Your weight now versus at age 20

[Rianne]

20 - 125 or 126, in there
62 - 133

[audreyh1]

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Originally Posted by athena53 I'm 5'7", was 120 when I started college. Got up to 147 at my peak around age 55. I kicked up my workouts a notch, started watching what I ate, and now I try to stay at 121-122 to keep my BMI at 19 or above. (Yes, I DID see the previous post on BMI.) This morning I was 120. Problem is that I'm trying to keep my a1c down without meds (jumped from 5.5 to 5.8 over 6 months, just measured last week) and my triglycerides are high. So, anything I want to add to my diet to gain a bit should not be heavy in sugar or animal fats. That excludes most of the yummy stuff! And yes, I'm happy to have this "problem". I feel very good at this weight but I have a little osteopenia and want to make sure it doesn't get worse.

Sorry to give a dietary comment, but as far as I know eating more animal fats by itself does not raise triglycerides. Triglycerides, like blood sugar, are linked to the amount of carbs in the diet, from everything I’ve studied. I am also working hard to reduce my triglycerides through diet.

[Ready-4-ER-at-14]

In HS I was a thin rail that had just had the growth spurt later and was running and physically active all the time. Probably about 35 lbs underweright for my frame then at 6' ..
Now I do weights and am still active for hours at a time but not like then, have shrunk at least and inch, and am now about 30 lbs on the other side of my ideal.

Maybe this confession will shame me into working on it more seriously.

[athena53]

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Originally Posted by audreyh1 Sorry to give a dietary comment, but as far as I know eating more animal fats by itself does not raise triglycerides. Triglycerides, like blood sugar, are linked to the amount of carbs in the diet, from everything I’ve studied.

Thanks- I'd dialed back my consumption of foods with aspartame and added in a little more stuff sweetened with sugar over the last 6 months; had also started eating a couple of clementines every day for the Vitamin C. I suspect that what I do to get the a1c back down will help the triglycerides, too.

[eytonxav]

150 @ 18
160 @ 20
230 @ 23
165 @ 30
215 @ 59
190 @ 65
180 @ 70

yo-yo

[Alan]

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Originally Posted by REWahoo Slightly under 10 stone at 18. A bit over 12 stone now.

Still stoned after all this time

[MRG]

I'm 5'9" and graduated high school at 147 pounds. I was doing physical work remained at 147 until I started at Megacorp at age 27. I then began a steady upward climb until I reached 227 pounds! Eighty pounds in 29 years! I'm down to ~167 now! Until I hurt myself this earlier this year I was jogging 20km a week.

[Car-Guy]

I'm twice the man I was since my high school days. (well sort of ) My weight in high school was about 165. Today, 50+ years later, I weigh in at 225. But my height hasn't measurably changed since high school, still 6'1".

[Housewife]

I am 5’3. I was 100lb when I graduated from HS. Ate a lot of ice cream in college and my weight shot up to 120lb at the end of freshman year. Had to watch my weight throughout the rest of college years. Now I am at 107. Wouldn’t mind if I could add a few pounds of muscle.

[calmloki]

6'4" and 135# ~ skinny kid - joined the Navy and my height/weight got me classified as "medically repairable" during the Vietnam war. My repair was me saying I was ok - I stayed skinny. Managed to get all the way to 178# in my late active working 50s. At a sedentary near 70 and maybe 6'3" I'm shrinking, now around 162#. Have a long sleeved denim shirt from my long haired post Navy days when I was maybe 27 - wore it the other night for a "dress like a hippy" event and it was tight and stretching around my chest - I would have destroyed it had I snapped it closed. Lord I was skinny!

[nativenewenglander]

I was 185 at age 20 and 185-87 at 58. My weight is due to being on the LCHF diet. I run just like I did at age 20.

[foxfirev5]

I'm the same weight as age 20. However my waist measurement is now 36 rather than 32.

[Bir48die]

20 yo was 165 lbs. 22 yo was 185. Now at 64 187. Put 20 pounds on in six months with first desk job

[stepford]

When I entered college at 18 I was just over 6' and weighed 168 lbs. 10 years later when I started work I was 6'1" and 165 (thanks to the standard grad school starvation diet).

I then proceeded to gain roughly 1 lb a year for my whole working life, ending up a semi-pudgy 192 at 55 at the time of my retirement. I rode bikes a lot in the first few years after ER and got down to around 180 (177-178 after a good ride, but that doesn't count). This year I've had some health issues that have limited my cycling and I've re-inflated to around 185 at 59. Such is life.

[Downtown]

165 @18 (too skinny)
183 @20 (in the Navy)
200 @45 (too many business meals)
186 @54 (training for a marathon)

I’ll take it!

[tb001]

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Originally Posted by Elbata You are most likely to get responses of those who have maintained somewhere around the same weight. Those who have doubled or come close to it, aren't going to share. And those who have maintained their weight, the majority have won the genetic lottery. Look around, it's not a nice sight to see and it's only getting worse.

Agree. A poll would be interesting.

I have no idea what I weighed in HS/college. I was lucky enough to never have to struggle and didn’t own a scale. I would guess it was 120-130 or so. In my late 20s it crept up to 145 and now is about 30lbs higher than that.

A ‘good’ weight for me is 140. A definite priority to get closer to there when we can pull the plug.

[N02L84ER]

I am 59 y.o. and 10 pounds heavier than when I graduated high school. At my heaviest, I was 20 pounds heavier. According to the smart BMI calculator I am at my ideal weight and losing the 10 pounds will not improve my health. I would like to convert those 10 pounds from fat to muscle but I am pretty lazy and likely won't do it.

[Which Roger]

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Originally Posted by foxfirev5 I'm the same weight as age 20. However my waist measurement is now 36 rather than 32.

I'm thinking this is true for most people who weigh the same now as back in the day. We lose muscle mass despite our best efforts to maintain it.

I don't have data going that far back, but I recently dug up an exercise log from about 12 years ago when I weighed the same as I do now. My waist measurement is 2 inches more now.

[Lsbcal]

I think I was about 120 in high school. Now I'm at 140 at age 71. Was a runner then and now.

I see young guys without shirts running the trails and there is really no fat. Is this healthy at a senior's age? Not sure.

But really, what should the answer be?

[athena53]

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Originally Posted by stepford I then proceeded to gain roughly 1 lb a year for my whole working life, ending up a semi-pudgy 192 at 55 at the time of my retirement.

This was something I noticed among my colleagues- my profession was small and I usually got to a meeting once a year, and I could see the older ones gaining about 10 lbs. or more per decade. After 30 years it really made a difference. It was particularly bad among those whose jobs involved a lot of travel, or getting and keeping clients, or both. I decided I didn't want to end my career several dress sizes bigger than when I started. It was good motivation.