60+ minutes of exercise per day to maintain weight after age 50

[Crankin]

Well, almost everyone I've known since moving back to MA is a lot heavier. That's over 22 years, from ages late 30s to late 50s/60-ish. Of course, this doesn't count the people i know from riding, but I didn't know them in 1990. An astonishing number of them (particularly the men) have huge guts. And these people are super strong riders. Not so much the women. Funny, everyone i've reconnected with from my childhood is thin. And my friends in AZ, well, they are the same. The heavy ones are heavy and the thin ones are still thin.
I do believe that living in a city keeps you thin. Every vacation I've ever taken that involves a lot of city walking and a lot of eating has been a test of this factor. I never gain weight on these trips.

[shootingstar]

All my friends, except for 1 over the past 25-30 years, who are around the same age as I, either are healthy slim or if they've gained weight it's been under 5-10 lbs. with effort to do something about it over the years.

It's not that I choose friends like that..just life works out that way sometimes. Each woman has found something to help herself: walking, organized yoga/pilates classes, weights, cycling, volleyball and x-country skiing. More proof that it does require some mindful habits and healthy diet.

Note: I actually haven't engaged much in any of these physical activities with each friend...except maybe for walking which we end up talking/catching up on news. So I haven't selected friends initially based on a type of exercise....there's other things that hold our friendship together. We actually don't have time when we see each other, to undertake some sort of physical exercise together.

[Slowspoke]

Update. I did get down those stairs and on to the trainer. I listened to couch to 5k to do a little interval work. That seems to help. I need some spinervals I think. I can tell you right now, my attention span will not last a full hour on a trainer!!!