Retirement and reverse aging?

[Questor]

I've got a few friends who retired at almost the same time. After about a year of being retired they all look 10 years younger now. Have you observed the same thing in retirees you know?

[Cement Man]

I think in general that older people are looking younger.  I'm 63 this month - don't know about myself, but most people in their 60's and 70's look younger to me than what I remember I thought 60+ year olds looked like when I was a kid.  I've seen a few folks look better after retirement - I don't think I do.  I sure have more aches and pains.

[kitchawan kid]

Gained 30 lbs. since retirement,but now I can sleep passed 4:00 am.Sitting at a bench at the range,is that exercise?

[Glanceblamm]

I've got a few friends who retired at almost the same time. After about a year of being retired they all look 10 years younger now. Have you observed the same thing in retirees you know?

I find this to be very true. Some, even after five years, look much younger. Perhaps it is just the low stress of simple easy living. The thing to remember is do not forget how to play & the thing not to do is to just sit in a chair.

[Sourdough]

I'm so busy after retirement I wonder how I ever had time to work.

I have to admit I had a job where there was no stress the last 10 years I worked.  I really loved that job and miss it.  But life goes on.

Now if I could just quite eating things that are bad for me.  I'm an addict.  I'm addicted to chocolate, cakes, candy, cookies, Ice cream, any thing containing chocolate.

When I am out in the woods and no chocolate is around I am good, but when I come home I slip back into old habits. 

The one thing I have noticed since I retired, my beard has turned totally gray.  That's why I too (like Bill) am known as The Graybeard.  Was looking at pictures from work last week.  They were made just before I retired.  I was surprised at how dark my beard was then.

The main difference is my back.  When I was working I was really hurting from the lifting I sometimes had to do, and the strained positions I often worked in.  Now very little back pain and little muscle pain.  I work out three days a week and eat better so I feel I am in much better shape than I was when working.  Still kept busy keeping the vehicles running, yard clean and mowed, snow plowed during the winter, and going out shooting and hunting.

[Graybeard]

If you have something to do to keep you occupied after retirement you'll do well but if one of those who have no life outside of work most of those die within a year or two of retirement. Come September 28 this year I'll have been retired for 14 years.

I can't say that I look younger than when I retired but I look younger than a lot of folks I see who are in fact younger than me. My body is racked with pain from arthritis and I am limited in what I can do but I manage to keep busy and really have more things to do than time or money to do them.

[Questor]

The retirees that I know and consider my friends are all so busy in retirement. They all tell me that the first year is just catching up on everything they've been wanting to do around the house, then they get so busy with other things that consume their lives with joy.

[james]

My wife says I was born to be retired.  I must admit, I think it agrees with me.  The hardest job I have now is to keep my wife from quitting.

[Oldtimer]

I noticed that some years before I retired, a retiree would drop by and it looked like they were going backward in time.  I have found what I would do without pay and feel no pressure if there are time constraints on me.  I am getting ready to do a series of radio and TV interviews for Habitat for Humanity in our area, and it is going to be a lot more fun than when I was paid to do it.

[Questor]

Oldtimer:

Maybe you need to change your handle. Oldtimer just doesn't seen appropriate for somebody enjoying life like that.

[Dee]

I've got a few friends who retired at almost the same time. After about a year of being retired they all look 10 years younger now. Have you observed the same thing in retirees you know?

When I was a kid, someone 30 looked old. I think it's just perspective.

[Questor]

Dee:

I can understand that perspective, but this is different. I remember these men on the day they quit work, and they all look younger now. They act younger too. It's all within a period of a year.

[Dee]

Perhaps they have their own CACOON!  

[slim rem 7]

i hope in retirement i can walk myself into condition again.. then just do anything i dang well please ..long as it don t cost much money..thats the plan anyway.. slim