Average UK Male Weight by Middle Age now 14 Stone

[jjbomber]

A very fit bodybuilder could be obese, based on BMI alone.

Lennox Lewis in his prime! His BMI would have classed him as obese.

 

[jjbomber]

... I have a very sweet tooth.

I have 32 of them!

 

[Cricketbat70]

I have 32 of them!

🤣

 

[Cricketbat70]

I gave up sugar in all hot drinks, to save money when I was skint in my late 20s, my sweet tooth has faded a lot in the 30 or so years since.

I don't have sugar in tea (11 years old when I cut sugar out of tea). I do in coffee but as I drink coffee once in a blue moon. It's the biscuits and sweets that are my weakness.

 

[R2D2]

How tall, or short, are you?

I’m 6 foot 1 or 185cm and approximately 15 stone 4 or 97Kgs. M y wife has been slowly cutting how much we eat and, keeping our diet healthy, so weight is dropping, just a little. As of last Friday however, I have started to go to a gym, to improve strength and fitness and, help lose excess lard…

Edit: My wife and I have talked about this a lot and, getting fitter is what I need to do. Don’t do anything and, I will get fatter and increasingly unfit then, quite likely be rotting underground before I can get to 70, because of heart failure. Do do something about it and, I may well still be able to walk for miles without difficulty when I’m 80 plus. It was an easy choice to make.

That’s good doing walking, I have just started again too, nothing dramatic just a 20 minute walk a day. I allow myself 1 treat a day and that’s 100 calorie 2 finger Kit Kat or packet of crisps. And that’s how I lost weight from 16 stone down to just over 13 stone. I have now added cereal to my diet and a few more coffees but I don’t have sugar in my coffee never have done and gained some pounds as as consequence. I weigh 13 stone 10 pounds this morning and am really happy with that. I don’t look nearly obese either nothing like it.

This is me:

 

[R2D2]

This is me and my family onboard Celebrity Apex cruise ship recently too:

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I have 32 of them!

At the moment!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

My wife and I have talked about this a lot and, getting fitter is what I need to do. Don’t do anything and, I will get fatter and increasingly unfit then, quite likely be rotting underground before I can get to 70, because of heart failure. Do do something about it and, I may well still be able to walk for miles without difficulty when I’m 80 plus. It was an easy choice to make.

Good for you. It's not necessarily easy to stick to, but if you can you'll be very glad you did.

You may get to a point where weight plateaus even if you are still keeping at it - this happened to me - muscle is denser than fat, so adding muscle can counteract the weight loss from exercise. I think it also helps to have targets to aim for - I'd like to get to the point where I can curl sets of 20kgs - am getting there but I know it's quite a big ask.

And there are 'kryptonite' foods for me - things that I don't have in the house because I'll be unable to resist grazing - choccy digestives, Hob-Nobs, Ritz crackers etc. Tend to then have a bit of a blow-out at Xmas and accept that I'll need to behave in the New Year!

 

[Cricketbat70]

With all

That’s good doing walking, I have just started again too, nothing dramatic just a 20 minute walk a day

With the junk I eat I often wonder what my weight would be like of it wasn't for my job. I do north of 20,000 steps every day, I work in a warehouse for a company that sells TV's and domestic appliances. My job involves unloading wagons of washing machines cookers etc with a sack cart (nothing modern like a clamp truck here) double stacked washing machines 70-80kg each using sack carts from the back of the wagons into our goods in. Then once we've booked them into stock moving them again into their area of the warehouse. Then picking stock for deliveries.
A few years ago I fainted while in A&E with my dad, I woke up in the bed my dad had been in, my dad sat in a chair with a worried look on his face, me hooked up to monitors. When the Dr saw me he had a puzzled look on his face Dr: "do you go to the gym?” Me: "no" Dr: "Do you exercise at all?" Me: "no" Dr: "you've got the resting heart rate of an athlete" (high 40's to low 50's BPM.)
I told the director at work and he said what do you mean you don't exercise, look at what you do in the warehouse, I couldn't do that. Bear in mind he's in his 60's and still does iron man events and triathlons and until a leg injury in his late 50's forced him to quit he played rugby all his adult life.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Good for you. It's not necessarily easy to stick to, but if you can you'll be very glad you did.

You may get to a point where weight plateaus even if you are still keeping at it - this happened to me - muscle is denser than fat, so adding muscle can counteract the weight loss from exercise. I think it also helps to have targets to aim for - I'd like to get to the point where I can curl sets of 20kgs - am getting there but I know it's quite a big ask.

And there are 'kryptonite' foods for me - things that I don't have in the house because I'll be unable to resist grazing - choccy digestives, Hob-Nobs, Ritz crackers etc. Tend to then have a bit of a blow-out at Xmas and accept that I'll need to behave in the New Year!

Reducing the fat percentage is the important thing with weight loss. I know it might be hard to stick to going to the gym but, I don’t want to be fat and unable to do anything as I get older and, my wife needs me to help her because of her severe osteoarthritis.

I NEED TO STAY HEALTHY !

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I know it might be hard to stick to going to the gym

You can buy adjustable weights to use at home - good ones aren't cheap, but they will last and allow you to up the weights without needing to buy new ones. Worth a thought.

 

[R2D2]

This is me with Messi and Ronaldinho at the Nou Camp when I was a lot younger and 8 stone:

 

[Cricketbat70]

Well I've got home from work and weighed myself. According to my wife's fancy digital scales I'm 11st 1.6lb. 70.579Kg I think for my height I'm supposed to be 9st 😲😵‍💫

 

[Al ears]

I have 32 of them!

Lucky you, I am missing a couple.....

 

[jjbomber]

Lucky you, I am missing a couple.....

They're all in a jar by the side of the bed!!!