71 Weird And Unexpected Body Changes That Come With Age, According To Women In Their 40s

That you could be your best looking version you had ever been.

This is more how I feel about my body. Just that I wasn't happy with my body when I was thin and fit so why am I so hard on myself for not being as thin as I used to be? As long as I'm not unhealthy, I should stress less about my jeans size.

In 30s, exercise for hours like a long hike or basketball game felt great and weight was no problem. In 40s the weight and joint pain both creep up despite not changing diet or exercise.

Now, my body needs short bouts of high intensity exercise like sprints 3-4 times a week alternating days with weight training 3 times a week, and then just gentle movement the rest of the time. I am consciously not exercising for hours anymore and my joints feel so much better. I need rest and smaller quantities of healthier food to be the best me.

Yes, be kind to your body. Do not push its limits. If you push limits n your 30’s you will pay for it in your 40’s.

I have to stretch. Every single day. Before I get into my car. Otherwise, I will be paying for it the rest of that day and possibly the next.

I used to drink red wine all the time, and now I have an allergic reaction to it, so no more! My sister loves beer and developed some sort of gluten intolerance (not Celiac). I've heard of others with the same story, too.

My hair went from blonde as a child, to coppery as a young adult, to nearly black in my mid 30s. My eyebrows have always been black though so I guess that was a clue.

I was always slim and then after I had a kid and was in an unsatisfying marriage, I gained a lot of weight and have been dealing with that ever since. I’m a size 16, at my largest I was a 22, but I was a size 8 pre baby. However, I have always dealt with disordered eating and have mostly escaped that in the last few years.

Not to toot my own horn, but a pleasant surprise is that my face looks really no different in my 30s than in my 20s. My grandmothers lived to their 90s and they both could have passed for in their 60s. I have friends getting Botox and I’m baffled because I don’t know what they are Botox-ing. (I can’t take any credit- it’s sheer genetic luck.).

Hair loss, I have relatively average to thin hair with little volume when I had a ton of hair as a kid to young adulthood.

I picked at a mole on my face until it lost melanin, so it looks like a wart. I'll likely get it removed or something.

I had gerd as a child and stomach ulcers. I can't have my stomach empty or else I throw up stomach acid now, I take medication that helps only sometimes. Weight gain due to needing to eat something and not feeling full.

I ended up getting like 15 white course hairs on my chin. I can't get it removed via specialists because I'm such a pale blonde.

It’s breaks really easy. It aged snd things I did when younger are coming back jn a big way.
Protect your back and joints when young. Stay out of the sun or use sunscreen all the time.

That if i stop exercising for a week even while eating healthy, I instantly gain 5 pounds.

I developed hay fever at about 42 after never experiencing it before in my life. I only recently learned that allergies are typical of perimenopause, and it clicked that it may be that.