I couldn’t fit a third question into the subject line – How does your physical health affect your quality of life?
For me (a man very roughly around 40):
My health is very good. I’m a bit overweight (in a burly/stocky way) but quite active, walking at least 15,000 steps most days in my commute and playing sports recreationally on the weekend.
I feel very good about my health. I had a moderate health incident (not life threatening but definitely quality-of-life threatening) about five years ago that sparked a major lifestyle change in diet and lost about 35 lbs, the loss of which I’ve maintained (give or take 5 lbs).
I feel very lucky about my health and how it affects my QoL. I think it’s only partially about good decisions (or really a lack of bad decisions – I was never a heavy drug, tobacco, or alcohol user) and more about luck. I do think my present lifestyle is the healthiest I’ve ever been – very frequent walking, occasional vigorous exercise (i.e. a flag football game or practice on most weekends), a diverse diet with lots of fruits and veggies and only occasional junk food, and very occasional beer, wine, or cocktails.
But I’m lucky, and also relatively young. Which brings up a fourth question – how has your physical health changed over time?
I’m early 40s, in pretty good shape. I am not overweight and still play a sport at a reasonably high level. My diet is decent, but could be better. And I occasional drink too much. But my all measures (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc) I am doing well.
At age 72, I’m starting to feel aches and pains more, but considering all the things that could be wrong with me, I’m doing well.
Coincidentally, I went in for my annual MRI check on my aneurysms (all is well). They have you fill out a form asking about any sort of metallic inserts, devices, pumps, etc. that the machine may wreak havoc on. There was a list of about 20, and I could mark “no” on all of them. That made me feel much better about my physical state, which could be SO much worse than it is. I do need to lose about 20 pounds.
I feel great.
But my tongue. This is going to sound weird, but it’s just slightly too big. Sometimes it looks fine and other times it’s got really severe scalloped edges. For the last nine months or so, I have had chronic sores on one side of it because I keep biting on it (or maybe my teeth just keep rubbing against it?) It’s such a tiny problem compared to everyone else’s health conditions, but it is concerning to me because WHY? Why is my tongue becoming my own personal chew toy? I’m not dehydrated, so it must be something else. And I’m kind of scared to find out what it could be.
But other than that, I feel great! I’ve actually never been better. (Knocks on all kinds of wood).
I’m 57 and feel great. I don’t notice any “old people” aches and pains…yet I walk for exercise about 7 miles per day Mon-Fri and about 4 per day on the weekends (depends on what’s going on). I don’t have the greatest diet - I like my potato chips, pizza, and chocolate. But I do eat a lot of fruit and some veggies. My tests are all in the normal zone when I have my annual physical and my weight is normal. The only time I’ve ever been in the hospital other than being born or giving birth was 17 years ago when I had a partial hysterectomy. I’ve never even had a broken bone.
So far, so good.
I’m 65, taking BP and cholesterol meds daily, not much for exercise, but I’m not totally sedentary. In the last year, I’ve quit eating in the evenings and cut way back on sweets, so I’ve dropped about 45# with no real effort. My knees no longer ache, except for a little weird muscle pain behind the left knee.
My teeth are good, my eyes - meh, my hearing - also meh. I feel my age sometimes, but mostly, I think I’m doing OK. I’m due for a physical in a month or so - we’ll see how the numbers are, but I’m hoping to maybe reduce my daily dosages.
And so far, no gray. 
Mid 50’s. From casual observation I’m in better physical shape/condition than a majority of men half my age. I attribute that to nearly 20 years of intermittent fasting (2-4 hour eating window), a lifetime of regular vigorous exercise, and good/lucky genetics. That said, maintenance is getting harder every year and my body hurts most days due to cumulative (ab)use injuries and general soreness simply because I’m not able to recover as well as I used to. I probably should accept that I can’t continue to do things I used to be able to do without a second thought. But I’m proud, stubborn and a bit vain.
