I am a 50 year old man and I am the same size today as I was when I was 15. People say to me ‘You’re so lucky, you never put on any weight’ as if I possess magic genes that prevent me from putting on weight.
I’m no different to anyone else. Just like anyone else, if I eat more food than I burn off I put on weight. If I don’t take any exercise I know my weight will increase, just the same as it will for anyone. So my trick, whcih isn’t really a trick at all, is to only consume as much as I need.
A key aspect of the way that I maintain my weight is exercise. I don’t do any sports, I don’t go to the gym and I don’t jog, so how do I maintain my youthful physique and remain fit and healthy? I use what I call passive keep fit.
What is ‘passive keep fit’ I hear you ask? Passive keep fit, for me, means getting exercise while going about my daily business. For example I will walk to my local shops rather than use my car. And when I walk I walk fast so that I get a little breathless. Driving to and from the shop will just make you fatter and lazier but my visits to the shop burn off calories and help me keep in shape.
I use the same approach in buildings with lifts. I will always use the stairs and will often run up two stairs at a time to burn even more calories. Also, when sat in front of my computer screen at work, I’ll take a break and get a little upper body exercise by lifting myself on the arm rests maybe 10 or 20 times a few times a day.
Also, when I’m relaxing in front of the TV in the evening I break this up with a few abdominal scrunches (is that what they are called). This has helped me keep my six pack and flat stomach, much envied by my friends and workmates.
I always try to stick ot a healthy diet by eating and drinking sensibly. I try not to eat any junk food and when I do I consider it a very big treat. I actually get a lot more pleasure from resisting the temptation than I do from giving in. I have developed a habit of visualising all that I have consumed in a day as if it was spread out on a table in front of me. This visualisation technique clearly highlights how many cups of tea and coffee I’ve consumed, whether I’ve eaten enough fresh fruit and vegetables and any other aspects of the days consumption that was less than ideal.
I don’t count calories, I don’t follow any sort of fad diet, I don’t work out at the gym and I don’t play any sports. Yet I am the slimmest and fittest 50 year old man that I know, and I still look OK in my Quiksilver board shorts and my cool Rip Curl T-Shirts - which can’t be bad for a many of my age.
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