Savvy Over 60

Living With Age Spots
Madeline Sharples
Ive always admitted to being vain. I got that way from my mom. Its embarrassing. I remember a time very close to the end of her life when she was well into her 90s. She was in the hospital and I was sitting by her bedside. And she kept looking at me and finally said, Youre so beautiful. Look at me, how old and wrinkled I look. It was a nice compliment to me, but it showed how she still cared ab...
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My Tragedy Survival Tool Kit
Madeline Sharples
I think its safe to say that when weve reached age sixty and beyond weve already gone through our fair share of hard times, illnesses, and tragedy. I know I have. I was nine years old when my favorite uncle died in a plane crash, my first friend died of breast cancer when we were both in our forties, and my father and brother both died much too young in their early seventies. During their ...
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CategoriesMindful Living | Inspiration and Motivation | Savvy Over 60 | Health & Wellness
My Pedometer: The Great Motivator
Madeline Sharples
My gym, the Spectrum Club, introduced a program called Virgin HealthMiles* in 2006, and Ive been wearing a pedometer called a GoZone at my every waking hour ever since. I wear it everywhere, attaching to my clotheson the waste bandof my slacks or skirts. It counts out my steps, and if I press a little buttonit also tells me calories spent, miles walked, or the time of day. My goal each day is 1...
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Does a Plant Based Diet Ensure I’ll Never Have a Heart Attack?
Madeline Sharples
Dieting and food seems to take center stage especially after a holiday season of indulging. The Saturday after Thanksgiving my husband Bob and I watched a CNN article about Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyns diet cure for heart attacks, and we discussed going on his plant-based diet ourselves. Neither one of us has excess plaque in our arteries and we want to keep it that way. Bob, ...
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Accountability – It’s Up to Us
Madeline Sharples
Every day for at least the last twenty-five years I write down the kinds of exercises I do and the number of minutes I do them. This every day habit is both self-motivating and a great way for me to be accountable for taking care of my body. Another way I motivate myself is wearing a pedometer. My goal is to have 12,000 steps recorded on it every day. Ive never felt the need to keep a food ...
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I Call It A Transition, Not A Retirement
Madeline Sharples
So many people ask what Im doing with myself now that Im retired. They think with all the time I have on my hands, I can just lay on my couch all day and watch daytime television and eat bon-bons. Well, I dont consider myself retired from work at all. Im seventy-one years old, officially retired from the job I worked on and off for twenty-eight years in the aerospace industry, and Im n...
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Fitness Over 60 And Counting
Madeline Sharples
Becky Neumann sits perched on her instructors bike at the front of her full Saturday morning Spinning class. She has her trademark cowboy bandana tied around her closely cropped dark hair, her form-fitting tank-top shows off her muscular arms, and her skin is glistening from sweat. She wears a mike around her head and a pair of granny glasses low down on her nose. Thats right. granny glasses. A...
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CategoriesInspiration and Motivation | Optimal Health | General Health | Savvy Over 60
Gray And Long: An Oxymoron?
Madeline Sharples
It seems that men have been noticing my hair at checkout lines. Today the guy behind the counter at Costco told me he loves my silver hair that it reminded him of his mothers hair. Last week while I was waiting at the grocery checkout counter a short man with a full head of white hair turned, gave me a quick onceover, and with a wry smile asked if Ive ever dyed my hair. And without battin...
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