What do you get off in your forties? “My nights are not what they used to be” [LIST]

«I read with great interest the text about” 30-year-olds sleeping “, which a few days ago appeared on the MedTvoiLokony website. With interest and … incredulity. I wanted to tell each of his heroes: you will be forty and you will have something to complain about! » – our reader writes.

  1. – I remember the decade between the thirties and forties as a really blissful time. I felt young, healthy and fit
  2. The author of the letter is 41 today, and if she could, she would gladly turn back time
  3. What has changed after your 40th birthday? Nothing drastic happened. «Old age approaches me slowly and discreetly. But they choose each day »
  4. As the author of the letter admits, mornings and evenings are the worst. «I usually turn off my alarm clock and sit in bed for 15 minutes, wondering which century it is and what planet I live on. For the next two quarters of an hour I walk around the house without any sense »
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«I would like to point out straight away and make a reservation that I am not writing this to bid for ailments and diseases with anyone. Each of us has our own body, mood, health and our own attitude to the world. But since we are already exchanging impressions about what when it starts to crumble and get out, let me tell you that as a 30-year-old I was completely not concerned with what was wrong in my body. Maybe there wasn’t even such a thing?

When I was thirty, I felt alive!

I remember the decade between the thirties and forties as a really blissful time. I felt young, healthy and fit. I had the feeling that I was catching my life in full handfuls and I felt that I was alive!

After years of fighting, I managed to tame my excess weight and feel good in my body. I love sports, cycling, Nordic walking and hiking. I replaced the experiments with diets with the “sacred” glycemic index. Around the age of 35, I felt fit and happy.

The doctor diagnosed me with hypothyroidism, finding an explanation for the various ailments that had accompanied me over the years. For example, being overweight and depressed mood. I started taking medications and long lost energy returned.

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Today I am 41 years old, and “old age” is slowly and discreetly approaching me.

I feel the passing of time the most in the morning

When I look back, I can see that what changes the most is how I feel in the morning and at dusk. I wake up early, often without an alarm clock, and at 7 am usually awake. I like to laze in bed for an hour. To read and think, because when I “fish”, I usually have great ideas and a morning cast of optimism.

But the morning with the issue of »I must get to work quickly« is a real failure. Usually, I turn off the alarm clock and sit in bed for 15 minutes, wondering which century it is and what planet I live on. For the next two quarters of an hour I walk around the house pointlessly, repeatedly covering the bathroom – kitchen – subsequent rooms. It’s a hopelessly unproductive time, but I can’t start my day differently. During the pandemic, my friends asked me: why do you get up so early when you work from home? It takes me an hour to wake up, I replied.

Then when I’m up and running, I feel pretty good. I lead an active life, I have a large house, I work in the garden, I bolt and do not spare myself. Until the evening.

“My nights are not what they used to be”

Around 20 p.m. I experience a massive drop in energy and I’d love to jump into bed as I stand. Usually in the evening I prepare meals for the next day, but if I start too late, it slips my hands. I am sloppy, chaotic and totally lifeless. During my studies, I loved reading books and studying in the evening. Before one of the extreme exams, I studied until 2 a.m. for a week to get up around 5 and continue my studies. Today – if I had to study at night again – I would simply drop out of school, even at the cost of not having finished my studies.

There is one more thing that looks worse for me with age. It is sleep and its quality. In the evening I collapse exhausted and fall asleep unhindered within minutes. But then, during the night, I wake up twice, sometimes three times. I get up, go to the bathroom, wander around the house aimlessly, think, I don’t know what about. Sometimes I worry, it’s hard for me to fall asleep, I stare senselessly at the wall.

Do i feel old No, although today I remember the decade of 30+ with great fondness and if I could, I would gladly turn back time. However, I cannot do that. But I can take care of my health here and now. Lose weight, sleep more, do a test package that every woman should do once a year. And make sure that the decade of 40+ and subsequent years is as active as possible. To survive them at all ».

The author of the letter is going to a checkup. Take an example and check your health as well! At Medonet Market you can buy the Healthy Woman package – you will do the tests all over Poland. This is important!

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