Ditto here, mostly. I was a skinny kid who could eat like crazy with no worries. For me, I don’t of course have the menopause thing to worry about. Wifey does now — the temperature regulation in her body has gone nuts, with as much trouble with feeling oddly cold, as hot.
My first switch was getting married. Most Filipinas do not cook or eat healthy, once they get to the US. A lot of the food she cooks (besides the really weird stuff) is quite tasty, but not all that healthy.
Then I turned 65 and another switch flipped. Two, actually, as I began slowing down a lot. :-(
My 65 switch hasn’t quite flipped yet, and I’m fighting it with everything I’ve got. My MIL just turned 98, still living at home, though with caregivers during the day. She’s on a mission to make it to 100, and I’m thinking that she just might make it! She is a determined woman, and still walks every day, several blocks from her house and then back, and at the grocery store, too.
Her biggest problem is macular degeneration and it’s very hard for her to see buttons on the coffee machine or microwave or tv remote. She still eats 3 meals a day, has a glass of milk with her lunch, and one watered down martini for a cocktail - EVERY DAY! Very few falls and no broken bones thus far. Her skin is thin so she does gets cuts and bruises easily. Incredible that she is doing so well. Anyway, she is an inspiration! So I’m fighting the aging thing as best as I can.