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F/U to yesterday's QOTD: Clean Living
I did respond to yesterday's morning post, but the nest ate it and I did have time to retype it. I grew into my looks, I was cute as a baby and little girl, but pre and early teenage years, I was awkward. DH has looked at pictures and admits this to me too!! I (and DH) think I have grown into my looks and, IMO, I look pretty good.
So here's my question, regardless of your answer yesterday, how well do you think you are ageing?
I recently was home and saw some people for HS I haven't seen in a while. A few of them were much better looking than me, but the past 15 to 10 years they have been 'living hard' with lots of drinking, cigs, and lack of sleep and I think they have aged poorly. I actually think I, and DH, are ageing better than some of our peers because we try to engage in clean living.
Thoughts? And do you think being an IN as improved or hurt your lifestyle choices regarding this?
Re: F/U to yesterday's QOTD: Clean Living
I think I look really young for my age. A few weeks ago, somebody thought that I was like younger than 18. On the one hand, it is cool because I am in my late 20's so now I am starting to worry about ageing but on the other hand, it would be nice to look like an adult. BTW sunscreen is your friend. I notice a huge difference between me and a lot of the girls here. Sure, I am pale all the time but they age so fast because they are always out in the sun.
I think that biggest difference between me and my classmates in the US is the weight issue. If I lived back home, I would probably be overweight. I have managed to more or less weigh what I did back in highschool but a lot of classmates have put on a LOT of weight. I think it comes down to not having a car and following a clean diet. I mean, here fruit and veggies are cheap.
We try to eat as cleanly as possible, but that's where it ends. Both H and I, through our thirties, engaged in what you would call "living hard". We're sailors after all ;-)
I've aged a lot better than my friends but I think that has more to do with staying active and having fun. I haven't been married for 20+ yrs, haven't had three kids, etc.
I might be wrong but I think I'm doing well. People often think I'm 2-4 years younger than my 33 years.
I don't know, I am a smoker and love the sun but I always wear sunscreen and carrying a few too many kilos has kept my face quite plump so I don't have any visible lines just yet. I might gain a few years when I finally get rid of the extra weight?
H and I are often surprised to find out celebrities are our age or younger when (in our minds) we definitely don't look as "grown up" as they do - but we might be completely delusional on that one...
I think I am ageing pretty well. I look a few years younger than my age, but not significantly. I get surprised looks sometimes when I tell people my age or that I am married with a kid on the way. I think it has a lot to do with my height, but my mom, aunts and grandmother all looked pretty young for their age as well.
I am, and always have been, a huge believer in SPF. I grew up on the water and my mama always touted the benefits of SPF. I really need to get back into regular exercise and I don't eat poorly (well only during the holidays when I can't help indulging in the family's famous Southern fried everything).
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I would tend to agree with this. It's what my parents taught me and, though I have no answer to this question yet as I'm too young to tell how I'm aging, I hope that I'll keep this in mind in the future.
I had always had surprised looks when I told people my age before I had a baby. I always thought it was because I didn't have much responsiblity. No kids and at the height of the compliments, no husband, no morgage, no car payments and a job that I loved. I didn't party much, but I always thought it was due to responsibility.
I definitely noticed a difference when I was at a friend's wedding last September. I was a big drinker and smoker and a few other worse things when I was a teenager and it appears that a lot of my friends from that time carried on with that lifestyle. DH and I are so much more active now and we eat all fresh food and I think you can totally tell.
They were all of the 'plaster on makeup and fake nails until we fall over' variety as well which just looks funny to me after so many years off Long Island so that didn't help either!
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I would say that being an IN has hurt our lifestyle choices. Maybe I'm the odd one out, but back home we had better access to a variety of activities and I had better access to ingredients for cooking. In the U.S. we could go out specifically for salad, wasn't the case in Italy. There we got fabulous pasta and pizza but in ginormous portions. Here in Bahrain there is a better variety of produce and ethnic ingredients available year-round but a surprising lack of availability of certain basics, like quality lettuce. They love, love, love their rice and bread here, are fine with veggies in oil-laden curries, but salad not so much. Wonderful food variety here so when we go out there are healthy options and we can find good veggie sources.
Of course when we go back home next year we'll face different challenges since we'll have two kids. Have to figure out what life there looks like. DH is committed to us being physically active, I'm committed to us being nutritionally healthy. Good compliments for each other and for our journey as a family. Difficult, requires sacrifice, lots of effort, but they are things we believe to be important.
We both don't want to end up like some of our relatives/friends. Some are doing great - excersice, fit, eat healthy. Some are in such bad shape and/or dealing with medical issues that are their own cause. We're especially aware of the ones whose lack of healthy living is having a negative impact on their spouse and kids. Not what we want in life.