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Menopause and Weight Gain

Gayle2 — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:32:54 GMT

I you have fought and won the weight gain battle post menopause.....please share your most helpful tip(s)

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GSPgirl — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:46:06 GMT

Gayle2 wrote:
I you have fought and won the weight gain battle post menopause.....please share your most helpful tip(s

There is no miracle cure to weight loss. I refused to let Menopause get the best of me and I didn't want to make the excuse for my weight gain on going through the change of life. I went on WW and I'm still working the plan. I say to myself that I will always count points or calories and points is easiest for me. You will feel so much better when you are in control of your eating and calories, it doesn't mean you can't have a treat every day. I eat a small candy bar at the end of the day. I have learned to love fruit and the thin round sandwhich bread. I also swim three times a week. It's not a lot. I just get in the pool and move. I'm a lifetime member now. I think my secret is the fact that I know I will always think about what I eat. Calories have consequences. Good luck to you! You can do it!

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nomless — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:46:49 GMT

I pay attention to what I eat, and I exercise 5 or more days a week for 45-90 minutes.

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hoosieroriginal — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:30:03 GMT

I didn't have a weight problem after menopause at 50. Now, at 64, I'm having "thick middle" syndrome. I've always had a waistline. Been walking a lot lately and it seems to be helping - this summer was brutal and it was difficult to get out in that humidity and walk like I ususally do. My mother had a great shape, but a "thick middle" - guess that's where I get it. I also have a kettlebell which I use nightly and it really helps.

Re: Menopause and Weight Gain

Imadickens — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:40:13 GMT

@Gayle2 wrote:
I you have fought and won the weight gain battle post menopause.....please share your most helpful tip(s)

Just living thru menopause is winning!😉 My advice is just not to consider yourself "old" or "useless" but "young", "vital", and sexy! Often nature plays nasty tricks on our psyche! When we are no longer able to produce babies, nature seems to be through with us, no longer caring if we are beautiful or have a body built for carrying those babies! I believe that's why we gain weight even if we continue to eat well and exercise! Nature has other plans for us now, those plans must require us to have more padding, especially around my ( of course I meant our!) middle and hips! The way I look at it is if that's how nature needs me (uh, us!), then who am I, we to argue! Just don't become unhealthfully overweight!

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tucsongal — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 03:16:18 GMT

I weigh myself daily and watch my intake accordingly. It's not too difficult to manage the gain of a pound or two. Now if I could just redistribute it

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lianne — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:21:28 GMT

Spin classes worked for me. The meno pot started to appear and I amped up my workouts. I take 3 to 4 very tough high intensity classes and yoga.

Takes work but it's worth it to me. I'm not going to let that weight land on my midsection . I'm too cheap to buy bigger clothes😎

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PINKdogWOOD — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:22:49 GMT

I'm going to chime in here and say perhaps not only the dreaded menopause that throws us into categories of health concerns we never had prior to, but I'm also going to bring up potential thyroid concerns that also totally disrupts a good working metabolism.

I'd strongly urge you have your thyroid checked. It takes a simple blood test your Dr can check when you're having other blood work done. Our thyroid rules our lives, believe this or not, but after your blood is tested to see how thyroid is or is not functioning it means everything.

Get your thyroid checked, it's very important to how we look, feel, function.

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Bird mama — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:34:08 GMT

@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
I'm going to chime in here and say perhaps not only the dreaded menopause that throws us into categories of health concerns we never had prior to, but I'm also going to bring up potential thyroid concerns that also totally disrupts a good working metabolism.

I'd strongly urge you have your thyroid checked. It takes a simple blood test your Dr can check when you're having other blood work done. Our thyroid rules our lives, believe this or not, but after your blood is tested to see how thyroid is or is not functioning it means everything.

Get your thyroid checked, it's very important to how we look, feel, function.

Re: Menopause and Weight Gain

Jayhawk Girl — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 01:56:32 GMT

I had a partial hysterectomy last summer and I quit smoking 4 months (and 15 days ago, but who's counting!). I think my newfound 14 pounds is a combination of both. I cannot seem to get my mind set on losing this weight. I set my mind to the quitting smoking thing and just did it! I have to get into this before my 14 pounds turns into 40! It just sucks.

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Frosted Cake — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:55:13 GMT

All my life I never had an issue with my stomach. I was flat there and could fit into Size 4 pants and skirts.

All of a sudden after my period ended, I got a belly bloat. I work out, walk, hike, bike, lift free weights, swim, but still have a little belly bloat and some of my skirts and pants don't fit anymore. I've had to buy some Denim & Co. pull on's to get by with a new job recently.

You can't tell by looking at me, but there it is in all it's "glory" when I take off my clothes. I do sit ups and work out at least 2-3 hours a day. I've eliminated all desserts, and have lost weight which has helped... but the belly still won't go down, even with probiotics.

I do eat a lot of grains, so that may contribute to it, too. I hate it, it makes me feel old and ugly.

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PINKdogWOOD — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:26:07 GMT

@Frosted Cake Doesn't this just make you sick? Same thing happened to me too. Small frame, been THIN all my life until MENopause happened. It was like I woke up one morning and there it was. Over night I grew a belly and as much as I hate to admit, it's just gotten bigger, more protruding. I HATE IT. and yes it makes me feel fat, old, ugly. I wish I knew the answer on how to rid myself of it. My eating habits have changed too. Nothing processed anymore, stopped this years ago. I continue to clean up my diet even more, every day, it's ongoing, something I almost never not think about. I'm at a weight that I've never weighed before. Many women probably wish they weighed what I do but for me, this excess poundage is too much for me.

You do so much more than I do - you're much more active than I am this I'll admit. But like you when I do more, work out, exercise I stick with it for months but nothing happens, no weight drops off, the scale still reads the same.

Now I'm on thyroid drug because of hypothyroidism. Is this the cause of my effect? I do not know. Has the belly fat been building for the last some years because of hypo building up and no one recognizing it? I do not know. Is it just old age working into my life (I'm 63.5)? I do not know. What is the answer, what can we do, what must we do? I do not know but I hate it and I'm tired of this growth I have in the mid section.

Re: Menopause and Weight Gain

Gayle2 — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:44:02 GMT

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for all of your responses. I could relate to every comment.

I just wanted to add that like a lot of you, I have increased or switched up my workouts. I have made a few adjustments to diet. One thing that has made some difference is that I eat my main meal at lunch and have lightened up dinner. I try not to eat past 6pm. I have found that looking at meal timing, size etc has helped about as much as everything else.

Thanks again for your responses!!!! Gayle2