How much does your metabolism decrease with age?

Question

I'm 30 at 5'6, slim built and weigh 130 pounds. When I was in my younger 20's I weighed 110, how is this increase possible in a decade?

Answer 1

I don't know what units to measure metabolism in, but for me, I go up a dress size every 10-15.

It happens very gradually. The older you get, the harder it is to take off.

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Exercise at least 3 days a week for 30 minutes.

Lift weights to make your body dense. Not large weights, just small weights to tone your body. This will increase your metabolism.

Stay away from fad diets. With a fad diet you will lose a lot of weight initially, but when it comes back it will bring friends and they won't want to leave.

Remember in high school when you could shed weight by sneezing too hard? Those days are long gone.

Answer 2

It's natural for people to gain weight as they get older. Sometimes it's muscle mass; if you're wearing the same size (and, I'll bet it's real close), this is the reason. Remember that you've moved around A LOT since you were 22, and that builds muscle, which, spoonful for spoonful, weighs much more than fat.

130 at your height is trim, indeed, surely no cause for alarm.

The real fun is still ahead: menopause! During the 2 or 3 years building up to it, it's possible to gain 30 lbs. for no damn reason at all (actually, there is a reason, but I won't go into it here).

Don't you just *love* being a woman?

Answer 3

It depends on genetics. What do your older female relatives look like? What kind of slow down did they experience?

Have your eating habits and activity level changed in the last 10 years? Have you had children? There are many other variables working with your genetics and the natural aging process (cells slow down and you have fewer of them as you get older).

You aren't overweight so I wouldn't worry too much...unless you gain like 10 pounds in a year.

Answer 4

I'm betting you stopped exercising as much and continued to carry on with the same eating habits as you had 10-15 years ago.

Answer 5

it's called modern technology.
instead of going outside to catch and kill your meal you just get in the car and go to the shop to buy it.
that same technology has allowed us to calculate that you need to walk eight kilometres (it's five miles) per day to maintain optimal health.
get going.

Answer 6

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