You're not alone. Your story is familiar. . .high school quarter-miler at 163 pounds. . .active all the way to 55 years. . .now 187. . .205 at one point. I'm in a life-long battle with my belly. Thing is, the biking, hiking, running, weights [ugh to the indoor exercise] are a part of my way of life so God knoiw how fat I'd be without it.