I was going to say perfect, until monstro reminded me. I get that scalloped tongue too. It doesn’t seem to warrant much concern, but it’s weird. I also have some painless swelling on some of my knuckles…don’t know what that’s about.
Other than that, my weight is good and everything works as it should. I should probably drink less and exercise more, but nah.
49 year old woman. Good health. I’m the same weight I was in my 20s and walk (to/from work) for about an hour a day, plus gyming when I can.
My diet is excellent - I’m an avid cook and hardly ever eat processed foods, and have drastically cut my intake of carbs and red meats, and upped my intake of pulses over the last few years (ostensibly to keep my weight under control).
I could drink less wine, and I still smoke 2 cigarettes a day. Hey, I never said I was perfect!
Never had anything more dramatic than flu.
So far I’ve lived a pretty fortunate life healthwise. 31 years old, skinny guy. Blood sugar is on the border of prediabetic but that’s about it. Some spinal and other issues, but nothing major. Main issues are mental; OCD and anxiety stuff.
I don’t look forward to the downward spiral in decades ahead…
In my early 50’s. Health is good, but still room for improvement. BMI and BP are fine, heart and lungs good. But a rather sedentary lifestyle has taken its toll on my strength and flexibility. I am slowly getting better through yoga and weight training. But at my age it takes a lot just to maintain.
Sitting is the new smoking.
I’m 64. I eat whatever I feel like eating when I’m hungry, and I walk outside at least an hour every day. My only bad habit is coffee–I take no drugs (including “medication” and do not drink alcohol).
I am in excellent physical health, rarely out sick from work (twice in 5 1/2 years), and most people think I’m in my forties.
I’m a man very near 40 and I’ve never had a physical or blood test where everything wasn’t A-OK. So that’s the good part. I’d describe my physical shape similar to the OP, burly/stocky.
I don’t work out per se, but I walk daily and play sports like basketball a couple days a week.
So overall, I’m fine but I have a lot of little nuisances. I tore an ACL years ago and it has significantly limited what I can do as far as running, cutting, jumping. I’ve had a million little sports injuries that I was too stubborn to do anything about. This leads to a lot of general soreness, especially right out of bed in the morning. Didn’t used to be that way.
I’m in my late fifties. Basically good health, but clearly on the decline. I take estrogen, omeprazole, and sometimes NSAIDs. I can’t exercise as much as I’d like to because my foot hurts. 
But mostly, things are good.
I feel fine. Early sixties and I have never had any intrusive surgeries or spent more than a few hours in the hospital, and even then it was nothing really. I take one pill for blood pressure and see the doctor once a year. He says blood work numbers are great, keep walking, see you next year.
Do a lot of yard and garden work and that is my workout routine, just can’t see spending time just to exercise otherwise. I watch where I put my feet a little more, careful walking down stairs, slower to get up and sit down than I used to be, but if you were guessing my age you would miss. Beginning to get what is probably arthritis in a shoulder that I had some bursitis in when I was young. That is about it for aches and pains.
Probably drop dead anytime from something that I don’t see coming, but everything feels fine now.
I need to lose more weight but have been pretty successful at that so far this year, down 15 pounds. Another 15-20 by year’s end will be nice.
As a result of weight and aging (I am 47) my knees are in poor shape, which is disadvantageous when I play sports.
Other than that I’m fine, though. I had a kidney stone in December, which was horrifying, but they happen.
- Pretty good shape for my age. 6’3", 200#. I swim 20-25 min 2x/week, and bike 25-35 miles 2x/week. Don’t drink or smoke. Eat mostly plants. Blood pressure is rock solid.
Over my life, I’ve broken many bones and injured many joints. I’ve been developing quite a bit of arthritis. Doesn’t limit me from doing anything - just hurts, pretty much all the time.
Mental health - now THAT’S a whole nuther kettle of fish! 
I don’t have time to list everything that’s wrong with me, some of it serious.
I have 6-pack abs. Maybe 8 or 10 pack. It looks like I poured those beers into a balloon and swallowed it whole.