How does age effect weight loss?

Tacklewasher

Silentpadna wrote: »

The other thing when you're older, as I've realized, is that folks believe the myth that your metabolism slows down radically and that you should not stress your body through anything heavy or aerobically taxing.

No thanks.

At 54, I was a tub of goo unwittingly preparing to prepare to waste away to an early death sitting on the couch, convinced I was past my prime and that I was destined to the average overweight, weak guy. At 55, I'm now in better shape than I have probably ever been - most definitely stronger. I've run for longer distances than I ever did as a young man. I don't know whether an "early death" is in the cards for me or not. But I plan to live aggressively until that time comes and do as much as my body will let me. I've also found that my body will let me do more stuff when I progressively challenge it to do more stuff.

As I mentioned earlier, age was no issue for weight loss. Just work the numbers - if you do it right (i.e. get the numbers right) it has to work. It's been a little bit of an issue for strength gain, but only in the sense that recovery is slower - not that it can't happen.

Similar for me. At 51 I was 330+ lbs (scale didn't go past 300). I'll be 53 in a month, close to 200 lbs and training for a 1/2 marathon.

mph323

I'm 67 and lost around 50 lbs. over the past couple of years, and last year began exercising on a regular basis. Like so many above I'm in the best shape of my life!

It's interesting to look at things from this end of the age spectrum. In my 20's, and always chasing that last 10 lbs., when I thought of being in my 60's I couldn't imagine caring about how much I weighed because that was so old