Thoughts? seems absurdly overweight for the "average" person to be....?
The crazy thing is that it's uncommon to be fit now.
this will continue until the govt takes steps to reduce work weeks to 32 hours or fewer. People don't have time to exercise or are too tired from lack of sleep or work.
I've gained more than 15 lbs in the past 20 years.
I'm pretty close to that and probably fitter than you'll ever be, chipmunk.
Eat...drink...and be merry! 😉
I believe it. I'm average height and hit 195 lbs. at age 39. I looked pretty normal, too. Then a drunk old guy made a crack about my weight, so I started doing something about what I ate, and then got back to running, and dropped 40+ pounds over the space of 5 years. Thanks, drunk old guy.
It's not because of too much fat, just too many calories, and that is because of too many carbohydrates, which
a) are cheap so they dominate the food supply, and
b) make you want to eat a whole lot
America will never eat good food until the economy stops pushing demand for bad food, which capitalism can't do because it depends on the production and sale of useless and bad things for continued growth.
This will hit 200lb pretty quick once Trump starts deporting Mexicans
kvothe wrote:
this will continue until the govt takes steps to reduce work weeks to 32 hours or fewer. People don't have time to exercise or are too tired from lack of sleep or work.
Exercise is a small part of the problem
At about 45 I think I was 5' 10" and maybe 216 at my peak. Cardiologist told me to lose 40 pounds and I did. I'm supposed to be about 168 but right now I'm 177 and feel like a tub of goo. But when I was 200+ nobody really thought anything of it, except the few people who know me from running way back when.
aim lower wrote:
I believe it. I'm average height and hit 195 lbs. at age 39. I looked pretty normal, too. Then a drunk old guy made a crack about my weight, so I started doing something about what I ate, and then got back to running, and dropped 40+ pounds over the space of 5 years. Thanks, drunk old guy.
One more way I am below average!
aim lower wrote:
I believe it. I'm average height and hit 195 lbs. at age 39. I looked pretty normal, too. Then a drunk old guy made a crack about my weight, so I started doing something about what I ate, and then got back to running, and dropped 40+ pounds over the space of 5 years. Thanks, drunk old guy.
You're welcome.
[quote]Er... wrote:
At about 45 I think I was 5' 10" and maybe 216 at my peak. Cardiologist told me to lose 40 pounds and I did. I'm supposed to be about 168 but right now I'm 177 and feel like a tub of goo. But when I was 200+ nobody really thought anything of it, except the few people who know me from running way back when.
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Exact same story here but I can't get below 200, damn you Ben N Jerry.
Still hobby jog and BP and pulse are excellent but feel like tub of goo after I gave up racing in my early 30s.
Look "fit" compared to Peers, though.
Most do no exercise.
Bad Wigins wrote:
It's not because of too much fat, just too many calories, and that is because of too many carbohydrates, which
a) are cheap so they dominate the food supply, and
b) make you want to eat a whole lot
America will never eat good food until the economy stops pushing demand for bad food, which capitalism can't do because it depends on the production and sale of useless and bad things for continued growth.
Why have you been saying relatively reasonable things lately? What's wrong with you?
areyouserious1 wrote:
kvothe wrote:this will continue until the govt takes steps to reduce work weeks to 32 hours or fewer. People don't have time to exercise or are too tired from lack of sleep or work.
Exercise is a small part of the problem
From everything I've read and from personal experience as I near age 40, I think this is true. It's almost all about calories in. When I clean up my diet, I lose my stubborn belly fat. When alcohol, mindless snacking, and occasional pig-outs at meals start sneaking in, I gain it (or maintain it).
Mileage and intensity seem to have almost no correlation.
One thing that is frustrating, and I believe science backs this up now, is that once you've been fat, it becomes difficult, physiologically, to stay thin. I was 5-foot-9, 215 pounds at one point. Ballooned around 200 another time. I have a razor thin margin for error and it is very obvious to me.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
One more way I am below average!
Agree.
I know it's difficult in today's US's obesogenic culture to keep at a proper weight, but the effort is and will be worth it. As a guy in his mid-50s, I've experienced and seen how one's present and future quality of life are directly influenced by your weight.
I'm glad I've kept active-- even with hobby-jogger-times-- throughout my life. I can't imagine an existence where self-imposed constraints prevent me from long hikes on vacations, being able to fit into tight spaces for home maintenance, lifting no more than 20 lb, doing yard work and gardening, etc.
That's quite heavy, because I have a lot muscles and I weigh 178 pounds at 5 foot 9.
Average weight of a US male in 1960 was 165lbs, today 195. Women average weight in 1960 140lbs today 165lbs. This is one of the reason the US has fallen so far behind in world class distance running. Excessive weight gain as an adult begins in childhood. The pool of fit adolescents in the US who are beginning their competitive running has really shrunk.
I'll seize your means wrote:
This will hit 200lb pretty quick once Trump starts deporting Mexicans
I literally lol'd
Thanks for the first good laugh about the Donald ive had since he took office
As has been stated above, while it helps to be physically active, I think sugar, soda, high fructose corn syrup added to many processed foods, is the biggest cause.
This is driving an expensive health crisis with rising rates of diabetes and other chronic diseases and disabilities.
I went from 6'0, 165 in my 20s, to 199 pounds in my mid 40s by gaining about 2-3 pounds a year after I had kids and a serious job and I started eating junk food.
I am now 57 years old, weigh 168, ran a 3:04 marathon this year, and an 11:31 Ironman. No more McDonald's, no more bowl of ice cream before bed. I bring 5 or more pieces of fruit to work and pass on the doughnuts others bring to work.
It's hard at first to make a change, but gets easy once you make it a habit.