Becoming deliberately less bulky in middle age.
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CheesecakeRunner said:
pistonheadforum said:
If the weight is mainly lost in the kitchen rather than the gym (through healthy eating) what is a reasonable amount to be loosing per week whilst still feeling fine?
1-2lbs a week. Achieve by cutting 3500-5000 calories across the week. 
Anonymous-poster said:
CheesecakeRunner said:
pistonheadforum said:
If the weight is mainly lost in the kitchen rather than the gym (through healthy eating) what is a reasonable amount to be loosing per week whilst still feeling fine?
1-2lbs a week. Achieve by cutting 3500-5000 calories across the week. ORD said:
Exercise is a bad way to get lean, in my view. It’s massively easier to not eat 500 calories than to burn them.
Your metabolism increases with regular exercise, so those 1500 calories you are eating instead of 2000 will be like eating only 1200 even on the days you don't exercise.If you just diet, your metabolism decreases so those 1500 calories are more like 1800 calories.
I've haven't done enough exercise recentty but have lost alot of weight, but find that any little extra snake causes my weight to jump up a couple of pounds the next day. Starting to increase my exercise, now my heart is stronger.
Pit Pony said:
Your metabolism increases with regular exercise, so those 1500 calories you are eating instead of 2000 will be like eating only 1200 even on the days you don't exercise.
If you just diet, your metabolism decreases so those 1500 calories are more like 1800 calories.
I've haven't done enough exercise recentty but have lost alot of weight, but find that any little extra snake causes my weight to jump up a couple of pounds the next day. Starting to increase my exercise, now my heart is stronger.
Any evidence to support any of that?If you just diet, your metabolism decreases so those 1500 calories are more like 1800 calories.
I've haven't done enough exercise recentty but have lost alot of weight, but find that any little extra snake causes my weight to jump up a couple of pounds the next day. Starting to increase my exercise, now my heart is stronger.
Metabolic rate generally drops when dieting due to energy restrictions, but returns to base level when the restrictions are lifted.
Resistance training (though not so much cardio) and carrying more muscle mass can increase your metabolism, but marginally, and not to the degree it’ll be noticeable tbh.
In general we have can’t do much to speed up metabolism, but it’s easy to slow it down. We can however, make out bodies energy systems and nutrient partitioning ability more effective and efficient at creating energy via exercise.
Resistance training (though not so much cardio) and carrying more muscle mass can increase your metabolism, but marginally, and not to the degree it’ll be noticeable tbh.
In general we have can’t do much to speed up metabolism, but it’s easy to slow it down. We can however, make out bodies energy systems and nutrient partitioning ability more effective and efficient at creating energy via exercise.
didelydoo said:
Metabolic rate generally drops when dieting due to energy restrictions, but returns to base level when the restrictions are lifted.
Resistance training (though not so much cardio) and carrying more muscle mass can increase your metabolism, but marginally, and not to the degree it’ll be noticeable tbh.
In general we have can’t do much to speed up metabolism, but it’s easy to slow it down. We can however, make out bodies energy systems and nutrient partitioning ability more effective and efficient at creating energy via exercise.
This thread has drifted away from what I was banging on about in my OP. My fault, I probably wasn't awfully clear.Resistance training (though not so much cardio) and carrying more muscle mass can increase your metabolism, but marginally, and not to the degree it’ll be noticeable tbh.
In general we have can’t do much to speed up metabolism, but it’s easy to slow it down. We can however, make out bodies energy systems and nutrient partitioning ability more effective and efficient at creating energy via exercise.
My query wasn't about staying lean in middle age, it was staying lean whilst being less muscly. Basically.
I would rather be 13 stone and lean than 14 stone and lean. But my body seems to want to be 14 stone. It is almost as though training when I was younger permanently changed the roadmap my body wants to follow when I train.
Louis Balfour said:
This thread has drifted away from what I was banging on about in my OP. My fault, I probably wasn't awfully clear.
My query wasn't about staying lean in middle age, it was staying lean whilst being less muscly. Basically.
I would rather be 13 stone and lean than 14 stone and lean. But my body seems to want to be 14 stone. It is almost as though training when I was younger permanently changed the roadmap my body wants to follow when I train.
Are you unusually heavily muscled?My query wasn't about staying lean in middle age, it was staying lean whilst being less muscly. Basically.
I would rather be 13 stone and lean than 14 stone and lean. But my body seems to want to be 14 stone. It is almost as though training when I was younger permanently changed the roadmap my body wants to follow when I train.
A body is made up of water, bones, muscles, cartilage, collagen, fat etc. It's the same for everybody.
It seems unusual to have looked gaunt at 13st and 5ft 9.5
MC Bodge said:
Louis Balfour said:
This thread has drifted away from what I was banging on about in my OP. My fault, I probably wasn't awfully clear.
My query wasn't about staying lean in middle age, it was staying lean whilst being less muscly. Basically.
I would rather be 13 stone and lean than 14 stone and lean. But my body seems to want to be 14 stone. It is almost as though training when I was younger permanently changed the roadmap my body wants to follow when I train.
Are you unusually heavily muscled?My query wasn't about staying lean in middle age, it was staying lean whilst being less muscly. Basically.
I would rather be 13 stone and lean than 14 stone and lean. But my body seems to want to be 14 stone. It is almost as though training when I was younger permanently changed the roadmap my body wants to follow when I train.
A body is made up of bones, muscles, cartilage, collagen, fat etc. It's the same for everybody.
It seems unusual to have looked gaunt at 13st and 5ft 9.5
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