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Interesting thread and I'm very similar to the OP.
Perception is certainly as I get older I seem to eat less and drink (alcohol) less but still somehow put on weight. Try to keep sporty (golf, badminton, running machine) but yes probably less exercise than when younger.
I'm a different body shape now though, used to be a stick insect (with a small belly!) now I'm much broader shoulders (with a small belly!).
I was 6 ft and 10st6 when I was weighed starting a job age 22, now early 50s weigh 14st6.
Started using MFP though so at least we'll see on that score. Thanks for the tip.
Can't believe orange juice is bad for you, it's good healthy natural stuff isn't it? Doesn't seem to make sense, is it just the latest anti-sugar campaign?
Perception is certainly as I get older I seem to eat less and drink (alcohol) less but still somehow put on weight. Try to keep sporty (golf, badminton, running machine) but yes probably less exercise than when younger.
I'm a different body shape now though, used to be a stick insect (with a small belly!) now I'm much broader shoulders (with a small belly!).
I was 6 ft and 10st6 when I was weighed starting a job age 22, now early 50s weigh 14st6.
Started using MFP though so at least we'll see on that score. Thanks for the tip.
Can't believe orange juice is bad for you, it's good healthy natural stuff isn't it? Doesn't seem to make sense, is it just the latest anti-sugar campaign?
popeyewhite said:
Hoofy said:
It really doesn't need correcting. The statement may not make sense but everyone knows what is meant by "muscle weighs more than fat". Even a pedantic prick like me lets it go.
Oh come on, no one has ever said you were a pedant.
MacGee said:
any non water drink will increase blood volume to help maintain the electrolyte balance...thus even diet drinks will do this. Cut them out and see the weight drop off. Classic ploy of dieting fads is to cut them out and drink gallons of H2O.
Drinking water will also increase your blood volumehttp://drbenkim.com/drink-too-much-water-dangerous...
MacGee said:
any non water drink will increase blood volume to help maintain the electrolyte balance...thus even diet drinks will do this. Cut them out and see the weight drop off. Classic ploy of dieting fads is to cut them out and drink gallons of H2O.
Water retenton is primarily caused by too much sodium (salt) in the diet. Cut right back on salt and water retention will plummet very quickly, in a matter of days.Silver993tt said:
Water retenton is primarily caused by too much sodium (salt) in the diet. Cut right back on salt and water retention will plummet very quickly, in a matter of days.
Hence the diet show contestants cheating by artificially inflating their weight with salt for an easy weigh-in with the intention of dropping it all for the next one. Doesn't really matter in the real world, though, unless it's obscuring your actual weight or causing you blood pressure issues.otolith said:
Silver993tt said:
Water retenton is primarily caused by too much sodium (salt) in the diet. Cut right back on salt and water retention will plummet very quickly, in a matter of days.
Hence the diet show contestants cheating by artificially inflating their weight with salt for an easy weigh-in with the intention of dropping it all for the next one. Doesn't really matter in the real world, though, unless it's obscuring your actual weight or causing you blood pressure issues.popeyewhite said:
Silver993tt said:
ell, for some people it does matter in the real world because the eat too much salt in their diets, often hidden, not intentionally added. This shows as excess weight that they can't shift, even with exercise.
Are you sure about this?Joey Ramone said:
In the same way that Billy Vunipola has a different skeleton to AP McCoy? Then yes.
Its interesting you mention one of the best race jockeys to ever live....the exercise he does daily makes yours (no offence intended) irrelevant comparatively.....he has a main meal (one skinless chicken breast and green veg) 4 times a WEEK. Daily he has tea with sugar in it. He has been caught licking the flavouring off crisps! and he still has to sweat weight off for racesThe calorie guidelines provided to the world in general are 'hope' by the medical community, and not an accurate representation of what is healthy.
As has been pointed out by a few people....individual biology can play a part....and the calories in vs calories out isn't a straight line correlation. but the general thing is that pretty much everyone eats WAY more than needed; simple as that. (NOT related to official guidelines which again are NOT about health but hope and yes I did work on them)
You feel hungry all the time because your stomach is used to a largish volume of food in one go. 3 chicken breasts in one sitting is a LOT. there are stretch receptors in the stomach which play a part in determining when you feel replete - yours have no chance. You would be far better off eating that meal in 3 lots during the day. The difficult thing for you now is that you've spent 40 years training your body......changing that is hard and miserable.
argh there's just too much small detail around this and how your body responds to different inputs to type it all.
Silver993tt said:
ell, for some people it does matter in the real world because the eat too much salt in their diets, often hidden, not intentionally added. This shows as excess weight that they can't shift, even with exercise.
If they're not fat and they know it's just water, why do they care?otolith said:
Silver993tt said:
ell, for some people it does matter in the real world because the eat too much salt in their diets, often hidden, not intentionally added. This shows as excess weight that they can't shift, even with exercise.
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