Anyone else when they entered their thirties started to prioritize their health and wellness more? Like working out? Going to the gym? Eating healthy?
What age did you start to prioritize your health and fitness?
Anyone else when they entered their thirties started to prioritize their health and wellness more? Like working out? Going to the gym? Eating healthy?
What age did you start to prioritize your health and fitness?
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Ha yes, but I’m intrigued why you’re asking?
This happens to most people as they enter a new phase in life. Sometimes its associated with a birthday, sometimes its associated with going to the doctor, sometimes its associated with a life event or the passing of a loved one.
For me it was when my dad nearly died last March from a heart attack. He’s still alive but his quality of life is quite depressing. He’s brain injured, and in a long term nursing home. All the money he saved and the work he did to be successful in life his now being put towards his health care. While this is a good thing in one way, I am sad to say that he could have saved himself from this health event by not believing doctors were a part of evil pharma and actually took care of himself. He hadn’t been to a doctor in probably a decade, refused covid shots, the works. He thought he could self treat type 2 diabetes and was on a litany of extreme diets that never seemed to stick. No matter how often my mom pleaded, he wouldn’t get a simple blood test, let alone take his cholesterol meds.
It’s horrible to see him now sometimes, his neuropathy is quite painful and he’s crippled to the point where he might not ever walk again. His speech is slurred and difficult and he sometimes speaks about how he will probably be dead soon. It’s incredibly hard to see.
Obviously we can’t protect ourselves from anything and everything. Some very healthy people have ended up with aggressive, life threatening cancers or experience strokes… but I firmly believe that in some part, its up to you how long you want to live… and refusing to trust in science, studies or statistics is a very risky gamble.
Yeah, for sure. Isn’t this most people in their thirties, though? I thought it was the norm.
Yesss! Self-care really is the best way to stay healthy, focused, and motivated. I’ve set some big goals for myself this year because I want to enter my late thirties as the best version of me, mentally, physically, and emotionally. Prioritizing wellness in this decade just hits differently.
Definitely wellness. My health is in shambles with some autoimmune conditions, but I’m focusing on being well. Mentally, emotionally, and physically – and it’s carrying over to my husband, which is even more of a reason to keep it up!
I’m in my 40s now, but my 30s was when I started caring about my health. Up through my 20s I was always super active just by nature but ate really poorly and never purposely exercised. In my 30s I started to pay more attention to eating a balanced diet and building muscle, going to the doctor and following their recommendations, flossing every day, going to therapy when I needed it, etc. Now in my 40s I have just been able to maintain it and I think I’m in better health than most of my friends who just never really paid attention to their health and are now fully feeling the affects of it.
Yep. I had a realization early this year that if I felt this worn down and out of shape in my mid 30s, what was I going to be like in my 50s or 60s (and beyond!)?
I want to be able to do things when I’m older, I want to be able to help my kids when they’re adults, I want to not be exhausted by simple tasks now because in 20 years those simple tasks might leave me incapacitated!
So, I started walking and running and eating better foods. Now, I’m able to do so much more. I’m more motivated, I don’t have to sit down after a trip to the store, I can mow my own backyard, I’m not winded when I walk up a flight of stairs… it’s been so nice to see the changes in myself!