Hope the cidre is going down well, MI 
I have now been doing my hardcore circuit training twice a week for nearly 2 years. I have found it useful in lots of ways and it has done me quite a bit of good, I think. I am also out with the dog every day and have my own little programme of situps and other core exercises that I have been doing 3 times a week for the last 15 years. The downside of circuits is where my arms used to be middle-aged, pudgy ham arms, they are now slightly more sculpted but are sadly also baggy and wrinkly. I also have baggy tummy skin, where I used to have a little big of podge. Also, the exercise gives me broken veins. Ergo, I believe doing the exercise has actually caused me to look older in some ways.
I am, however, generally a lot fitter and certain aches and pains - which must have been partly due to weedy muscles - have disappeared. I have to keep telling myself that I am doing the exercise for those reasons and not to change the way I look. No matter what I do, what I look like now is as good as it gets. That's it. Without the help of £30,000 worth of plastic surgery, it's only going to get worse because that's how life goes, so I might has well concentrate on trying to stay healthy and doing things that make me feel good. I have had phases in my life where I got so overwhelmed by body dysmorphic isshoos that I convinced myself I was too fat and hideous to leave the house. I know the sort of thinking that takes me down that road and I try to avoid it. Don't always succeed, but I know I have to keep trying.