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pinky0926 posted...

While we're at it, research shows that metabolism doesn't change much at all as you age from your 20s to your 60s.

It's everything else that changes. Your diet, your lifestyle, your habits. When you were 20 you were broke, worked a hospitality job and found the taste of beer icky.

Were not all American, dude. Its pretty normal where I grew up for people to be drinking beer regularly from the age of 13 or 14.

When you're 35 you buy all the snacks you want, you work an office job and get in less than 3000 steps a day and you finish off each evening with a crisp pale ale.

Also not true. I do not work an office job and I dont think Ive ever averaged less than 15k steps per day unless I was injured. Usually its significantly higher than that.

Finally (and often, the only actual reason), time. Maybe you were putting on weight your entire adult life, very slowly. 2lbs a year. You never noticed it was so gradual. Well 15 years have gone past now and you're 30lbs heavier. Go figure.

The real reason is time and the cumulative effect of injuries. Im still much more active than the average person, but Im not capable of the extreme levels of exercise from my younger days. This also directly ties in to the recovery time I mentioned, which, even without factoring in injuries, does affect your ability to exercise which will have a knock on effect on your metabolic rate.