Your body. Then and now. Has it been kind to you after all these years?

yes dear james well said . there is a real slow down in energy levels from ones prime!! it is bound to happen!! but what is strange that my grand mother at @75 is more punctual than my mother and my mother is more punctual than me . whatever criteria be set my granny seems to be having more energy than both of us!!

Oldies James,Who ? Me? It's all in the mind isn't it ? Seriously speaking the only difference has been some greying of hair and some slackening of muscles. But that's on it's way back. It's a constant struggle on my waistline though, not the way you imagine, but how difficult can it get to keep your waistline constant so that your pants don't keep falling off.

well, so far fortunately i can say yes... thanks to God's grace and mercy in my life all these years... in fact, i didn't really change that much in terms of my looks and physical appearance since i am a girl until now... i still look the same which is good because people always tell me that i look much younger than my age... take care and have a nice day...

I'm glad you brought this up. When I was that age I started taking vitamins and now that I'm 57 years old I'm so gratefull that I did. You can't stop age but if you do some things you can make the years work for you. People think I'm a lot younger than I am and I really don't have any serious health problems. Want some advice ? Take the vitamins your body needs from now and you will see the rewards when you get on in your years. Guaranteed !

I'm only 24, but at 18 I was obese and have since lost 100 pounds. I in much better shape, and when compareing pictures of myself @ 18 and myself now, most people don't believe it's me! I also know people who I once worked with who decided to hire a trainer in their 50's and 60's and are now in the best shape of their lives. It's all about how you take care of your self as you age.

Oh!Friend! I want to be looked tough!So I wish I wound grow up quickly.

I'm 32 now....and I don't look much different from how I looked when I was 18. I think I look better (ahem! ahem! thank you) because I was very thin when I was 18 and my mother said I looked like one of those kids who are starved (well, she was exaggerating but she wasn't very far from the truth). I haven't put on too much weight...but the right amount after motherhood. hmmm...I think I've inherited my dad's genes and I wouldn't mind seeing a photo of myself 20 years from now. Hopefully, I would remain the same:) I wish I had a pic of me at 18 (scanned) that I could let you judge if I had 'aged'. I'm going to go look for one.

Hahaha I think, I have aged gracefully and nothing much has changed nor vertically neither otherwise. I am still that young, innocent and shy person . I have always been a plump kind and am still like that. And dear I still get pimples, a lot actually. But only thing that has aged is my brain. I guess, it has done over time all these years and needs time out. smiles...

I am thirty five, on the outside the years have been kind and everyone thinks I am 28 which is pretty cool!I probably look better now than when I was 18 actually. But on the inside it is a totally different story, I really have a lot of problems that over the next twenty years are going to probably get worse. These problems have arisen from bearing children and are affecting my health considerably.

I am also 36. Since I started working an office job almost 9 years ago.. I have gained 20 lbs. I DID manage, 3 years ago, to walk all the weight off, back down to where I was when I was 18. Now.. its all back again . But its my own fault, once I lost it, I figured I could stop walking, stop everything that I did to lose it all in the first place. Chalk that up to another bad idea. I would like to see myself 20 lbs lighter in my future.. BUT I have @nal glaucoma... I don't see my @ss being that small 20 years in the future

The VANITY of it all... As a woman of 53 years, I like what I see in the mirror. I've never been much on cosmetics or facial creams. Back when I worked in cosmetics I started reading about the different chemicals used in them and researching the hazards of many products. I'm the oldest of five girl siblings. When we get together I find myself looking at our mom and all of the others. To be quite honest, I see two of them that jumped on the band wagon and started using all the "acid based" renewing creams years ago... aging faster that I am. Those same two have bad stretch marks from having children. The youngest girl and I didn't get stretch marks because we did use lotions on our belly. She used Aveeno, I used Pure Stick Cocoa Butter. The wrinkles I see in the mirror represent the tears I have cried, the smiles I have smiles and all the mixed emotions that have crossed my mind. I love every minute of them! My age caught up with me 6 years ago because of the shock of grief. My whole body went through an emotional uproar and my hair really started graying. But, I don't think I will ever try to cover the gray again. Hair dyes are not good for you!

Hmmmm, well, when I was 18 I weighed less than 100 pounds and looked like a stick figure with big bumps. 2 kids and 31 years later, I am sure nobody would recognize me if I went back to a high school reunion. I am a bit more proportionate than I was at 18. When I look in a mirror, there are some things I would like to change, obviously, but all in all, I am happy with the way I have aged.

I am a forty year old woman and I would say I am a little happier with my body now then when I was twenty. I am a woman of average build and when I was very young I was very skinny. I don't feel like I really had much of a shape. Twenty years and two pregnancies later it sort of helped my body get a little bit better. Child bearing can cause some small scars but not too recognizable for me. I guess I have been pretty lucky. Sometimes I wish I had a younger face but I am trying to grow old gracefully and not smoke or drink.

It's a scary thought, but I am also the same age as you and yes I wish I had the energy, stamina and physique I had in my early 20's. I never used to worry about it much but now I am more concerned, not so much with body issues but life issues - especially when you think you are probably getting close to having half your life passed already.

I will be 30 soon. My ex-husband who I was married to in my early 20s almost passed out when I told him that I weight 135 (he thought I weighed much less now). Almost the entire time I was with him, I weighed 115-120 and when I got up to 125 I felt like a house. Now at 135, I am still a size 8, but not that happy. I need to get back in the gym. I had dropped down to 130 a few weeks ago then got off track.

Well... I'm almost twenty, but I look a LOT better than I did when I was eighteen. I looked really bad when I was eighteen. My weight went up and down a lot and I never slept right so I always looked god awful.

Well I am 52 now and yes there is a big difference between what I am like now and when I was 18. I especially noticed the difference once I hit 50, it was like my body suddenly got old. When you are young you think you can deal with anything, stress, late nights etc with no real problems you just bounced back. But once you hit 40 you really need to be careful of all the stress and long working hours because your body just can't handle it as well. There is not much you can do about it except to try and stay as healthy as possible. They can make people live longer but they cannot stop the body wearing out and it certainly does that.

Wow, lotta responses from people who are aging "gracefully". Well, I'm a bit only than some of the posters here (I'll be 49 next month). At age 40, although I wasn't in bad shape, I was not happy with my changed body. Menopause does a number on you! Anyway, I decided to do something about it, so I took the plunge and had the tummy tuck, lost 43 lbs, and began working out like I used to back in the day. I'm proud to say I fit into that pair of jeans that hangs in the back of the closet and you've never gotten rid of for the memories (I think everyone has one of those) and I'm able to wear a bikini and look good. Granted I had cosmetic help,but you've gotta make it a point to really eat correctly and exercise, drink a lot of water and stay out of the sun. I always felt energetic, but now even more so. Have a great one!

As my father used to say, "youth is wasted on the young". I miss being as slim as I was when I was 18 but I appreciate my body much more now than I did then. Back then I was never satisfied. I felt I was too skinny, too tall, not shapely enough, etc., etc. Now I realize I had the ideal build for a model. Now, however, I feel good in the skin I'm in. I'm not fat by any means but I'm no longer skinny. No longer have the ideal model's body. But I just care anymore. I strive to be healthy and healthy is beautiful to me. I focus more on what's on the inside than what's on the outside. I attract just as many men as I did when I was under 40 (now I'm 44). Sometimes, I even get carded going into clubs and casinos. I firmly believe it is in my attitude more than in my appearance.

"only the cow is getting old" well in my case i dont ashame that i am getting old.i just proud of myself coz the more i get older the more i get sexier hehehe.