So just what happens to us men when we become 30 plus? How come we literally gain weight overnight when we hit those midlife years? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not like a beached whale or anything like that but I’m certainly a good 3 stone heavier than my slimline youth.
I haven’t really changed my lifestyle or routine since my twenties either though so why I’m getting bigger is a bit of a mystery. I still play quite a bit of sport but I dread to think what I’d look like in the sports kit I used to wear. The tracksuit I used to wear would probably bear more likeness to a wetsuit I would imagine. Does midlife weight gain actually exist as a phenomenon? Am I just simply over eating and blaming my age?
When I look at my long term friends I can also see that they have certainly gone up a few sizes and changed shape significantly too, both my guy and gal friends and family, so I know I’m not alone in this, which is comforting but doesn’t solve the problem of my sudden midlife weight gain, not to mention my shirt and waist size.
I have to say, recently or certainly within the last few years, for some reason my eating habits have changed a little. I seem to have developed a sweeter tooth than I used to have, and I tell you what, I never used to eat chocolate at all but there’s now always a bar in the fridge…and it doesn’t seem to be there long either.
So I don’t know. Maybe there is something physical or metabolic about midlife weight gain, but then again, maybe it’s just the simple saying that ‘you are what you eat after all.
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