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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I can honestly say that I have never been on a diet. It must be just something in my natural metabolism. For the last 40+ years my weight has not varied more than 10-12 ponds around a mean of about 155. When I stop working out so much my appetite drops and picks up again when I become more active.
I do think all these fad diets are nonsense though. As long as one eats a healthy variety of foods while avoiding large quantities of things known to be unhealthy (fats, salt, sugar) what does not matter, just how much in calories. Oh, and one can never drink too much water, while sweetened drinks are terrible.
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I was like this for the first 55 years of my life, then someone must have pressed a switch somewhere and I put on about 15 kilos! Still eat the same stuff and I have never put on any more weight, but the only way I have now had success getting rid of it is to do a huge amount of exercise (and I have always been very active). I don't really eat too much or the wrong type of food so I can't really cut down there, and I hardly ever drink alcohol so that's not the problem. I just put it down to an age thing - the metabolism changes and that changes the weight equation. Being very active can switch back the metabolism to a "young" mode, but the effect only lasts for a few days, then it's back to digging up the garden or walking kilometres!