What do you think is the *ideal* menopause diet?

[EvaHarknessRose]

From your knowledge and experience?

I know that I simply can’t do sugar more than occasionally as for some reason it massively increases my symptoms which are otherwise fine. Exercise also really helps.

(For full disclosure I have a crappy HIT intolerance issue so while there is no food I completely can’t have (luckily), there is a long list of things I can’t get away with as part of my daily diet and this does not help eg. Dairy, most nuts except almonds, soya, lentils, eggs, avocado, citrus or fruits other than apples or berries, anything fermented, smoked/cured or aged, for example). Makes it harder to reduce carbs. I also love food.

Asking sounds orthorexic to me.

no not that, I guess I just hear people talking about diet and exercise really helping, but am interested in what. I mean, I guess the usual - more veg, less processed, less alcohol, less sugar. I was just wondering after reading the other thread.

I suspect the ideal diet is the same food guidelines we hear all our lives. It's just that as you get older, you can't get away with the crap any more without paying an obvious price (weight gain, poorer health, lower energy, etc).

Exactly what’s ragged says. Strangely I can no longer eat a massive burger and drink half a pint of full fat coke half an hour before bedtime and expect to either a, sleep or b, wake up the size of a whale

Can I ask what a HIT intolerance is too?