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Do you think you can be good looking as an older person ?

35 replies

IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 21:36

Deffo lost my mojo

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MyrtleLion · 17/02/2025 22:16

IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 21:56

How did you lose the weight ? I need to shift a stone

Only eat between 11 and 7pm.
No white carbs (bread, rice, pasta, potatoes).
No alcohol.

TheGlamour · 17/02/2025 22:17

Utterly ridiculous question …

Hmm
LeaveALittleNote · 17/02/2025 22:18

I feel past my best looks-wise. I scrub up ok, but it takes more effort these days! When I was young all I needed was a bit of mascara. As a PP said, lifestyle can catch up on us later, and I definitely feel that ill health and grief show on me now.
Funnily enough I get the most compliments when I’m wearing cream blush. I obviously really need blusher these days!

tomatoot · 17/02/2025 22:23

IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 22:08

How did you know how many calories you should need ?
I accidentally ate 400 calories of marshmallows today without thinking

I do need a shake up

I used a TDEE calculator, Google it and have a read, quite useful especially if you are active and don’t want to cut calories too much!

IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 22:25

Sorry if that came out in a way I didn’t intend
it’s really more about myself and me losing my mojo, and starting to think things like well isn’t even worth it etc
you know, making the effort as it is effort all this stuff like moisturising, dying brows keeping fit etc
well it for me anyway

I should have worded it better 💐

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IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 22:26

tomatoot · 17/02/2025 22:23

I used a TDEE calculator, Google it and have a read, quite useful especially if you are active and don’t want to cut calories too much!

Thanks I’m going to do this, I thinking I might start after half term

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BuddhaAtSea · 17/02/2025 22:27

I think it’s more the mind than the body at play here.
I’m only now rediscovering the fun in clothes and accessories, it died a death with Covid.
I caught a glimpse of myself last year and I was horrified. I put on nearly 20kg in the past 2 years.
I bought stuff that fitted me, not lots, but good quality, and it still looked a bit meh. Lost as to what suits me.
Mentally I took a battering due to Covid and other stuff. I lost my mojo. So I’ve spent a bit of time lately looking at my life, what makes me happy, what I enjoy, who am I.
I’m spending this whole year on self improvement. And this encompasses everything: work, hobby, health, relationship, home etc. I’m taking a giant magnifying mirror to my life and I’m trying to bring the fun back into it.
I’m in my 50s btw.

IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 22:28

I think, I also need to rewatch the substance and give myself a slap

even the way I dress now isn’t as good as it was and yes I’m a stone heavier than I want to be
but I can still get a couple of nice outfits
my house is very cold over the winter and that doesn't help as you end up in just thick warm stuff for a good 4 months !

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IsThisOkorWhat · 17/02/2025 22:33

BuddhaAtSea · 17/02/2025 22:27

I think it’s more the mind than the body at play here.
I’m only now rediscovering the fun in clothes and accessories, it died a death with Covid.
I caught a glimpse of myself last year and I was horrified. I put on nearly 20kg in the past 2 years.
I bought stuff that fitted me, not lots, but good quality, and it still looked a bit meh. Lost as to what suits me.
Mentally I took a battering due to Covid and other stuff. I lost my mojo. So I’ve spent a bit of time lately looking at my life, what makes me happy, what I enjoy, who am I.
I’m spending this whole year on self improvement. And this encompasses everything: work, hobby, health, relationship, home etc. I’m taking a giant magnifying mirror to my life and I’m trying to bring the fun back into it.
I’m in my 50s btw.

“I think it’s more the mind than the body at play here“ 100 percent accurate
I need to follow your lead
his is exactly what I’m doing to a bloody t !

I go to bed too late and there so much I can do to improve

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TheGlamour · 17/02/2025 22:46

Counting calories is a pointless way to live.

Cut out rubbish food and cheap alcohol. Subscribe to a weekly veg box.
Find an intermittent fasting schedule that works for your life and go at it for three months.
You’ll soon feel and see a difference.

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