How to avoid the weight-gain struggle in mid-life
Remember when maintaining your weight wasn’t so hard in your 20’s and 30’s? Then come the 40’s, 50’s and beyond and keeping the weight off becomes quite the struggle. How can you avoid that midlife weight- gain struggle ? Adding pounds as you age, doesn’t mean you are eating all that much. Your body changes as you age and it really is harder to keep the weight off. What are those changes and how can we keep some of those pounds from showing up on our hips and waist? Bicycling .com has some good suggestions. How the body changes as you age: Fat cells -those pesky little buggers that are happy to grow bigger as they fill up with fat. An article in Nature found that how our fat cells burn and store fat changes as we age. Basically, as we age our fat cells store fat as before, but fat cells are less likely to release that stored fat, thus making it easier to add on those pounds. To try to keep the weight off, many peop...