Are there any other biological factors for weight gain in mid life?
I imagine it’s mostly down to lack of exercise and mental state.
I imagine it’s mostly down to lack of exercise and mental state.
"These findings would support the view that the obesity epidemic is fuelled by excess food energy intake and not a decline in energy expenditure."
Considering obesity is headed towards affecting 50% of the population in developed countries, those conditions are not a valid excuse for the vast majority of people.
For this vast majority of people, it's lack of exercise and mental state, as you say.
I am still a bit worse off around my waist than I was twenty years ago. Not dramatically so, but at least 4 inches, perhaps 6. With lifestyle like that, I would have been absolutely lean in my early 20s. Something subtle must have changed within.
Dad bod is a real thing; I've heard explanations that relate it to the "parental stage" of your life. The body accumulates energy reserves for the sleepless nights & bouts of fatherly activities. Probably happens whether you have kids or not; a dad bod (to a degree) doesn't have to signal poor health. Just changing priorities.
FWIW, I haven't changed my weight or body proportions since I was 17, except a few cm in the waist. I turned 40 this June, two kids in.