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Originally Posted by htismaqe
How old are you?
I too was 120 lbs as a junior in HS. In fact, when I got back from Germany my senior year of college, I was 140 and about as healthy as I could be after riding an old 3-speed bike up a mountain every day.
Then I got an office job after college and didn't change my eating habits. I ended up having surgery at 45 to correct all the damage I did to my body in the 20 years in between.
Your eating WILL catch up with you. Everybody ages, you can't avoid it.
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Truth.
I've always hovered between 200-210 when I did physical labor at 6'3. My business grew and I hired young guys and now they are doing the heavy labor. Even with the cutback in calories I weigh 230, and that's with a transfer from muscle mass to fat.
Now that I'm closer to 50 than 40, it's hard to motivate when you bust ass in the gym for weeks, look in the mirror and don't see that puff. Younger years you see results almost immediately and it keeps you coming back for more. Also, you aren't ready for another workout the next day. It takes a LOT longer to recover.
Getting old doesn't suck, but it requires changes. Caloric intake is one of them.