What has helped you lose weight and stay in shape?
September 17, 2025
Everyone changes as they get older, so what changed in your fitness routine? Does staying fit get harder as you get older?
25 comments
Not smoking weed
It’s all about diet. Yes I workout 5 days a week, but diet has been key. Down 20pounds in less than 2 months.
Doing track days on my Suzuki GSXR-1000r
Dropped 12kg this year
So far, not drinking most of my calories from ethanol. I am down 70 pounds over the course of the last 10 months. Wegovy has also helped considerably. Pharmaceutical-enabled anorexia is probably not the greatest for me or anyone.
I changed to only consume calories between 11am and 7pm. I don’t really count how many I consume during the window. Not only did I lose weight without changing my activity level (265-180lbs in 8 months), cutting calories off at 7pm makes me tired earlier so I fall asleep easier and have longer to sleep at night too. It’s not like I feel 20 again all the time, but sometimes I do and I have *way way* more energy than I did a couple years ago.
Weight loss shot.
Turned 41 over the summer. I enjoy strength training, volleyball and cycling. I do two workouts a day several days a week. Over the last year or so, I’ve found I’m not recovering quite as well, and if I drink alcohol, I lose a recovery day and have arthritis flare ups.
I’ve dropped one of the double days to a single workout day and have gone from 3 interval days to 2 interval days on the bike. I try to only drink socially now (dinner with friends on the weekend and standing family dinner on Sunday night).
Riding my bike. Not as a power racer Lycra type. I just try to ride every day, to the coffee shop or to pick up my kid or to the fishing spot. Sometimes long adventure rides. Sometimes short town rides. A steel frame bike is a great investment for mental and physical health imo 🙂 lasts a lifetime, not made of a material that will fail.
No alcohol + gym
I like drinking. When I drink a consume a LOT of calories both from food and from munchies.
Cutting back on booze helps me out quite a bit.
Metabolism
Track your calories.
Track your calories.
Track your calories.
Jujitsu and an assault bike at home. I’m in the best shape of my life at 36. I do make sure I take more rest days or lower heart rate rides on the bike for recovery. Avoid heavily processed foods and drink a lot of water. So far it’s been going really well.
Not drinking my calories helped a lot.
I haven’t lost weight. I have been the same weight range for 20 years, lol. It’s the diet, working out, and genetics. But mostly diet, because during the lock down, because I was exercising less and feeling less hungry, I lost weight.
But I have never found comfort in food, I don’t drink alcohol, or coffee, I never binge eat, so it’s very easy to keep a normal weight. I was… Underweight as a kid, so I had to learn to force eat to keep myself in the normal weight range.
A love/hate relationship with food, drinking sporadically, vanity/not wanting to age badly and diverticulosis.
Badminton. 25 hours a week. 5 days a week.
I’m addicted to this sport, if that helps too.
It doesn’t get HARDER when you get older. Most men over 30 have different priorities. Family, kids, career, finding love, traveling, etc.
I started getting a lot fitter after I had my first child at 39 and I saw how out of shape I was, and I wanted him to remember his dad as strong and fit instead of fat and sloppy, and also I wanted to model that for him.
Working a labor intensive job and not having a vehicle so I needed to bicycle everywhere. And being poor enough to only eat when necessary was when I was in the best shape of my life. Would not recommend.
Two things: intermittent fasting. I did it rigorously for two years or so. Lost like 25 lbs. It basically transformed my craving for food and relationship with hunger. I still do it, but not as regularly.
skateboarding: I picked up this hobbie/sport again. It in itself is a great cardio/functional sport. However, I am old, so my desire to do it as skilfully as I can at my age has driven me to stay strong through going to the gym and doing calisthenics.
Weighing myself regularly. Prioritizing protein. Being consistent with the gym.
Never had to lose weight.
But I really think weighing myself everyday has helped me control my mass. Just knowing and tracking where I am.
Staying fit is the easy part. Getting back in shape is brutal.
Only drinking and eating fast food/fried food/pizza/etc. with friends.
That way I associate the gratification with the fun of socializing and not just the buzz or taste of delicious food.
Helps to relegate that stuff to weekends and stay consistently eating better for the vast majority of meals every week.
Limit alcohol
Remove toxic negative energy and people from your life.
Exercise and eat as good as possible.
I hardly drink alcohol, but what really had a massive impact was to completely forgo processed sugar.
Apart from the obvious stuff like sweets, candy, soft drinks and chocolate I also tracked how much sugar is in processed food we consume. I saw a Ketchup the other day that had 30 g of sugar for every 100 ml… fruit joghurt has so much more sugar added to it than just regular joghurt to which you add your own food. Even without tracking my calories, I stay in shape now by just being mindful about sugar.
This does not mean that you should completely forgo and treats and never enjoy life again. What helped me was going cold turkey for two weeks, which was hard and I really felt my body craving for sugar. After that the need disappeared. Now I can eat something sweet if I want to, not because my animal brain is telling me to.
