To wonder how you keep your size 6/8/10 figure after 30?

[snarted]

I feel like to do this I would have to really restrict myself food wise and keep to a strict gym regime. Any tips?

No tips but I’d like to know this too so bump 😊

Genetic Luck and a naturally small appetite. I am 41 and a size 8/10. Does not vary much. Never really been interested in exercising. I love food and will enjoy most things. I don't know why I am this size I can only conclude I must eat less than other people. Or have fast metabolism? Sorry but that's just the truth.

Eat less.

I had a naturally small appetite and a fast metabolism at 41 and was a size 10. But menopause changed all that.

Sorry, no helpful advice though.

Some of my trousers are 10s or 8s. 38-29-38.
Um... I'm very active & eat a lot of veggies.

Genetics here too - age 50, size 10, rarely exercise and never diet but I walk lots and don’t have a sweet tooth so rarely eats sweets or chocolate and generally have a small appetite.

OP after 30 I would think you're increasing/maintaining exercise and slightly upping the ante in healthy eating. Was size 10 until after ds3, when I was 35 and then went a bit more downhill after ds4. So I'm not sure 30 is the age where it's really hard. I would have been running a few km 3 times a week then

38 here. Figure best it's ever been.

Yes, sorry but it is diet and physical exercise. However think of it as lifestyle!

For what you eat - don't think so much as strict what you can't eat, but lots of goodness that you can. After a while your body will not want the really crappy unhealthy stuff so it easy. Look at vegan food basics, super low fat but lots of food that doesn't feel limited, then if you want to stay eat everything diet, add in your fish and white meat protein.

For what you do - find something you love that you can find in your schedule and do as much as you can. Endorphin rush will keep you going back, have you in super shape plus let you eat without feeling you can't. Yoga is amazing, I also work out through in gym cardio, but overall prefer yoga. You don't need hours and hours in the gym, just go for it when you are there, you are supposed to sweat.

Positive not negative, eat lots of healthy, replacing with and adding in healthy rather than refusing yourself. Physical exercise that you love.

Lifestyle:)

I was super slim until 38 when I had my kids so I'm not sure 30 is the magic number - more the arrival of kids that knocked mine into touch!

However, looking back..genuniely didn't eat as much as my bigger friends (still not interested in food per se), did regular exercise.

I'm fairly convinced if I hadn't had kids I would still be tiny. Sadly, two awful pregnancies and births...put a lot of weight on pregnant and have never managed to lose it. Still don't eat a lot. Not put any more on but can't lose it either - so I would put it down to genuinely not eating much (sadly at this size now my body actually needs more food to lose the weight)

I feel like to do this I would have to really restrict myself food wise and keep to a strict gym regime. Any tips?

Yep, that's exactly what I do to keep my size 8 figure. at 51 It's what it takes. Harsh. But true.

I’m 47 and a size 6-8. I’m disabled so can’t exercise. I don’t eat a great deal and I don’t snack. I don’t drink any alcohol or fizzy drinks. I’ve given up all cakes, biscuits and sweets. Chocolate and alcohol give me migraines so they’re easy to avoid. I eat a lot of fruit and veggies.

My joints are absolutely knackered so I really don’t want to be much bigger so I am very careful about what I eat.

I was a size 8/10, 8.5 stone until I turned 40. I could eat what I liked and never put on so much as a pound, no matter how hard I tried.
I turned 48 at the start of the year and the weight has steadily crept on over the last 12 months or so. I definitely think it's a hormonal thing, in combination with being in remission from Crohn's.
The most annoying part of it is that my mum always used to say, "You wait - you'll get to 40 and the weight will pile on!" 😤

A shed load of exercise and a generally healthy diet. In my 20s I was very concerned about my weight and it was exhausting! Now I've found exercise I like to do and as long as I fit in my clothes I don't really care that much anymore. But I suppose my top tips are consistency and incremental changes, far more sustainable and over time you get significant results.

Stay active? I’m 43, size 6/8. I’m don’t diet and I’m not sure what other people eat. I eat snacks like chocolates, cakes, biscuits. I eat full fat dairy and carbs. I lost weight after both of my pregnancies to lighter than I started so maybe that helped? Basically both times I was smaller than before by the 6mo mark that I needed to go down one size in jeans, and didn’t gain back to normal till after I stopped breastfeeding after they turned 1.

I’m a 6/8 and it’s by restricting chocolate, Insanity workouts and only having one child quite young (23) I think.

floottoot I fully expect it will catch up with me one day. Maybe like you it will be late 40s.

Eat small and often between an 8hr window. 16hrs overnight without food. Eat intuitively and be active.

All the thin people I know don’t eat too much - it’s pretty simple! I train a lot (triathlete) and don’t eat crap - I also don’t drink. It’s a choice - you either eat crap and pay the price, or you don’t. Depends what your priorities are - mine are to feel fit, healthy and strong and in good shape - that is more important than eating crisps and drinking wine.

Also remember the fat v thin shows? The super skinny people were malnurished and lived on yazoo and chips and beans.

You need extra over 30 so your bones dont crumble so eat properly and exercise more.

Eat what you fancy but exercise.

Excercise. High intensity cardio dance fitness 3-4 times a week plus 30 mins of super fast walking every single day. If I do that then I can pretty much eat whatever I fancy. I do try and eat healthily generally but I mean I can eat chocolate and cakes etc as well as all the fruit and veg etc and if I do my exercise I don’t put on weight.

I started age 35 at 14 stone, size 16-18 and I’m now just under 10 stone at age 38 and in a size 12ish so I’m very happy with that. Not exactly a size 10 yet but I’m still losing very slowly.

I'm 50 this year and I am still size 8/10.
I never diet but have a small appetite and don't snack. I don't like much fried or junk food. I walk miles with my dogs, have an active job and lifestyle. I swim and go to the gym regularly.
All my family are slim.

I think genetics play a big part, plus not having a big appetite/sweet tooth, I don’t really exercise but I do walk a lot & if I’m at home rarely sit down for long periods, always finding things to do.
I have been the same weight/size since I was a teenager I am in my fifties now (7.5stone) had my children young, so sure this helped in going back to pre pregnancy weight as well, I am very short so would quite easily look overweight if I was a stone heavier, my whole family are all very slight as well.
I hope I don’t come across as smug, it’s not my intention at all.

I turned 48 at the start of the year and the weight has steadily crept on over the last 12 months or so

Same! It’s a shocker!

30 is young to be piling on weight...excercise, eat less, the old boring stuff, no?

Autofilled, you sound similar to me - breastfeeding reduced me to skin and bone both times.
I look at myself in the mirror these days and I don't recognise myself...I must have missed the point when I was just right, in between being too skinny and now not skinny enough. 😕