I'm 34 and feel like I'm playing catch-up. Spent my 20s eating whatever, sleeping 5 hours, never thought twice about it. Started noticing the gap between how I feel and how I want to feel about 2 years ago. Not talking about going full gym bro. Just the basics, sleep, what I'm eating, maybe supplements. But the supplement world is an absolute rabbit hole and I don't know where to start. What actually moved the needle for you guys?
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I did really well through my 20s and 30s. Then I met my partner from the Midwest and I realized I was lying about McDonald’s…
Once my hair started turning gray at 35, I decided it was time to stop eating so much sugar.
23ish, at 37 now and some say I look like im in my 20s. Aside from old injuries im in great health. I need to work out more but that’ll come.
For me, about aged 54!
Age 29. ~4 years later and I’m back to looking closer to my college self than the mid-30s fatass I was trending towards. Amazing how much cutting fast food and alcohol overindulgence can do
Just turned 33, discovered high blood pressure, I’m overweight, so making those changes literally this past week. Have been high protein, low sodium, moving every day, no more fast food, no more ultra processed stuff.
It’s crazy how a health scare can motivate you so much, and for my entire lifetime before this I was just winging it.
At about 45. Should have started earlier.
Supplements are just expensive pee. Just track your food and avoid fast food or alcohol and you should be fine.
When my cholesterol was through the roof at 32
When I started weightlifting.
38 and still haven’t. I need to make some changes
I started last fall to pay attention to what I put in my body, at 40. I am eating more fibre and now I am taking creatine and collagen every morning. That is about it for now. I don’t feel like I need more supplements. I always liked eating veggies and fruits but I also liked eating out. The rising cost of living has definitely decimated my eating out.
I assumed that at some point, just like my dad, I would go *pop* and change from 20 something youngish guy body to 40 something kinda fat middle aged guy body. We had our second kid when I was 38, it started to happen, and then i decided “fuck that” and set a goal to get back to my college weight by age 40. Did that through changes in diet which I’ve sustained and honestly enjoy.
Talk to your doctor once about getting your blood drawn and tune your diet according to which vitamins you’re lacking in. For me, dropping the amount of booze I consumed really started around 33 after my weight skyrocketed in early COVID with a stressful job
I started around 33 and at 36 I’m in the best shape of my life.
Last week.
I’ve been a but chubby since highschool and want to finally look great in a t-shirt this summer.
I’m 60. 13 years ago I was 335. I went from are you going to finish that to I can’t finish this due to literal life saving gastric bypass. So 13 yeas ago is when I started. 😂
It was actually the inverse for me. I was in the gym and learning nutrition since I was 14. Now I know exactly what I need to be eating and what exercise I should be doing but I just dont.
I always have been quite sensitive to that. Since like 18 years or so.
Supplements are not going to help you unless you fix the basics first.
Most of fitness and nutrition can be boiled down to simple things like:
1. Eat mostly whole foods most of the time
2. Lift 2-3x a week
3. Do a form of cardio you enjoy 1-2x a week
4. Drink enough water
5. Get enough sleep
Supplements won’t move the needle unless you are doing all those things, or using them to fill gaps. For me personally, I use creatine almost daily, take Omega 3 and use whey isolate protein on days when I feel like my macros aren’t enough. I don’t obsess over hitting these things daily – just with a 80% to 90% success rate. I still drink occasionally, stay up late occasionally and eat junk good food occasionally.
Diet, sleep and exercise are 95% of the battle. I’d suggest making that the priority, and then if you’re curious, supplements can help, but start slowly and only introduce one thing maybe every couple months to have time for researching and to figure out if it works for you.
I started getting serious about health when I was 19/20. Then let it slip in my later 20s, got back into it in my early 30s. It’s a process and it always ebbs and flows.
32 here, started around your age. Biggest thing was getting off the multivitamin-and-done mentality. Magnesium for sleep was the first thing that actually worked, then went down the tongkat ali rabbit hole after a huberman episode. Energy and mood shifted noticeably within a few weeks
37. Friend died of a heart attack at 32. We had very similar dietary (whatever we felt like) and activity (sedentary) patterns … changed me overnight.
Oof, it’s tough to introspect on this one.
I actually paid a lot of attention in my early-to-mid-20s. I didn’t have a lot of responsibilities, and tried veganism and other “healthy” lifestyles.
But then the kids and the career started hitting hard and I stopped paying attention. And my body reflects it.