In the year 2000 I turned 53 years old. I didn't exercise much at first in those years, and I clearly ate TOO much, so my weight ballooned up (obvious in some of these photos); of course, that put extra strain on my osteoarthritic knees, and after working closely with some top orthopaedic surgeons, I had my knees replaced before the end of the decade: left knee done in 2009...