I hate to pass this on, but the only thing that works past 60 is calorie control. You probably need to get below 2000 calories a day and closer to 1500 to lose weight.
Low calories....
Wish you hadn’t told me but actually I knew you were right.
And the sneaky darn body keeps raising the bar. Cut out certain desserts and sides with carbs and lose weight at 50. Do that over 60 and you still gain. Up the ante again every few years. I’m 75 now.
That is exactly correct, even for people well below 60 - if they want to lose the fat at anything other than at a glacial pace fast anyway.
“Fat burning exercises” aren’t going to do much. Even just an extra tablespoon of peanut butter or so will take a couple hours of exercise to burn.
The “dieter” will very quickly learn that not many calories are necessary!
“I hate to pass this on, but the only thing that works past 60 is calorie control. You probably need to get below 2000 calories a day and closer to 1500 to lose weight.”
I’m 65 and losing body fat at a rate of nearly 2lbs per week, while adding muscle mass.
I lift 3 days per week, cardio (30mins) 5 days per week and eat at least 2300 calories per day.
“I hate to pass this on, but the only thing that works past 60 is calorie control. You probably need to get below 2000 calories a day and closer to 1500 to lose weight.”
Input of calories is only 1/2 of the control. Exercise indeed (burning calories) is the other half. Work is what burns calories. The definition of work is force x distance. Typical cardio workouts do not have any extra weight (force). So you have to do more distance to do the same work. Then you also have to consider time. If you do the work faster (less time) you have more power.
Good core workouts with reasonable weight are the best way to do a lot of work in a short time. You body also reacts to this work pace or power level better than pure aerobics or heavy weights.
In the old days, humans had to toil for their food. By default they did more work / calorie consumption. At age 55 sitting behind the desk I weighed 235 lb. With a pair of kettle bells and 45 min. 3 x week I was down to 200 in one year. I did very little to change my diet. At 63 I am holding 190 and I am much stronger than I was at 55 and all of my biometrics are also better. I hate to pass this on, but you are making excuses.