Fellow Menopausal Fatties

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Anyone care to join me in trying to lose some weight.

I really need to sort myself out but I seem to have zero willpower. I would love some company.

I will weigh myself tomorrow. There will be tears.

Can I join? Definitely menopausal, almost 52 and started HRT in January. Also have underactive thyroid but medicated. 11 stone but gained half a stone over lockdown.

Joined WW with 2 friends who are more overweight than me to give support and almost lost a stone but then put it back on again. Basically I got too cocky and did the downward spiral into crisps, lots of snacking but the things you think don’t count like babybel light, laughing cow cheese light, muller light chocolate pots etc. and emotional eating.

Just in case no one realises:-

• sandwiches are evil! So much carbs
• I tend to eat oats in microwave with water and blueberries or my new find Rude health puffed oats with skimmed milk and blueberries
• snacks are low cal jelly (make a few at a time), 0% fat Greek yoghurt. Try to restrict tea with skimmed milk to 3-4 times a day, rest water and green and camomile tea. Boiled eggs and fruit good Lu Mikado or Rich Tea light. snacks.protein like chicken too.
• lunches I do soups so Knorr packet soups (half of that) or Batchelors Slim a Soup with Ryvita crackerwheat (2) plus cucumber batons. Dinner can be anything but WW recipes are good, current fave is a potato gnocchi and tender stem broccoli bake with a creamy cheese sauce and spinach. I do buy the WW ready meals and Tesco reduced fat ones for when I can’t be arsed to cook.

Exercise is almost 2 miles fast walking round park and any classes online.

Hi @GonnaGetGoingReturns
Weighed in today and lost 0.7kg. It’s hard when you don’t get the initial positive feedback of dropping several pounds to motivate you.

I think I am perimenopausal and am really struggling with my weight now. I was a slim size 10 going into the first lockdown weighing 10 st 7, I have just weighed myself today and I am 14st 4 and officially obese. I have never been this heavy. My willpower isn't great as I crave sugar a lot nowadays but even when I am really disciplined for weeks I am lucky to lose a pound or two. I am sick of feeling so fat and hardly recognise myself when I see photos etc but I just can't seem to get into the right frame of mind and get back on track.

It's a PITA isn't it? I think you have to be pretty hard-core when you're older. I don't mind putting on a bit but it just won't shift! I'm still fighting my Christmas muffin top.

I'm still looking for the definitive answer as to why it's so much harder.

Ahhh. Still the same weight but I've had a 3 week period and a few warm flushes .

Trying to keep at it though. It's so hard

Keep going all

It just feels as though I could easily put on 6 pounds in a week but takes weeks and weeks just to shift a pound. It's so disheartening

Exactly that! If I ease up just for a week on holiday (which I did), I cannot shift it.

Exactly the same here. It sucks doesn't it. I put on 5lb on holiday and can't shift it at all 😨 kids back to school next week so I can step up my gym routine again and see if that helps. You read so many contradictory things about exercise vs not increasing cortisol too much it's hard to know what to do....

So. I don't seem to be any lighter but someone came up to me at work today to ask me if I was on a diet because I'd lost weight.
Before I got my arse into gear months ago the industrial pallet scales at work said 101. something kg. This morning they said 96.5. The weights gone somewhere even if not off my scales!

Agreed re putting the effort in and being hardcore.

WW does help me but I lost a lot (almost a stone) earlier this year through a mixture of not tracking but being fairly strict with my diet and exercise.

My downfalls are eating so called diet food like baby bel lights and Muller light chocolate fixes and then fooling myself I can eat loads!

Good things for me are Rude Health puffed oats with blueberries and skimmed milk or porridge for breakfast.

lunch:- Knorr packet soup -half that plus Ryvita with spread, cucumber batons and sugar free jelly and fruit plum..alternate with cup a soup slim a soup. Sometimes a boiled egg.

Dinber:- usually a WW recipe can be veggie lasagne (aubergine and mushroom(, veggie stir fry with tofu or Turkey burgers/bolognese etc. tried WW chicken Kiev recipe last week. Do sometimes have WW ready meals or Tescos reduced fat ones.

Snavks:- try not to snack. Can be rich tea light biscuit.

drink 2 litres water a day plus lots of green tea and camomile though I do like tea with skimmed milk.

Right now only walking fast, yoga vinyasa flow and swimming as had plantar fasciitis are vet lockdown want to restart jogging though.

I do have cheat days mostly weekend but really have uk be careful there. Also on HRT which I swear has a hormone greedy pig PMS effect! Recently cut out peanut butter and don’t miss it. Weekends I usually do scrambled eggs mushrooms on toast with fry light.

I'm still plodding on with Slimming World and lost a few more pounds, finally below 12 stone which is something but still a long way to go.

14 13!!!
Finally. Now I have to keep it up.

I’m 12st 10lbs and 5ft 2in and in the 50 bracket.

