In order to be thin after age 35?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I'm a 50 year old woman and I eat well. Not hungry, and I eat maybe 2 meals a day: breakfast is a big omelette with veggies and sausage or bacon, dinner is fish and veggies or meat and veggies and a salad. And chocolate. And coffee/tea all day. Paleo/primal. Lots of fat, lots of protein. A bit of fruit.

I walk daily---two dogs in an apartment need exercise! And lift 3-4x week. Sprint a couple--ie the dogs and I run. No work, lots of fun. I'm 5'5", 130, size 4-6. And I can do pullups! So it isn't all horrible.

PP, so basically you can control your weight because
you don't work and
you have no young children.

Well that's a no brainer. I don't know if you are independently wealthy or living off of welfare, but most of us work and do not have the luxury of having time to ourselves. I bet you'd be more overweight if you had to work. So your solution will not work for most of us.

I took "no work" to mean her diet and exercise regime wasn't difficult for her so it was more like fun than work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I'm a 50 year old woman and I eat well. Not hungry, and I eat maybe 2 meals a day: breakfast is a big omelette with veggies and sausage or bacon, dinner is fish and veggies or meat and veggies and a salad. And chocolate. And coffee/tea all day. Paleo/primal. Lots of fat, lots of protein. A bit of fruit.

I walk daily---two dogs in an apartment need exercise! And lift 3-4x week. Sprint a couple--ie the dogs and I run. No work, lots of fun. I'm 5'5", 130, size 4-6. And I can do pullups! So it isn't all horrible.

PP, so basically you can control your weight because
you don't work and
you have no young children.

Well that's a no brainer. I don't know if you are independently wealthy or living off of welfare, but most of us work and do not have the luxury of having time to ourselves. I bet you'd be more overweight if you had to work. So your solution will not work for most of us.

I took "no work" to mean her diet and exercise regime wasn't difficult for her so it was more like fun than work

That's how I interpreted it, too.

[Anonymous]

I eat small portions. I accept that if I eat sugar and other crap, I will crave sugar and other crap, so if I indulge too much for a bit, I watch what I eat.

Treat every meal like there will be another one very soon.

[Anonymous]

I'm the "no work" PP. Keeping fit isn't work. I gained too much weight when I was pregnant, lost it when the kids were fairly young: cycling with kids in a trailer, running with the kids along, walking every night. I'm a RN and trust me, I work!

Yesterday for mothers day my daughter and granddaughter and I did a 5 mile hike. The baby is 18 months---she rode part way.

The biggest thing for me is paleo. I think carbs and the combination of high fat/high carbs make it much easier to pack on pounds than you might think.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it is true. I'm 42 and have weighed around 115 pounds (except when pregnant) since high school. I actually eat more now than I did in my 20s/early 30s. I, however, exercise more - out of pure enjoyment. I used to run a few times a week, now I run 5-7 days a week. I also rarely drink, but drink a ton of caffeine (not good). I eat everything, but focus on healthy foods and never give up anything I really like (e.g., chocolate).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned strength training yet. My understanding is that the main reason it becomes so hard to keep the weight off as we age is the natural loss of muscle mass that accompanies aging. Muscle burns calories even when you are at rest, allowing you to eat more (this is why men have an easier time losing weight -- they naturally have higher muscle mass than women). The good news is, a regular regimen of strength training can slow/reverse this loss of muscle mass and allow you to still enjoy an occasional piece of cake or nightly glass of wine without gaining weight.

I have found this to be true. If you just stop eating, your body will think it's in a famine situation, and drop your metabolism in an attempt to save itself. This is why these women are posting that they're eating only 1,000 calories a day and not losing weight. I read an article the other day about how some scientists had isolated the chemical mechanism that makes this happen. The only way I've ever been able to lose weight is with exercise, and you must lift weights to build muscle mass. I am almost 50, and after years of no exercise, am losing weight slowly but surely on 1,500-1,700 calories a day and weight training 2x and cardio at least 3x a week (and I don't feel deprived). The best part is that this is a lifestyle I can stick with. Even if eating only 1,000 calories a day worked, I couldn't do that, long term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cut out refined carbs like fructose corn syrup and reduce other sugars.

You'll be able to keep trim.

I'm an RD and I agree with this. A simple solution is to watch what you drink. Don't let any beverages cross your lips except water (not flavored water), skim milk if you like it, coffee (black), tea (not sweetened) and alcohol in moderation. Cut the juice and, most important, the sodas... yes, even the diet sodas. This will help a lot.

OP, do this for 3 weeks -- keeping the rest of your diet basically the same -- and report back to us. Then we'll go to step 2!

What is an RD?

Skim milk is not good for us.

