To ask when you started to feel ‘old’?

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I didn’t feel old until the birthday just gone but suddenly it’s hit me like a ton of bricks that I’m old now and getting older fast!
I don’t know if it’s like a mid life crisis but time suddenly seems to have sped up and be running out. I no longer feel like there are a lot of opportunities for me and this time is now just ‘waiting time.’
It’s very depressing!

Fasting is very beneficial as it sets off a process called autophagy (Nobel Prize discovery!). Essentially the body clears out any old or abnormal cells etc and rejuvenates itself during fasting.

Fasting also has been proven to cure diabetes type 2 and effectively deal with metabolic disorder in general (high BP, high blood sugar, GERD, hyperinsulinemia, stroke risk).

I sometimes do it and I can vouch it makes me feel great after, like 5 years younger. Need to do it more regularly.

The medics do not talk about type 2 diabetes being cured. These people still have diabetes, but it goes into remission. It does not go into remission for everyone. Some it goes into remission, some it reduces the amount of medication they need,

I'm 50 soon and I'm honestly panicking about it. Which is silly, I know, but it's how I feel. In my mind, I'm still a young girl - a delusion quickly scuppered any time I look in the mirror - but at 50, there's no point pretending. I'm always told I look younger than my age, but now, even if I look 10 years younger, I'll still look like a woman in her 40s!

Health wise, I'm still OK. I used to be one of those annoying people who could effortlessly be a size 8, but while I'm still reasonably slim 'for my age', I'm definitely chunkier than I used to be. I was never very fit and nor am I now. Still having periods though they've become very unpredictable, but no other peri-menopause symptoms thus far.

I read somewhere that '40 is the end of youth, and 50 is the start of old age'. That does not make me feel good!

After menopause. Suddenly started to notice sagging skin, nasolabial lines and getting achey after doing anything slightly strenuous.

I still feel like a 25 yr old in a 55yr old body. I don’t feel old enough to have run a business for over 30 yrs and having recently sold it I don’t feel old enough to be in semi retirement. It’s been an exhausting year but after a few months working very part time I have now recharged my batteries and have more energy than I have had for the last 10 yrs.
However, I realised that a couple of years ago my DS14 ( had him late ) classified me as old. He was describing one of his teachers as old, when I met him at parents evening he was younger than me!
Children are great.
On the plus side, while enjoying a meal with my sister and my two teenage nieces they both said that they hoped they had inherited our genes and looked as good as us at our age. Apparently we are in much better condition than their friends mums who are much younger.

I turned 40 yesterday and i started feeling old(er) about 6 months ago. I started feeling ridiculously tired and run down, suffered from my first chest infection which took 3 lots of antibiotics to shift and an infected sebaceous cyst which has taken months (and several more courses of antibiotics) to finally start healing!
I have a 7 & 2 year old, neither of whom sleep well.
I've started finding the odd grey hair and my crows feet are getting more prominent.
I've also put on a bit of weight which is making me feel down so I really need to rectify that.
I was looking through a clothing catalogue and realised that there were a few styles of clothing that I like but probably wouldn't feeling comfortable wearing any more.

I'm hoping that I might start feeling less exhausted, as DD gets a bit older, in the not too distant future and that I might begin to feel like myself again.

Sorry, that turned in to a bit of an essay!!

First felt old at about 14 years old, watching Top of the Pops with the 5 year old next door and 'record' was on (about 1969)and a little voice said. 'Who's Elvis Presley - he's old'

After my second child at 35. With my first I didn’t really gain weight and he slept through the night rather quickly. This time round I’ve got a badly sleeping 10 month old and feel tired, fat and saggy! I’m hoping that once I ditch the baby weight and get a bit more sleep I’ll feel better. I’m hoping to do some part time studying next year and to get back to the gym, both of which will hopefully make me feel more youthful.

I'm 38 and there are days that I feel older than usual but overall, I don't feel old quite yet.

Every year when I watch Love Island and realise I'm old enough to be a mother to most of them.Im 39

I'm 46. The number doesn't bother me, and the fact that I'm the oldest mum in my DC's Y1 class and the oldest student on my university course doesn't bother me either. But, oh my goodness, the physical decline that's being going on in the last few years...rapidly deteriorating eyesight, constant tiredness, weight gain (mainly around the middle that is impossible to shift) and now my poor knees just suddenly becoming really painful in the last few weeks...I fear it's all downhill physically from here on in...and that makes me feel old.

I'm 34 so still pretty young really but I feel old.
Ive always been a serious, sensible person right from childhood and I feel like this has aged me. I can't be silly or mess around.
Ive also got lots of aches and pains which are due to being overweight, but make me feel old too.
I have lots and lots of grey hairs, don't have a clue about the new make up techniques or fashion, and i am now tea total. I'm a complete bore!!

Also, my friends range from 30 to 45 and I don't particularly notice it in person, but when I see photos of them on social media that are unfiltered because we are too old to care for that sort of thing, i notice that they are all looking older, wrinkles etc. It makes me sad as I still think of them how they were when we were at school

Now, late 30's. I take life more seriously than I used to, started to worry about the lack of pension, realising the last 20 years went by in a blink and worried I'll blink again and be almost 60. Somewhere along the line I also stopped looking at fashion trends, shopping in top shop and wearing current make-up styles. I'm not even sure when or how it happened. I even have a dress from Marks and Spencer.

I need to re-assess and realise that I'm still young enough to enjoy youthful things.

When teachers at parent’s evening looked like kids.

When you go to a hospital appointment and internally question whether the Dr seeing you is really old enough to be doing the job.

I felt like I was starting to get old in my mid-thirties, but it turned out it wasn't aging that was the problem, it was being unhappy!

I separated from my husband, lost 3 stone, changed my career, started taking care of myself as well as my kids, and met a wonderful new man - suddenly, aged 38 I feel super-young with a whole new life ahead of me. It's always worth asking yourself if you actually feel 'old' or if it's 'unhappiness'.

I am 61, and I don't feel old yet. In my early 40s I started to feel middle aged but soon shook that off.

Never felt old - work full time, look pretty good when i make the effort, and earn good money, two kids in their twenties. But last year when we were 58, my husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer (all clear now) and I suddenly felt that chill of mortality. Doesn't help that I'll be 60 next year. I still feel 35 inside. How did that happen?

Alsohuman

Just done the test and it is indeed rubbish.

I am overweight and I smoked for 40 years which is, I assume, heavily weighted in the assessment

So the test isn’t rubbish at all then

45, don’t feel old at all, DH same age as me and we both feel mid twenties. I look after myself, eat well, yoga every day and train 5 times a week, laugh a lot and don’t have the money and work worries of my younger years (although I work full time still). Long walks with my DH and dogs keep me young too. Mid life is great

I feel 25, until I actually socialise with 25 year olds.
I did feel old when the menopause hit.

I don't feel old yet! I'm 43.

@BossAssBitch, did you read the rest of my post before you cherry picked that bit? The part that says I have no chronic conditions, joint pain and take no meds - unlike all my contemporaries.

Took the test. I am 54, but came out 45!

Chuffed. I changed my bad ways a few years ago and it has paid off.

How interesting that this thread is full of people in their 30s saying they feel old, and people in their 60s saying they don't!

It is because when you do get old there is a lot of social pressure to say you still feel very young.