Metabolism
mnaguibm
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Any ideas for boosting body metabolism rather than exercising?
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Is there some reason you can't exercise?0
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Cocaine and methamphetamine.0
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ah no.0
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Spicy foods, keep well hydrated, high protein diet, build muscle, omega-3s, stimulants, sleeping, eating, keeping your thermostat low.0
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More exercisise
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?0
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This thread just explained that metabolism can't be boosted.
I lost weight perfectly at 44 through diet and exercise. 44 pounds, incidentally
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
When you say you exercise and diet, do you count calories? Do you weigh everything with a food scale?
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
You can lose fat, you just need to figure out your Calorie needs and eat at a calorie deficit.
Yes of course age and thyroid issues lower your Base metobolic rate or BMR but CICO still applies and works.
It may take a bit more work to find your numbers since BMR calculators only factor in age but it isn't that hard to determine you number.
Suggestions to boost metabolism, add muscle mass and or exercise more. Short of fixing your thyroid those are your options.0 -
I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.0 -
I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
I'm older than you, and I have a dodgy thyroid (I am medicated though) and I lose weight.
You just need to figure out what calorie deficit level will work for you. It might be lower than online calculators will predict.
Regarding your thyroid, though, do you know the number your last TSH was? Do you have any symptoms of hypothyroidism? (Feeling cold, fatigue, dry skin, brittle nails)
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
God not this excuse again - move more, build muscle and you don't have a built-in excuse as you age .. which is based on population averages and really is not that significant a slow down (something like have to eat 100 calories less per day over 20 years IIRC .. might be wrong)
although a thyroid condition will make it more challenging the basic CICO principle remains
(47 - just lost 52 pounds over 8 months and am fitter and stronger than ever .. weigh your food OP, try progressive weight lifting)
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
God not this excuse again - move more, build muscle and you don't have a built-in excuse as you age .. which is based on population averages and really is not that significant a slow down (something like have to eat 100 calories less per day over 20 years IIRC .. might be wrong)
although a thyroid condition will make it more challenging the basic CICO principle remains
(47 - just lost 52 pounds over 8 months and am fitter and stronger than ever .. weigh your food OP, try progressive weight lifting)
Lmao, It is not an excuse it is a fact. If you do not factor in age when determining your Calorie needs and just ate like you did when you were 18 you would likely be massively over eating.
Perhaps if you read my comment in the timeline of the thread you would get the point.0 -
I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
God not this excuse again - move more, build muscle and you don't have a built-in excuse as you age .. which is based on population averages and really is not that significant a slow down (something like have to eat 100 calories less per day over 20 years IIRC .. might be wrong)
although a thyroid condition will make it more challenging the basic CICO principle remains
(47 - just lost 52 pounds over 8 months and am fitter and stronger than ever .. weigh your food OP, try progressive weight lifting)
Lmao, It is not an excuse it is a fact. If you do not factor in age when determining your Calorie needs and just ate like you did when you were 18 you would likely be massively over eating.
Perhaps if you read my comment in the timeline of the thread you would get the point.
true, but it's marginal (a couple of hundred of calories .. and how much is from reduced activity / reduced musculature) .. so you either cut down your calories or increase your calorie burn to maintain your weight as you age... like, oh I dunno, CICO?
Sorry I don't know what the bolded part means, did I miss something0 -
Someone said age isn't a factor. It is, technically, a factor. Just not a very big one.I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
God not this excuse again - move more, build muscle and you don't have a built-in excuse as you age .. which is based on population averages and really is not that significant a slow down (something like have to eat 100 calories less per day over 20 years IIRC .. might be wrong)
although a thyroid condition will make it more challenging the basic CICO principle remains
(47 - just lost 52 pounds over 8 months and am fitter and stronger than ever .. weigh your food OP, try progressive weight lifting)
Lmao, It is not an excuse it is a fact. If you do not factor in age when determining your Calorie needs and just ate like you did when you were 18 you would likely be massively over eating.
Perhaps if you read my comment in the timeline of the thread you would get the point.
true, but it's marginal (a couple of hundred of calories .. and how much is from reduced activity / reduced musculature) .. so you either cut down your calories or increase your calorie burn to maintain your weight as you age... like, oh I dunno, CICO?
Sorry I don't know what the bolded part means, did I miss something
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
Not significantly and I would hazard a guess that some is to do with loss of LBM as you age. What does often change is activity levels.
Off the top of my head, I think it is about 100 calories every 10 years. Not huge, but it is a factor.0 -
Calm down peeps, we are all singing from the same hymn book. Its a factor, just not that big and not an excuse.
Move more, gain muscle and take control.0 -
I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
But not enough where people should be using it as a crutch. The reduction isn't so extraordinary figure.
But certainly enough to include age in every calorie calculator I have seen.
Using anything as a crutch is just that a crutch. It is not reason to ignore the facts, but go ahead, eat at your TDEE set to 18 years old if you don't think it matters.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that's more related to the fact that I'm not playing football, basketball, baseball, running track, and spending 12 hours a day walking around Six Flags than to my metabolic rate.I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
But not enough where people should be using it as a crutch. The reduction isn't so extraordinary figure.
But certainly enough to include age in every calorie calculator I have seen.
Using anything as a crutch is just that a crutch. It is not reason to ignore the facts, but go ahead, eat at your TDEE set to 18 years old if you don't think it matters.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that's more related to the fact that I'm not playing football, basketball, baseball, running track, and spending 12 hours a day walking around Six Flags than to my metabolic rate.I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
But not enough where people should be using it as a crutch. The reduction isn't so extraordinary figure.
But certainly enough to include age in every calorie calculator I have seen.
Using anything as a crutch is just that a crutch. It is not reason to ignore the facts, but go ahead, eat at your TDEE set to 18 years old if you don't think it matters.
Exercise certainly increases your your TDEE more then age affects your BMR that is true.
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I exercise and diet and can't lose weight. I'm 42. I assume my age has something to do with it, but idk. I have low t4 but tsh is normal so dr won't put me on thyroid meds. Any suggestions to boost my metabolism?
nope age is not a factor..I am almost 43 and have lost 53lbs...calorie counting and exercise.
Your metabolism slows as you age.
But not enough where people should be using it as a crutch. The reduction isn't so extraordinary figure.
But certainly enough to include age in every calorie calculator I have seen.
Using anything as a crutch is just that a crutch. It is not reason to ignore the facts, but go ahead, eat at your TDEE set to 18 years old if you don't think it matters.
You are completely missing the point. No one is saying there isn't a difference but it isn't something to write home about. Go ahead and pull up a calculator and look at the difference in calories between my age and your age and tell me if it's so big number.
So don't write home about it, it is still a true statement and is factored into your BMR and TDEE. If you choose to ignore it that is your business.0 -
The difference between my BMR at 18 and my BMR at 51 is 165 calories per day. Or about one fewer Snickers per day.0
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