"It’s standard practice for dairy producers to improve the protein content of skim milk and low fat milk by adding dried milk powder to it. This dried milk is produced by forcing skim milk through tiny holes at high temperatures and pressures which damages its nutrients. This also causes the milk’s cholesterol to become oxidized which is a legitimate risk for heart disease.2-4,16-22 Ironically, the milk’s natural and nutritious saturated fat is removed because it’s supposedly unhealthy, but then a more likely promoter of heart disease is added. Although the amount of oxidized cholesterol in skim milk and reduced fat milk may be small, there’s really not much point in taking the risk."

http://naturalbias.com/why-skim-milk-isnt-as-healthy-as-you-may-think/

If you don't even know what an RD is, then no one should listen to a word you say about nutrition/ food issues...

I know what an RD is, and I completely agree that skim milk is complete garbage. No one should ever drink skim milk. In fact, any food that is processed to be "low-fat" should be thrown out, as it is nutritionally inferior and actually harmful. And, if you are an RD and don't know this info, then you have no business being an RD!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know why I am not skinny after 35. It has to do with the bag of potato chips I had for lunch.

I'm thinking about my 3 glasses of red wine last night. Hmm....

[Anonymous]

You need to have muscle, real muscle. Rarely eat sugar and sugary foods. Some drinking is fine. Vegtables are your friends. Sleep enough.

[Anonymous]

cut your calorie intake.

you take in 3k-4k calories a day, it doesnt matter if all those were "good" calories, you took in too many.

just watch what you eat and work out and bit and youll be good.

if you insist on eating bad, just know your ass better be in the gym all the time. if you can control your temptations, you may not have to go to the gym everyday for 3-4 hours. end of story

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cut out refined carbs like fructose corn syrup and reduce other sugars.

You'll be able to keep trim.

I'm an RD and I agree with this. A simple solution is to watch what you drink. Don't let any beverages cross your lips except water (not flavored water), skim milk if you like it, coffee (black), tea (not sweetened) and alcohol in moderation. Cut the juice and, most important, the sodas... yes, even the diet sodas. This will help a lot.

OP, do this for 3 weeks -- keeping the rest of your diet basically the same -- and report back to us. Then we'll go to step 2!

All I drink is water, iceT, and coffee. No alcohol, no juice, no soda.

I've also completed an Ironman and have scaled back my running to 25-30 miles a week, as a marathon/ironman training schedule takes too much away from my family.

When your body is used to this level of exercise and eating well, its pretty hard to lose when running against time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I'm a 50 year old woman and I eat well. Not hungry, and I eat maybe 2 meals a day: breakfast is a big omelette with veggies and sausage or bacon, dinner is fish and veggies or meat and veggies and a salad. And chocolate. And coffee/tea all day. Paleo/primal. Lots of fat, lots of protein. A bit of fruit.

I walk daily---two dogs in an apartment need exercise! And lift 3-4x week. Sprint a couple--ie the dogs and I run. No work, lots of fun. I'm 5'5", 130, size 4-6. And I can do pullups! So it isn't all horrible.

What's that 1,000cal a day?

Two maybe 500 cal meals a day?

Though I'm only 35 and don't really have to struggle to keep my weight down ( I eat a smiliar breakfast, large lunch and dinner that includes carbs, veggies, and protein). If I have to break it down to 2 meals a day and no fun foods, I'll take chubby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh. I'm a 50 year old woman and I eat well. Not hungry, and I eat maybe 2 meals a day: breakfast is a big omelette with veggies and sausage or bacon, dinner is fish and veggies or meat and veggies and a salad. And chocolate. And coffee/tea all day. Paleo/primal. Lots of fat, lots of protein. A bit of fruit.

I walk daily---two dogs in an apartment need exercise! And lift 3-4x week. Sprint a couple--ie the dogs and I run. No work, lots of fun. I'm 5'5", 130, size 4-6. And I can do pullups! So it isn't all horrible.

How do you live like that and still raise 3 kids under 7, as well as working 50 hours a week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it is true. I'm 42 and have weighed around 115 pounds (except when pregnant) since high school. I actually eat more now than I did in my 20s/early 30s. I, however, exercise more - out of pure enjoyment. I used to run a few times a week, now I run 5-7 days a week. I also rarely drink, but drink a ton of caffeine (not good). I eat everything, but focus on healthy foods and never give up anything I really like (e.g., chocolate).

How do you find the time? Do you SAH?

[Anonymous]

maintaining a healthy figure/shape/weight is a lifestyle.

you dont just go off and an on diets like a yo yo.

either you decide that you are going to live a certain way or eating and exercise or you continue you start threads on message board conjuring up bullshit on the extreme measures it takes to look the way you want.

the lifestyle doesnt mean you count calories the rest of your life or never eat a hamburger. its just laying off the constant eating of crap and getting into a routine that allows you to enjoy your life and look good without going through 1 million diets the rest of your life