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In what ways did your life change after 40?

Sleep
Weight
Diet
Strength and speed and flexibility and coordination

Social
Emotional
Financially
Job

Food you stopped or started liking

sleep is better due to lack of work stress. weight is the same due to lucky genes and some discipline. diet is vastly healthier in the interest of avoiding costly medical care - as the late jack lalanne said, "if it tastes good, spit it out! chances are it isn't good for you." strength/speed/flexibility/coordination all have taken a dive, unfortunately, old age ain't for sissies. social is me continuing to be a hermit in the woods but luckily another WPers took a shine to me and now accompanies me in my hermitude emotions better now that I've been out of the race race for two decades, not having to deal with packs of brassholes. financially I am solvent so far, not counting my chickens before they hatch, being as prudent as I can figure out how to be, avoiding unnecessary expenditures as best I can which means very little in the way of luxury other than being out of the rat race. job, haven't had one since 2006. food, mostly covered above in the diet section. I take advantage of half price dominos pizza every now and then.

Last edited by auntblabby on 20 Jan 2026, 5:27 pm, edited 3 times in total.

I seem to be a faster runner than I've been since high school, although most of that likely comes down to focused training on improving my running speed.

stiff joints