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The idea that a night out with 4-5 pints might clear my daily total requirement for calories was not something I had really considered until my late twenties.
by reedf1 1y ago
The idea that a night out with 4-5 pints might clear my daily total requirement for calories was not something I had really considered until my late twenties.
- gadders 1y agoIn your early 20s your metabolism is that much higher as well that it can cope.
- wredcoll 1y agoOh so that's why college students famously gain weight when they go to college, they're too old to have a fast metabolism!
- gadders 1y agoHow much more would they weigh if they underwent the same changes at 40? It's faster metabolism, but it's not magic.
- Kirby64 1y ago20s to 40s metabolism isn't that different. 4-5 pints is nearly 1000 calories, and basically nobody has a 1000 cal decline in base expenditure from 20 to 40. A bigger change, generally, from someone in college and someone in their 40s is their activity levels. Even just considering the amount of walking most folks do on a college campus is a huge difference, compared to someone that gets in their car and drives to and from work.
- n4r9 1y agoThat doesn't match my experience, or most of the stuff I've read. The number of calories I need to hit to lose weight has been pretty constant from my early twenties to late thirties. That said, I didn't have to be as careful in my twenties because I did a lot more exercise. And that's because I had more free time and opportunity for sports, fewer energy demands, less money for food, and more incentive to walk or cycle places. So I agree it's probably easier for university students to be slim, but I suspect metabolism is not a primary reason.