Anyone over 45 and still naturally thin?

[Mummysgogetter]

What I mean is that you do not consciously track your food or exercise, or eat less in order to maintain your figure? If so, what does your typical day of diet/exercise look like for you?

im not one of these lucky types btw and have to really consciously think am I hungry before grabbing a bite to eat. In addition I have to force myself to exercise as I’m naturally sedentary, so I have a lot going against me as I also have a huge appetite.

I find the over 45 and naturally thin types are rare

By the way I'd say I've put on about half a stone in the last five-ten years. I put it down to age!

Those who diet to get there aren't healthy.if your havingvto restrict or forbid yourself to be a certain size this isn't health,it's dangerous and just needing to be thin.ask yourself why thin us better because thon doesn't equal health as a rule.
A child needs more than 1200 calories!
People need more than that to simply exist.
You will never look the same if you follow someone's diet,life it's impossible and misery making.
Those that way intuitively have faired better always.
Weight cycling and dieters have 95% failure right and within this falls extremely percentage that actually gain more.
Diet culture and fat phobia has a lot to be sorry for.
Why is this thread started.wht the need to be thin.who made it this magic ideal.
And bin is bullshit made up by a white mathmetirion who wasn't creating it in order to measure healthy Weight a.and it changed to lower the obesity thresholds to tie in with diet industry making money.
U need to find your set weight.this isn't when your restricting to be there or exercising to earn food.ita where you are happy and eating without restriction all foods and no guilt.

Can we stop with the judgy 'thin'. Why not say 'slim' or healthy weight?

Aren't they different things though? At the top of my BMI I'm a healthy weight, mid BMI I'm slim & then low BMI I think I'm thin.

What? @kateandme so the answer is just to keep eating? Piling on pounds and calories. We have a public health crisis which was writ large by Covid.
Sure it's not good to have an ED. Of course not. But it is possible to reduce calories to a sensible level to get to a sensible weight.
Or have I misunderstood what you're saying?

It's not exactly healthy to shovel all the food you want into you whenever you want to and then call whatever weight your body 'balances out' at your ideal weight!

The only thin on me how is my hair !!

Total misconsemption of intuitive eating.thst you'll just keeo eating.you won't.you still have nutrition knowledge yoyr body wants good meals.fruit veg.you still have the clues to portions and when you want to stop.but the guilt is gone.the restrict binge cycle is gone.because once you allow all foods and hunger you don't actually over eat you just live on natural healthy hunger

You won't shovel.yoy won't pile on pounds yoyr body knows what it's needing.wirhout the shame and dieting.wirhout the restricting you just be.you don't fancy 10 doughnuts because you've not been allowed them for so long.you can have good and stop because you know u can have them again.
You don't have a scarcity mindset to food.
U don't have last supper reactions to food and dieting.

I've fluctuated a bit during my adult life, but to be honest my eating was very disordered in my 20s and I'm the first to admit that I'm a classic stress eater/comfort eater, find it very hard not to eat when I'm hungry. Also the idea of diets sends me into a spin. At the moment, I'm trying to work on my relationship with food. I'm 47, 5ft5 and weigh around 9st3, dress size 10/12, need a 12 in skirts and trousers. On paper, my weight is healthy, but I've put on weight through my 40s for various reasons, being on and off AD's and probably perimenopause, I am on HRT now. Like one of the other posters, I lost loads of weight when I was breastfeeding, and got down to 7st10. It takes quite extreme stress, we're talking about my Dad nearly dying last year to make me lose a few pounds.

I agree that it takes a lot of focus and willpower in your 40s to stay at a low weight, tbh I do eat junk, chocolate, takeaways etc, but some healthy stuff as well. I dont drink much alcohol these days cause my tolerance has gone right down. I've got a friend who's in her late 50s and very slim, lost a couple of stone on SW a couple of years ago. She looks fab, but says she has very strong willpower. Whilst that willpower would be handy, I need willpower in other areas of my life, work, helping to manage my elderly Father and teenagers without losing my shit etc. I''m also one of those people who lose weight in my face and I've been told that it ages me if I lose too much. One advantage I have is that I walk quite a lot (I dont drive) and I drink lots of water.

I was overweight (technically) in my twenties.
First half of twenties diet was vegetarian with LOTS of dairy. Also lots of junk but more than 5 fresh fruits and veggies a day- I started this specifically as I noticed myself looking and feeling tired all the time.

I went vegan age 33 and conceived at 34. I was underweight then right up until this year - this was due to high stress in pregnancy, bad relationship, then massive upheaval and moving house, all whilst breastfeeding - and in the end I was 8 stone (I'm 5ft 9) and because my diet had become so based around whole foods, I can't tolerate junk too much, my gut punishes me for it. So where was I going to put weight on? I'm sure I got 1,000 calories a day but it was all in raw and lightly cooked vegetables! No way to put on weight.

So this year, (age 40) I added in junk and decided to eat whatever I wanted. I did that and three weeks later I was up to size 10 again, where I remain, doing the same thing.

Now I feel a bit sluggish again because of all the crap I'm eating but it's better than being underweight. Ideally I think I should simply be eating bigger portions of the good stuff.

So for me I lose and gain very easily. So I would probably be one of those yo yo dieters they referred to in Hollywood where I'm fat, then thin, then fat, then thin.

I think if I had not become accustomed to such a healthful whole food diet I wouldn't have lost the weight in the first place, and if I'd have begun eating junk the way I have again, I would have ballooned.

Now I still eat to maintain my weight, and I look better, with an arse, boobs, and a filled out body. So I'm happy. I also still look young for my age and I do put that down to being vegan and my vegan diet containing lots of whole foods.

