Are most men struggling to get healthy weight women?

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This obsession with weight and one's body is absurd. We're not supposed to stay the size of children throughout our lives.

Actually, technically, we are.

Not children, exactly, but the same size as fully developed (aka young) adults? Well ideally yeah.

It's possible to stay the exact same weight as you were at 25 or 28 throughout your life. Extremely difficult, but possible.

It's rare, but I've seen plenty of middle aged and elderly men the same size as me or even slimmer.

Skeletal size and structure is fully developed about the mid-20s, so any extra weight accumulated is likely just more natural muscle and, more often to a much larger extent, extra fat.

I don't think elderly people have 'larger bones', that's an illusion. The body loses bone mass and density with age.

Big boned elderly people were big boned in youth, and same for smaller boned elderly people.

Of course, a lot of people gain weight when they reach middle age; slower metabolisms, less physical activity (sometimes due to more responsibilities but also because your body is weakening and you have to take it easier more often), pregnancies, change in hormonal levels, etc.

But as it's already been said here, in history in most of the world people remained thin across most of their lifetimes.

Overweightness was actually quite rare and seen as something only the wealthy were.

East Asia especially has a low obesity rate because of their superior diets, a low obesity rate across ALL ages as a matter of fact.

With the correct dieting, you can be not much bigger than you were at 38, or 48, or 58 and beyond as you were at 28.

I guess if it's completely hopeless and pointless and we will gain weight no matter what as we age then may as well speed it up by binging on foods, especially unhealthy ones, in large amounts and say "It doesn't matter, it'll happen anyway!". Don't be ashamed, we'd be doing what 90% of people do anyway...

Becoming obese as we age is now the norm, not the exception and what with fat propaganda/indoctrination...*ahem*...I mean, fat 'acceptance' movements being actively encouraged and supported by society, it couldn't be a better time to be obese.

That's what the wealthy were like in the 17 and 1800s. Gluttonous. They ate like pigs because they could, and since the average middle-class income person is now as wealthy as a medieval noble, might as well do the same, right?

Hope no middle age adults give me the list of reasons why it's harder to maintain a healthy weight as you get older.

I already know, luckily, which means I'm prepared to stay healthy into old age and stay as fit and healthy as possible no matter how hard it gets.

It's one of the things I hope to never have to sacrifice entirely...

With a bmi of 20, I am neither overweight nor underweight.

I don't think there is any question about "measurement error." It is quite obvious that a significant fraction of the population is getting fat. And it is equally obvious that there is no simple fix.

As far as I know, the only government that has gotten involved in matchmaking is Japan.

I have been suffereing from an external hemorrhoid this weekend - taking the proper medicine and all.
But I decided to change my whole diet from now on, I don't want this horrible thing happens any more again.
Much more vegetables - I will pass a salad no matter what with every lunch; and more seafood and less red meat for lunch; less pastry, less cheese and diary things (except yogurt) for breakfast/dinner and more vegetables/salad for dinner again; where I live dinner is traditionally a small meat-less meal (like breakfast) while lunch is the big meal.
More fiber intake overall - I ll be adding beans and oatmeal to salads and make more frequently lentil soup. More fruits and less gâteaux overall as dessert (teary).
Actually I am going back to my old eating habits; I got bad eating habits due to my work trips - such as meater dinner.
... and most protein bars turned out to be bad for my bowels.