Moneymaker, not sure what your diet is like…. But the answer for most Americans is to change your diet. Learn to like and appreciate lighter food. no burgers or mash potato with butter, etc…
I think that what people find delicious is all in the head.

[quote=spdrun]Commute by bike if possible. Or swim.[/quote]

Good idea… But the question was weight gain with age. If exercise doesn’t become forever part of lifestyle, then weight will come back. The other part of the equation is diet.

Become a food elitist. Very few things should be good enough to be called “soooo goooood.” Only the top 10% in quality should deserve your desire.

It’s probably worth noting that there is very little if any evidence that working out leads to weight loss.

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories

[quote=Balboa]Not completely on point, but this was an interesting article in the NYT today: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html?_r=0

Kettle bells seem all the rage, though form is key. My husband plays badminton. A couple of my friends love boxing. I feel like those things have the added bonus of requiring us to learn something new. We all know generally what running is like and whether we want to do several hours of it a week.

I’ve given up trying to workout after work. My workday spans at least 9 hours and my commute home is 45-55 minutes and is so stultifying (punctuated by moments of sheer terror, as the saying goes) that I have no momentum after it. I just started seeing a personal trainer last month and do it on my lunch hour. I do intervals on the treadmill at the office gym once a week and usually one weekend workout. I work a desk job — I doubt I’d want to use a break from manual labor to run on a tread mill (which is terribly boring on top of everything else).[/quote]

The article is proof that the diet industry and the fitness industry are creating endless cycles of failures that ultimately leads to completely broken self esteem and self worth as well as an ultra slow metabolism.

[quote=flu]Since last August (when I switched my employer), I’ve focusing more time to taking care of my health, and initially it was not easy to motivate after being more or less idle for the prior 12-14 years. Today, I run about 3 miles each day, and do about 1/2 hours weights every other day at home. I’v never exercised as much as I do today, even when as far back as high school.

It hasn’t been easy to get into this routine, particularly in the first 2-3 months. Part of what helped was peer pressure at work, being surrounded by many late 20ies to early 30ies that are extremely fit and active. I won’t give you advice on what you should do, but I’ll tell you what I did. I threw money at the problem for the first 2-3 months and got myself a personal trainer 2-3 times a week for the first two months, so that she would kick the crap out of me and make me stick to a routine, no matter how busy I said I was. Also,, spending good money on it, I took it more serious. After about 2 months, I got into my routine, and I haven’ looked back.

My goal was not weight loss, but to build up my cardio, to be able to run a reasonable distance, and to get toned up. Weight loss was a side benefit. I’m about 25 lbs less than I was in August of last year, and most of my pants are way too big now, and I had to change some of my belts because they were too big. I’m wearig pants back when I had them since my college freshman year.

I found out that once I started to get into this routine, surprisingly I felt less hungry, and don’t eat as much. Diet is a very important thing. I wouldn’t do a crash diet since those don’t work. But you should consider eating healthier, and eatting less for dinner (for example).

No soda, no beer, no cakes, no sugar, no high carb foods.

I haven’t had any problems maintaining my weight. My biggest problem is i trying to undo years of neglect around my abdomen.[/quote]

+1

Most people don’t realize how stressful it is to sit all day. The stress hormone built up then leads to excess cravings. This is why most people crave the junk food at night time. Daily exercise counters the stress hormone build up and leads to reduced intake, and hence the weight loss.

Great job, FLU!

Weight loss also has huge benefits to your joints and feet. I use to have really bad joint and feet pain. Now it’s gone. Not carrying around an extra 25 lbs helps a lot.

Start small and aim for small goals you know you can stick to. If you don’t have the discipline to do it yourself, find someone that will hold you accountable to it, just like any other project.

You’ll be happy you did. I am so cheap I had to drill new holes in my old belts that I refuse to give up.