Does not mean you have to go cold turkey too. As I wrote before, just look at how much sugar is in every processed food you consume in everyday life.
25 comments
Not smoking weed
It’s all about diet. Yes I workout 5 days a week, but diet has been key. Down 20pounds in less than 2 months.
Doing track days on my Suzuki GSXR-1000r
Dropped 12kg this year
So far, not drinking most of my calories from ethanol. I am down 70 pounds over the course of the last 10 months. Wegovy has also helped considerably. Pharmaceutical-enabled anorexia is probably not the greatest for me or anyone.
I changed to only consume calories between 11am and 7pm. I don’t really count how many I consume during the window. Not only did I lose weight without changing my activity level (265-180lbs in 8 months), cutting calories off at 7pm makes me tired earlier so I fall asleep easier and have longer to sleep at night too. It’s not like I feel 20 again all the time, but sometimes I do and I have *way way* more energy than I did a couple years ago.
Weight loss shot.
Turned 41 over the summer. I enjoy strength training, volleyball and cycling. I do two workouts a day several days a week. Over the last year or so, I’ve found I’m not recovering quite as well, and if I drink alcohol, I lose a recovery day and have arthritis flare ups.
I’ve dropped one of the double days to a single workout day and have gone from 3 interval days to 2 interval days on the bike. I try to only drink socially now (dinner with friends on the weekend and standing family dinner on Sunday night).
Riding my bike. Not as a power racer Lycra type. I just try to ride every day, to the coffee shop or to pick up my kid or to the fishing spot. Sometimes long adventure rides. Sometimes short town rides. A steel frame bike is a great investment for mental and physical health imo 🙂 lasts a lifetime, not made of a material that will fail.
No alcohol + gym
I like drinking. When I drink a consume a LOT of calories both from food and from munchies.
Cutting back on booze helps me out quite a bit.
Metabolism
Track your calories.
Track your calories.
Track your calories.
Jujitsu and an assault bike at home. I’m in the best shape of my life at 36. I do make sure I take more rest days or lower heart rate rides on the bike for recovery. Avoid heavily processed foods and drink a lot of water. So far it’s been going really well.
Not drinking my calories helped a lot.
I haven’t lost weight. I have been the same weight range for 20 years, lol. It’s the diet, working out, and genetics. But mostly diet, because during the lock down, because I was exercising less and feeling less hungry, I lost weight.
But I have never found comfort in food, I don’t drink alcohol, or coffee, I never binge eat, so it’s very easy to keep a normal weight. I was… Underweight as a kid, so I had to learn to force eat to keep myself in the normal weight range.
A love/hate relationship with food, drinking sporadically, vanity/not wanting to age badly and diverticulosis.
Badminton. 25 hours a week. 5 days a week.
I’m addicted to this sport, if that helps too.
It doesn’t get HARDER when you get older. Most men over 30 have different priorities. Family, kids, career, finding love, traveling, etc.
I started getting a lot fitter after I had my first child at 39 and I saw how out of shape I was, and I wanted him to remember his dad as strong and fit instead of fat and sloppy, and also I wanted to model that for him.
Working a labor intensive job and not having a vehicle so I needed to bicycle everywhere. And being poor enough to only eat when necessary was when I was in the best shape of my life. Would not recommend.
Two things: intermittent fasting. I did it rigorously for two years or so. Lost like 25 lbs. It basically transformed my craving for food and relationship with hunger. I still do it, but not as regularly.
skateboarding: I picked up this hobbie/sport again. It in itself is a great cardio/functional sport. However, I am old, so my desire to do it as skilfully as I can at my age has driven me to stay strong through going to the gym and doing calisthenics.
Weighing myself regularly. Prioritizing protein. Being consistent with the gym.
Never had to lose weight.
But I really think weighing myself everyday has helped me control my mass. Just knowing and tracking where I am.
Staying fit is the easy part. Getting back in shape is brutal.
Only drinking and eating fast food/fried food/pizza/etc. with friends.
That way I associate the gratification with the fun of socializing and not just the buzz or taste of delicious food.
Helps to relegate that stuff to weekends and stay consistently eating better for the vast majority of meals every week.
Limit alcohol
Remove toxic negative energy and people from your life.
Exercise and eat as good as possible.
I hardly drink alcohol, but what really had a massive impact was to completely forgo processed sugar.
Apart from the obvious stuff like sweets, candy, soft drinks and chocolate I also tracked how much sugar is in processed food we consume. I saw a Ketchup the other day that had 30 g of sugar for every 100 ml… fruit joghurt has so much more sugar added to it than just regular joghurt to which you add your own food. Even without tracking my calories, I stay in shape now by just being mindful about sugar.
This does not mean that you should completely forgo and treats and never enjoy life again. What helped me was going cold turkey for two weeks, which was hard and I really felt my body craving for sugar. After that the need disappeared. Now I can eat something sweet if I want to, not because my animal brain is telling me to.
Does not mean you have to go cold turkey too. As I wrote before, just look at how much sugar is in every processed food you consume in everyday life.