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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You're assuming he actually knows what he's doing ... he probably doesn't even know where he is

I'm joking but getting old and being old sucks ... I'm on my way there and all I can see and all I ever heard about it from my elderly friends is that it is a world of constant pain, aches and frustrations .... your memory goes, you can't remember basic things (but you can remember a phone number from 1988), your joints ache all the time, your muscles ache all the time, your back is pain, you have a hard time walking, you have a hard time sitting, you have a hard time lying down, you have a hard time standing, you can't hear well, you have weird things happen with your vision, you can't hold, grasp or handle things like you used to

I'm not there yet but after having just reached 50, I'm starting to feel everything ... and feel everything all the time ... even typing this I'm reminded of a constant dull pain with my arthritic pinky finger.

And age also assumes that you'll be able to keep a healthy functioning mind. I can tell my memory is slowly evaporating with age.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Curious what your profession is and how it is impacted by your memory issues.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm turning 54 this year and yeah, everything is harder and takes more time.

This is why, without effort, your mind and body start getting older much quicker than you want them to.

You have to keep your mind and body occupied with tasks, other than the daily routine.

15 minutes of daily workout do miracles. A body without motion starts degrading at a steady pace. Also, "it's never too late" doesn't apply here. There will be a time, when it's just too late and your body can't hold up to any exercise and start building on it.

I'm not talking about lifting or building muscle. It's about keeping the body in motion, daily.

I'm the laziest person and started doing my band exercises at 49 years and my only regret is not having started much much younger.

From 30 on my life consisted of developing websites, mostly work at home and after separating from my ex wife, unhinged on the bad eating habits...

During the pandemic, idk why, i got the urge to buy some bands and start stretching those bands until i could get to the next resistance level.

Orange = easiest / Black = hardest

You get red, green and blue in between.

This is all i needed as a motivator for my lonesome exercises lol.

Seriously, find your thing and move that body

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I was a taxi driver for 8 years. We had a regular, an old lady who worked 2 days a week in a kitchen. She did not want to drive the car herself, because she herself said that she was too old for that and wouldn’t want to risk anyone’s life just because she felt the need to drive (side note: it’s cheaper for most elderly folks to go by taxi when there’s one near them than by their own car)

Anyway, that woman was mentally and physically not much different from someone in her late 50s. A friend who’s still there told me she’s still the same. She’ll be 88 in a couple of months.

I also had countless elderly people who just jumped into the VW-Van. Most impressive one was a 103 year old French lady, about 5 ft (150cm) tall.

And then there’s 50/60 year olds who need walkers, oxygen, crutches, more meds than a battery hen and such.

I get the feeling that with sloth comes sickness,

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

You should absolutely be trying to gain muscle, though. Definitely not body building levels, but as much as you can painlessly put on.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My late 20s I started falling into less than stellar habits. Alcoholism, overeating, not exercising. Few years of that my body weight was a full third higher, I was getting winded going up one flight of stairs, my knees hurt always. It was enough for me to see the writing on the wall so I've changed habits hard. Quit drinking, started tracking calories, biking most days, rock climbing 1-2x a week, it took a year but I got back to a healthy weight. There's still some damage done, my knees suffered some long term damage, it's easier for me to be in pain so I need to be mindful, but I no longer feel like I'll be a broken lump of meat by 40

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Remove as much refined sugar from your diet ... remove it all if you can. Also remove or reduce refined carbs ... like bread, especially plain white bread products.

I have arthritic problems because it runs in my family ... my mom had crippling arthritis starting at about age 45 / 50 (which is where I am) and she was completely unaware of her diet. She just didn't know although she didn't become severely overweight, her diet was filled with sugars, sugar products and she only ate plain white bread. She could hardly walk in her 50s, wheelchair bound in her 60s, lingered in pain in her 70s and basically lived in pain because every joint and at the end every organ was affected with arthritis. I really, really, really, really don't want that to happen to me. I accept death ... but I really don't accept surviving in pain for decades.

All that white stuff is inflammatory ... arthritis is an inflammatory disease. So you want to reduce or remove the things that cause inflammation.

