Apparently, your metabolic rate changes as you get older. This theory supports the idea that people are destined to get fatter as they age.

Do you accept this as fact?

Sadly, yes.

Yes, It`s been proved that an 18 year old, sitting down, will burn more calories than a 70 year old walking round. I am not happy about this fact :(

Yes, I have definitely noticed the distance since I entered my 30s. :bag:

No! You mean I have worse to look forward to?

Apparently, your metabolic rate changes as you get older. This theory supports the idea that people are destined to get fatter as they age.

Do you accept this as fact?
Hmmm - so how come toddlers are so chubby? :)

Apparently metabolic rate also changes with muscle mass, so one reason for older people to have a lower MR might be just that they're less active, and hence have less muscle.

There certainly seem to be plenty of skinny old people around. There's hope for us yet!

Interesting.

Y'see I don't agree that people are destined to get fatter as they age.

I can't argue with the fact that metabolism is designed to slow as you get older (unfortunately, its scientific fact) - what I do disagree with is the idea that there is nothing you can do about it, although I would have agree with that statement a year ago. In recent months I have managed to change my metabolism, and it is as efficient now as it was when I was in my twenties. Frankly, I am astounded. I'm 10lbs lighter than I was 3 months ago and I've also lost any trace of cellulite I had. And I wasn't even trying to lose weight!

In recent months I have managed to change my metabolism

How did you do that then? :huh:

What? Since you came back here?

You're sucking the rest of us dry, aren't you? I want my metabolism back :angry:

How did you do that then? :huh:

By eating about 5 times a day.

Does that mean that as you get older you need to eat more and more rapidly? By the time we're all ninety we'll need to be grazing nonstop in order to keep our supermodel figures :)

Does that mean that as you get older you need to eat more and more rapidly? By the time we're all ninety we'll need to be grazing nonstop in order to keep our supermodel figures :)

No, not at all. You just need to eat enough to keep your metabolic rate chugging away efficiently. This is done by eating on a regular basis - about every three hours during the course of a day.

Obviously what you eat matters - the objective is to eat food which burns slowly and keeps the metabolism working until you next eat, thereby making it more efficient.

Its not magic. Any nutritionist would tell you the same.

Interesting. Take us through a typical day, Figs.

Interesting. Take us through a typical day, Figs.


OK:

Day 1

7:00am - Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs and 2 oatcakes

10:00am - Apple and a small piece of feta cheese

1:00pm - Lunch: Sweet potato with cottage cheese and spring onions

4:00pm - 2 rye biscuits with humous or low fat cream cheese

7:00pm - Dinner: Tuna in spicy tomato sauce with stir fried veg or salad

Day 2

7:00am - Breakfast: Porridge (made with apple juice and water, rather than milk), with chopped pear and two tablespoons of natural yoghurt

10:00am - Fruit juice and 1 oatcake with low fat cream cheese

1:00pm - Lunch: Vegetable soup with some carbohydrate (i.e. wholemeal roll or a couple of oatcakes) or salad nicoise

4:00pm - Fruit smoothie or a couple of rye buscuits with spread

7:00pm - Dinner: something like Duck breast with stir fried veg or a vegetable frittata

there doesnt appear to be any chocolate in your diet Figs, how do you cope!?!?!?!?

seriously, i think im addicted to it - im more stressed if I have no choc than if I have no ganja!!!! im seeing my GP about it next week! my friend thinks its "an emotional" thing and I need to get it under control cos i am binging on choc again and I havent done that for years and years......:unsure:

there doesnt appear to be any chocolate in your diet Figs, how do you cope!?!?!?!?

I do have choclate if I fancy it (I had a chunky KitKat yesterday), but actually, I've never been that "into" chocolate the way a lot of other women are. I fancy it from time to time, but I don't think I've ever craved it. I've always had more of a weakness for savoury stuff.

My mother-in-law is like you though. She literally HAS to have some chocolate every day. She'll eat cooking chocolate if there is noting else available. :sick: