Life is a Series of Passages
Take a long look at life’s passages and you’ll realize that it’s just one amazing adventure. We start looking for ways to live our best life starting on the day we’re born. Our bodies go through several amazing cycles of growth and decline. Baby teeth are replaced, cuts heal, and our reproductive organs come and go. We can try and stay active, but there are always peaks and valleys happening.
Adventures in Dieting
Throughout our life, we depend on soluble fats to reduce heart disease. We depend on nutrients that prevent high cholesterol, which affects so many of us by not eating and exercising correctly. We understand that incorporating the right amount of fibers into our bodies daily will add bulk to our stools. It will speed up to come through and out of our body. High-Fiber diets are something we rely on to slow cholesterol in which the liver produces. We use fibers to keep down the levels of cholesterol, which, if increased, we know can block the arteries.
Adventures in Aging
Throughout our youthful days, our body changes, yet as we reach age 35, the same body we took time to maintain starts to decline, i.e. the bodily functions start to decline despite the notion that we took time to provide what our bodies needed.
Sometime in our life we ask, do I need to lose weight? Many of us ask these questions followed by food binges, ignoring meals, and sitting on the couch hoping that we lose weight. Well couch potatoes, you missed the point, yet help has arrived. High-fiber foods are linked to potential weight loss and control. Because fibers carry through our bodies, it takes some excess calories along the way.
Foods that are high in soluble fat are more filling, we eat less of them, and there is the loss of more calories. When trying to lose weight, be sure to consult with your doctor beforehand, because it might not be the best choice for you. Diet supplements can be harmful, even the fiber ones.
As we reach 40, we start to look back. Throughout our life journey, we have established a residence, vehicle, children, and more. Now that we are older, we find it harder to maintain or keep up with the bills. Seems the harder we try, the more difficult it becomes.
You might say I can’t afford to live here anymore by the age you reach 50 or 60. The home taxes, maintenance, etc. is weighing you down. You start to wander in your mind. What should I do? First, you must ask, do I enjoy traveling and meeting new people while learning at the same time?
A Sit Up and Take Notice Moment
At this time, you begin because your situation requires adjustments. You take moments out of each day, dwelling on what you need to do. You check into your community to find low-subsidized housing for seniors. You realize that one day you may be that senior resting in a community housing arrangement.
If you envision this now, take action instead of waiting until you are too old to do something about your situation. Unfortunately, many older folks lose their homes, belongings, vehicles, insurance etc as they grow older, which causes them to sink into the world that leads to death.
Now is the time to save your future by checking into community housing for seniors. Learn what these facilities have to offer you.
Aging in Place
If you’ve crunched all the numbers and have decided you can stay in your home, you’ll want to research aging in place. This is the current term for remodeling your home so that you can retire in your own home. This used to be an idea that was only available to the wealthy and a fantasy for everyone else. These days, there are many resources you can tap to make this dream a reality. Your home may need to have modifications made for easier access to necessities. You’ll also need to research making arrangements for getting help when you need it.
Retirement planning doesn’t mean you’re destined to sit in a loud facility, only getting out for concerts and a couple of trips abroad. Today’s retirement can be staying in your home and getting out to do volunteer work or socializing with other seniors.
You’re finally getting to that age of free time we envisioned as children. The adventure where there’s no school challenging you for a homework assignment is coming. The adventure where your boss can’t hold a paycheck over your head or belittle you is coming.
Plan well, eat well, and stay fit and you’ll have the best adventure of your life.