I control my sugars now ... side benefit is that it protects against diabetes anyway.

When it comes to bread ... stay away from any plain white stuff ... it has to do with Glycemic Index but I forget all the science and explanation of it (all I know is that we have to keep it low) ... an easy way to do it is to do a calculation with the bread you select ->

look at the Carbs and divide it by Fiber listed
if the value is 6 or less, then it is good for you
if its 6 or more, don't eat it
plain white bread is usually about 30 or more!

Consuming refined sugars and carbs is basically like eating sand paper .... everything it touches inside your body just inflames everything ... its also the cause of heart disease ... the excess sugar acts like sand paper in your arteries and slowly just inflames everything, causing scarring and build up and give it 20 years, it will lead to heart problems.

So I've reduced sugars and carbs in my diet and my arthritis is not as bad as it could be .... I have several siblings, they all have terrible diets and they are suffering with early onset arthritic problems, faster than me.

BTW ... good for you for making the change ... your 50 year old self will kiss you a thousand times for doing that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I haven't cut sugar and white bread out entirely, but in general sugar makes me sick to my stomach so I avoid it especially in concentrated form like soda or candy. For bread I've been learning to bake though too! And because sugar makes me feel so sick if I'm baking things like bread I usually leave out the sugar entirely and if it is something like cookies or muffins I'll cut it down by 1/3-1/2 (depends on the recipe, some things lose structure if you cut too much sugar). I've also been playing around with more whole wheat and bran. I've got a killer whole wheat, bran, reduced sugar blueberry muffin I've been making lately. I do have a weakness for a mug of hot chocolate with some whipped cream at night but even then I'm making my own whipped cream with very little and sometimes no sugar

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Greatest lesson I learned about taking care of your health from a health care professional at a conference one year

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're trying ... anything is better than nothing

Keep it going and it's good you're doing things now in your 20s, I wish I had, but I'm catching up and doing my best. Stay safe, stay well and I'm happy for you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My dad just asked me what a AAA battery was. The memory thing is real, he's not even THAT old yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Any chance he might be used to a different name? Like [L]R03 (L for alkaline ones).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shit I'm 37 and I have new aches and pains randomly too. I grunt when I get up or sit down. I sit down to put my socks on now. Shit sucks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'm 40 and my partner just reaches out his hand whenever he needs help getting up from the group. I'm the shorter one, so I'm the designated "bottom shelf grabber". He's the one approached at the grocery store by other short people who need help grabbing things from the top shelf.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah all that can be avoided if you just don't be sedentary

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nope, age comes for everyone eventually. Ypu can stave off some things by being active but memory loss and senior moments come for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

This is what I tell every young person I talk to about this subject .... life is a lottery and some of us win, some us lose and some of us just get by

I have had old elderly friends who treated their bodies like complete crap smoking drinking and drugs .... and lived to be 75 ... a miserable 75 but 75 non the less

I have also had old friends who did their best to take care of their bodies and die at 50-55 because of unexpected cancers or heart problems

But it still means you should take care of yourself ... if you are one of the lucky ones to live to be 80, you wan to make sure that you took care of yourself earlier on .. otherwise you will be a miserable 70 year old who lingered for ten years before going. I have a neighbour like that, he's 80 now but his entire 70s was cancer that came and went, vision problems, intestinal problems, arthritis and bad hearing, he's been on death's door about three times since I've known him and all he's ever been over the past ten years is in pain. He's still kicking and keeps telling me ... never give up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah death is inevitable as is wear and tear, but a sedentary lifestyle absolutely accelerates it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usually, but not always. But an active lifestyle certainly increases your chances of a pleasant life later on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ayup. Rheumatoid arthritis since 16, adult onset MD since my 20's, I'm actually holding up better than most about 10 years either side of my age just because i keep mobile. The real eye opener was when i found out out of my entire family i'm the only one who can not only touch their toes, but put their palms flat on the floor when standing. I get my late-60's inlaws not doing it, but my SIL hadn't cracked 40 (i'm 47). None of us are what would classically be considered fat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real eye opener was when i found out out of my entire family i’m the only one who can not only touch their toes, but put their palms flat on the floor when standing.

