Omg!!

[Beertigger]

I find many tend to go from six-pack to keg.

I'm not nearly there yet, but I'm striving!

[hospitaller]

i dunno about that. if you work at keeping them, you'll have them. like david lee roth of van halen, he's in his late 50's and has a six pack.

then again he's rich and i'm nae
he has people to tend to his needs...I dunnae
he has plenty of time to exercize and live large...I only have time to work and get large

trust us, life happens.

[Nick the DSM]

I'll make sure it doesn't happen.

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

As we all try to do-keep striving youngster!

Be well,

[davedove]

So the secret into staying thin is not getting married?

I don't know, that doesn't seem to have worked for me.

On the good news front, I have found that I have lost about six pounds since I took up ballroom dancing. That's not a whole lot for over three months, but at least it's a downward trend.

And it's just a little bit of extra activity - a weekly 1 1/2 hour class and a three hour dance about every other week. I guess it's activity that I wasn't doing before though.

[escherblacksmith]

26?

hmmm, I think I was 12.

wrestled at 165 pounds in 6th grade.

[auld argonian]

I recently heard that you have to have both diet and exercise to trim it in.

I always joke that "women diet, men exercise" but I heard an expert say that you can exercise the abs all you want and end up with a nice six-pack hiding right behind that layer of fat that seems to be a permanent fixture on your tummy. Not a nice thought...all that effort and you're still flabby.

I've eliminated pop (soda, soft drinks, cokes...whatever regional name you call it) pretty much entirely. Now we just buy the flavored soda water (seltzer...again, whatever) and everybody seems happy with that.

I was a 29 jeans waist when I was in my mid twenties. I've done much better that most of my contemporaries as I'm a 34 waist now at age 56.

Best

AA

[Ozman1944]

I well remember having a 28" waist-----until for my 28th birthday I bought a pair of Black Jeans (very hot, back then!).. I wore them one Sat nite. The following Sat. they were too tight! My waist quickly went to 30! then every few years it would up a notch. Now, (at 64) it hovers between 34 - 38. Kilt is 38"; pants 34" ;shorts 32'. All very mysterious.

[Nick the DSM]

I well remember having a 28" waist-----until for my 28th birthday I bought a pair of Black Jeans (very hot, back then!).. I wore them one Sat nite. The following Sat. they were too tight! My waist quickly went to 30! then every few years it would up a notch. Now, (at 64) it hovers between 34 - 38. Kilt is 38"; pants 34" ;shorts 32'. All very mysterious.

wierd growth spurt...

[12stones]

Which measurement are we talking here? I'm still a 34 if we're talking pants waist. Unfortunately, I'm a 40-42 if we're talking kilt waist.

Oh, and abs are 100% diet. While exercise will help get your body fat percentage down quicker, diet will do that by itself too, albeit slower. The abs are shaped as a 6-pack naturally and it's only a low body fat percentage that gets them to show. You'll notice that body builders who seriously exercise their abs actually have the abs protruding, and to slim down they have to 'cut' up which means seriously dehydrating their body to look leaner.