[Evans, Marv]

Unfortunately I find as I approach my mid 70s, I've lost all interest in attempting to "work out." I bring this up to point out if you enter a point where you loose interest in that sort of thing and are overweight & grossly out of shape, you might also arrive at a point of no return. I've always been physically active throughout my life and remain so, but just don't have any interest in doing something purely for exercise. I'm still more active than 90+% of my friends & neighbors, still wear 32x32 pants for the past 40+ years, and have weighed in my low to mid 170's (5'10") as my max weight. Our place is 2 1/2 acres along with the house to care for. So during portions of the year I am required to do certain maintenance things that require hours/days with a weed whacker, brush cutter, weed pulling, digging, painting, repairing, etc., etc. I also take a walk lots of days for two miles which includes uphill of around 400 ft. My wife & I enjoy hiking. For instance we hiked to the top of a small mountain yesterday - a six mile round trip with about 1K ft. of uphill. I've noticed I don't need as much food as I used to and actively try to not eat more than I feel like I need. My wife has cut out sugar, bread, pasta, etc., sweets in general and I've really cut down on a bunch of that as a result. I'd say as you get older, it's a decent health advantage to have "built in" activities to burn calories and keep your parts moving. You might just not feel like "working out" for the sake of it at some point.