Would You Say You Gained Around A Pound A Year Since the Age of 25?

Have You Gained Around One Pound a Year Since the Age of 25?

  • Yes, I've gained around a pound a year since then.

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Gained less.

    Votes: 25 75.8%

  • Gained more.

    Votes: 6 18.2%
  • Total voters
    33
SeaBreeze

SeaBreeze

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Would you say you gained around a pound a year (more or less) since the age of 25? Take the poll!

I would say yes (more or less), since I started out at around 118 lbs. I read that it's common to gain a pound a year, and it doesn't sound like much until you reach your senior years. It's all good though, no regrets here! :)
 

Well I started about the same weight as you give or take a pound or two as weight fluctuates. I should be 75 years old now so I guess I've gained more.
 
When I stress my weight drops to some scary places. My goal is to stay at 130. Not too skinny or fat for barely 5'4.
 

Ruth n Jersey said:
Yes, SeaBreeze that sounds about right. The problem is where the weight has settled. It certainly isn't evenly distributed that's for sure.
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Well, in many cases, mine for sure, even when I was young and skinny, or a slim teen or twenty-something, the women in my family like my mother and my sister were apple shaped. Even when I was thin, I never had a really flat stomach or thin waist for that matter. Even back in the day when I exercised a lot and did crunches, sit-ups, etc., there was no noticeable change for my efforts. Sooo, I don't expect much to change with the added pounds and age. Acceptance is peace...isn't that what they say? :yes:
 
When we were building a house back when the kids were in elementary school, I gained quite a bit. Too many chocolate bars as I ran from here to there picking up stuff and looking at building products and such. I remember the day of reckoning when I stood there on the scale in shock and then quickly emptied my pockets of keys and change and kicked off the shoes.......and it didn't look much better:(. I changed how I eat (started by only having a bit of fruit for breakfast and then over the years have honed and changed my eating habits to where I'm the same weight that I was when I was 18. Mind you, I can't put my wedding dress on because it's kind of small in the bodice as my skeleton seems to have changed as I matured and had babies, but the weight is the same and I'm fitter and stronger than I was as a teen.
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Thinking out loud:

@age 25= 175 lb.
@age 54= 292 lb.(weight peak)

117 lb. gain over 29 yr.s = 10.68 lb.s per year.

However,

@age 64 = 220 lb.s

45 lb. gain over 39 yr.s = 1.755 lb. per year, from age 25 to present.
 
I would venture to guess that I weigh the same or less today (186 lbs, up from a too low 174 lbs last summer) than I did at 25. That said, at my heaviest I was about 245 lbs, and until the past year or so, was never below 200. Amazing what watching your calories and working out regularly can do. Just back from a workout this morning and feeling great.
 
I weigh the same as I did when I was 25. That hasn't always been the case, though. I have weighed 25-50 lbs. more in the past, which is .71 to 1.43 lbs/per year from ages 25 to 60.
 
I was pregnant at age 22 and 24, and considered myself a little overweight at age 25 (145#). I have hovered at that weight consistently ever since, up and down by no more than 5 pounds, so I answered Gained Less.
 
Well, I weighed 111 lbs on my wedding day at 21. At 25, I was still fighting off some pregnancy weight. At a pound a year, I should be sharing a room at the Happy Rest Home with Methuselah right now.

The Spousal Equivalent, however, can still fit into (and has) his gym shorts from high school. I hate him.
 
I lost weight after my first child was born, I didn't gain until I was menopausal. I was 5'7&1/2 " tall , my weight varied between 115 lbs, and 120 lbs for many many years. Now I weigh way too much and Have to stop eating the sweets that I love so much.
 
I couldn't vote as there was no category for me. I weigh a pound more than I did when I was in high school. I gained about 15 pounds due to inactivity after some surgery 5 years ago, but lost it when I got active again. (I take taekwando)
 
190 in my senior year of high school.

Stayed around that until my mid 30's, then it started to creep up.

I'm 70 now and weigh 210.
 
I'm approximately the same size/weight as when I graduated from high school. Back then, I'd gone to a Levi's store in town, and the saleslady took measurements to make sure customers purchased
the correct size jeans. However, I weighed less between my twenties and until around 5 years ago, when I started gaining weight because my work hours expanded and I've had virtually no physical
activity. What bothers me, though- like someone mentioned in a different thread- is muscle loss = flab.
 
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