Weight gain/ body changes

When it comes to my weight I always think of that latent heat of vaporisation thing we learned at school and realised that the reason I struggled to get my weight under 9st was that 9st was the weight I was meant to be. My daughter, who is a keen runner, has just sold her cross trainer because she was short of room but I pointed out that running is good cardiovascular exercise but won’t tone up her body. I wish I could have had it but the sideways movement on the knees is impossible with the arthritis I have in one of them. It was only the machines at the gym that toned me up but I stopped going there for fear of catching covid there. My waist is now 29 inches and I can’t comprehend how I could have once had a 19 inch waist: I think I must have been grossly underweight. Mind you I now have a bust: something I would have dreamed of in my youth, the only time I had one back then was when I was pregnant.

I am 78and just can't shift the weight.I hit the menopause at 53 and the fat just suddenly appeared and will not go away no matter how much I diet or exercise.I am 4ft 10 and used to weigh 6 stone with a very petite figure to match. Now I am 8 stone 10 and it will not go down.
I have COPD and on daily steroid inhalers which do not help with weight loss.
I gave up dieting three months ago after having a Pulmonary Embolus. I thought why suffer when I might not be here tomorrow, enjoy life when I have still got it.

I'm still on the thin side, yet my waist seems to have disappeared entirely with ageing. The female shape has gone, I'm like a tube. My arms and legs are thinner, stomach fatter, boobs and bum lower and flatter. Hey, ho, that's old age for you!

Well ladies, our fat deposits will hopefully have an up side in this cold weather!!

OMG yes! I have chaged from pear to apple shape. I used to be a size 14 now I am an 18 (though this is recent as I put on a stone recently as I broke my shouder and couldn't exercise, was a 16). It is depressing - not only have I put n 2 stone in the last 20 years but it looks so much more unsightly round the tummy plus being a health risk. I am dieting and exercising again but it is slow going at this age. Back in size 18 jeans today, at least they are comfortable!

I have dropped from 5ft2ins to 5ft.

The cause, lifelong steroids and osteoporosis.

I have become much heavier due to various medications and unable to walk far due to RA and Heart issues.
The one positive, until recently, I have looked younger than my age.

I no longer fret about something I can't change and just try to look the best I can.