I’ve never taken drugs, fad diets, little wine, lots of exercise/walking, organics. Now with shattered foot and not walking really miss it and can see and feel a tremendous change. My bad habits are not enough sleep, doing too many things at once. My favorite bad habit is going to the Tap Room at Carmel’s Pebble Beach Lodge for a cheeseburger (no bun) fries, 2 glasses of wine, and fudge cake. Don’t do it often so when I do it’s really a treat. and yes when the time comes I’ll investigate very carefully and then have face work. My mother did and at 77 looks fantastic.

I have always thought that Boomers would change society’s view of aging. That we would accept age with grace while remaining vibrant, active and involved. I have nothing against people who opt for procedures to make them look younger but I think it has gotten out of hand. I think we should all chill. Eat well, exercsie and accept where that takes us. I have starved myslef, worked out like a fiend and given up stuff I really love with no major ROI. While I am not fat and have been blessed with genes that don’t wrinkle until the 80s, I don’t look 20, 30 or 40 anymore! I’m settling on becoming a really cool old broad who looks fabulous because of inner beauty..and of course, great charm!

yes, every day i do by overeating, binge eating, eating the wrong foods, sitting on my tail goofing around on the internet and not exercising, drinking 72 ounces of soda pop each day (sometimes more), smoking (sometimes more than) a pack of cigarettes a day, neglecting my dental hygiene…. need i go on? i wonder every day what will make me stop and change my behavior. i’d like to change, but it’s too overwhelming. i can’t face the enormity of needing to lose 150+ pounds.

Procedures: eye operation for lazy eye in my teens wore a retainer for my teeth in college had birth control pills briefly, but they didn’t agree with me other birth control procedures all protein diets. Counting calories until I got pneumonia and almost died. Then I turned to vitamins. At one point my then manager didn’t care WHAT I did as long as I was thin (cocaine was the rage). But because of my health, I couldn’t do it. Result - no TV series. Extensive dental work - including capping my teeth. Now that’s aging & I can’t afford to replace it….and I was nature girl at the time, so I only had a shade or 2 above my natural color - whereas now people have gone back to teeth as white as bathroom tile… For the rest, considering I have lived in Hollywood for 25+ years, I am very DYI and gradual as opposed to professional and drastic!

Yes, while I was still single I starved away about thirty pounds in three months. I loved it, but everyone at my work was horribly worried for me. I did go into an eating disorders unit, but I was the only anorexic there! Since that time I have had two daughters (and it WAS very hard to eat and gain weight while pregnant!), but am not “over” the food obsession. I still hate how heavy I am (150 pounds at 5’6”) and would starve it off again if I could.

I must have been out of the loop when most people started equating beauty with youth, so I can’t imagine doing anything to look younger. All my life, I’ve done things to be far too thin, and now I’m far too fat. When my mother died, I gained a whole bunch of weight. That’ll show her, huh?

Meg, I didn’t get that youth = beauty memo, either.

My mom was a teriffic cook and a fantastic baker and I was always heavy. When I asked her not to bake she told me she needed baked goods in the house in case someone dropped by and that I didn’t have to eat it just because it was there. Right. My mother’s top weight was 125 pounds when she was 9 months pregnant with me. I have a picture of her in a bathing suit and she looks like she had a big lunch. This is about two weeks before I was born. Food just wasn’t very important to her. I love food. Fried tastes best. I haven’t had anything fried in about 10 years. I am an overweight diabetic with heart disease who has spent her life on and off diets. I lost 113 pounds on weight watchers and gained it back when my marriage went south. It took me 11 months to lose it and 3 years to gain it back. I have tried every healthy and non healthy plan there is including one where you drank this vile tasting liquid made from the hides of animals. No food. I lost 7 pounds in 7 days. Then I read about a woman whose kidneys had failed on this program and I was done with it. I have never been suicidal. I became epileptic at 14 and in an odd way that saved me from my addictive personality. I stayed away from drugs. I never wanted to have a public seizure. Never liked the taste of alcohol so food was what was left. I just have this immense appetite. Now, having had my knees replaced (Still have pain 4 years later) I am looking into lapband surgery. It is said to be able to reverse diabetes and that is my goal. I am doing WW again. Not terribly successful. As for surgery, I have only had my eyelids done and would never put my health in jeopardy, knowingly. Of course, who knew about trans fats and all those other horrors that lurk in our food? I understand women who have surgery to look better. I might do it if I could afford it. Who doesn’t want to look good? When I had my eyes done I didn’t care what anyone else thought. I felt great! That’s one terrific thing about getting older. You just don’t give a damn about anyone else’s opinion. I don’t want to embarrass my sons or their wives, but everyone else can take a flying leap!