Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.
Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.
It's much harder to lose weight as you get older.
I always had a thin frame, but when you hit 40 and eat french fries three days in a row, it's like, 'What happened?'
I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.
At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
For most of my life, I've put on weight in my thighs, not my belly. But in my mid-40s, things began to change.
