Menopausal and getting the scale to budge!

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  • themedalist
    themedalist Posts: 3,218 Member
    Post menopausal and have lost 51lbs in 10 months ( about 5lbs off goal weight). I upped my cals from 1200 to 1400, now to 1600 - and also do NRoL4W and masses of walking. I lost more on higher cals than lower. I'm in better shape now than 20 years ago.

    It can be done. :)

    Ditto. 50 years old lost 45 pounds in 12 months on MFP. Same caloric intake as the above poster. Didn't lift but did reasonable (35 to 45 min) HIIT cardio and lots of walking.

    Yes, it can be done. :)
  • lrbassmom
    lrbassmom Posts: 123
    what is NRFwL?? You have done so well!!! i have been on MFP for 1 1/2 years! oNLY LOST 2 LBS.

    NROLFW is short for a book called: New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift like a man, look like a Goddess.

    It's a book I found out about here in the Community. It basically advocates building muscle by lifting weights (because muscle burns more calories long term than cardio) and eating enough nutritious calories to fuel muscle growth (based on very scientific methods for figuring out what your body actually burns).

    I was doing what you are doing, cardio mostly, eating 1200 calories, and getting pissed off because I wasn't losing an ounce. and this has been going on for at LEAST 6 months. Finally, I remembered what I used to do when I was physically fit and what my body responded to most. and that is lifting heavy stuff.

    In the past two weeks, I bumped my calories to a minimum of 1550 and if I've had an especially active day, or had a really good gym session, I eat back my exercise calories. and you know what? In the two weeks since I've been doing this, I've dropped about 4 lbs! I REALLY expected failure on this experiment. but it does work.

    Do yourself a favor, go to your local library and see if they have the book, check it out. Or go buy yourself a copy. Trust me.
  • canadiandee
    canadiandee Posts: 196 Member
    NROLFW is short for a book called: New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift like a man, look like a Goddess.

    Do yourself a favor, go to your local library and see if they have the book, check it out. Or go buy yourself a copy. Trust me.

    It's also available as an e-book. :-)

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