5 Tips To Help You Look and Feel 10 Years Younger

Want to look younger? Unless you are a teenager that is probably a silly question. If you are over 30, the question is a bit more serious.

Desiring a younger look is, for better or worse, a part of our cultural conditioning. The explosion of plastic surgery over the past 15 years speaks to this fact: A deep desire to turn back the clock on the hands of Father Time.

Here's 5 ways you can look up to 10 years younger without resorting to surgery:

1. Resistance Training

You just knew I would start here, right? For good reason: Weight training (or resistance training using bodyweight) has been shown to decrease the aging process within cells. In some cases, certain parameters inside the cell that indicate age literally reverse when someone trains with weights for as little as six weeks.

Pretty amazing.

By far, without a doubt, weight training RULES when it comes to looking 10 years younger. Nothing else comes close.

Let me give you a rather embarrassing example. I do not mean to toot my own horn, but I have to admit...this made my week.

I was on a date last week with a lovely French gal. We met in the gym that day. She spoke just enough English to make a date a possibility.

But I could tell she was uncomfortable. I finally asked why. She said, "Because... well, I'm older than you."

I said, "No way... you have to be in your 30s... 35 tops."

"39 to be exact," she said.

I then told her I was 45. Her jaw hit the table as did mine when I heard her reply:

"I thought you said you were 26 in the gym... and I believed you!"

Dim lighting perhaps? Anyway...

She misunderstood me when I said I "feel" 26 years old to mean that I WAS 26 years old. Which is true by the way.

That's almost 20 years off too.

I do not think I look 26, but people routinely guess 10 years younger -- 32 to 36 or so.

I owe that largely to weight training....AND....

2. Low-insulin Nutrition

I follow one plan: My own Every Other Day Diet System. Specifically the "Extreme Plan" found within the book.

Look 10 Years Younger <--- Low-Insulin Nutrition Plan

This plan retrains your body on how to utilize insulin, the most powerful hormone in the body, in the proper way.

Used improperly, insulin ages you and ends up killing you well before your time.

Used properly, it can boost your muscle mass, decrease your bodyfat, and add a kick to your energy levels.

Plus it slows the aging process to have normal insulin levels.

Most people do not due to a high-carb diet all the time.

Know when to eat carbs and you can manage your insulin.

3. Decrease Your Waistline

This goes with 1 and 2, but I wanted to give you some specifics. Your waistline should be less than 1/2 your height in inches. Make sense?

So if you are 70 inches tall, your waist should be no larger than 35 inches. This is the maximum -- and by the way, this one simple calculation is 4 times more predictable of heart attacks than cholesterol. Just fyi.

For every inch UNDER this mark, you will look about a year younger. Of course this is a guesstimate, but it's a pretty good one.

People's eyes follow a specific pattern when meeting someone:

1. Waistline;
2. Immediately to the eyes and face;
3. If attracted, to their most desirable bodypart.

Men sometimes skip 1 and jump ahead to number 2 if they are "breast men", but I follow this 1-2-3 pattern to a "T".

About 89% of women do too.

So get that waistline down.

4. Quality Skin Care

My favorite skin care line is called "Sea Secrets." I absolutely LOVE this stuff. I've used it for years. Frankly I wish I sold it, but I do not.

And I take this pretty seriously for a guy. I do the exfoliation gig 2-3x per week, daily moisturizer, and so-on. And I'm not metrosexual. Or... am I?

Who cares. I like my nearly wrinkle-free face, thank you very much.

5. Dress The Part

Most of the time I'm in my PJs and a baggy shirt. It's one of the perks of my job. But when I go out I dress the part. In fact I really love cool fashion.

Dress to your tastes for sure, but consider expanding your tastes to "slightly" more youthful attire. If you are 48 and go out with glitter all over and leg-hugger jeans, you are probably overdoing it a tad. But you can still hint at a youthful fashion sense with tasteful contemporary shirts, cool belts, and my personal favorite: Killer shoes. I'm telling ya... shoes get the job done. You can put 10 years on your age by wearing the wrong pair of shoes.

A good ensemble for guys (sorry ladies, can't speak to you on this one!) would be a nice black jacket (clean lines) with a simple vintage T-shirt or button-down underneath (to tuck or not to tuck? The better the waistline, the cooler the tucked shirt looks), great jeans (do not go cheap with jeans), a sweet belt (think Guess, Diesel, etc... make a bit of a statement), and avoid "bling-bling" watches and gold like they were death incarnate. Silver is young, and a nice Movado rocks the hell out of a gawdy Roll-e-dex (my name for the you-know-what watch) any day of the week.

Oh, and dark socks. Wearing white socks with jeans and a 'dress' shirt should warrant the death penalty.
It's worth it to visit a nice store and speak to their consultants about what would look best on you.

As far as what to avoid, I recommend the following fashion nightmares...

-- Low-rider jeans when you have big-ole' love handles. I don't care if your 18 or 88, this look sucks and just screams to the world, "I really do not care about me at ALL."

-- Hawaiian shirts. Leave them in Hawaii. Better yet, burn them.

-- Gold. You know what I mean. Really. Unless it's a wedding band of course. Nothing says "Borat" like a gold necklace with matching bracelet. (Men only)

-- Anything other than Levis that is older than a few years.

That's my tips for looking 10 years younger. Try 'em out.

If you want more specifics on ....

1. How to specifically eat and train to look 10 years younger...

2. Role models who have done it and look even 20 years younger...

3. And inspiration that's guaranteed to boost your personal self-confidence...

.... then go here:

Fit and Younger Over 40 <--- Look 10 Years Younger