This is Steva Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more, episode 300.

You often hear people say, age gracefully.

Well, I met a famous young woman at a theater opening, Joan Rivers.

Okay, she wasn't young.

And with so much plastic surgery, I think it's fair to say she isn't aging gracefully.

She's going kicking and screaming.

And I say, you go, a girl.

Now, I admit, I'm just scared.

I'm approaching a milestone birthday.

Yes.

It's one of those birthdays that, as a kid, you thought, I'll never be that old.

I have no gray hair yet, but my dry cleaners have been shrinking my pants.

Every single pair, even the ones I wash myself.

I confronted them.

Mrs. Wong whipped out her tape measure, and in 30 agonizing sentences explained to me

that I had reached a time in my life when, quote,

unquote, changes happen in my metabolism. At puberty, changes left me with a new capacity for

pleasure. And now, changes just leave me fat. This calls for denial, but even more, it calls for

action, and that, dear friends, means the gym.

I'd work with trainer Tyler Duckworth several years ago and started getting into shape.

Then, Tyler won the MTV Challenge three times and moved to L.A. to pursue his career.

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