Originally Posted by
tractorlegs
So often we are after immediate weight-loss and health-gain goals, but now that I'm aging a bit (61) I'm realizing the effect that decisions made when I was in my 20s are playing into my life now, 40 years later. Fortunately for me, the decisions made in my 20s had very positive effects, as opposed to negative.
I'm not saying that many people don't need quick solutions to health/weight related issues, but when giving advice to my children - grandchildren - nieces - nephews I'm telling them to make choices now thinking about the effects these choices will have 20+ years from now.
They don't listen, I guess, as I wouldn't have when I was their age - - but it's a thought.
Sadly my dad died at 46 years old, suddenly of a heart attack, June 10th 1986 in the morning.
That has an impact, maybe a permanent one, and maybe not in a good way really....I consciously and unconsciously measured my life in a 46 year unit, and I was 222 when he died, it was half over :-(.
I'm 49 today and hope to see 50 in a few months......so I have over those years muted that "your gonna die at 46" message burned into my brain, but my Ma died at 67, and all of my grandparents died at or before that age really. BUT they all smoked, and I do not :-).
So who knows :-).
Bill