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Why do we gain weight as we age?

armydreamers
armydreamers Posts: 175 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Is it just that our metabolism slows down? I used to be able to eat anything and I was a size 2/4 up until age 25. Now 10 years later I gain weight super easily and have gained like 25 pounds in that time. I'm at least as active now as I was then so I don't know what changed. I had kids but what else?

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  • angelamichelle_xo
    angelamichelle_xo Posts: 646 Member
    lazinezz.
    less activeness.
    body changes.
    stress.
    horomones.
  • michaela4910
    michaela4910 Posts: 544 Member
    I think it's because we slow down. I used to be so active not so much now.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    It's more lifestyle than anything else as mentioned above. There are some drops in BMR, much of it due to loss of muscle mass, but also some other age related issues with hormones etc, but those pale in comparison to the general lack of activities.
  • ElizabethOakes2
    ElizabethOakes2 Posts: 1,038 Member
    Metabolism changes, mostly. Our bodies just don't run as efficiently as they did when we were 25. I miss being 25. ... Not the broke and working three jobs to pay off student loans part, but the metabolism part. ;)
  • michaela4910
    michaela4910 Posts: 544 Member
    There are ways to boost your metabolism.

    http://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-boost-your-metabolism
  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
    michaelallanson wrote: »
    There are ways to boost your metabolism.

    http://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-boost-your-metabolism

    The first couple slides are talking about increasing your TDEE, not your metabolism overall, except for the muscles, and thereafter it's straight into woo. Energy drinks, while they increase your resting heart rate due to the caffeine, do not "boost" your metabolism enough to make up for their caloric content, eating multiple times throughout the day has been repeatedly proven to not be any more or less beneficial than eating one meal a day, or three, or whatever. Spicy foods: no. Coffee is in there with energy drinks, and while it does burn more calories to digest protein than say, bread, it's such a minimal amount that it barely warrants mentioning.

    It takes significant and very rare medical conditions to affect one's metabolism adversely, and even then, not enough to make it impossible to lose weight with CICO adjusted for output.
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