1500 cal Vs 1200

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,449 Member
    I knew that, I just didn't know anyone actually used it.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    I knew that, I just didn't know anyone actually used it.

    {raises hand}

    And to this thread - in one read this has been a great compilation of info and experiences that should be useful to anyone wondering the same thing.

    If only there was a search button for it to be found by others for reading.....
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,557 Member
    edited July 2020
    northviewvintage wrote: »
    Thanks, I'll check out those articles. The "not supposed to get as skinny" was maybe a bad choice of words. I definately don't think women should eat more as they get older!:/
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    cmriverside wrote: »
    Yeah, I'm glad you guys typed that all out, I've had this discussion quite a few times and - let's face it - Ann is a better faster typist.

    :::flowerforyou:::

    A cranky personality plus fast touch-typing skills (with a physical old-school QWERTY keyboard to support same) can be a wonderful but terrible thing. :lol::lol::lol:

    I think eating more as an old person is pretty swell, if a person is lucky enough to be able to do it while happily maintaining a sensible weight. I'll be sad if/when my healthy-weight maintenance TDEE shrinks from its 64 y/o level of 2000+ calories daily. ;)
    northviewvintage wrote: »
    That's a good point! The more I look into it the bone density loss might have more to do with our body composition and %fat rather than body weight. The minimum suggested is 17% for under age 29, 18% for age 30-49, and 19% for over 50.
    hipari wrote: »
    Anecdotally about elderly people weighing more... my maternal grandpa has always been chubby, but nothing that I would think of as "obese" (I don't know what he weighed). Since grandma died and no longer makes every meal for him, he has lost a lot of weight. The consensus with both family and his doctors is that without the extra energy reserves on him, he would have most likely died already or been forced to move to a nursing home due to weakness and deteriorating health. So, in his case, being overweight has protected him from severe health problems.

    My paternal grandpa was morbidly obese. His kidneys failed so he missed a lot of big things like my graduation because it was on dialysis day, and died of a heart attack.

    From these two examples, there are two note-worthy things: being a bit chubby/overweight is not the same thing as morbid obesity. Also, my paternal grandpa was ~75 when he died, my maternal grandpa is now 85. The OP is 47. That's a big difference, and personally I really don't think the "what's healthy for older people" discussion applies to anyone under 60, or possibly even 70.

    Genetics is a pretty big deal, in bone loss, IMU. Personally, I blame some of my cancer-related medication regimen (anti-estrogens) for my osteoporosis/osteopenia, because fat people aren't supposed to be as vulnerable to it, and I was fat (obese class 1) when it developed. Momma didn't have a serious bone loss problem (that I could see - not so much formally diagnosed in anyone before she passed away in 1993). Pretty sure my paternal grandmother did, though, since she broke her hip in later years - more than once, IIRC, but I was only10 when she died in 1965.

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