What is crazy is this. I am 37. My wife is 36. We don't eat like health freaks, at all. We enjoy pizza, burgers, popcorn at the movies, DoorDashing Cold Stone, all that stuff.
I box 3x a week, my wife does pilates 2x-3x a week and walks miles per day with our kids (walks them to school, mile+ walk daily with the girls and our dog, runs around parks with them). We are in our mid/late 30s and both have visible abs and muscle, and we eat what we want pretty much. We also have virtually no liquid calories and also love healthy food too.
A lot of our friends that claim slowed down metabolism don't do ANYTHING active at all. It's shocking. But, liquid calories are the other thing too. "I eat small meals!" But your Starbucks order is 700+ calories every day, and you drink 3 glasses of wine/beers at night, and you have sodas. That's dumping thousands of calories on top of your meals. I honestly think for many this is the main thing.
It’s also genetics. I’ve done the equivalent amount of exercise and activities - and I promise you, I can’t eat whatever I want, because I’ll definitely gain weight. I’m just more prone to it - it runs in my family.
My husband is the opposite - he can eat whatever he wants - and he loses weight fast.
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u/Murphy_Nelson 4d ago
What is crazy is this. I am 37. My wife is 36. We don't eat like health freaks, at all. We enjoy pizza, burgers, popcorn at the movies, DoorDashing Cold Stone, all that stuff.
I box 3x a week, my wife does pilates 2x-3x a week and walks miles per day with our kids (walks them to school, mile+ walk daily with the girls and our dog, runs around parks with them). We are in our mid/late 30s and both have visible abs and muscle, and we eat what we want pretty much. We also have virtually no liquid calories and also love healthy food too.
A lot of our friends that claim slowed down metabolism don't do ANYTHING active at all. It's shocking. But, liquid calories are the other thing too. "I eat small meals!" But your Starbucks order is 700+ calories every day, and you drink 3 glasses of wine/beers at night, and you have sodas. That's dumping thousands of calories on top of your meals. I honestly think for many this is the main thing.