I just turned 50 and I have to tell you that I think it sucks.
I used to enjoy working out, and I only did it when I felt like it.
It didn’t matter if I hit the gym once a week or once a year, I stayed in pretty good shape. Those days are behind me, because now I exercise every single day, and still put on weight. I have to take pills to fall asleep, other pills to stay asleep, and a third kind of pills to wake up in the morning. Let me restate it — getting old sucks. And thanks to my hot flashes, I am wearing out the thermostat by constantly jamming the A/C up to the max. I went so far as to rearrange my living room to place my favorite easychair right under the air vent. When I get home from work I will park it there, and use my smart thermostat with voice control to turn down the AC and let the glorious coldness rain down over me. At work I was actually quite lucky, because my desk has always been under the AC vent, except for I used to hate it. I used to be that person in the office that was always wearing a sweater and fussing with the thermostat, but no longer. Now I am quite thankful to have the air vents right overhead, otherwise the day at work would be a lot sweatier. I hope these hot flashes stop soon, because running the AC so much is really driving up my utility bills.