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Originally posted by patentparanyc
I'm afraid I'm sliding into middle age in a bad way. Between commuting, family and working a million hours I don't have a ton of time to work out, I'm trying to maintain. Eating well is a real struggle, I see people on my train, in their 50s still slogging looking very grey, tired, out of shape and worn out. They are what I will become. Should I bother to fight it?
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Since other people focused on the exercise half of this, I'll just say that in my own, non-scientific opinion, the key to weighing what you want to weigh is what you eat. Exercising helps -- IMHO, again -- by making you feel healthy, which can reinforce the choice to take care of yourself in other ways, but most people don't burn enough calories exercising to afford themselves different eating habits. No one forces you to eat poorly, but if you feel that eating in a way that's healthy is depriving or punishing yourself, then you're not going to do it for very long. You have to find a balance that you're happy with, both in terms of what kind of shape you're in and in terms of what you eat, or it's not going to work in the long run. That may mean that you eat a ton and a weigh a ton, which is fine, if that's what you want. IMHO, exercise plays a small part in this.
