some sunglasses. DUH. I also invested in some different skincare that I have been looking at for months. I have good skin for the most part but I havent been really taking care of it. I dont always take off my make up properly ( I know, yuck but I get tired and just cant be bothered) and even though I do use moisturizer, I am not using anti aging stuff regularly. I need a routine. So I got that Clarisonic thing. That whirly brushy thing that looks like the toothbrush but is for your skin. I am psyched to try it. I dont know what anti aging products to look into but I figured I would take it one step at a time. A cleanser comes with the clarisonic and I have a day moisturizer from Olay with SPF and I will use that for now. I am OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS!!!
I need to feel sexier and younger again. I dont really know when I let myself off the hook over here but I think some of the weight is love weight ( thats what I call it) SYB has gained weight too so we joined the gym together. I have never had a bf that went to the gym with me. I think it will help to do this together. We are also both really good cooks so I think we will be eating in more. The gym is actually walkable from our place and there are stores in between that have fresh fish and produce - really my favorite market, plus bank and pet store, etc. Very convenient.
Is anyone else feeling suddenly older and wrinkly? Misery loves company and all that. It is just rough to realize I am not that cute girl in my twenties anymore. Where did she go??



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I had my first session yesterday at the gym although it was more of an assessment and to talk about goals. I go back for an actual training session on Tuesday of next week so he can show me what he thinks I should be doing with weights, etc. I had a concert last night and I didnt want to be sore or having stretched anything right before that. He was very nice and I liked him a lot. I think he understood my feelings perfectly and he knows that I am ready to address my fitness so I guess I am on the road to feeling better about all of this.
I had pictures taken by other musicians at the concert last night and they arrive in email and I thought "yea, I do need to start working on this. " It made me feel both positive I was doign the right thing and a little mad at myself for the letting myself go a bit in the last few years!
Anyhow, thank you so much and I will keep you posted!! I have ten to fifteen pounds to lose and he said he wants me to gain about 3 lbs muscle. I have no idea how long this will take but I am determined!!!
OK City...no suggestions really...well of course you know there will be some :0)
Ok I love oil of olay - all of their products especially the regenerist line. Cannot go a day without using (back to highschool believe it or not) stridex after the shower when your pores are completely open. It really tightens everything up and then moisturize with oil of olay. Theyve got great eye gels as well.
On the greys...ummmmm I just sat for 2 hours this past weekend to have mine completely covered. My hairdresser said to me i dont know how to tell you this but you are SOOOOO much greyer than the last time I saw you. gee thanks! I hadnt noticed. Now its not so much the greys on top that have bothered me as the greys in the nether regions that sent me screaming like a little girl and curled up in the fetal position in the bottom of the tub....OHHHHHHHHH the humanity.
On the old nip tuck...my mom and her friends joke that they want an eye lift and i have explained to them by doing so on them there eyelids would be in their hair line...reminiscent of Gloria Swanson in Sunset Bvd.
What am i getting at ...it happens. How we choose to carry ourselves makes all the difference in the world. As for me...i wont be dropping my pants in public any time soon thats for damn sure!
M
Amen. You are preaching to the choir on this subject. It is screwy that government legislates issues of lifestyle. Psycho Boy has had plenty of patients that I wouldn't let have a puppy and there we were giving them a child. There are some extaordinarily selfish folks out there who decide they need to have a kid to love THEM, not to give love to.
And it is totally ironic that when we are younger and are not ready emotionally to be parents, we get pregnant just thinking about sex. When we are finally mature enough and financially stable we have "old eggs" and can't get pregnant- unless of course we don't want to be pregnant!
I was very surprised when insurance companies began covering IVF or any infertility treatments for that matter because they then incur the costs of pregnancy, delivery and the pediatric costs for the kid. When I left my X's office in 2004, he was getting reimbursed from insurance for an IUI $12. Really. It cost more than that to have the lab tech process the stuff, let alone store it in the freezer for a couple days. He was charging $69 for the IUI if someone didn't have insurance. Check out prices across the country for infertility services. You may find it less expensive to FLY somewhere else and stay for a week in a hotel while you have the procedure than to have it done locally. PsychoBoy had lots of patients from the East coast and from CA because those markets are very pricey.
Good luck, truly hope it works out for you- and yes, I've always enjoyed the CalCryoBank "catalog". Better than OLD in window shopping men.
QueenBun
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