Menopause and weight loss

Best of luck to you. There is a group called 'Women of a Certain Age" that you may want to check out. I haven't been through any of the symptoms yet, but I know it's coming. I was fortunate enough to lose the weight before any of that stuff starts.

We're here if you need us!!

I am 56, 5'5". and was able to reach my goal weight of 125. I'm menopausal and am taking hormones. It IS possible to lose weight Good luck!

Good for you for trying again! I am 60 and have been on this site for a few weeks. I have 80 lbs to lose and have lost 16 so far. For me, I had to come to the realization that I cannot eat like I used to and have to exercise. Logging your food accurately has been the key for me.

Best of luck!

I have been having the same issues - since I started tracking my food and exercise here I have seen results - but much slower than I would have hoped and sometimes huge fluctuations day to day - I can't make any sense of it because my period has started to come at random times (sometimes 3 weeks sometimes 6 weeks) - but it is at least now a downward trend instead of upward (-: Try sticking with it for a month. I count my wins my maintaining or losing. Most weeks I win. Some weeks I lose. But as I said at least I moving downward!! I started at 186 and am down to 180, so there is hope (and I still have a long way to go).

I went through the very same thing over the last few years. I was desperate to lose the pounds I had put on after going through menopause, but was really clueless as to how to go about it properly. If you follow the diet and exercise plan on this site and are completely honest about all your diary entries, you will succeed. You can do it!

I'm 43 and I don't think I've started menopause yet, but I've dealt with endometriosis until I had a supracervical hysterectomy last year. I'm also 5' 4" and my highest weight was 183 lbs. I tried all sorts of kinds of exercise before my surgery, signed up on MFP in April, started jogging again in July and still with no success and was really fed up this August. I finally mentioned to my doctor that I had been feeling down, and he suggested prozac. Since then I've lost 30 pounds and can jog for about an hour 3x a week. I've just started adding gym workouts 2x a week.

I'm not saying you need prozac or any anti-depressant, but I can't help but wonder if it was the perfect storm of hormonal balance + consistently increasing cardio (I did Couch to 5K) + logging calories + prozac, but something finally clicked. You might ask your doctor to do a complete hormone level check.

The prozac helped me not worry about the results of my exercising and quelled my anxiety enough I could control my portions much better. Now the jogging has become a reward in and of itself.

I am 45 also, but haven't started menopause. I do have a very low metabolism as well as a few other health issues that have caused me to struggle with weightloss. However, it can be done! I started my journey 12-30-10 and have lost 34 pounds. There were months that I've seen no weightloss but I never gave up. Feel free to friend me if you'd like and good luck on this journey. You'll find MFP friends very helpful and encouraging.

I'm 53 and started peri menopause about 8 years ago. Although I was already overweight it seemed like I gained easier from that time on. I have been on here since Sept. 9th. Starting weight was 208.5 Current weight is 189.4 (I haven't entered it yet as I'm trying to wait til my regular weigh in day to do that). It may be harder to lose at this time in our lives but it is possible.

I am a member of the Near or post-menopausal Group. I haven't checked out the other group yet, But I'm sure they are as wonderful and supportive as the one I've joined.

Feel free to send a friend request if you'd like.

I liked your comment, and just had to share this. One time, my older sister told me after loosing a great deal of weight, "It is just as hard to keep the weight off as it is to lose it." I know I used to think it, "if I could just lose it........." But, the truth is, you have to always eat in moderation -rather it is to lose it, or to maintain it.

Kudos to you for getting started again! I'm a 52 yr old mother of 13 kiddos, (Yes, 13! and wonderful blessings, everyone!) I'm definitely in the midst of all the "menopausal-funnies" too. Take comfort: There is some evidence that your natural tendency to retain a few extra lbs during this phases provides you your own mini HRT supply! Though it is VERY frustrsting to try so hard to lose, count every day that you just maintain as a victory. Your needs will change, this phase WILL pass, and your weight come off a bit easier later on. Have you had your thyroid checked? It's pretty common to be low thyroid about this stage... Find a buddy to walk with: the outdoor time, the gab-time, and the sense of obligation to one another has really given me a boost in the arm to start in afresh too. Interspersing moderate eating with 2-3 week stretches of a more vegetarian regimen, and really avoiding the milled wheat and refined sweets has finally made a "whopping" 1.5 lbs budge... (but only after 3 weeks of walking 11/2 -3 miles daily!) But Hey! it's a start! and I truly feel better and am finally getting realistic about being CONTENT with good health over surface appearance. Count your blessings, and pass on the potatoes n' gravy! :flowerforyou:

Well, I may not be having menopause issues yet (only 35) but we have the exact same highest weight, Im 5'3", and we have similar weight loss goals....we should be friends!

I read that by checking to see if you have hair from your eye brows that don't come all the way down beside your eyes that's a sign of low thyroid. Dr. Oz btw lol. I don't think I explained it very well. But I think I'm watching too much TV.

I've been told that "changing up" the exercise routine every 3 weeks is critical and that your body gets "used to" whatever you are doing so "more of the same" just isn't going to help. I went from 45 min to 90 min on treadmill and after losing my origianl 17 pounds lost nothing for weeks. I changed the incline from 0 to 4.5 and then started to lose a little bit more but i'm "stuck" again so getting a trainer's help to identify new routines I can do at home that don't overstress my aging joints and such. Menopause definitely makes it harder to lose weight and harder to know if a pre-menopause weight goal from only 10 years ago is feasible. Any thoughts?