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.

@TheTurn0fTheScrew I'm the exact same weight, went down to 12st4lb in 2020 kept it off all through lockdowns. Then the first half of last year just went to shit and I put it all back on. I look awful amd nothing fits properly😩.

So. 5ft 6. 15st 3.
Dhs birthday today so there will be lots of cake.
I'll settle for 14st 7 in the near future if it involves much more sleep and much less sugar intake. Do my 10000 steps a day anyway but trying to do 3 mile a day with the puppy too. Also bike 50 miles a week which makes absolutely no difference to my weight and never has.
May have to drag the rowing machine out and do some cardio.
Interested in the idea of swapping carbs for protein though.

I didn't weigh myself today as the battery has gone in my scales - I swear it's true 🤣! I have bought replacements so will weigh in the morning when I'll be lightest (in theory!) Well done everyone for getting off to a good start today.

Hello
Please can I join too!
I started a week ago and lost 1kg already.
I need to get from an initial 72kg to 65kg. I am 166cm and aged 50. This is the heaviest I’ve ever been - apart from just slightly heavier when pregnant. I have a terrible sweet tooth but introducing more protein, fat and reducing sugar and carbs is working so far. Full disclosure, I’ve signed up with a PT who also checks in with me daily and looks at my myfitnesspal logs. I think without this accountability I wouldn’t have managed the first week. Now I’ve seen an immediate benefit I am more motivated. Also trying to exercise 4 or 5 days a week - started lifting light weights last week (in a circuits type class) and love the feeling of strength. So a combo of circuits/weights classes, home workout(similar), run or swim and dynamic yoga.
To be honest I think I had started using my age/peri-meno as a bit of an excuse to myself. Now I’ve started it’s not very different to training and eating well at any other age. It’s not easy but it’s not awful.

I am having to meal plan everything. So for example last night I was busy until 9pm making today’s breakfast and lunch to take with me to work. I read somewhere- maybe on Mumsnet - that it is so hard for women of our age to lose weight because it means spending time on ourselves - and we usually prioritise family and work - and that really resonated as this does take a lot of time.

Can I join too? Surgical meno in May 2020 and I'd managed to get to a decade lowest of 12.2 just before by calorie counting and taking up running. I couldn't run for a while afterwards due to my op and then I just never restarted.

I started the year at 13.13 but have managed to lose a bit, getting down to 13.3 but it's so bloody hard! My belly starts under my boobs too and I just look like a short dumpy barrel.

@FannythePinkFlamingo i re-started c25k at Xmas and I’m now running 3x a week including parkrun. It took a really slow build up after a year+ off running and nothing stops aching or getting sore joints but I feel better for it & try to add in spot of yoga to ease the aches. I never seem to lose weight running or get very fast but it gives me a buzz. Plus I got a new bike via a work scheme so I’m getting out on that too. Just need to stop eating sugar and carbs 😫

I'm 57 and probably weigh 2 stone more than I should - I'm my heaviest ever.

I have zero motivation and have developed a sweet tooth. Not sure what has happened to me as I used to be quite fit, maybe not always slim but certainly not as hefty as I am now. I really want to lose weight and improve my health. Apparently though, not enough to actually do anything about it

I tried slimming world last year and earlier this year thinking the accountability would make me lose weight but it didn't.

Whoever the poster was who joined sw, ditched alcohol and started exercising losing 31lb - bloody well done. How did you motivate yourself?

@chimichangaz I was the person who joined SW, stopped drinking alcohol & started going to the gym at least 4 x per week (and lost 31 lb in 18 weeks).

My motivation was that I hated being fat, the roll of fat around my middle & wanted to be the slimmer version of me. I’d felt uncomfortable in the way I looked for a long time. As soon as the weight started dropping off - I felt so much better in myself. This was my motivation.

Good luck 🤞

I had a photo taken earlier, I looked huge. It has really upset me seeing myself like that. I've never been tiny but I'm creeping back up to how I was when I was at my biggest.

Been good today. Bowl of oats and water for breakfast nuked in the microwave- no sugar.
Small gluten free sandwich and two cereal bars at work.
That's between 330am and now, 6pm.
9 miles bike commute and a four mile dog walk. 8 hrs at work on my feet.

Come in and dh has ordered me a kebab. And I can't say no to a kebab.

I'm good till I get in from work. If I go straight out with the dog I'm good till teatime. If I sit down I empty the fridge.
No willpower.

A kebab wouldn’t be too bad if you don’t eat the carby wrap bit. The meat (assuming it’s meat) would be fine.
I’m making small adjustments to some family meals so I don’t always have to prepare a separate meal for myself. So yesterday I had sausages and a small portion of beans but didn’t have the chips that everyone else was having. Mustard instead of ketchup. Mostly though I’m having huge salads with protein (meat or cheese).

