Blah! Pshaw!!! Being middle aged is just not good....

[Niall McL]

Started commuting 20 miles a day in May this year and between that and some healthier eating have now lost about two and half stone and am just about down to my fighting weight which I last saw when I joined the police 13 years ago. Work in the police helicopter where weight is quite important, less weight = more time in the air, so I have the daily pleasure of reminding my colleagues about my miraculous weight loss1

 

[asterix]

-and you young 'uns out there, be careful once you enter your 30's, just look at a Mars bar and you'll gain half a stone) and I have higher blood pressure than when I last went for physical -when I wasn't cycling half as much!!!

When I was in my mid-40's someone said I'd soon be piling on the flab. Ten years on, still nothing although my BMI is at the top of the scale Did the 10 day raid Pyrenean last year, not at my pace but that of my fellow rider, who was about your age so it took a day longer.

 

[Nigeyy]

Yeeuuch, you make me...... Here's an interesting story: in September I went touring in the Yorkshire Dales with my next door neighbour. He is 52 years old, weighs 25lbs less than me. I am 42.

-Our bikes were about the same weight (I weighed about 25lbs more than him.)

-We ate almost identically throughout the tour (he actually drank more than me in total, but on the bike I'd have 1/2 a dry cider when he'd have a lager shandy so I reckon calorifically that's similar.) Additionally, he would eat 1-2 Mars bars every day, me -none.

-we cycled together, over the same course, at the same speed, never being more than about couple of hundred metres apart.

At the the end of the tour, he lost 10lbs in weight. Me, 1 lb. Now I know you could say "almost identically" for eating isn't quite the same as "identically", and I accept that. However, I know 100% for sure that I did not eat 9lbs (i.e. about 22,500 calories) worth of food more than he did. Absolutely positively no way, and truthfully, I believe I ate less calories than him even so. So genetics.... bah! (and I also accept that many overweight people use this for an excuse, but I don't and won't use this as an excuse as being overweight, just a reason why it's sometimes harder for some people to lose weight).

When I was in my mid-40's someone said I'd soon be piling on the flab. Ten years on, still nothing although my BMI is at the top of the scale Did the 10 day raid Pyrenean last year, not at my pace but that of my fellow rider, who was about your age so it took a day longer.