Menopause weight gain!

angiewunder

I’m 52 years old, in full blown menopause and I’m HOPING someone can help me find a community here on MFP. I’ve never struggled with weight until I started peri-menopause. The last 4 years have been SO difficult!
HELP!

springlering62

Welcome to MFP @angiewunder

Wow! “Full blown menopause” sounds like a dread disease, as we used to call it in my line of work.

Stop thinking of it as a barrier and a hindrance. It’s not. It’s your line of thinking that blocking you.

I was well into menopause when I started here. I didn’t know it was “supposed” to prevent me from losing weight. So it didn’t.

What really happened was I moved less and less and less, and when I retired, I was bored and filled that boredom with eating, boosting me well into obese.

I know it sounds trite but it all boils down to calories in/calories out, move more/eat less.

It really is that simple for most people, unless you have some kind of medical issue, and menopause generally isn’t that issue. It’s an excuse we create for ourselves, a rationalization to go down gracefully (or not) like our mommas did.

I lost so much weight simply doing that that I actually had to add some back. I’ve been down ten dress sizes, and maintained there for nearly five years now.

Read these boards, learn from the “sticky” threads at the top of each, ask questions, seek support here.

Oh and investing in a fitness tracker that will sync with MFP is flat out an investment in yourself, and your health.