to ask how you lost your menopause related weight gain?

I've lost a fair amount on the Human Being Diet - which is basically low cal, low carb, higher protein and no snacking. But also no sugar and no foods that cause IBS so I do feel quite a lot better on it. It seems to be aimed at (peri)menopausal women. Until I went , I had gained around 4-5kg and couldn't lose it no matter what I did.

I think appetite does decrease for some people. Me included, luckily. If someone can figure out why it doesn't for others, that would be useful. I don't think weight loss injections are the answer.

I hate the smell of eggs 😂

Thank you. How do you make the shake? Is it a special powder mix?

Thank you. Does it have to be fat-free? Would low fat still be low cal?

My joints are terrible too. I'd be very interested to know what you eat on a typical day. It's difficult to stick to so few calories isn't it?

Thank goodness its not just me ! It does seem to be as low as this for me too really. It's so depressing !

They sound delicious and perfect dinners! Wondering what your breakfasts and lunches are, and if you snack between meals.

I walk to my physically demanding job. I go to the gym. I don’t eat much. I still haven’t lost weight.
So I give up!

Mounjaro was the only thing for me

Who can be bothered with that? And, frankly - yuck. Just cook a couple of eggs. With grilled bacon if you need it.

Honestly protein shakes are super easy. I do one with added banana and porridge oats.

Mounjaro. After trying everything else.

0h really ! My waist is the thing that upsets me the most. It was never super amazing but I did have one. Now I don't have any and there's such a roll of fat its so depressing. The rest is fine basically

overnight oats. Frozen berries in the bottom of the bowl. Some porridge oats, then a load of fat free Greek yoghurt on top. Leave overnight and stir when you get up in the morning. I have it every day

I haven't had any post menopausal weight gain. That's because I developed a digestive issue which reduces the godds I can eat. No cheese, no fat from meat, no beer. If I eat too much of anything I get really nasty digestive pains (not just tummy ache).

I think that how you lose it is not eating too much and avoiding fat and sugar as much as possible.

In all seriousness (after my living on air comment) same as pp i have to keep at about 800c to lose. And even then it's slow. And i do need to keep my weight down.
I have a small 'frame' (average height), and my joints struggle when i'm over weight - i can feel it straight away in my knees when i lose a couple of pounds.

With my daily low calorie intake i worry about muscle wasting! So i have taken up doing some arm weight training and i do daily yoga. It's a bit miserable and boring keeping so low on calories though. Especially when you have to stick to a reasonable budget too.

I've trained myself to eat more or less the same cheap things every day during the day and then when i cook for the family in the evening that's where the variation is.

Definitely. I used to live in Germany too and they definitely eat healthier, no convenience food, no snacks or not as many. It's so tempting in the supermarket, crisps, pastries, biscuits .. I need to go back to online shopping I think!

I'm not sure I could eat that for breakfast. I usually have porridge with flax seed and a sprinkling of brown sugar. I know I should cut out the sugar, but it's probably less than a teaspoon and I have half a tsp in tea once a day, none in coffee.

I thought maybe I should make an omelette and eat it cold, but worry about constipation if I cut out the porridge, it keeps me regular 😂

Why the assumption that it should be lost ?

same with baby weight , let’s challenge the assumption that it should be lost and that everyone should

fine if you want to / need to but let’s be careful
with our language

@Nosebooper , it's maybe not that exciting, but my breakfast is basic muesli, soya flakes, almond protein, powdered bran (for fibre), couple of raisins and some grapes/banana, leave it to soak in soy milk in a pot which I take to work (the soaking because a dentist told me unsoaked muesli is bad for teeth). I eat it at work at 9.30 and am then nicely full til lunch. recommended by my colorectal doc friend. I just have the containers of things lined up in my cupboard amongst the pasta and rice and I spoon them into the pot every evening, it literally takes 30 seconds.

Reading this I sound like a maniac but I feel like it's really helped my digestion. One thing I really notice, living in Germany and coming to visit in the UK, is the sheer unbelievable volume of yummy, unhealthy stuff in the UK, and I think that makes it harder. The crisp choice to die for! I do think it's hard to ignore all those amazing snacks, but the key is unfortunately to eat like people in the old days and have small sensible portions and not eat UPFs. Here in Germany most of my female colleagues my age are very slim, not all of course, and I think it's because they are fairly active but also they are frequently having a sandwich for dinner and they are not eating an M&S salted caramel billionaire shortbread twirl cookie or whatever, but rather a small yoghurt, because there is just nothing that yummy here.

I put on about 6lb when I started on HRT - all on my stomach and boobs. I'm only 8.4 stone usually so I looked awful

I realised I was eating too much so I cut out everything in between meals, cut portions down and ate hardly any carbs. Drank loads of water from a new Stanley cup that I took everywhere.

I lost about 4lb over a month which was a good start and then my husband was seriously ill so I didn't eat for a week and lost the last 2lb.

To keep it off though I'll need to be quite strict about carbs and not snacking. It's not much fun but anything is better than looking pregnant!

Since I had my last baby at 40 it's been an absolute grind to loose a gram.

Ive always exercised a lot and normally would just step that up to loose any excess but that absolutely does not work for me any more. I definitely have to eat less and differently. I've pretty much stopped eating sugar other than fruit, hardly any processed food, more protein, less bread (the heartache, other people have cake, I have toast, butter, marmite!) and very sadly, have pretty much quit booze.

The last one is an absolute easy win to be honest. I would just grab the odd beer or glass of wine Thus-Sun at home without much thinking. I'm now only having a drink when I'm out/making a nice meal at home. Trousers became more comfortable pretty quickly.

I gave up (added) sugar - replaced all biscuits/cake/chocolate with fruit.
stopped eating breakfast.
upped protein

and bought mounjaro on the Black market

Following with interest. I'm on HRT but still gained weight despite eating the same amount.

Can anyone suggest a protein heavy breakfast that doesn't require much preparation in the morning?

I'm 2 and a half stone overweight, with too much on my tummy, definitely need to do something about it.