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[quote=Anonymous]I am 50, have been lifting heavy since I was 25.

I can lift anything I want to lift. (The impact of heavy weightlifting was never more obvious than when I had a toddler--he is 99%ile for H & W and not light.)

I eat whatever I want to eat, whenever I want to eat it, and have not meaningfully gained or lost weight (other than extreme weight loss caused by illness) since my 20s. My sizes are all the same so I don't have three wardrobes going at any given time, no doctor ever BS's me that my health problems have been caused or exacerbated by my weight (HCPs are insanely fat-phobic), and labs reveal that I am not on-track for heart disease or diabetes, which are two of the likeliest things to kill you overall.

I have no idea how many calories I consume in a day. Talking about calories and eating is one of the most boring topics on Earth so I am glad not to do any of that.

Those are the positive effects I've noticed. Also there are no meaningful negative effects. I have tweaked my SI joint a couple of times, but I've also done it a couple times in everyday life--if anything, I think heavy lifting is helping to hold that joint together and resulting in less pain/debility overall. [/quote]

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