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In reply to the discussion: People who 'can't fit into jeans they wore aged 21' risk developing diabetes [View all]ProfessorGAC
(64,951 posts)53. Agreed
I got married at 23. I weighed 138# and had a 29" waist, maybe 30 depending on brand of pants
42 years later I'm a 32 or 33 and weigh 165#.
At my physical last year I had an A1C check because both of my parents & both of my grandmothers had diabetes.
My A1C was 1.5.
I've gained 27 pounds in 42 years and am not diabetic, but I have no shot of wearing the size pants I used to.
Could I be in better shape? Yes.
Are there some pounds I could shed? Yes, again.
But, this makes me such an outlier to this conclusion, it calls into doubt the whole premise.
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People who 'can't fit into jeans they wore aged 21' risk developing diabetes [View all]
cinematicdiversions
Sep 2021
OP
I'm wearing a belt I had 42 years ago in high school. I just got down to that size.
brewens
Sep 2021
#1
I can't fit into the same size trousers I wore at 21 because I was probably underweight back then
Spider Jerusalem
Sep 2021
#8
Uhhh, no. At 21 I was working my way thru college on a very tight budget. My ribs showed.
Hekate
Sep 2021
#13
A really simplistic standard. In my teens, anorexia/bulimia among teen girls was epidemic.
hlthe2b
Sep 2021
#21
What did participants do to lose eight, how quickly did they lose it, how long have they kept it
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#23
Great example of how medical science ignores huge swaths of the population in favor of white men.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#25
Too many people in this thread are caught up in their own personal reason why this doesn't apply to
inwiththenew
Sep 2021
#37
Not visceral fat, but ectopic liver fat is highly correlated with insulin resistance
GumboYaYa
Sep 2021
#40
That literally describes 99.9% of the entire population. I'm naturally tall
bullwinkle428
Sep 2021
#41