Me, I've put on about 20 pounds since you knew me, mostly from writing my thesis, but I've also picked up swimming and HEMA fencing, so some of it actually is muscles (or so I tell myself). Still, most of it went (as so often in us males) directly to the stomach. I'm not happy with it, but I also must keep reminding myself that, at my height, my former weight of 160ish was very, very skinny.
It's also very definitely age-related, seeing how I used to be able to eat indiscriminately without putting on much. Alas, gone are the days. But I look around at my friends and acquaintances and expanded peer group, and I see it's normal. None of my friends these days fall into the "skinny" group any more, but most of them I'd hesitate to call "fat". Solid, maybe. There are only two candidates were the rest of us are concerned they're heading into obesity territory, but they've proven resistant to advice, and so we let them be.
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Date: 2011-06-10 12:12 pm (UTC)Me, I've put on about 20 pounds since you knew me, mostly from writing my thesis, but I've also picked up swimming and HEMA fencing, so some of it actually is muscles (or so I tell myself). Still, most of it went (as so often in us males) directly to the stomach. I'm not happy with it, but I also must keep reminding myself that, at my height, my former weight of 160ish was very, very skinny.
It's also very definitely age-related, seeing how I used to be able to eat indiscriminately without putting on much. Alas, gone are the days. But I look around at my friends and acquaintances and expanded peer group, and I see it's normal. None of my friends these days fall into the "skinny" group any more, but most of them I'd hesitate to call "fat". Solid, maybe. There are only two candidates were the rest of us are concerned they're heading into obesity territory, but they've proven resistant to advice, and so we let them be.