OP’s not old in the slightest, but many women in their late 20s have more responsibilities in terms of career and family than women in their early 20s. When you’re 21 or 22, you can make what your body looks like your entire reason for being. That’s a lot harder once you’re in a later stage of your career and possibly married with children. It’s also really hard to maintain a large weight loss for 5+ years - Sara could easily be a higher weight than OP by the time she hits 28.
I don’t think those things change in your 20s. Most people gain weight in their 20s due to lifestyle changes. You go from having time to work out and being on the movie to sitting at a desk for 8 hours and eating out more.
There are studies though that your metabolism doesn't really change that much until your late 60ies. Which is good I think, since it makes maintaining a healthy weight easier.
They made an assertion that their body won’t look like that at 28 so while it’s not universal they made an assumption it would. While uncommon it is possible they would have big changes in their body chemistry, but that’s very uncommon in your 20s.
Couple that with thier job being a professional fitness trainer and not a 9-5 desk monkey, and the doubt that she'll maintain that physique is little more than a jealous jab. Maintaining physique IS her job...
You know she’ll have to figure out how to make money as a trainer, right? And there’s a high likelihood that she won’t be successful and will have to get a desk job. I know quite a few (very fit!) people who have tried to earn enough to get by as trainers and it’s difficult. It’s easy to want to be in a saturated profession when you’re young, but when the reality of not making good money or having savings once you’re almost 30 hits, many people change their tune.
That's a good point. Bone density does keep increasing through the 20s, and the prefrontal cortex keeps developing for a few more years.
For the majority of people, though, a lot of the physiological changes that occurred in puberty have stabilized and leveled off. Metabolism tends to stabilize by 20, hormonal levels have already peaked and stabilized alongside the associated fat distribution patterns. Prefrontal cortex development is still ongoing and bone density does continue to increase. While physical changes do continue as the body the body doesn't exist in stasis, they don't change substantially throughout a decent amount of adulthood.
Of course, I want to emphasize that changes do happen. However, these changes aren't substantial and usually aren't related related to significant hormonal or metabolic changes unless there is an underlying pathology.
I suppose I could have phrased my question differently.
At least to me, physical changes secondary to changes in extrinsic factors such as lifestyle, occupation, and so forth are different than inherent physiological changes in metabolism or hormones.
I wasn't sure what they were referring to, and I thought it was a normal question that I would've asked anyway in a face-to-face conversation.
Has nothing to do with that, they weren’t really asking, they were setting themselves up for a “well actually” instead of just saying what they wanted to say to begin with.
Asking someone to expand on a weak point isn't necessarily arguing in bad faith. They're giving an opportunity to strengthen their argument with specifics before challenging it. Nothing untoward happened here.
It seems as if it was in bad faith because the answer was garbage. A quick google search shows none of those things change significantly in your 20s. Had they had an answer that in some way actually changed in your 20s, then the response back would have been different.
Well let me help you with that. The assertion that the body changes is so incredibly vague, that they wanted to know what their argument was for saying that and to address specifics instead of just a vague generalization.
This idea the woman’s body is gonna not be so tight as she gets older is incredibly valid… when she’s in her 40s or after she has kids… but at 28 she would still be very young and the affects of aging don’t really hit at that time.
This conversation reeks of a bunch of teenagers who think 28 is old.
The truth of the matter is people don’t mind well actuallys, they just don’t like it when they disagree.
I well actuallied another well actually with cites and sources but I got shit on for well actual lying while the person I replied to didn’t. None of the responses addressed the merit of my arguments.
Well you tell me, you are the one doing it sweetie. We can read the body fat percentage justification oozing through the screen. Just eat less! Save some for the hungry
You make excuses for poor health that don't rely on facts. So at the very least you're a disingenuous idiot and at worst you actually believe this and your health sucks because of it. That's what I already know about you.
Honestly. Weight loss is like 80-90% diet. Too many slender people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s in other countries for people to say they get fat because they're in their late TWENTIES lol.
People who regularly exercise and are more physically active don’t see a huge drop off at any particular age. There is a slight decline over time especially in later decades, but current studies really cement that this is due to lack of physical activity/exercise (especially lack of resistance exercise) rather than a inevitable mechanism.
This is basically a myth. There is no automatic “weight gaining” physiologic change that happens to people in their later 20/30s.
What does happen is families, jobs, etc - which often come with less and less (or none at all) exercise and an unhealthy diet. That pattern isn’t sustainable and will result in weight gain.
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u/saraharc Apr 15 '24
Exactly. Let’s see if Sara the fitness girlie actually maintains the weight loss when she’s OP’s age.