Are you a fat middle aged cyclist?

[Andy in Germany]

Maybe you are just too short for your weight , rather than too heavy for your height?

We had a similar problem as our boys were growing; the doc kept telling us they were "Borderline underweight" according to the German chart, but when we double checked with their medically trained Japanese grandparents they said they were well within the Japanese average. It took a while to convince the German medical staff.

The boys are all bigger than me now...

 

[DCBassman]

Of the heart.

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[ColinJ]

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[CharleyFarley]

I'm 5' 6" and 180 lb. My BMI says I should be about six feet tall. I ride for two reasons: 1. I enjoy it. 2. I don't want a dunlap (belly done lapped over my belt) like so many guys. At my age of nearly 77, I'm not too worried about eating another cream cake. I don't drink beer, which helps me to keep my lithe and vivacious physique.

incidentally, my photo makes me look fatter because it was taken with a very wide angle lens, closeup.

 

[Venod]

I am neither middle aged or overweight, but I am old old (70) and at 5' 10" weigh in at 69kg, when I was doing a lot of running I was 67kg.
I cycle because I enjoy it, keeping the weight down is one of the positive side effects.
If you do enough vigorous riding you will lose weight, but if you think you can increase your calorie intake because you cycle it's not going to be an easy job.
Just riding about at a leisurely pace is wonderful and what cycling is about for a lot of people, but there are people that take up cycling to lose weight.
My advice to these is push yourself now and again, and use your arms to push yourself away from the table now and again.

 

[Gwylan]

I am neither middle aged or overweight, but I am old old (70) and at 5' 10" weigh in at 69kg, when I was doing a lot of running I was 67kg.
I cycle because I enjoy it, keeping the weight down is one of the positive side effects.
If you do enough vigorous riding you will lose weight, but if you think you can increase your calorie intake because you cycle it's not going to be an easy job.
Just riding about at a leisurely pace is wonderful and what cycling is about for a lot of people, but there are people that take up cycling to lose weight.
My advice to these is push yourself now and again, and use your arms to push yourself away from the table now and again.

Well that makes me ancient old.
Also a relative lardy. Stuck at 78kg.

 

[Salad Dodger]

I'm pushing into late middle age and, although by no means svelte, I am two and a bit stone less fat than I was last summer. Thank you, Mrs Salad and her Slimming World regime, for bringing that about.

 

[Gwylan]

We had a similar problem as our boys were growing; the doc kept telling us they were "Borderline underweight" according to the German chart, but when we double checked with their medically trained Japanese grandparents they said they were well within the Japanese average. It took a while to convince the German medical staff.

The boys are all bigger than me now...

Went through the same thing in Belgium with our youngest son.
Eventually referred to a specialist pediatrician who had another chart and decreed that he was fine. Now 2m+ and robustly constructed.

 

[johnnyb47]

I'm a fat middle aged cyclist and proud of it too 👍🤣

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've hardly used my bikes for the last couple of years due to becoming my Good Ladies carer, I'm now above my fighting weight and starting to get plump, but I'm of mature years so not a fat middle aged cyclist.

 

[ColinJ]

I am close to becoming a slim, elderly cyclist!

I WAS a fat cyclist when I was middle-aged but I have lost about 30 kg (approximately 4.5 stone) since the Grim Reaper was kind enough to offer me one last chance to change my ways...

I am currently around 82 kg (12 st 12 lbs?) and should be down to around 79 kg (12 st 5 lbs) by the summer. That isn't a bad weight for my height of 1.86 m (6' 1").

 

[tyred]

I'm not overweight. I'm just three inches shorter than I should be!

 

[welsh dragon]

My weight would be perfect if I was 5' 10". However, I am just shy of that at 5' 3".

I am a fair weather cyclist 🏄‍♂️ and cycle because I like to.

 

[Gunk]

My weight would be perfect if I was 5' 10". However, I am just shy of that at 5' 3".

I am a fair weather cyclist 🏄‍♂️ and cycle because I like to.

Me too, I’m now 58. 5’8” and 11st10lbs so probably a fat older cyclist