How does someone in banking look younger?

In before someone mentions push-ups and moisturizer.

Regards

Imperialian:

I am only slightly above my mid twenties and one girl I picked up at a bar thinks that I am in my thirties. Quite depressed after that encounter.

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Had a similar encounter years ago and decided to change diet, get rid of excess weight, started running, went to the gym 3-4x/week and did slightly less work (ie came in few minutes later and left few minutes earlier - not too much so nobody bothered but I had 30-45 minutes more sleep each night).

Then my gf gave me tips how to look after my skin, hair etc.

People are now guessing I am between 23-26.

Downside: Senior management tends to ignore me more often these days because I look "too young".

No alcohol, no smoking, no pop/soda, and eat healthy. Get some kind of home gym equipment - just exercise hard for 15 minutes a day and it will do wonders. Take a multivitamin and melatonin, and go tanning once every other week (trust me on this one - it really makes a difference with your health and mood).

All your points above are valid, and to a great extent common knowledge. The one that particularly stood out to me was #3 about changing my shaving blade. That's a great idea - care to elaborate a little bit on the products you're using?

1- Choose non irritant shaving cream and aftershave, this means non scented and no soap.

2-Moisturize, moisturize , moisturize - You have no idea how much difference this makes

3-Wash your face a couple of times during the day with lukewarm water, and moisturize

4-Give yourself a lil scalp massage every day. Even if it's only for 2 minutes.

5-For the bags, drizzle some unsweetened coffee on a cotton pad, cover your eyes with them for 2-3 mins and watch them disappear.

6-Drink lots of water. A lot that it makes you want to pee a few times a day but not too much that it goes right through you. Your urine should be light -non fluorescent- Yellow. Any darker and you're dehydrated, any lighter and you're just diluting all the vitamins and minerals you are taking in.

7-A Table spoon of high quality fish oil a day - Miracles will happen

8- Don't eliminate fat from your diet, it will make your skin dry and crusty

9- Soda is the devil - Please avoid it

10- Cut back on alcohol, smoking, and salt

recent thread on a similar topic

http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/skin-care-products

For keeping your weight down. Try to spread out your meals throughout the day, and don't eat meat at work, especially red meat. Try to eat your lunch early (11am) but only eat half, then save half for 3 pm. If you do that you'll be healthier. Also it helps you avoid the early afternoon crash. If you work late, same thing with dinner. Eat half at 6 and half at 10. Don't eat red meat. DON'T EAT RED MEAT. The amount of energy your body needs to break down red meat is ridiculously high. If you are working 100 hours a week and not sleeping a lot, cutting out red meat during the week is crucial. You can still eat it on weekends. Also, if you snack, try snacking on vegetables instead of fruits. More nutritious and less sugar. And 808 made a good point about tanning, if you're indoors all day/live in UK, tanning will make you happier.

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Drink green tea helps with increasing your metabolism. Use Cetphail facial cleaner to clean up your face. Also buy some sort of facial scrubs and use it every other day when your taking a shower.

Stay away from Soda- high corn syrup means out body has hard digesting it. Also eat fruits or vegetables. Apple, any type of berries, peach plum, eat peanuts, almonds and stay away from white bread. Eat whole wheat or or whole grain bread, bagel pasta etc. Stay away from "white flour" ...Also exercise try to exercise at least three times a week doing cardio so your burning calories. When it comes to alcohol, don't drink Jack and Coke, long island ice tea or gin and tonic or anything that is sweet because it adds sugar. Also stay away from fruit juices have tons of sugar in it. And if you eat cereal make sure its less than 6 grams of sugar and has 7 grams or more of protein.

Also when it comes to vegetables, there are a few our body can't digest when eating raw. It usually depends on the person. So if your going eat vegetables raw eat cucumber, carrots, corn and tomato.

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moisturize

Skin care: La Mer, plain and simple. Its expensive, it's worth the money. There aren't any substitutes, and at the end of the day your skin is the most important thing for your looks. Use the Creme de la Mer and the La Mer face wash. Add an eye creme if you are still seeing bags under your eyes, use an eye creme, but if you are moisturizing on a regular basis, eye creme might not be necessary.

Tell girls you look like your 30 because you work 100 hours per week and hope to one day rule the world. Offer to buy her an island in the Mediterranean and tell her you make 5 times as much as you actually do.

Diet is the most important aspect to staying in shape when you can't literally spend several hours in the gym. Realistically, you can work off anything you eat, but you have to have the time...which is not a luxury afforded most in the IB industry. Also, it's much easy to stuff 1,000 calories down your gullet than it is to work it off on a treadmill.

Hair loss? Well, that has little to do with work and more to do with genetics (as previously mentioned). If I'm not mistaken, hair loss is inherited from your mother's father...so look at a picture of his hair and you can probably determine where you will eventually end up.

As for skin care, the overview is cleanse your skin of the dirt and oil that buildup throughout the day and then moisturize. Shaving is going to be an important part for most guys (I don't generally shave, just use an electric hair trimmer to cut back growth every few days) so check out the threads people posted above and incorporate those points into your routine. Clean your face, open pores with hot towel, shave, close pores, moisturize. Maybe find something with SPF if you find yourself outside, exposed to the sun.

As much as we all like catching a tan, the sun will murder your skin. Anti-oxidants are a good way to fight the impact of the sun but being proactive and not allowing it to damage your skin is the best bet.

For anyone that questions just how dangerous the sun can be on your skin, check out this brief article and picture...

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1104059

Regards

Men don't need moisturiser... Just eat well, work out / run / cycle / swim / whatever, sleep well and spend time outdoors, preferably in the country.

Popping pills and smearing fats on your body isn't going to compensate for not living well. Try to find some balance, the marginal benefits on an incremental amount of exercise and sleep are significant.

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