Anyone managed to get their waist back in perimenopause?

[Katekarate]

And if so how?

I mentioned upthread about my jelly peri menopausal belly and so I've ditched my scales and got out the tape measure.

So in a week I've lost 2 1/2 inches round by belly button, 1/2 inch from my thigh, 2 inches from my hips and 1/2 inch from my waist.

This is from a combination of mindful and logging all my food, attempting to cut back on the wine, massively upping my water consumption and daily yoga practice and planking. Although I've decided not to log food and drink at the weekend as I want to maintain this so I think 24/7 logging is too much.

I am so pleased and this week I'm going to try and add in a daily walk or run.

I probably need to look at the low carbing threads and think about that next week.

Is hula hooping something that would help? I'm doing a mixture of hula hooping and pilates. Not due to menopause, more due to the spare tyre I've developed

Sign me up please! I miss my waist so much, I thought we were friends. . . I don’t eat breakfast and have no interest in sugar but since relocating to a hot country (and not burning any calories to stay warm like before) plus hitting 47 and lockdowns on top, I’m currently a blob, sporting the flat bum, big waist combo, which was not what I’d hoped for in moving here, none of my nice summer clothes fit any more. I’m guessing the cold beers in the evenings aren’t helping either. Company in my misery would be awesome!

@Yogachick

Daily yoga & Pilates folk,what do you do?as in website/teacher/practice/home/gym?

I have a subscription to yoga glo but also saved classes on YouTube. Time Sinesi is very good...Yoga with Adrienne is also great for those starting out. If you search on the time of class you want and filter to most recent there are quite a few choices...but it helps to put the time in e.g " 45 mins yoga" otherwise you have to see everything people have tagged as yoga which can be a little seedy

I'm trying to sort myself out a bit, too, so I'd be keen on support!!

@Katekarate please add me too! Although my sticking power is poor. I'm peri and on HRT, had a waist pre EMCS and haven't really seen it since. I'm maintaining weight through combining IF and slimfast but if I'm losing I'm doing it so slowly I catch up with myself before it goes anywhere!

I tried pilates recently for the first time and enjoyed it so will try to do classes more regularly. I'd love to say I'd go low sugar but no. I couldn't. Don't drink much though, give me chocolate over booze any day.

Sign me up too please @Katekarate

Mine all goes on my tits and my arms, I look HUGE even though I'm really not. I do Pilates 2x a week and swim 3x and I gave up alcohol six months ago - it's made no difference at all. How do people get started with weights?