At RealAge.com you log on and take a test about your exercise, eating habits, vitamins and supplements, social habits, diseases or illnesses and vices like smoking and drinking.

I updated my Real Age this week and I’ve gotten SEVEN YEARS YOUNGER as a result of my lifestyle changes in the last two years. Since last year I’ve reduced my Real Age by nearly THREE years.

Chronologically I am 35.4 years old, yet my Real Age is only 32.5.

When I began my dramatic lifestyle change two years ago, I took the Real Age test. I was 33 at the time, but because of my lazy-ass lifestyle, my pack a day smoking habit for 20 years, and the demon of anxiety and depression that controlled my life, not to mention living in a horrendous environment that made me sick with allergies all the time – I was 38.5 years.

Screw That.

In 2009 I’m upping the ante again. I never want to make any changes I can’t consistently do for the rest of my life. Last year I maintained my weight at 166. Being able to maintain for one year has given me more confidence because I know I made a true lifestyle change that will last. Now, I’m ready to step it up and make more – as I wrote last week in The Secret to Weighty Resolutions.

I started on Christmas Day so it’s been 14 days. I’ve been dedicated to running before the family starts their day. And I’m doing it. Few logistical issues I’m working out, but overall I’m loving it.

It’s dark when I head out to the 1 mile track at the park, so I get to see the sunrise during my run. Awesome. That scary looking guy – the only other person out there at that hour – was sent by God to protect me. He’s getting in his morning run in, the same as I am.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays I follow my run with an hour of yoga. It’s still the kindest thing I do for myself.

I’ve lost 2 pounds. I’m logging my calories and educating myself about what I’m eating. In turn, I’m making better choices based on actual facts and not just my own theories about how many calories might be or probably are in foods I eat. It’s impossible to eat consciously if you don’t even know what’s in your food.

Go take the Real Age test and come back and tell me how old you really are. Are you happy with the results? What are you going to do about it?

Oh, and check out Weighting Line if you started the year with a weight loss goal in mind.

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I Keep Getting Younger Every Year

 About a year and a half ago, after I had my son, I went on RealAge.com . I was only 33 at the time, but after taking the questionnaire I discovered that my real age – the age of my body due to my unhealthy habits – was 38.5 years old!

Hello! Who wants to be five-and-a-half years older than they really are? Not me.

I joined the gym and started a cardio, weights and yoga. I took Chantix and quit smoking. I changed the entire way our whole family eats based on You, The Owner’s Manual. I overhauled my social support network and I grew closer to God, reawakened my spirituality and learned to meditate.

Yesterday I took the RealAge quiz again and found that while I am now 34.5 my real age has gone from 38.5 to 33.7.

This time my list of things to improve on only included vitamins and finding out what my cholesterol and blood pressure numbers are (I know they are normal, but I don’t know the exact numbers.)

What’s your Real Age?

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5 Years Younger!