I swear my metabolism knew when I turned 40 and shut down.

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  • Sumiblue
    Sumiblue Posts: 1,597 Member
    steph124ny wrote: »
    OP here.... just for the record, I'm not making excuses. I eat too much and exercise too little. I'm fixing that. But I have to eat even less and exercise even more than I did in my 20s. At age 24 after having 2 children I weighed 98 pounds and ate whatever, wherever with no intentional exercise. Now I am paying attention to what I eat, running 5ks as a personal "I turned 40 and I'm going to do this" bucket list, and I gain weight FAR more easily. So there are HUGE changes for me with age. It is what it is.... I want to be around 125 pounds again and I will get there. I'm not making excuses.... just observations.

    OP, it sounds like you need to increase your LBM. If you aren't already doing strength training look into that. It's especially important for women to work on resistance training & bone density as we age. You might want to check into reverse dieting to raise your TDEE, too. Reducing calories more & more might give a lower scale number just reduces your TDEE over time.
    Are you tracking your measurements not just weight? Scale weight does not tell the whole story.

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