Why do I gain weight faster now?

[jennifer_bloom]

When I was 28-30 I went on vacation to Mexico for 7 days and I over ate for 21 meals and I only gained 5 pounds during the week. Now if I over eat for a single meal, I will gain 2.5 pounds.

[WindAtMyBack]

It's probably a combination of slower metabolism, less activity and less muscle mass.

You can't actually gain 2.5 pounds from a single meal. Or at least it's extremely unlikely. You'd have to eat a huge amount of food to gain that much weight, like probably 10,000 calories or more.

It's not even possible to measure the weight gain from one meal, because it takes a long time to metabolize the food. During that time there are too many other factors involved to measure actual weight gain.

As you get older you need to eat less. Most people just don't burn as many calories as they get older and become less active.

[LegendaryDater]

You sure it's not just the sodium in certain meals you eat that is giving you the weight gain.

[Sonorous]

Maybe your caloric intake need has decreased? Or maybe the food you're eating is similar in portion size, but more calorie dense? Here's a good informative video that may give some more insight:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/keBZfGAmq2Q

[SpokenTruth]

You might consider getting your thyroid checked. I had inflammation and a third teaspoon of bacon soda in water once a day for a couple of weeks fixed brought fixed that. And I thought the bacon soda was going to bring my blood pressure up, but it didn't it went down actually.

[CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS]

Your metabolism slowed down

[shortster]

As you get older your metabolism slows down.