You are too kind Charles! Wasn't that about 3 years ago? :o) I know I look older now! :o) Or maybe I just feel older??? :o)

Tracy

>FWIW when I met you and guessed your age I was off by about 10 years.
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>>You motivate me! Almost two years ago I turned 40. Not a big deal, I know, but it sure changed my life in ways I never dreamed of. All my life I was healthy and energetic. I was always slightly underweight, very active, low blood pressure, low blood sugar, low cholesterol, etc.
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>>Well, in the almost two years since I turned 40 my cholesterol shot up from 145 to 309! (I think that is really due to my Norwegian and German ancestry and eating fatty meat and potatoes all my life!) Needless to say I am on the fitness bandwagon! Changed my diet and I exercise 6 days a week now. I have not lost any weight--in fact I gained 10 lbs! I do an hour of aerobics 3 times a week (rotate 3.5 minutes aerobics and 1.5 minutes lifting weights) and an hour on a glider the other 3 days a week (had to add the glider because the aerobics/weight training was making me too muscular). Now to just keep it up for the rest of my life! Actually I've found that the stress reduction from exercising has made it all worthwhile in itself.