Adaptive Thermogenesis during Maintenance

middlehaitch

Hee hee no offence taken by this 64yo who gets 1600 cals for a similar activity level that you are projecting. (5'1 and 100lbs. I don't do 10000 steps a day but lift 3-4 days).

Just keep moving and keep your muscles active. The thing that gives older people less food is a big drop in everyday activity.

As well as not burning cals moving (affecting NEAT), there is a greater chance of sarcopenia (muscle loss),and a decrease in bone density, which affects ones BMR as one ages.

Starting to understand how your body works, and how to treat it well, now, as well as looking to the future, means your chances of eating grass at 70 are minimal.

Cheers, h.

PAV8888

Most of the people who respond to posts on these forums would probably not recommend biggest loser type diets.

This doesn't mean, unfortunately, that there's a lack of people trying to diet the same way

And the eventual results are seldom good.

kshama2001

apple4164 wrote: »

Hmm interesting, it's also reassuring that the effect of AT is not as bad as I thought it would be during maintenance (after I read the study about the suppressed metabolism contestants of the Biggest Losers have even after weight gain, I freaked out a bit). If I can only eat 1800 calories to sustain my maintenance weight (I have around 15lbs to go) while hitting 10K everyday or strength training for 1 hr 2 times in a week. As an 18 years old, I am scared that (i hope I'm not offending anyone here) I will only be able to eat grass to maintain at 70+ yrs old

People who share meals with my 80 year old mother sometimes mistakenly assume she has a 'fast metabolism', which is incorrect. She's just very active, so active that she struggles to stay out of Underweight. (Because she's so active, she also misses meals from time to time.)

She'll be cracking the whip tomorrow when I'm over there helping with post-storm yard cleanup.

middlehaitch

Talking of little old ladies, my mum is 91 and , although she eats small meals, she has:
Tea and biscuits at 7.
Oatmeal, banana, with a shot of baileys at 9:30,
Elevensies, cup of tea and a stuffed roll.
Dinner at 1-1:30 varies.
Afternoon tea, plus a sweet thing.
Tea, protein, starch, and veg.
7-8pm cup of tea and treat.
10-11 complan, meal replacemrnt.

She is 4'9 and 112 lbs.

Cheers, h.

PAV8888

Ok. But why Bailey's only on the morning????? And shouldn't Bailey's calories be illegal and halved?

And how active is that Dynamo?

AnnPT77

middlehaitch wrote: »

Talking of little old ladies, my mum is 91 and , although she eats small meals, she has:
Tea and biscuits at 7.
Oatmeal, banana, with a shot of baileys at 9:30,
Elevensies, cup of tea and a stuffed roll.
Dinner at 1-1:30 varies.
Afternoon tea, plus a sweet thing.
Tea, protein, starch, and veg.
7-8pm cup of tea and treat.
10-11 complan, meal replacemrnt.

She is 4'9 and 112 lbs.

Cheers, h.

She sounds like the kind of woman I aspire to be when I grow up!

middlehaitch

Oh m

PAV8888 wrote: »

Ok. But why Bailey's only on the morning????? And shouldn't Bailey's calories be illegal and halved?

And how active is that Dynamo?

Bailieys in oatmeal is her little peccadillo.

She switches to whisky or brandy in her tea after breakfast @PAV8888. (Got to say, dad was a drinker and she abhorred the money wasted post WWII, when we we're rationed in the '50's, but now she enjoys her little tipples)

Activity: shops 1-3 times a day. Sounds light, but she lives on the 2nd floor, and it is up a steep hill or 17 steps to the Main Street.
Makes my sister's lunch and delivers it, shops and visits, then makes here dinner. This is an agreement between them to keep mum active, mind and body.
She is also a lady who lunches.

She was a cleaning lady most of her life and is amused that people have to go to gyms for exercise.

Everyone who meets her loves her.

Can you tell I adore my mum, and want to be like her when I grow up. @AnnPT77
Cheers, h
(Sorry for the derail.)

just because it has a pic of me and mum.

AnnPT77

middlehaitch wrote: »

Oh m

PAV8888 wrote: »

Ok. But why Bailey's only on the morning????? And shouldn't Bailey's calories be illegal and halved?

And how active is that Dynamo?

Bailieys in oatmeal is her little peccadillo.

She switches to whisky or brandy in her tea after breakfast @PAV8888. (Got to say, dad was a drinker and she abhorred the money wasted post WWII, when we we're rationed in the '50's, but now she enjoys her little tipples)

Activity: shops 1-3 times a day. Sounds light, but she lives on the 2nd floor, and it is up a steep hill or 17 steps to the Main Street.
Makes my sister's lunch and delivers it, shops and visits, then makes here dinner. This is an agreement between them to keep mum active, mind and body.
She is also a lady who lunches.

She was a cleaning lady most of her life and is amused that people have to go to gyms for exercise.

Everyone who meets her loves her.

Can you tell I adore my mum, and want to be like her when I grow up. @AnnPT77
Cheers, h
(Sorry for the derail.)

just because it has a pic of me and mum.

I switched from "inspiring" to "hug" at least 3 times.

I'm going to have to try that "Bailey's in oatmeal" thing . . . clearly the ACV contingent has missed the boat.

Do you think her active life has left her with better body composition than average for her age? I'm thinking it likely would.

That last is back on topic, right? .

snowflake954

I never thought of Bailey's in oatmeal---gotta try it! Oh, and say hi to your mum for me, as we say " What a woman"!