The reason is this. You will have started to lose muscle. For every decade you live after the age of forty we lose 7% of our muscle tissue on average. When we lose muscle, our metabolism slows down as a result.

So to change this… AND WE CAN, we need to start rebuilding the muscle that we’ve lost, and we can do this by using resistance training. You can do it with free weights, machines, bands, your own body weight etc.

If we don’t replace this muscle and ideally build more, then we will store more body fat and the older we get, the worse this problem becomes.

If you look at it like this, you could eat exactly the same amount of food as you did a decade ago whilst exercising the very same amount and you would still gain weight. Remember the more muscle you have then the faster your metabolic rate will be.