what exactly do they mean about gaining weight with age? getting older doesn't slow your metabolism to the point where you gain a shit ton of weight without changing your diet, like all fat people seem to believe. my shitlady postmenopausal mother is 5'3" and gained only a little bit as she got older (shes 115 lbs now at 56 but trying to get back down to 110) so i find it laughable when hams try to say everyone's doomed to get morbidly obese as they age. while they sit at home and complain im going to go hiking with my parents.