Peri and feeling good

[vestanesta]

Ok so I have larded on the weight and was chunky to begin with. I feel achey and a bit low and just horrid.

BUT I am also eating very poorly, sleeping quite badly and am so sedentary it make a sloth look speedy.

My question is, if I get my shit together will things improve? Mostly I mean weight loss but also in general. But mostly weight loss.

I am just struggling to make any meaningful changes atm. I know 100% what I should be doing but I am just so close to burning out and stressed all the time from one thing or another (work, kids, elderly mum) that I just can't face doing anything. Even a walk around the block or a 10 min yoga vid or not eating any more Easter egg just seems too hard.

So I need a quick win. But I hear so many peri stories re weight loss being impossible unless you lift massively heavy weights and live on chicken breast and a lettuce leaf that I just think fuck it, what's the point. That sounds miserable.

Anyone in their late 40s seen improvement with gentle changes?

I started exercising on my mid 40s. I was an arthritic slightly lardy at size 16-18. I started with Jillian Michaels and C25K and during lockdown moved to Caroline Girvan. I’m now early 50s. I eat healthy low glycaemic foods to control weight rather than dieting.

whilst it would have been better to start earlier in life, we are where we are. I’m definitely having an easier menopause than my colleagues. As there is so little research it may be luck. But there is definitely research to support strength training and functional fitness as beneficial to improving health as we get older.

Love yourself enough to give your body the best chance possible.

I'm 56 and slim.You just need to do the boring thing of eat less crap and exercise more.Exercise was a swear word to me before meno.I walked everywhere but that was it.When peri hit me badly at 51 I had such painful joints.I went on HRT around 52
I bought some kettle bells and started slowly.Shoulder pain gone.I do around 1000 swings a week now.
I bought trainers and did the run walk run thing.Once you set small challenges every day it will become fun.Honestly.😁