wife thinks I'm too skinny now

high school weight skinny? wrote:

I'm 39 and male. A year or so ago I realized my abs had disappeared over the years. I didn't feel like I was getting fat but I had also noticed that my weight (which I barely ever check) had been checking in between 165 and 175. I was running 3x a week, maybe 4-6 miles each time. Nothing long, nothing too fast. I didn't look fat although I had started to get a little bit of a belly sticking out. I'm 5'11" and as a senior in high school I was probably 145-155.

Flash forward a year, well, 4 months actually. I guess this started in October, really. I got a wild hair in my ass and started running more, probably just being conscious of soon turning 40. First 20-30 mpw for a month, then 40, then 50. I'm clocking 50 mpw now and also climbing like crazy, 10k feet a week. I'm mostly running trails, so I'm out running about 9 hours a week on 5 or 6 runs total. Every other day I'm doing a light core regimen now of pushups (I'm weak, just 2 sets of 22), situps, clams, etc... stuff to strengthen mostly the hips, glutes, abs, and hams. The rest of my time I'm sitting at a desk.

Now, my wife's parents and some of her friends are asking me if I'm well. I've dropped 10-15 pounds I think, and you can see it in my stomach (I got my abs back, definition and all) and my face (my jaw and cheekbones are more noticable). I mean, they aren't seeing my stomach -- they're seeing the loose clothing draped over my thinner frame and my cheeks popping out. My weight is down in the mid 150s now. My loved ones think I'm unhealthy, that I'm taking running too far. Meanwhile, I'm logging the most consistent mileage I've ever been able to put together in my life, and running times I haven't seen in 15 years. My instinct is that my body has metabolized the fat that I'd been storing in places like my cheeks and in my belly and that this is pretty much what's going to happen if I log 50 miles a week. But that doesn't change the fact that my loved ones are worried about me.

Let's run, have any of you experienced weight loss with increased miles and were met with worry from your loved ones? Grateful to hear your stories.

sssd wrote:

high school weight skinny? wrote:

I'm 39 and male. A year or so ago I realized my abs had disappeared over the years. I didn't feel like I was getting fat but I had also noticed that my weight (which I barely ever check) had been checking in between 165 and 175. I was running 3x a week, maybe 4-6 miles each time. Nothing long, nothing too fast. I didn't look fat although I had started to get a little bit of a belly sticking out. I'm 5'11" and as a senior in high school I was probably 145-155.

Flash forward a year, well, 4 months actually. I guess this started in October, really. I got a wild hair in my ass and started running more, probably just being conscious of soon turning 40. First 20-30 mpw for a month, then 40, then 50. I'm clocking 50 mpw now and also climbing like crazy, 10k feet a week. I'm mostly running trails, so I'm out running about 9 hours a week on 5 or 6 runs total. Every other day I'm doing a light core regimen now of pushups (I'm weak, just 2 sets of 22), situps, clams, etc... stuff to strengthen mostly the hips, glutes, abs, and hams. The rest of my time I'm sitting at a desk.

Now, my wife's parents and some of her friends are asking me if I'm well. I've dropped 10-15 pounds I think, and you can see it in my stomach (I got my abs back, definition and all) and my face (my jaw and cheekbones are more noticable). I mean, they aren't seeing my stomach -- they're seeing the loose clothing draped over my thinner frame and my cheeks popping out. My weight is down in the mid 150s now. My loved ones think I'm unhealthy, that I'm taking running too far. Meanwhile, I'm logging the most consistent mileage I've ever been able to put together in my life, and running times I haven't seen in 15 years. My instinct is that my body has metabolized the fat that I'd been storing in places like my cheeks and in my belly and that this is pretty much what's going to happen if I log 50 miles a week. But that doesn't change the fact that my loved ones are worried about me.

Let's run, have any of you experienced weight loss with increased miles and were met with worry from your loved ones? Grateful to hear your stories.

5'11 and 140lbs isn't abs. You are too skinny