to think fat isnt inevitable as you get older

[wilsonq2]

I've always been a health freak. Constantly people say this will all change as you get older, as if it is part of live becoming overweight.

Even my DM say this, but she was never into exercise or eating natural.

Aibu to think this is just an excuse ?

My mum has always eaten healthily and exercised regularly (not a health freak at all, but health conscious) and is the same dress size she has always been (size 10) at almost 70.

Her mother was the same (size 8-10 all her life until her death in her late 80s). She didn't even really consciously exercise, but was active (walked everywhere).

oh yes, I eat only 90% chocolate

I am 100% absolute hard core health freak though

I'm in the northeast and the average size of people depends where you are. People are bigger in peterlee than in Durham, for example.

I used to be 7 stone soaking wet but now I do struggle to maintain a healthy weight, despite being as active as my joint disorder will allow.

I think it does get harder as you get older anyway, physiological changes contribute to how hard it is to stay one size.

But surely someone who has always remained a similar size and exercised regularly and cake-dodged and looked after themselves is not going to find it hard to keep the weight off as it is part of their lives.

The cake, chocolate, lard huggers, on the other hand, the orally insufficient exsmokers who are married to ravenous men and caring for fussy children, some of whom are vegetarians and who lack self discipline.

This latter category will always swing up and down on the see saw scales of life, dragging along that pesky little two and a half stone that is no earthly use to them.

?
I hear it so often '...but I'm not a health freak'
Is it a bad thing to be a health freak, is one awarded extra kudos for being effortlessly slender??

Well, that's what I always thought until about two months ago. I exercise regularly, eat well and have always been about the same weight and dress size (10) give or take a few pounds over the years.

I started taking HRT a couple of months ago and have upped my exercise and reduced my food intake BUT I now have a middle, yes a bloody MIDDLE!!! Im still a size 10 but my shape is definitely changing.

I think I would rather have the hot flushes

One good thing about being fatter as you get older is that your wrinkles don't look so bad.

My sister lost quite a bit of weight, which was great - but she looks about 10 years older!

im 58 and a natural skinny aqnd i am the same size as the day i got marrioed at 18 years old, actually im now a size 8 not 10 in jeans due to vanity sizing

Post menopause I eat much less but put weight on much more easily Grrrrrr.

Also, it is on a horrible flabby tummy which I'd never had before despite 3 DCs.

An amazingingly easy exercise for belly flattening (it actually works!) I'm 63 and nearly 3 stone slimmer than when I was 40 using Paul Mckenna, easy exes, and healthy eating.

1. Lie on a flat,firm, surface (I do this on my mattress) Arms by your sides and bring your head and shoulders up slowly by 6cms to the count of 6 and slowly down. (ALWAYS KEEPING YR. HEAD IN LINE WITH YR. SPINE).

1. Do it 3 times in the morning and 3 times at night, it helps you sleep and you can feel your muscles activate. It's fab .

OH sorry you have to hold it for the count of 6 too. Also to make it harder bring your arms up above your head.

There must be actual statistics available showing rates of obesity by region, gender and age.
All this 'my granny was slim all her life' and 'when I moved from X to Y I was surprised at how many people were overweight / slim?'

gives us zero real information

All the much older people I know are thin.
I think 'real' obesity wasn't of their generation.

I find that I always have an eye on my waistband and that does the job.

Jeggings/leggings have a lot to answer for imo

All the much older people I know are thin
Surely it will remain the case that all the much older people are slim.
Not now because obesity wasn't an issue during their lifetime but rather because those who fell victim to obesity didn't reach an advanced age on account of obesity

Someone got there before me

Only if you eat a lot of Green & Black's, OP

If you stick to superior chocolate and bean-scraping you'll be fine.

If the OP is in the NE and sends her DH to Waitrose for chocolate, that narrows it down, really.

Though, compared to my run down ex-mining village, I'm always surprised at how slim so many people in Newcastle are. Even where I live, it's not the case that 80%of people are overweight, though. Just like anywhere, people are all shapes and sizes.

I'm very slim but I'm also very active. I have a horrid lack of waist now though that I am approaching 50 . Will do that exercise ppeatfruit and hope for miracles!

Wilsong, firstly are you in the Olympic rowing team? 200 cals in 15 mins is not going to be possible for most people. Secondly, 200 cals a day less is quite a lot. I don't overeat and have no ides what I could cut to eat 200 cals less. And thirdly, and most importantly, nearly no one knows that they need 200 cals a day less post menopause so won't even be trying to do this.
So yes. yABu.

Up to 35 I could always eat whatever I wanted and stay a size 10.

Now, mid 40s, and still very active I have to really watch what I eat. If I go on holiday and have a week of indulgence I can gain five pounds. something that never would have happened in my 20s.

How old are you OP? I will PMSL if you are under 40.

I don't think it is inevitable that you put on weight as you get older. IME my metabolism has definately slowed down so I just need to watch what I eat more and do more exercise.

The only thing truly inevitable is dying.

Thought for the day

An amazingingly easy exercise for belly flattening (it actually works!) I'm 63 and nearly 3 stone slimmer than when I was 40 using Paul Mckenna, easy exes, and healthy eating. 1. Lie on a flat,firm, surface (I do this on my mattress) Arms by your sides and bring your head and shoulders up slowly by 6cms to the count of 6 and slowly down. (ALWAYS KEEPING YR. HEAD IN LINE WITH YR. SPINE).2. Do it 3 times in the morning and 3 times at night, it helps you sleep and you can feel your muscles activate. It's fab

3 times in the morning and 3 at night?? How can that possibly do anything to your body at all?

When you bugger your back you can't walk to the fridge.

Toning your abs presumably manic plausible I would have thought?