Aging and Gaining Weight
Everyone kind of wonders this same thing. Are we all really destined to gain weight as we age, as it seems many of us do? Is there something in most of our genetic codes that makes us get bigger and bigger as time goes on, with less mucle tone and calorie burning ability? Well, yes and no. Let me explain.
It is true that as most of us age, our metabolism does some sort of weird things. It does tend to slow down with age, so we usually must restrict what we eat a little more, but the good news is, the natural progression of things is supposed to make our appetites smaller as we age. Why then does this not seem to bode true for many people, whose appetites seem to stay proportianately larger than what they should be for their biological age?
Well, this can be attributed to stress and boredom eating, which means we eat when we are not really hungry, simply to ease either boredom or stress. Also, the foods that so many of us have been accustomed to eating in this day and age lend to blood sugar problems, which means our appetite is constantly in overdrive.
The biological part of eating and weight gain is actually on our side, it’s the foods and our environment that spoil the whole cycle for us, making us gain weight as we get older. Being sedentary is also another big reason for this, as sedentary lifestyles are becoming more and more of a problem.
