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Middle age spread - aaargh!

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Whattodowithit · 10/07/2013 19:04

Does anyone have any ideas for exercises to shift it? I am 54, have had 3 children so have that roll of post pregnancy skin that never seemed to go, am certainly peri-menopausal and have noticed over the past year the roll(s) of fat around my middle are getting bigger and bigger Hmm. I eat well and am lucky not to have a sweet tooth - salad is my favourite meal which I eat almost daily. I can't abide processed food and cook from scratch. I (fast) swim 40 lengths 4 times a week, I have dogs that need walking daily and I dance once a week, so I don't think 'not enough physical activity' or 'bad diet' is the problem. I would dance more but am slightly incapacitated at the moment because I currently have plantar fasciitis . I have never set foot inside a gym and don't intend to start now... I have tried to look on t'internet for 'at home' exercises, but most of the sites seem to be to do with toning up your abs rather than the middle wobble below... Do any of you kind people have any recommendations, please?

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googlenut · 17/08/2013 17:20

You went from 9 stone to 7 13! That must have made a huge difference to how you looked.
Wouldn't say running half marathons was a moderate amount of exercise. Suppose the point in trying to make is that things are really tougher around the menopause and its not just people making excuses for not taking care. And I can see why people give in as its so much work!

mercury7 · 17/08/2013 17:30

well it was over about 6 years, I looked like an eastern European weightlifter at 9 stone:o
actually I quite liked the extra 'heft'

no nothing moderate about half marathons! I was confusing/conflating posters

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