Chicos and J Jills have the best clothes for middle age spread. Other plus size clothes seems to think that all overweight women are curvy, not apple shaped.

Exercise, and maybe time. My mom was always thin and after menopause she was actually fat. Daily gym and she is now back to thin, about 10 years later.

Tunics

OK so I gained a bunch of weight from the menopause and almost overnight (not really, but about a year) I developed a huge belly, looks like I am 6 months pregnant. It seems impossible to loose at this point in my life. I was fairly thin all my life and always had a flat stomach. I tried spanx and can't stand them. What kind of tops work best to take the emphasis off my belly?