Kudos fall girl for bring up that “aging” has more to do with the physical part. I need to work on my social game. 
Also kudos to @eastcoastcrazy for that 20 minute no-equipment-needed routine - I’m going to earmark that one!
Did anyone else have a post menopausal shift in where the pounds were? My extra weight used to be below the waist. Now its above the waist. Same exercise amount.
Other than that, I have felt better since menopause. I think I was anemic from all the bleeding. It’s a real gift not to have to worry about it or feel weak anymore.
I like hiking and I can do the trails I did when I was in my 20’s better now and with less tiredness.
The downside is when I hurt my shoulder, it’s not healing as fast as the same injury I did in my 40’s. So forget push=ups. Just pulling in the car door with that arm hurts sometimes.
The oldest I felt was a few years ago when I came down with several ailments at once, and for each one my doctor said, “that’s typical for women between 50-60.” I had frozen shoulder, plantar fasciitis and a cyst all within a few months of each other. I really felt like my body was betraying me.
I exercise a lot (running, walking, swimming, yoga), and so far, so good. My knees and back ache sometimes – about once a year I do something to my back that makes it hard for me to do anything. My balance, which has always been poor, is horrible – I really struggle to do yoga poses that require balance, and that’s why I keep doing yoga. But so far I feel fine when I wake up in the morning. I do know that all of that could come to an end abruptly.
Nothing makes you feel older than when you get on youriPad over coffee in the morning and learn that a high school classmate has died.
I am still in good shape, but I do find that I sometimes have less stamina than I used to have. I can do it all, it just happens with more breaks than it used to. I exercise 5 times a week at a gym, I take stairs, I park in the hinterlands instead of up close, etc. It’s not like it was in my 30’s and early 40’s, but it’s still good.
What I really find troubling is that I am having more and more difficulty suffering fools. The older I get, the more I just want to tell people what I think. My tongue is getting tough from scar tissue, I bite it so often!
I have tennis elbow somehow though I don’t play - just suddenly one day it hurts - I looked up exercises and it seems that doesn’t do a thing to improve the odd weakness and stiff soreness. Fish oil seemed to help but not sure if it’s just wishful thinking.