To ask how much your age affects your life?

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I'm 47 and work full time. Out of the house 6:30-6:30, a bit of work in the evenings/weekends.

Two teenagers, a husband who works part time and takes care of most of the cooking/house stuff.

I'm shattered, and I look it!

Is it just an age thing, or should I be worried?

Exercise helps increase energy levels

It gets easier when you have the time and energy to exercise , get outside and eat well

You are about to turn the corner where happiness starts to increase

Also think about menopause and if it's affecting you now - HRT can help there

I’m in a similar boat atm.. kids late teens. DH works from v early morning until late afternoon. I work from 11:30-12:00am. That’s going to have to change as I have a serious heart condition that is worsening rapidly. I’m 52 this year and will possibly be on the heart transplant list by the end of the year.

My age affects me massively. I’m 45 and have just started HRT. I’m hoping it will help by increasing my energy levels and reducing my brain fog, restless legs and itchiness.

Exercise is a struggle. By the time I've had tea and ferried kids to various activities, there's maybe an hour to unwind. Exercise feels like a chore and I end up resenting it. I am busy and active - weekends involve plenty of dog walking - I definitely don't have a sedentary lifestyle.

I'm just turned 48 with two teens and full time job. For me it is definitely about making time to exercise. Just half an hour of Heather Robertson in Youtube while watching TV is my minimum. I really think that kids need to learn that you get to do activities just like they do, yes they might have to wait a bit longer for tea or whatever. I also once a week leave them with stuff to make wraps and go to the gym, and go to the gym on the weekend. Also HRT really really helps. I feel like late 40s is a crunch time with health, you have to start putting yourself first to get to a really good state of health and you can't completely put everyone else's needs before your own as you do with young kids, otherwise you are constantly exhausted. You're definitely not alone and as others have said 47 is statistically the turning point where life starts to get better.

just to add it's the active cardio and really strengthening core and overall strength which really feels like it's doing me good, in addition to a generally active lifestyle..

It's age. It's why I always grimace when someone writes 'is 42 too old to have a baby' and I'm thinking, the baby is fine, it's having a teenager when you're late 50s which should be the question.

I'm 48. Most days I feel amazing, some days I feel exhausted. I work full-time 830 to 330 every day and have 2 teenagers. I think it helps that I have an active lifestyle and am really careful about what I eat. I've been offered more hours at work but I'm resisting this unless I have to. I think I have a good work/life balance.

I have been thinking about this recently. I am in my early sixties. My husband is a year older than me, and his physical and mental health has deteriorated to the extent that he is in a care home. His case is unusual, but he seems to have 'aged' twenty years, in little over a year. Therefore, the ageing process does not necessarily correspond to our chronological age.

I still work full time, and I am a carer for the youngest of our vulnerable adult sons. I exercise daily (swimming, cycling, walking) and try to eat healthily. I can cope with stress better than I did when I was younger, possibly because I have more life experience, and probably because my priorities have changed.

I can see advanced age around me. My mother, mother in law and father in law are all still alive and in their late eighties and nineties. They became very old, very quickly and the speed at which age caught up with them is sobering to me.

I think when I was in my late forties until my mid fifties, I felt very short of time and energy. This may be connected to life events or hormonal changes at that time.

To answer the question directly, I would say that my age does not affect me directly. I can still do most of the things I want to do. Exercise really does help, physically and mentally. Yet, I know there are inevitable changes connected to ageing that may impact on me, and indirectly on my family in the not too distant future.

My age doesn't affect my life at all, but my hypothyroidism affects it mildly.

I think health, weight, diet and exercise affect people more than just their age.

I turned 53 yesterday. I have a 16 year old DS with ADHD and a 24 year old DS with ADHD and Tourette’s. I‘m out of the house from 7:45 til 6:15 4 days a week and finish work at 1 on a Friday. I’m fucked!! I started HRT a couple of months ago and hope it kicks in soon!

5 years older with an extra teen and a similar set up at home.

At 47 I still felt fine but by 52 was feeling dreadful. Despite HRT I felt and looked bloody awful and pretty sure my elderly dad had more energy.

So something had to change otherwise that was game over for me feeling well.

So decided to join a CrossFit gym. Not your JD type gym but proper heavy going gym. Just over a month in and already feeling mentally better. Going to 2 x an hour session each week and making time for that to happen. My classes are 8-9pm. I leave the house at 6.45am and home 12 hours later.

Finally started to get on track to lose my extra 2 stone I've been lugging about.

And doing the 2 miles a day walk or run challenge in March.

So bottom line I did look and feel terrible but it is in my hands to do something proactive about it. Took a while to get myself into that mindset. Will be a new woman by June. At least that is the plan.

I'm 43 with a 6 year old DD, and about to embark on a complete career u-turn. I'm starting to have a bit less energy but in lots of ways I'm much fitter than I was in my 20s (I was particularly lazy!) despite my being a lot thinner then. I'm working on my weight currently - I've lost 2 stone and need to lose another 3.

I look at my DM, who is pretty much housebound at 60 due to a combination of social anxiety, obesity and health issues, and I REALLY do not want my older years to look the same as hers.

So I'd say at the moment my age isn't affecting me in an adverse way, but it has made me more mindful and more determined to make positive impact on my physical and mental health, and my finances, before I get "too" old.

Mid 50's, on HRT but my energy levels took a dive around your age and, unfortunately, have not recovered yet..
Excercise always made me feel high and yes - created more energy.
Not any more. It makes me feel wiped out and I have to carefully orchestrate when I should exercise.
If I have anything else to do that day, forget it.
I feel rubbish! 😢
Trying all sorts of Iron, vitamins etc and my HRT is up for review this week..

6:30-6:30 is a long day OP, I’d be shattered too and I’m early 30s. Can you work any closer to home/reduce hours at all?

Anecdotally my parents are in their 60s and full of energy. Both have busy careers & social lives. They eat healthily and exercise a lot.

I was permanently shattered in my mid 40s with teens and a FT job that I really cared about.

Now in my mid 50s, with the children adults and a job I no longer find particularly challenging, I have much more energy and find I need less sleep. I think the work thing is a combination of finally feeling confident in my abilities and also knowing that really, if I screw up, nothing terrible will happen - I'll be able to sort it and ride it out or if it's really that bad, I'll retire. That really takes the pressure off.