Can we relax, please?

Well, I couldn't believe that photo of Yoko Ono hadn't been retouched! Who has a cleavage like that at 79 - and who'd want to expose it at that age?
I think Jane Fonda looks very good, believably so, for her age, but has of course had access to all the 'help' money can buy.
I try to look as good as I can, for my own benefit, but I don't feel pressurised at all to hold back the years beyond trying to live as healthily as possible.

I think most of us are far too sensible to allow ourselves to be pressurised by sad women, who are lacking in confidence and need surgery to make themselves feel better.
I make the best of myself because I want to, not to impress anyone.

I don't feel pressurised, either. I don't dress in an old-fashioned way, but I don't follow trends - I just dress in a way that I think suits me, quite 'relaxed'!

So true green I dress to suit myself most places now will accept you in jeans and boots (my staple dress code) I have the odd black dress for formal occassions but mostly I go casual and comphy,I think Yoko Ono looks better now than she did when she first met John Lennon but then Asian skin does tend to always age better in my view some of the Asian/Chinese ladies I know have wonderful skin and figures I think it must be a diet thing more than cosmetic enhancement.

Probably is a diet thing, glamma. Not being shy of lots of fruit and veg in the diet can only be a good thing!

I think a lot of people look older because of their posture. Head up, shoulders back and then don't give a damn!

But it gets so hard to stand up straight as you get older Alison. The spine doesn't seem to do its job as well as it did. I have, to sort of, heave! Otherwise the rib cage is sitting on the stomach.

Oh God! What a state to be in!

Take up pilates jo4 it makes a huge difference and can be done at whatever level you are up to. I can now touch my toes without bending my knees for the first time in my life and I have been doing it only 2 years. I would recommend a daytime class as all the youngters go to the evening ones! I had polio when I was 7 and now have quite a pronounced scoliosis which seems to bother the docs and physios far more than it bothers me.

Retirement is great, I get fitter and fitter, climbed the Malvern Hills to see the beacon last night.

Is pilates that good alison I keep promising to have a try at the classes that are available locally I think I will give it a go,I do go swimming and walk alot but something a bit differant would be nice.

glamma I think it is doing us the world of good. Himself has all sorts of back and arm issues which he says are helped by going to pilates. We are lucky that all the teachers in our group are working physios so know exactly what we should and should not do and adapt the excercises accordingly. We have classes at all levels and can move up to a higher class if we wish. Most weeks I now go twice, once with DH and then a harder one on my own. It is the first time in 44 years of marriage that I have been better at something physical than him! He used to thrash me round the squash court.

If I miss a week my muscles know the next week which is good because it shows I am working.

I'm not a good swimmer so walking and pilates are all I do unless gardening counts.

I can climb hills! And do my exercise bike. And walk for miles.

It's not all bad!

Gardening does count.

Did you notice Shirley Bassey at last nights concert - she's 75 . . .

Yes yogagran ...she definitely still got what it takes!!

Thought she was one of the highlights of the performers

She has still got a lot of lung capacity.

I find I can't talk for so long on one outward breath. Bit weird.

Big boobs = big lungs

Oh yogagran ...is that why I can't sing???

I must be the exception to that rule!!

Me too nanaej

Think I said this once before on a similar thread.
Worked very hard for my wrinkles.

There is a problem though. Because of being slim and shapely ,the view from the back is lyceum but from the from the front it is MUSEUM.

I found some of the posts on this thread very enlightening.
I think it deserves a further airing.

Was J0 only on no 4 then? How time has flown.

Was this thread really a year ago ?! Can't believe it!

I think I feel better now than I did then.

jings We both have scoliosis. The spine does it's own thing. Can't do a damn thing to change it. Never mind, as you say, I too feel better now than I did a year ago. Positive mental attitude works wonders.