I was however 19st 13lbs 4 years ago and weighing myself and finding myself 1 pound away from 20 stone was a pivotal moment for me.

i had an under active thyroid and PCOS so losing weight was very hard and continuous dieting and getting nowhere was hard and I would starve and then binge when things didn’t go to plan.

That moment when I weighed myself and was 1 pound away from 20 stone I promised myself this was the heaviest I would ever be. That would be my goal rather than giving myself unrealistic targets - and failing!

So that is what I did and as the weight very very slowly came off my vow was for it to not go up - always either stay the same or reduce and that would be my victory. A plateau was a victory not a failure.

I changed my mindset and it helped me and my sabotaging activities.

Also once I had lost a few stone my thyroid and PCOS medication was reduced (which I had always felt contributed to weight gain and cause issues with my attempts at weight loss). That then really helped with the weight loss.

I still have 3 stone to lose but I haven’t set myself any unrealistic targets to get there. My weight loss graph is below.

I wanted to share my experience as a message to say keep going and to not set unrealistic targets. The smallest of victories should be celebrated.

@Changedforthetoday that's amazing well done you! You've lost a third of your body weight wow.

I love your saying that a plateau is a victory not a failure. That's so true.

Remaking my promise that this will be the heaviest I will ever be. Today 14 stone 7.

@Changedforthetoday thanks for that, it’s inspiring and well done!

Took an accidental selfie yday and don't like how fat my face is. my clothes don't really fit - the kids make remarks etc. Need to do more. Need to eat less. kids are going back to school
Need to quit the carbs
Been looking at quick start diets to motivate not sure if that's a bad idea
but am very all or nothing.
Am so fat rings are stuck on my fingers
am 86kg approx i` think. Will weigh tmw

Not weighing this weekend. Realised while walking the dog yesterday that my shorts felt much comfier. Made me smile.
Tea on a Friday is usually supermarket pizza. I had the other half of my dominoes pizza I had to leave and freeze last weekend. I've never left pizza.
I also left half the bag of chocolates as I didn't want them.
Fri/sat are always treat days and it would appear I am subconsciously curbing that too!

I'm still here, I was also on the 1st Jan thread and I got v discouraged because I just wasn't losing. But I just kept doing the same thing, 1400 cals per day, give or take 100 and I've lost 9 kilos since 29 Dec 2022 when I started. It's been slow though.
I needed my metabolism to reset before I lost anything. Also, started hrt in March, so I'm not exaggerating when I say slow.
There were 4 week periods where I lost not a gram then the next week I lost a kilo . I might do a 36 hour fast soon but only if I feel like I'm up for it. Sometimes I just feel I can't face it. Haven't done a fast for 3 months I'd say. Could be time. 2.3 more kilos and ill be inside the normal range.

@xPaz 9 kilos is really good, you should be delighted with yourself. @Rowgtfc72 well done with non scale shorts victory. I haven’t really achieved anything this year, just lost and then regained! I have restarted (again, again)and feeling determined. No booze and no bread is my first goal, it has worked for me before I just need to be more consistent. I am resetting my summer goals for December.

@Changedforthetoday that is so inspiring.
Truly amazing, and I 100% agree with your mindset.

I've lost a stone since May and im also taking it slowly and sustainably.

This month only lost 1 pound but there's been a lot of social occasions in there so I take staying the same or any loss however small to be a huge victory.

I only aim for a small deficit at 1700 cals a day, minimum 100g protein and minimum 6 portions of fruit and veg.

I also resistance train at home 4 times a a week and run 2-3 a week.

Slowly is best for me.

So. Excited for my Tuesday Weigh in, I jumped on the scales. I am physically much thinner, people have commented on this.
Back to 15st 3!?

I'm up a few pounds and feeling middle aged!

I've had some heavy bleeding which had wiped me out but I'm trying my best.

I've been to the docs and started on iron

I'm also starting the ZOE trial this week.

But I've stuck to the healthy eating a bit more this week.

Going to make a point of resting tomorrow to try and reset myself.

Good luck all!

Slow is better because it's practicing maintenance. I always used to reach goal weight fairly quickly and then relax. And then relax too much. I just used to oscillate between goal weight and fat weight. The slow arrival to goal has got me used to a more Buddhist path of eating. Because for 30 years, I coukd diet strictly, I could let go, what I couldn't seem to do was a moderate path of healthy choices but not overdoing the restriction. I'm only 2.5 kilos away from reaching a normal bmi now, but I will keep going ŵith healthy eating til the end of the year and consider that the weight im supposed to be when I'm healthy.
At least I don't have that crazed "about to fall off the wagon and eat rings around myself" feeling. I just keep eating healthily.

Just a quick check in!

I've not posted for a few weeks as my weight loss is so painstakingly slow.

I am still losing steadily, around a pound per week. I would probably lose more but I do 'treat' myself at the weekend, I have wine if I want it, chippy tea, pizza, whatever. I think if I didn't have this to look forward to I would give up altogether.

I'm currently weighing in at 13st 2lbs, my start weight in April was 14st 8lbs, so still a long way to go but at least I'm going in the right direction 🙂