Buzzkill.Īs you lose muscle, your natural calorie-burning ability slows even more. Since this drop starts right about the time people settle into the (largely sedentary) workforce-and start losing muscle-your office job might actually be to blame, he says. “By the late twenties, many women notice that they can’t eat the same things they used to without gaining weight and that the weight doesn’t fall off as easily as it once did,” says Ochner. Plus, until you’re about 25 or so, your body is still building bone, and that process burns up calories.Īccording to the American Council on Exercise, your basal metabolic rate drops roughly one to two percent per decade. After all, the more you hoof it around campus, play on intramural teams, and hit up the university weight room, the more calorie-torching muscle you’ll build and the higher your metabolism will be, he says. Some women will hit it a bit earlier, others later, which has a lot to do with genetics, but your activity level also plays a big role. Most women enjoy their highest basal metabolic rate(the number of calories you burn by just being alive), in their late teens or early twenties, says Christopher Ochner, Ph.D., weight-loss expert at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Now that we've got that out of the way, here are all the ways your natural calorie-burning power transforms as you age-and what you can do to keep it in high gear. Why does this happen? As you likely know, your metabolism takes a nosedive over the years and ultimately impacts your waistline. Now, you're a hardcore veggie eater and struggle to lose those extra few pounds. When you’re a kid, you can wolf down candy bars, fast food, and frozen pizza bagels without a second thought-you know it won't impact your weight.
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