Welcome to Growing Old Gracefully

Wendy Spickerman

As you can see from the photo I’ve load, I’m a pretty fit person. I have a high metabolism, which allows me to eat whatever I want. I know… “you hate me” for it!

So many people have a hard time keeping weight off, especially women after having children. I have three children, who aren’t quite children anymore. At 45 years of age, I still like to stay very active. I used to be a runner in my youth.

I ran the mile in school plus cross country. From time to time in my adulthood I’d still run, but it was more of a tool for de-stressing than anything else. There really wasn’t a need to lose weight not even during my pregnancies.

Running gave me the chance to burn off unwanted stress. It was a way to work things out during my run. The harder I ran the better! It was never just a jog. It was a fast pace or sprint.

A couple years back I injured my right leg during a run and it’s never been the same. The x-ray showed nothing was broken, but it sure felt like it! I couldn’t walk on it! It didn’t swell nor bruise, yet the pain was so bad and the injury so great I was put on crutches and given something for the pain to help me sleep.

For the better half of the year I was going in and out of physical therapy, but it didn’t help! Each time they told me I was healed and could again; I was right back in there. It happened three different times.

Of course, I clearly told them they didn’t know what they were talking about. I’d show up on crutches and they’d ask, “What did you do?” My reply, “I thought you said you fixed me? You told me I could run, I ran and it re-injured again.”

Being I could no longer chance running I switched to biking. I still run maybe once or twice a year. You know, those moments when you just get so stressed you just have to burn off that energy. Those it does injure the leg each time.

The injury is right below the knee on that bone. It hurts so bad it feels like it want to pop right out of the skin. I can’t put weight on it or walk. Doing stairs is totally out of the question, yet they can’t seem to figure out what is wrong.

I like to do a few things to keep tone. That’s all I really want, that feminine body look. You’re probably thinking, “Good like with that.” I’m sure you’re thinking, “Nothing works.” Ask yourself does it not work because you stop to soon or is it because you have a very low metabolism to start with?

Maybe you had a high metabolism when you were younger, but then as you got older it started to slow right down, like an old watch needing to be winded to keep it going. Here at Growing Old Gracefully – Fitness and You I’m going to share some of my personal secrets.

So be sure to follow, share, even tweet my blog posts. I also want to encourage my readers to share your personal trials and tribulation of trying to stay fit, finding that work/life balance as well as telling me all about your triumphs.