what are you doing to delay the aging process without compromising your quality of life
Not really delaying aging, but I’ve seen with recent events with family members that I do not want diabetes. So, doing what I can to prevent that.
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I try to eat “healthy” 90% of the time, move my body more and do not let things I have no control over bother me. A lot of people get worked up over things that probably will never happen.
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I haven’t figured out yet if I am delaying aging or prolonging an aging life, but I’m trying. I am down about 50 lbs since retirement in 99. Since my wife got a stent 2 years ago ago, we have made great changes in our diet, ending our alcohol consumption (except for my semi-annual margarita), severely limiting our beef consumption, shrinking our overall volume of consumption of food and calories, trying to keep some level of activity in our lives, etc. My wife has dropped from about 135 to 100 in that time frame.
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Lifting weights has been my biggest preoccupation the past few years.
Sarcopenia is a real thing and it kills people.
Cardio, stretching, and avoiding constant sitting are other priorities of mine.
I won’t repeat JimToo’s post, but I’m supervising my intake of all forms of calories similarly.
I aim for high protein and fiber intake. I don’t avoid animal foods, but I generally keep it cool on all forms of fat. Little bit goes a long way.
We’re having our first pizza in 2026 tonight. There’s joy in the Too household.
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I just act like a child.
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In the last year or so I’ve added a lot more fiber. I’ve always liked veggies and salads, but I’ve started eating overnight oats most weekday mornings and I’ll make a dense bean salad to bring for lunch with some sort of protein. I’ve never pooped so good in my life and feel healthier.
That probably helps more than most people realize.
I think occasional splurges are almost as important as the otherwise healthy routine.
That’s a good call I think. Salads are nice, but lettuce is really light on fiber, mostly cellulose instead.
Oats, beans, and potatoes are great sources. I also like certain fruits for fiber like apples, bananas, and berries.
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I ride my bike a lot. I stil look old because I keep my beard, which is white. I just turned 69 but I feel like I’m 40 on my bike
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I usually put around 3/4 of a cup of berries in my overnight oats, plus I make it with Greek yogurt which adds protein. I like fresh berries better, but always have a big bag of frozen blueberries from Costco in the freezer.
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At 84 I’m eating two meals a day.
A typical breakfast consists of 100% oatmeal cooked with 1/2 cup of dried cranberries or 2 or 3 Aussie Bites, black coffee & a fresh-ground peanut-butter banana and a whole apple or orange.
Afternoon meal is usually fresh garden stuff, like corn, egg plant, okra, green beans, yellow or green squash, peas, carrots, winter squash, potatoes supplemented with fish, chicken or beef two meals a week.
My wife & I are both about the same weight we were in our twenties 115 & 180. Her parents lived into their nineties, mine both in early seventies.
Fat is a fascinating topic. The old fat kills you was a myth.
Agreed. Too little has negative consequences as well. Disrupts hormone equilibrium. But most people don’t need to be adding much into their diet, if at all, due to calorie density.
A few years ago it seemed like everybody was doing keto and carnivore and planning to do so permanently. I would only ever consider those as extremely short term interventions, maybe two weeks at most.
You have to do it got about a month for anything to happen. Otherwise you’re just losing a little water weight.
I’m not a fan of either but keto may have some science behind it. Carnivore is just weird to me. I’d get bored so fast.
I recently researched why I didn’t have any energy, and remembered years ago, my sister in law used to take a Vitamin B12 for a hangover. I found out B12 comes from animal products. I don’t drink milk, and rarely any meat unless it’s in a taco or casserole. I’ve started buying cereals and such that are fortified and take a supplement. I need the energy, these two wild pups are double trouble. All the training videos show I should sit in the floor at their level, but I’d have trouble getting up. 
sister don’t ever accept lack of energy or balance issues as just inevitable due to age last December my daughter and son-in-law came to visit me and were concerned that I had balanced issues and shouldn’t be living alone so they took me back to Atlanta with them and insisted that I’d be thoroughly examined. It turned out that I had cancer on the brain which I have been treated for so if I didn’t take my balance problem seriously I would’ve probably died. My kids saved my life by being so insistent that it isn’t normal part of aging
It definitely has been studied. It is potentially beneficial for epileptics and diabetics of both types.
As for everyone else, I remain extremely skeptical.
Ketosis is a bodily adaptation to starvation, so that we don’t cannibalize all of our muscle when food is scarce.
At no point in the hundreds of thousands of years of human history, until a few decades ago, was it even possible to consume enough fat to sustain one through the day permanently.
This current fad was fueled by low carb zealotry (which I used to be guilty of myself), plus an attempt to deny the science of thermodynamics and caloric energy balance.
People want to have their cake and eat it too, i.e. lose weight without ever feeling hungry or having to make a conscious decision to put the fork down.