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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2013, 04:45:33 am »
I'm 40 and have been called skinny. I have a hard, physical job. I play even harder. I try to eat healthy. I consider moderate beer consumption(~2-3/ day) part of my healthy diet. My dr. says I'm in perfect health.

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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2013, 07:06:58 am »
Sorry if i scare you. My metabolism is young, I can eat garbage all day and sit on the couch with brew all night, without gaining any weight. I have been told the only way I can gain weight, besides lifting weights "Like thats going to happen," is to get older. 150lbs and not yet thirty ;)
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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2013, 07:07:56 am »
Skinny homebrewers scare me.


Skinny doctors bother me.  Wish my doc was like my dentist ('bout five feet tall by five feet around) then he wouldn't be able lecture me about my weight.
Get a new doctor.
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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2013, 07:29:58 am »
Sorry if i scare you. My metabolism is young, I can eat garbage all day and sit on the couch with brew all night, without gaining any weight. I have been told the only way I can gain weight, besides lifting weights "Like thats going to happen," is to get older. 150lbs and not yet thirty ;)
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+1 !  I could eat anything I wanted until ~ age 33.  Then my metabolism hit a brick wall . 
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« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2013, 07:32:43 am »
 I never had a beer belly until I opened my brewery. Sat at an office desk job 40+ hours a week and barely an oz of fat. Now I'm on my feet all day lifting heavy things and running from one end of brewery to other with barely a minute to grab lunch.  But at 4 o'clock after brewing all day I find myself compelled to hit the taps.

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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2013, 07:44:48 am »
Sorry if i scare you. My metabolism is young, I can eat garbage all day and sit on the couch with brew all night, without gaining any weight. I have been told the only way I can gain weight, besides lifting weights "Like thats going to happen," is to get older. 150lbs and not yet thirty ;)
Your time will come, son.  Your time will come.
+1 !  I could eat anything I wanted until ~ age 33.  Then my metabolism hit a brick wall .

Too true.  Until age 35 I couldn't eat/drink enough to gain weight.  The older I get, the faster I gain.  At 35 I weighed 160.  By 40, 175.  At 48 I hit 205 and that's after cutting way back on calories from food and booze.  I'm starting to think air is making me fat.  Maintain some kind of exercise program or your young, invincible body will turn on you with a vengeance.

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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2013, 08:40:54 am »
I've always had terrible metabolism (but it got worse when I hit thirty) but I am fairly diligent about my diet and exercise so I'm fairly thin. I don't drink as much beer as I would like to but I feel like I have a good balance on everything in my life and I'm comfortable with that. An extra six pack or two and I'd easily be carrying a pony keg.
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« Reply #22 on: June 14, 2013, 09:00:28 am »
This was taken on my 57th birthday.
I spend half an hour twice a week in my gym doing resistance training and walk a mile everyday with my dog Ralph. I watch my sugars and saturated fats. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Other than that I drink 1 or 2 beers every night after work and have 6 or 7 each day on my weekends. I really think it is the way most people eat with their beer that puts the pounds on.

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Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #23 on: June 14, 2013, 09:20:14 am »
Good point Joe. Most people consume calorie intensive foods with thier beer. Then blame the beer for the belly. My eating habbits are very clean and I still have a 30 inch waist in spite of all the beer I drink.

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« Reply #24 on: June 14, 2013, 09:21:33 am »
Sorry if i scare you. My metabolism is young, I can eat garbage all day and sit on the couch with brew all night, without gaining any weight. I have been told the only way I can gain weight, besides lifting weights "Like thats going to happen," is to get older. 150lbs and not yet thirty ;)
Your time will come, son.  Your time will come.

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« Reply #25 on: June 14, 2013, 09:24:00 am »
Good point Joe. Most people consume calorie intensive foods with thier beer. Then blame the beer for the belly. My eating habbits are very clean and I still have a 30 inch waist in spite of all the beer I drink.

Mind if I ask how old you are?

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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #26 on: June 14, 2013, 10:47:32 am »
I'm as old as Denny and didn't get the memo to gain weight.  I did put on 15 pounds when I quit smoking in 1990, but other than that I'd say my beer consumption is irrelevant to beer belly.  Then again I don't often go without several beers per day, so I might be a lot thinner if I were dry, but I also doubt that'll happen any time soon.
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« Reply #27 on: June 14, 2013, 04:59:33 pm »
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Re: Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #28 on: June 14, 2013, 05:32:26 pm »
I never had a beer belly until I opened my brewery. Sat at an office desk job 40+ hours a week and barely an oz of fat. Now I'm on my feet all day lifting heavy things and running from one end of brewery to other with barely a minute to grab lunch.  But at 4 o'clock after brewing all day I find myself compelled to hit the taps.
The same here.
I think I gain 20 lb in 2 years.
I tell to my kids that I need that muse to lift 150 lb kegs.

And the worst of it Is rarely have beer at home.
Nobody told me that before I opened a brewery.
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Good news! Beer bellies are a myth!
« Reply #29 on: June 14, 2013, 09:57:20 pm »
I'm all legend from the waist down and myth from the waist up, LOL

Speaking of waists, do you know why they call it a waist, Because it's a waste to have not put another set of breasts there!


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