Middle Age Spread

[northernladuk]

everybody needs to exercise daily. That's how you don't get diabetes and other nasty tulip.
one hour's walk every day if you can't manage more is still exercise

One hour a day is a lot, particularly bearing in mind you can adjust the rate at which you walk. A family member with T2 diabetes has been told to do 30 mins and looking around much of the advice says 30 mins is a great goal. It's not enough to lose weight but just right for health managememnt. Don't need to be doing an hour. Telling people you need to do that has the opposite effect that it's too much to manage. I think people are surprised how little is actually needed to maintain a healthy balance and if that number is achievable more easily they will be more inclinded to do it.

[ladymuck]

that is not only impossible but outright insane.
People's metabolism changes with age. Also, if you keep yourself at a normal BMI and are active in your everyday life you should be OK.

Not necessarily true. There was a fair bit reported in August (trying to find a non-paywalled link from a reputable source) from a study that discovered metabolism is pretty stable after your first couple of years until you reach around 60 when the next change happens.

EDIT: https://www.theguardian.com/science/...lts-says-study

[lorakeen]

One hour a day is a lot, particularly bearing in mind you can adjust the rate at which you walk. A family member with T2 diabetes has been told to do 30 mins and looking around much of the advice says 30 mins is a great goal. It's not enough to lose weight but just right for health managememnt. Don't need to be doing an hour. Telling people you need to do that has the opposite effect that it's too much to manage. I think people are surprised how little is actually needed to maintain a healthy balance and if that number is achievable more easily they will be more inclinded to do it.

That depends on the person. Many people indeed lack the time. Some lack the motivation as well. It's human.
Every person has their own way to do things and their own body's requirements.
With WFH, I found myself saving the 2 hours I was wasting on commuting, so I figured that spending one walking about is not a bad idea. It worked for me.

That being said, losing weight if that is the goal is something that always needs to be done with a diet. You can lose weight by dieting and not working out, but apparently the other way around doesn't work.

Everybody has their own needs. Whatever keeps one in shape and healthy is what's good for them.

[ladymuck]

One hour a day is a lot, particularly bearing in mind you can adjust the rate at which you walk. A family member with T2 diabetes has been told to do 30 mins and looking around much of the advice says 30 mins is a great goal. It's not enough to lose weight but just right for health managememnt. Don't need to be doing an hour. Telling people you need to do that has the opposite effect that it's too much to manage. I think people are surprised how little is actually needed to maintain a healthy balance and if that number is achievable more easily they will be more inclinded to do it.

WHO recommends 150 minutes activity a week, which is a little over 20 minutes a day, so 30 minutes five times a week is perfectly reasonable.

I read once that you need to get breathless (not gasping) for at least 10 minutes for the exercise to have benefit.

[lorakeen]

Not necessarily true. There was a fair bit reported in August (trying to find a non-paywalled link from a reputable source) from a study that discovered metabolism is pretty stable after your first couple of years until you reach around 60 when the next change happens.

unless you're a woman because menopause is athing

[vwdan]

I read once that you need to get breathless (not gasping) for at least 10 minutes for the exercise to have benefit.

I can only manage 5 I'm afraid

[hugebrain]

Apparently if you can't fit into the jeans you wore at 21 you have a problem...


People risk developing type 2 diabetes if they can no longer fit into the jeans they were wearing when they were 21, according to one of the world’s leading experts on the disease.

I still have a pair of Levi’s from when I was 21 and they fit fine (except the legs are a bit long, the shrink to fit thing in the bath didn’t work for that).

I’m not sure that staying fat for such a long time is super healthy though!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Much to my dear niece's amusement, I dug a leather belt from 1975 out of the wardrobe.

There's no way I could manage to do it up as tight as the wear marks indicated.

It's a loooooong time since I was 11st 2lb, though the weight seems to be dropping slowly at the moment.

The only time I've been close to that weight was back in the mid 80s.

Currently an indicated 12st 7lb ish, down from 13st something.

I do about an hours walk everday unless it's tipping down.

The road up the hill is relatively steep so I do get a bit breathless on the way up.

[xoggoth]

I think at 21 I still barely weighed much over 9st, I was incredibly skinny. I've filled out with both fat and muscle since then - currently two sizes bigger than I was back then but it should be 1 realistically. Some self-maintenance to do this winter

Yeh. I could have been an extra in a concentration camp movie in my 20s. Don't think it's possible to be quite like that when you get older. Hit 50 - BOOM Jabba The Hutt!

[Paralytic]

Apparently if you can't fit into the jeans you wore at 21 you have a problem...

I am fitter/weigh less than i did at age 21. So, i could fit in the jeans i wore at 21, but they'd be too big for me and end up around my ankles.

Not sure if that means i have a problem, or not.