Menopause weight…

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I’ve posted this in Menopause too.

I’m 56 and have always been slim, but not any more!
Since menopause I’ve put on a stone and my middle area - tum, hips and bum - have got much bigger.
I don’t feel like I’m doing anything different food wise.
I’m exercising 3 times a week as well as walking 5 miles a day, something I wasn’t doing pre-menopausal.
I’d love to know if the weight comes off after menopause…

No, that's it 😖 You need to increase exercise and basically cut out all nice food 🙃

I've had a chemical menopause due to BC treatment so can't have HRT, you might be eligible though if you ask your GP?

It’s beyond tough.

Insulin resistance, visceral organ fat and metabolic syndrome make it almost impossible to drop weight at this time of life. (For me anyway).

On WLI, extreme calorie deficit, tracking every morsel and upping the exercise has made little or no difference to my weight for almost a year now.
I believe that combining WLI and HRT may make a difference so I’m heading down adding in HRT to my merry band of medications now.

It’s extremely depressing.

I put on 3 and a half stone whilst still going to the gym 4 times a week and eating the same. Turns out I now only need 1400 calories a day to maintain weight so anything above that I gain and Cardio now puts weight on me because it increases cortisol.

I was on HRT but it made no difference…
On certain days I’m ok with the weight gain…it’s natural for my body to be doing that right now, looks are a tiny part of what makes me me etc
But when I catch my body in the mirror on other days it actually shocks me how I look now. I feel like I’m wearing a fat suit.

It’s very depressing putting on weight and not fitting in your clothes, it made me very low, as the flipping menopause took over my body. Unfortunately I got a nasty tick bite and the treatment made me ill, so I hardly ate for a few weeks. That had a silver lining, but now every day is a struggle not to pile it back in again….

For me it just continued to pile on. My maintenance calorie intake dropped to about 1350.

The only thing that worked was Mounjaro.

It’s safe to say that menopause has completely transformed me physically and mentally and in ways I could never in a million years have imagined.
I do not recognise myself at all.

Hi all I too am really struggling with weight gain. I have always been slim and four kids later I still felt healthy and never ever had to worry about what I ate or even gave my weight a second thought. Just got on with trying to be mentally well and healthy. Fast forward two years offically menopausal and I do not recognise myself. This evening I just felt so bad about my clothes, the way I look and I had to tell myself cop on, I am not ill, I am doing my best etc. and yet here I am this evening posting this. I have never done as much exercise as I have the past year - jogging, walking, cycling, even started arm weights. But when I saw myself in the changing room today of a major clothes store and nothing felt right on me clothes wise I could have cried. Then I decided right start from scratch and I got myself fitted for a new bra - nearly cried there too after discovering I have jumped up two sizes in two years. But anyway that aside I felt so much better physically with a new bra as I walked out with my new bra on. Then I decided this evening I am going to keep up the exercise and concentrate on getting some new clothes that fit and suit me. Anyone got some other tips that have worked ??? ok maybe not lost the so called meno middle but actually made you feel better and in turn the tummy issue wasn't as big a deal! Thanks all.