Can you lie on a sunbed?

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When I was younger, I could lie on a sunbed for hours-big stack of magazines/books, music, a cocktail…heaven!
Now, not so much. I can’t sit still for long enough, can’t really concentrate on my book for long, even in the shade-def can’t lie directly in the sun
I just find it quite boring now-also can’t drink anymore as feel crap afterwards
Is it age-late 40’s, peri, having kids, what?

All the things I once loved doing, I can’t

YUBU to expect your late 40s body to deal with alcohol as efficiently as it could when you were younger. Ditto lying in the full sun.

It's nothing to do with having children, peri menopause etc. it's because as both sexes age their body's don't break down alcohol as well and can't cope with heat as well either.

Love the sun and will happily read in garden on sun lounger and same on holiday

I will read on a subbed, drink a cocktail but prefer active holidays. Ill have one week of doing nothing for a holiday but the other holidays I like to be doing stuff

Depends on the location tbh!

In a villa with friends drinking a mojito with my boobs out, or in my own garden - 100%! It can be heavenly. Sometimes I take a long lunch and sunbath for an hour.

On a beach? Never! I’d much rather be floating around in the sea.

I can’t imagine anything worse than a holiday where you’re lined up like sardines round a pool, listening to other people’s noises all day.

Oh yes, but only under an umbrella these days. And as close to sea / pool as possible. Aperol at 11. Swim, lunch, snooze, swim, read book.

I love laying in the sun with some good Podcasts and a pool. I'm currently on vacay in Palm springs, it's nearly 40° glorious!!. Almost time for a cool dip and a breakfast mimosa.

Can’t lie on the sun beds anymore either OP 🥵.
Love the sun but have to be moving .
As for alcohol , I do like to have some drinks but that’s it a few ! , otherwise I’m bedroom bound the next day .
I’m 50 , def age thing & I hit peri at 47 .

I usually go on holiday for two weeks AI, and factor in sunlounger / pool / beach days for 5 days of the holiday, one on the first full day to get over jet lag, and one on the last full day to prepare for travel home, the other sunlounger days are for after a hectic excursion day… the ones where you get a coach at 5am and get back in the evening. Most of the holiday though is visiting places of geological/ historical/ cultural/ nature annd wildlife interests and possibly a water based theme park.

I remember on a holiday to Sri Lanka that it was trips every day, so just the chance for power tanning on the first and last day… as we had a three day excursion to Kandy, and travelled to the North and South of the Island, took boat trips, fed baby elephants etc… and had the most amazing experience, the other family travelling on the same flights as us on the coach to the airport home hadn’t left the hotel once… and had only been to the hotel beach for a few hours because it wasn’t closed to ‘locals’

I genuinely couldn’t understand why they bothered with the long flight when they could have had the same holiday experience much closer to the UK?

Totally agree, hate lying on a sun bed frazzling in the sun, also find it very boring. Gave up alcohol in my early 40's as couldn't face the hangovers any more. Used to read a lot as a child, but can't concentrate long enough to read a book any more.

I can definitely lay on a sunbed by the sea all day. Not the by the pool though.

Yes been doing so for past few days.

a bit of reading, a bit of MN-ing, the occasional cocktail. Absolutely bliss!

edited to add: always in the shade though and never without sunnies, hat and a kaftan.

I’m 57 and can lay on a lounger in the shade. My health club has an outdoor pool and three times I week do a couple of hours at a time with a swim or jacuzzi to break it up.
On holiday I can do half a day with a few swims, going to the bar, mooching around etc. Or a whole day if I add in some water-sports, going in the sea with my float, aqua aerobics etc.
Last year in Egypt I spent every other day on the beach on my own for 12 hours with mooching, meals, swimming etc to break it up, it was so good.
A good book helps and I’ve never enjoyed alcohol in the day, in fact I hate it.

I'm the opposite. Could never lie on a sun bed when I was younger. But I'm now post menopausal and can happily lie and listen to an audiobook, occasionally cooling off in the sea/pool!

I would love to be able to sit on a lounger. Just as I get to a good bit of my book someone decides they desperately need me 🤷‍♀️😫

I could spend hours but has to be a fancy one with super thick mattress bed, own side table, full shade and service. I can't do those crappy thin stretched material beds or plastic ones anymore.

Didn't used to, but when youngest DD hit her teens, abd started wanting a tan, both DH and I started to enjoy an hour or two, on a sunbed, by the pool. But, we must have a parasol and spend the time shuffling the bed round to keep hot, but in the shade. DH has his earbuds in listening to music, podcasts and audio books. Problem with audio books, is if you nod off, its a bugger finding your place. At least a kindle stays where you were when you fall asleep! Not too keen at a full day, but love the last few hours, from about 4.00pm till 7.00.

I was not a sunbed person when I was young and we still very much get out and do on holiday, but oh how I treasure those few days by the pool now DS is a good swimmer and doesn't need someone in the water with him all of the time. I read two whole books during February half term! Bliss. I am early 40s for comparison

Have never tried it but I can't do heat, don't tan and can't drink much if anything , any more..

This is a great opportunity to try something different for a holiday. Does it matter why? We change as we age...

I've never been a lie-on-a-sunbed person - towel on a beach, yes! I don't like hotel swimming pools (or swimming pools in general) or "resort holidays" either.

Mind you, we've spent almost 13 years living 10 minutes from the beach and I haven't been in above my ankles. I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

I've given up sitting around a pool or on a beach on a sunbed. That was for when I was younger. I am older, very cranky at the least squeal or loud talk, splashing etc., and if there's music playing I want to kill someone. So it's safer all round now for everyone that I've ditched the sunbed life. 😊

I much prefer a comfortable soft chair or lounge bed/sunbed on a terrace/big balcony off my room. Now that's heaven, drinks a few steps away together with the loo. And when I get too warm, go inside, close the door and whack on the aircon. I think I've it all figured out now!

Apparently doom-scrolling means even those who used to be decent readers can't any more.
Well, I read that, when doom scrolling.

No...or at least, not unless I've been active first and tired myself out, then I might do an hour.
When people are lounging and relaxing I get bored quickly and then agitated. I have to find somewhere to go or something to do. I find 'switching off' quite difficult.

Going to be 30 in blondesland this week so garden brolly book and suncream

In the shade with a book and dh making sure my cocktail is never empty? I manage... just 😂