I'm 47 and naturally very very slim (BMI 17/18) my mum is the same and so is ds. I try to eat healthily as much as possible but have a very sweet tooth, I can't eat huge amounts of food in one go though. In a day I would have porridge with fruit and nuts for breakfast, poached eggs and salad or home made soup/stew and wholemeal toast for lunch and for dinner chicken thigh/pork chop a carb and veggies. I'm trying to cut down my sugar cravings by having montezuma's 100% dark chocolate which works really well to battle my love of Cadburys chocolate triffles which I can eat two of in literally 3 seconds.

I'm 66 and naturally slim, but so were both my parents and grandparents, so it's genetic, I think. I do hardly any exercise (back troubles). I eat plenty of veg, fish and chicken, but no red meat (just don't like it). I don't eat big helpings. I have put on some weight on my belly since being diagnosed hypothyroid, but you still wouldn't consider me anything but thin, I don't think!

Yes, my best friend is still incredibly thin still, at 48 and her periods have stopped (but recently so maybe still classed as peri-menopausal). She eats rubbish (sausage sandwiches/cakes/biscuits, but doesn't drink much except champagne!)
I've always had to watch my weight, so I don't share her love of afternoon tea. Her mum is still very thin.
However, I do know another couple of people who are similar to her.

I'm 47, BMI 22, run a few times a week and am reasonably careful about what I eat (I'll have a bit of chocolate most days but a couple of squares rather then the whole bar). I find I can maintain my weight effortlessly like this if I don't drink but once a bit of booze is chucked into the mix I def put weight on. I'm short (5') and a large-boobed apple so it only takes lbs for me to feel uncomfortable.

I'm 44. My BMI is 21. I try to eat healthily but don't diet, calorie count, restrict portions etc. I usually do an exercise class each week but not lately due to injury.

I have definitely got thicker round the middle in the last year or two but can still fit the same clothes.

I think it is a combination of luck and not stopping eating when full. And not drinking.

My mum who is 78 and 5'5", has never weighed more than 8.5st. She isn't a big eater though and would never binge, it's just not in her.

Sadly, I take after my dad!

I’m 51 and weigh almost 10 stone (63kg). I’m 5’8.5, so whilst this is a healthy weight, I weighed 8.5 st my whole adult life until 4 years ago. I used to be able to eat whatever I liked.

I now weigh what I weighed at 9 months pregnant and really struggle to lose weight. I dropped 10 lbs in Feb as I was going on holiday (somewhere hot), but I did this through barely eating much at all. I’ve now put it all back on.

so yes, I struggle to stay slim.

I am 66 years old, 5ft 6in and weigh 8st 5lb.

I walk every day, garden and do yoga or dance class 6/7 days a week. I do not eat big meals and rarely have second helpings. I have always been like this.

Sadly not but will read this thread with interest. Whilst lying in the bath with a glass of red.

I'm late 40s, 5'7" and about 58kg, which is a BMI of 20 (borderline, if I lost a kilo I'd drop into 19). I'm a size 8.

I don't specifically exercise though I do like a walk, and I do a little bit of yoga if I'm feeling 'tight'. This is something that I'd like to change for general health and to be more toned, not because I want to lose weight. It can be hard to find time as I work full time and am a single mum to primary-aged children.

I do cook nearly everything at home though, I've never been a massive eater. If I have three meals I will almost never have a snack, and often I will just have a largish brunch and dinner. I don't have a sweet tooth (I have to push myself to eat fruit but love vegetables), don't drink much alcohol or juice or soda and rarely eat cakes or sweets.

It probably sounds restrictive but it's honestly just how I prefer to eat. I never stop myself from having anything I feel like. If I want a huge bowl of pasta, I'll eat it, if I want a pie I'll have that, if I want an icecream, I will have one.

I have read the whole thread and I admit I have disordered eating. I'm 5'7 and weigh 9st 4 but weigh myself religiously every day. Desperate to lose those four pounds and will exercise religiously and restrict until I get there. Then. Self sabotage until I get back to 9st 4 when the cycle begins again. I'm 46 and have easily been like this for over 20 years. It actually took me training for an Ironman to get to under 9st so not sure my body agrees with me that it's my ideal weight.

My BMI is about 21. I perceive that most people age 50+ are overweight if not plump, as were all my close relatives age 50+.

Exercise: i try to do at least 2 things each day that are each at least 40 minutes long. Like: walk to town & shop (40 minutes) & swim on way back (50 minutes).

Food: Yes please.

... food doesn't taste nice if you're not hungry so I try to wait until hungry to eat & stop eating as soon as I'm not hungry any more. Also try to eat a lot of F+V. No appetite if I don't exercise.

I was naturally slender size 8/10 at 45. I've never had to think about what I eat the whole of my life. I was perfectly fine until 48 when the (peri)menopause kicked in & over night I gained a proper pot belly & expanded to a size 16. I dream of being slim again but I've no energy to do anything about it... I find myself eyeing-up comfort shoes & elasticated waistlines...

Have to admit I've put about 8lbs on in last couple of years (think it's the menopause) but I know I take in more calories than DH. DH fairly fit going to gym, the odd long cycle ride and a strenuous walk up local hill, but I do all housework, fair amount of gardening, walk literally everywhere (including food shopping, do an exercise class and job physical). I'm 7st12lbs.

I'm 50 and the same weight/BMI as I have been since forever (about 19). I lost a shedload of weight when I got divorced, as I don't eat when I'm stressed, and went down to a BMI of about 15. 19 seems to be my happy place where I don't have to think about it at all.