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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Slowing down and pausing during weight loss gives skin chance to tighten (and also helps promote weight maintenance).  So lose 10 lbs, pause and maintain for a month, lose 10 more.  Or lose for 6 months, pause and maintain for 3 months, go back to losing.

Also setting a target weight that is slightly overweight or at the upper end of BMI rather than the weight you looked best at when you were in your 20s/30s.  Older people are often more attractive/look younger at a higher BMI than younger people. Post 50 being slightly overweight (e.g. BMI of 26) is also associated with the lowest all-cause mortality.[/quote]
My grandma used to say that fat people get sick, and skinny people die.  There really is something to having a little extra reserves as you get older, which can help carry you through an illness.  [/quote]

Sorry, grandma, what you want to have is [b]muscle[/b], not fat. Muscle provides the reserve that enables you to get out of bed after you've been sick or had an operation. If you're fat but weak (which is a lot of old people) you'll just lie there. Muscle also means better insulin sensitivity (which means lower likelihood of a whole host of age-related diseases) whereas fat means worse insulin sensitivity (which means more age-related diseases).

[b]More muscle = longer healthier life.[/b] Get thee to the gym for resistance training.[/quote]

The bolded part is not actually what population research on millions of people across multiple continents shows.

I'm not disputing the argument that muscle is metabolically different that adipose tissue, nor that muscle is protective against falls.  But the research says nothing about body composition and average life expectancy.  Sorry, older millennial/GenX (? right? you're a 38-44 yr old white woman who has discovered barre and Lifting Heavy[TM]? [/quote]

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