I have never slept, all my life. Even as a child I was up after about 4 or 5 hours.
Today, at the age of 46, I am 40 pounds overweight. Why? Because I spent 10 years eating what I want and not working out.
Now I am back to eating to live and working out. Weight is coming off.
People have to stop kidding themselves. A person is overweight because of too many calories and not enough excersise.
Easy for you to say tubby. Oh, sorry.
What you’re saying is true to some extent. Since the body slows down when there’s less food going in, just cutting calories doesn’t work for long. As a bodybuilder friend once said, the more muscle one has, the more calories one burns just sitting around.
Since, well, age 18, scratch that, between age 18 and about age 38 my weight rose perhaps twenty pounds, or a pound a year. I didn’t hit 200 pounds until I was about 35. My eating habits when younger were much worse than they are now, and I stayed close to my graduation weight (190), and the only time I can say I have ever been physically fit was 1985, when I was riding bike every night.
In the past not quite 15 years, I’ve weighed as much as 255, and as little as 209. I’ve had no period since 1985 that I’ve got regular exercise, and have never managed to make any commitments to any diet plans (canned, book, web, doctor, or otherwise), and my weight has gone up and down, irrespective of how often I walk, what season it is, phases of the moon, whatever. Metabolic rates slow with age. And yes, more exercise is called for.
Unless I get a cpap machine, in which case... ;’)