Preparedness for when

moneyistooshorttomention

Yes - I know you've been ahead of the curve on that one Kittie re fermented food:). I thought I didn't like sauerkraut until I tried the "real thing" and decided I do. At the moment I shall have to do a degree of improvisation on containers - as they aren't available in the shops yet - but I don't want to wait until its fashionable to start doing that.

That and sourdough bread (which is fashionable now - and I know the supermarket stuff isn't the "real deal") are first on the agenda once I've lost the rest of the surplus weight.

I know what you mean by face and figure matching in some respects. There is one woman I know now that is confusing me rather as to what age she is. I've adjusted perceptions slightly recently and am now back to very accurate on working that out. From the neck down I look at her decent (not overly slim) figure and I see she has reasonable posture and I put her at 40s/50s age. From the neck up I put her as in her 80s (though I think, in her case, it might be that she is the age her figure says she is but her life has aged her face iyswim). I knew another woman before that I put as being 20 years older than me when I looked at her face - but she was actually 20 years younger than me and I knew she had had a particularly hard life.

I don't comfort eat thankfully - but I have done comfort drinking (too much wine - around twice Government guidelines) and that's what did it basically I think. Now that the awful job has been retired from and the neighbours seem to have given up harassing me up to several times a day (think they've finally learnt they aren't going to manage to drive me out - whew!) and life has "normalised" all round then I'm not feeling nearly so tempted to reach for the wine. Don't know what impression they have of my life now (ie not an "isolated little woman" any more obviously) - but some of my friends are making comments to effect of me "obviously having a high old time these days" and my growing tendency to pick up new friends. So - hopefully - the wine is a thing of the past apart from "social purposes only" now:).

Good luck with your diet Kittie.:)

lillibet_dripping

I was studying for my O'levels in 1976 - I remember lying in the garden trying to memorise the reasons for the start of the War!!!

Oh, and my lovely dad always says 'height for weight, I should be 7'10" tall' !!!

fuddle

I don't think there's any such thing as a hard paper round aging folk. I think it's about how well you look after yourself and your genes. I have excellent genes thankfully being through loss of father as a child, loss of best friend as a teenager, being brought up by a manic depressive, living around a chronic alcoholic as an adult, bankruptcy, reposession, miscarriage and redundancy. I'm 36 with the skin of a girl in mid 20's. My grandma was the same. she was a real old fashioned girl, housewife of a miner and had beautiful skin. My mam not so - 60 and very old looking now but she hasn't looked after herself.

So I would say when judging appearances by how hard life has been it would probably not tell the whole truth... only the way in which the individual coped with the experiences I.e. drinking, smoking, poor diet, sun exposure etc

Non of us escape bad experiences in life, just some of us are lucky to be self aware enough to keep the mental stability to make good choices for ourselves.

My 2p for the day.

jk0

fuddle wrote: »

I don't think there's any such thing as a hard paper round aging folk. I think it's about how well you look after yourself and your genes. I have excellent genes thankfully being through loss of father as a child, loss of best friend as a teenager, being brought up by a manic depressive, living around a chronic alcoholic as an adult, bankruptcy, reposession, miscarriage and redundancy. I'm 36 with the skin of a girl in mid 20's.

I was reading that Fuddle, and thought you were going to say: 'I'm 36 with the skin of a girl in her mid 50's'.

fuddle

The life story might suggest so jko... I didn't mention the grey in my hair mind. :eek:

:rotfl:

ivyleaf

I seem to recall that when I was young my "ideal weight" was supposed to be about 8st 10, but I looked and felt best at around 10 stone.

I daren't get on the scales these days....:o I wear a modern size 18-20, depending on the brand and style. I must lose some!

In summer '76 we were in northern Germany. It was a hot summer there too, but I think it was worse here. No standpipes for us, as our water came from rivers like the Rhine. I remember my Mum writing to me describing queuing for water.

ETA I once interviewed a customer who had lived a very outdoor life; her face was what's best described as "weatherbeaten". I was expecting her to say she was about 65-70. She was 40!

mardatha

I remember once ( ONE DAY lol) it went to 30C here, and I loved it. I was ill then with ME but that sun and heat gave me energy and I was walking around Peebles really happy - while everybody else was melting into puddles of grease. lol
In 1976 I was mum to wee ones and stuck up on the 7th floor of a multi story block of flats..

pineapple

kittie wrote: »

Medical treatment is among the best in the world and so cheap compared to here.

I watched the Marigold hotel programme too.
It seems you can get first world medical treatment at 3rd world prices. Noted should I ever consider being a health tourist.

greenbee

"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down."
Barbara Cartland

moneyistooshorttomention

greenbee wrote: »

"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down."
Barbara Cartland

:rotfl:....oh well...I've lost my face anyway - darn it:mad:. A look in the mirror (suitably fortified by deep breaths first) tells me I'm plain again (just as I used to be as a child and teenager). So might as well at least get the figure back then and I'll have something...

My standing joke with my mother is along the lines I could have done with her passing on more of her looks to me - as its still possible to see that she used to be pretty when she was young.