I've never been able to do that, even after months of trying to do just that. And I'm very much not fat, just tall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

palms is a very much hammy flex thing, but you should generally be able to touch your toes. Barring obvs things like a wildly out of whack leg to arm ratio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Hmm, maybe I'm actually a monkey...

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Being old is the same as being young, except you're old now.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And your body has about 50 things wrong with it you need to maintain somehow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's funny, when I was young if I went to the doctor and said my knee or my lower back hurt, they'd take X-rays and try to figure out what's going on. Now he just says, "Yeah, that's going to happen..."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

im74andthisisdeep

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who are you, that are so wise...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Someone who is older than they were last year.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

Don't wait until tomorrow, stop giving a fuck today!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wouldn't that require entering payment details?

So either the doctor's lounge has set up payment for their lounge (why?) or this dude drew out his wallet and paid for it himself?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not on my system. Unless you setup a pin, you can just click rent or buy and it goes on your next bill.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Cable TV on a waiting room TV ~~would~~ should 100% be pin protected.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you mean should.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Never underestimate the laziness of whoever has to set that up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Next what bill? TV bill? Internet bill? Phone bill?

We fund our TV with taxes here in the Nordics, although I haven't watched any for like 15-20 years almost. (I dp consume a ton of BBC content though, and would happily have my media tax go toward that instead, like a tv-licence essentially.) It would just come out of the wall and I don't think it required even a phone connection on the property, though I don't remember ever being in a house which didn't have a phone connection (even one that was there physically but no bills paid and so not on) so I may be mistaken.

I think if you wanted extra channels, you'd purchase them from the company selling them and they'd unlock them at your address. Otherwise it was just like a jumble or negatives. Used to watch cartoon network on cable as a negative sometimes. We don't have pay-per-view channels, so I guess just that sort of infrastructure is missing from the TV's and remotes and the US has had it for a long time. I remember references to pay-per-view since the 90's but never thought how it's paid for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The meme used the term "on demand" so I would presume cable bill, probably specifically Comcast/Xfinity.

"On Demand" is what they call being able to stream a movie or show without it having to air "live" on a normal broadcast. If you buy/rent something on Xfinity, it just gets added to your bill with no security unless you've gone out of your way to set parental locks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me, tv,internet,phone, cellphone are all the same bill. There is broadcast tv near where I live, but it’s very limited and is duplicated by the cable company who does internet etc so it’s not used by many since it’s generally part of the bundle you have to get for the basics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Usually it was the ISP-companies here as well.. Or phone companies also worked with those TV-channel companies, so you might get some through them.

But even now, when I have only my mobile connection and my Internet in my apartment, they're separate bills. From the same company, but separate bills.

There has been those bundles marketed here as well with all sorts of channels and nowadays cloud storage etc. But the regulations make it so that you can't force a bundle on anyone.

Much like a few years ago a law passed that makes this a more physical example: you can't "bundle" beers anymore in the sense that yes of course you still can buy 6-packs and 12-packs and 24-packs, but the largest pack can't be relatively cheaper than buying a single can, so as not to encourage "saving money" by buying more alcohol at once.

Obviously the way the law got worded means the shops can still price the 6-packs and 8-packs differently, as long as a single can is the same price as the largest pack divided by number of beers in largest pack.

Also it's forbidden to forbid customers from breaking multipacks. This concerns beverages at least.

So, many people don't know it, but usually if you're in a supermarket and buying like a sixpack of beer, you'll get it cheaper if you tear one of them out and put it separately, so they'll have to beep six X 1can, which can be several euros cheaper than buying it with the container intact and them beeping it as one product.

So it's the same with bundles on services.

But also I don't know much about them as when I lived in a house I didn't pay the bills and we never used to have PPV at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If it's an android TV then probably gets charged to the Google account with payment someone setup on the tv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That depends. If it's cable, it's your TV bill and/or internet bill if it's bundled.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Its called on demand because they just charge the person paying for the cable service. No card info needed

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yah this definitely did not happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

Nothing ever had happens.