Am I the only one getting more Knackered as I get older?

What really worries me is putting all the hard work in to try and retire early only to be too knackered to enjoy it!
 
Doing general maintenance and garden/tree work on 4 building and 5 hectares has me working harder than ever before in my mid-fifties. The last couple of weeks has involved a lot of chipping and chiselling removing old tiles and concrete. I’ve had several mornings were I crawled out of bed and found myself with barely enough hand/grip strength to make the coffee.

Retirement, my ****!
 
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Doing general maintenance and garden/tree work on 4 building and 5 hectares has me working harder than ever before in my mid-fifties. The last couple of weeks has involved a lot of chipping and chiselling removing old tiles and concrete. I’ve had several mornings were I crawled out of bed and found myself with barely enough hand/grip strength to make the coffee.

Retirement, my ****!
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Both my wrists have temporarily failed again after about a week of daily digging, I've had to get my orthopaedic wraps out again. My fingers burn all the time.

Wrists / knees / ankles / neck / spine / ribs, but fortunately only one hip are permabuggered already, but if I dont do any exercise / work it just buggers up more.

My ankles were the last to go and turned into a pair of immobilized melons last year (mid 30s) and are now permanently restricted in their range of movement. PIP still try to pull off the old 'he walked into the room and sat down and stood up fine so 0 points' but I win every appeal.

'Everyone's joints get worse and develop problems as they age, for you it just happens much faster' ta Mr. Physiotherapist.

Oh and any time I try to ask about it, GPs yell at me and try to stop my tramadol. Pain clinic wanted to as well but didn't cos I actually need it? I barely even touch the stuff, might need some now for my hands though.
 
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I'm always knackered too.

When I was 18 I used to work 40 hour weeks and be up late every night and never be tired. Now still work 40 hours a week (different job) in my mid 30s and I'm tired by 9pm and still tired when I get up.

But at the weekends and when I time off work I slip into my old ways and stay up until 3am-4am.
 
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Like quite a few out there, I'm sure, I've experimented with various adjustments to diet/health for years.

For me, the two main food-related changes I find to be of the most benefit to how I feel, not necessarily the way I look, is to keep my carbohydrate intake fairly low (not keto levels as yet but pretty close).

And the other is to food combine, so for example, not eating protein with grains and starches/fruits(or fat with a carb/sugar). Better for a reduction in glycation as well, in theory.

I don't see me going back to upper-moderate levels or above for carbs in the future, though I may bump it up a little. Time will tell.
 
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