I not even sure what qualifies for middle aged in your mind, but my wife and I are in our mid 30s. It is hard to find friends that are skinny, naturally we don't have many friends. Fats are hard to be friends with. They always want to eat. They never want to be active, and the women are always jealous of a skinny girl. My wife is not the make up type. She is a whiskey drinking, manual transmission Mustang driving, skinny girl. Fats don't like girls who are pretty and confident enough to not wear makeup. I live in Florida where many people are fat. Such a strange place to live at my age. There is one thing that really bothers me that I don't understand. I live around people my age in a new construction area. More than half of my neighbors are fat, really really fat, and similar in age. Food is expensive, houses are expensive, cars are expensive. I have a modest town home, two modest vehicles that are worth about $28k combined, and we rarely eat out. At the end of the month after paying all of the bills, saving for retirement, and making sure the necessities for my two kids are paid for we have about $500 extra. All these fatties around me have houses with price tags that exceed mine by at least 50k. Big new SUVs and pickup trucks. Kids, and dogs. Granted we are a single income and they may be dual, but based on appearance it looks like they are rolling in the dough. I wonder if they are smarter and more educated so they make more or if they are just in debt up to their eye balls. How do they afford all that stuff, and still buy enough food to be super fat. It blows my mind.  My family eats about $160 a week in organic, low sugar, vegan food. If we went non organic we could probably get down to $130 or so. They must have a $250 or $300 a week food bill.