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Food. I get asked about this a lot. What do I eat? How much do I eat? I know that keeping weight in check gets harder as we age. We don’t need to eat as much as we did now that our lives are maybe less active than they were, less running round after children and running a busy home. It’s so easy to share your food with your significant other by just cutting it in two. But realistically if your partner is a man, he needs 30% more calories than you. So by cutting it in half, you may be over eating.

I have been vegetarian most of my adult life. Whole food plant based for the past 4 years. Living with 2 meat eaters made life in the kitchen challenging at first. But, after a lot of hard work, endless experiments and my colourful culinary imagination I now have a fully vegan kitchen. My husband has embraced veganism in the house, even if it doesn’t completely extend to all meals eaten outside our home.
He read an article recently by Lewis Hamilton. In it, Lewis said that he changed his thinking from food for pleasure to food for fuel. This changed his whole attitude to food and made the switch to wholesome vegan food so much easier for him.
I eat a vegan diet, with no limit on portions. It’s a life changing, stress free, high energy, simple diet. Eat what I like as long as it’s unprocessed, fresh and animal free. What could be easier…? I wish that restaurants had the passion for plants that I have, it would make eating out more of a pleasure for me. Usually I am disappointed. With the exception of @thecuriouskitchenbrixham
just 5 minutes walk from my house. If you are ever in my little town of Brixham you must visit, vegan or not the food is incredible!
Has anyone else embraced a whole food plant based diet in their fifties?
List of makeup for this photo here: https://fiftysister.com/what-do-i-eat/

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List of makeup for mature skin used for this post:

Elf oil free foundation

Elf bronzer

Elf Blusher

Elf Brow Pencil

Elf Mascara

Elf clear Brow & lash Gel

Elf Eye Liner

Elf Lip gloss

Elf jelly highlighter

Makeup used in this photo

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Why do I take so many selfies? Well, it’s like I woke up one morning and had time for …….me! With an empty nest and a downsized life I have a lot more time. Free time was lacking in my life until I hit 50. When asked what my hobbies were up until this point, I would always answer ‘sleep!’. Hitting 50 for many is not a high point in their life, but I was euphoric the moment I hit 50. Given that there are so many ways to die (and having avoided all those) I triumphantly arrived at my 50th birthday, and it was quite a revelation!

I expected to feel old and haggard, wearing crimplene stretchy dresses, shuffling about in Hush Puppy flat shoes and wearing fogey specs. But (much to my relief) I discovered quite the opposite!
There’s a gap of 10 years in my photo album between the age of 35 and 45 when I looked and felt dreadful. So I’m making up for the lack of photos during that period with daily photos of my ageing face. It will be interesting to see me ageing in my Insta history as I continue to post in years to come.
I feel it’s like taking photos of a baby. It’s a new life, and that’s me, starting a new life after 50.
You can find a full list of all the products used in this photo here: https://fiftysister.com/new-life-after-50

Who else feels almost reborn after hitting 50?
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List of makeup for mature skin used for this post:

Elf oil free foundation

Elf bronzer

Elf Blusher

Elf Brow Pencil

Elf Mascara

Elf eyeshadow

Elf Lip gloss

Elf jelly highlighter

It’s going to be fisherman chic again this week as we have lots more lovely (I may as well embrace it as it’s here to stay) rain forecast. Yesterday I headed out to the small town of Ashburton with Katie, Emily and her boys, 5 Vizsla and the Scrat Pack (Katie’s dogs) to explore the countryside of south east Dartmoor. Of course it rained, but it didn’t matter as we chatted and laughed through woodland, moorland, up hill and down.

Emily, Katie and I decided to try out a rope swing we found in a tree. The two boys didn’t seem half as keen as us three – in our 20’s, 30’s and 50’s!

We washed the mud off the dogs using a fantastic little portable shower that I keep in the car, put on their drying coats and popped them inside their cosy crates for a short while, so we could head to the ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ pub for a snack and a pint of cider.

I discovered there are some fabulous little independent shops in Ashburton, so will pop back soon for a stroll around to take some photos and maybe have some tea and cake.
Several people contacted me about the Fifty Sister T Shirt I was wearing in my story on Saturday, so I will sort out making it available online so that I can use some of the profits to help others. I will post a photo and a link as soon as I can – thank you for your support…as always! x

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