Like NorthernSpirit, now that I’ve shifted the first bit of weight I feel so so much better which is motivating me to keep going. I went for a run this week and felt fractionally lighter. Unfortunately I’m now down with a nasty cold/sore throat so having to pause exercise and try to stay on track with eating.

Hi can I join you? I’ve been peri for a while and slowly crept up a stone last year which wasn’t great but I’m tall so didn’t look too bad but now added a 2nd stone since starting HRT 5 months ago and I look like fat😫

I’ve lost all motivation to exercise and just sit (wfh so literally just sit some days) and eat crap. None of my clothes fit and I dread being asked out as it’s getting embarrassing always wearing the same thing and looking like shit.

I lost my baby weight on slimming world many moons ago so know it works for me but did a half hearted attempt to do it at home & gave up after 5 days 🙄. It’s the lack of motivation I’m struggling with but then I hear how positive and upbeat another poster sounded for losing weight and exercising and know I need to do it for my mental and physical well-being.

I need to get back into a routine. I used to get up early and out for a run or gym class 4-5 days a week without a thought - clothes laid out the night before, no snoozing or dithering didn’t always enjoy it but still did it and always felt better for it.

Thinking a 2 pronged approach - join slimming world and find a gym and commit to both for an initial 6 weeks and review from there.

I need to join too. I just can’t lose the weight and even though I’m eating sensibly, drinking less, working out, doing weights, getting the steps in etc it is still just not shifting. I have had bloods done recently and all has come back normal which I’m just amazed at as I really thought my thyroid might be the reason or low hormones levels.

For those who have managed to shift the weight during peri/menopause, what is the secret? Is it smaller portions? No carb, high protein? IF? I genuinely don’t know what else I can try to lose this weight but I’m also classified as obese according to a recent health check. Although it’s mostly round my stomach.

Jesus Mary and Joseph. Have just weighed myself (finally put batteries in the scales) - I am 14 stone, which is probably my heaviest ever. Ok. Time to do something about it I guess.

lechatnoir I've also lost weight on slimming world in the past - I keep wondering if I should rejoin. I might spend the money on the gym instead and just try to eat healthily myself....

@TheLoupGarou well done for weighing, @DarlingCoffee my weight is manly stomach too. I lost 7 lbs earlier this year simply by cutting out bread (toast and butter). So for me I think cutting carbs is key.

Can I join too? 56 years old, 5’3”, 12 stone, no HRT - heaviest I’ve ever been, need to get down to 9.5 stone just to be healthy. WFH, do little exercise, very little self control with eating and drinking- just can’t get away with it any more…

I'm in!
I need to lose at least a stone.
I'm 52. I've never had to diet until now.
The weight just keeps going up no matter what.
I don't think the weather helps. I feel like a sloth.
I'm normally active but the incessant rain is getting me down.

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Count me in too. I'm 52 and just before new year I started eating really, really well. I lost 2 kilos initially but then weight loss GROUND TO A HALT after about two weeks. I had a six week plateau only 2 weeks in to the diet which never happened to me before!

I went on hrt about 6 weeks ago and lost another kilo and a half, finally, but now I've stalled again now. I'm just keeping on going. When I feel like it's all pointless I look at what I weighed this time last month and only looking back that far indicates progress.

I've kind of accepted that this project will take me the year. My goal is to get to in to the normal weight range. I'm BMI 27.7 at the moment. so, not enormous (I don't think) but I was teetering on the brink of being obese when I started to try and lose weight, it shocked me that I was almost obese.

Well you've inspired me and I'm starting Slimming World on Tuesday and joined the gym today. I was out with some friends last night and was once the life and soul of the party, but couldn't wait to get home and hide. That's not the life I want for myself and know I need to make some changes.

@xPaz sounds like my experience when I’ve tried a few times to lose weight in my early 50s.

I literally do 3 weeks of IF with extra protein and exercise and I’m luckily if i Iose 1lb. It’s so so frigging hard and demoralising. Yet I can gain 2-3lbs over a few days. I’m now into the obese cat bmi 31 it’s sucks being short. I exercise most days but just think my metabolism is awful now 😞 I utterly hate that I’ve gained 4inches on my waist in such a short time.

I’ve bought lettuce and frozen cauliflower to replace rice/ potatoes on my plate when I serve up. This seems to work for me, along with no eating or drinking after 8pm. I start drinking wine early to accommodate this! Now the evenings are lighter, aiming to walk every evening too.

I finally feel ready to start...

Just back from a weekend away. I took some work angst with me (very minor thing that I managed to ruminate over the entire weekend - I really wish I could stop this!) and the combination of that and not just sitting around the house meant I didn't snack once. I was also aware that the whole experience was marred by my weight and the lack of fitness and I ended up feeling a bit down when got home and pretty exhausted.

I've no plan yet though, other than continue not to snack (not having stuff in the house helps enormously), make sensible choices and stop drinking again. Oh and go back to WI every day - few days.