Any menopause ladies ?

What are you finding different? There are plenty of us who have lost weight post-menopause.

I'd been trying to lose weight (by exercising) since I was in my 30s, but was just staying pretty much the same as I then ate more to compensate, although I didn't realise that at the time. MFP was suggested to me by the nurse when I had an annual medical check through work; I was in my late 40s and was 6 years post-menopause by then.

Accurately logging everything I ate and drank (weighing solids, measuring liquids with a spoon, checking nutritional info on the entry I selected vs packaging) and tracking my exercise was an eye-opener as to how much I was really eating. I got down to normal BMI just before my 50th birthday. Then I started a new job, stopped tracking, started snacking (there were endless goodies available, almost daily, at this new job) and within 6 months I was back to where I'd started, weight-wise. And diabetic. Not even pre-diabetic - straight in. I refused medication and said I'd deal with it via my diet - this was the wake-up call I needed; my doctor gave me 6 months to prove myself. That was January 2018.

I came back to MFP and have been logging diligently ever since. Paying attention to my carb numbers (Diabetes UK suggests 130g a day, maximum), my HbA1c reduced at each blood test (so I never have gone on to any medication) and I actually got back down to below a pre-diabetic level after 3 years. I got my weight down to mid-range of BMI just before Covid lockdowns kicked in, early in 2020.

It was a slow process, but I'm not very tall and, as MFP won't allocate less than 1200 calories a day, my deficit was small so weightloss took a while. I learned a lot from these forums and from looking at what I ate / what substitutions I could make such that I still feel like I'm eating the same foods that I've always eaten (smaller portions, more protein as it makes me feel fuller, less pasta/potatoes/rice and more veg, thinner slices of bread on the rare times I eat bread, wafer thin crackers with my post-dinner cheese etc).

All of my successful weight loss was post-menopause. I've been in Maintenance for over 5 years now and am still tracking, pretty much daily, to make sure I stay there.