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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I turned 40 a few years ago, and it was like a switch was flipped. I could lose weight previously, and can't anymore.

I'm a former athlete, who in his teens couldn't eat enough, and in my 20s didn't worry about anything, and in my 30s had gotten out of hand.

At that point, on doctor's advice, and through moderate exercise and an overhaul of my diet, I very successfully lost about 35 pounds, and could've stood to lose another 20, but I got complacent. Hovered in the range of about 25-30 down for several years. During the pandemic, it crept up, I turned 40 and it allllll came back. That said, before the big weight loss I was a largely sedentary person, a former athlete who was happy to have retired from doing anything at all. Since the big weight loss, I have remained a regular gym goer, I bicycle or peloton several times a week—in no way fanatical, but 30-45 minutes, 5-8 miles—and do a moderate amount of planks, pushups, situps, etc. I am 100 percent a more active and healthy person—but my weight won't go away. And that's keeping me from being a much healthier person that I want to be.

For the last two years, I've been battling it, and I can spend weeks and weeks very carefully monitoring my diet and getting excercise—lots or a little, doesn't matter—and I will very, very slowly see tiny signs of improvement, dropping a pound or two, or if I'm really diligent, 3-3.5lbs in a month of hard work. I know that a pound a week is a good number, and that it's a long-term project. So I'll feel okay. Then I'll have a long weekend with the in-laws, where I have no control over where I'm going to eat, and even doing my best to turn down beers and opt for the fish instead of the steak, etc., I'll come back... 4lbs up.

It's just water weight, bloating, etc etc I'll tell myself, but nope... if I get right back to the hard work, it'll hold steady at the 3-4 pounds up range, and then begin slowly ticking back down. If I don't immediately go back to the careful diet and moderate excercise it will start climbing.

I feel like it's one enormous grueling step forward, followed by two steps back and it's so exhausting. [/quote]

Is it an overall weight issue or certain areas like your stomach?[/quote]

It's mostly in my midriff... I have quite muscular legs, normal arms, very broad shoulders.

I'm NEVER going to fit comfortably on the BMI scale. My senior year of high school I was 5'10, a three-sport varsity athlete, could run a 7 minute mile and I weighed 205. I'm now over 260. Given my level of exercise and my physical capabilities, I think I'm a naturally stocky man who is also on the muscular side... and from the waist to my shoulders, I'm pear-shaped. In terms of looks, it's fine. In the winter, if I wear a heavy coat you would probably think I'm in quite good shape.

If I could get to 225, I could probably be in quite good shape, but the extra weight kills my knees, I have bad heartburn, sleep apnea, and as I get older it's going to start affecting my heart. I have no sign of diabetes and slightly high (within normal range) blood pressure, but it's only going to get harder to maintain all that, so I really would like to lose the weight.[/quote]

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