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I hear you. I'm a boring speedo gal, and those do NOT look good post-meno.

This was a good read. Thanks.

Congrats. Keep up the good work, and keep posting your successes! 🙌🙌

👏👏🤝👍🏼🙌 All of this, and I'll add: you're losing a pound a week already. WELL DONE with that!

The low carb group here has a number of members with PCOS. I'm sure they'd be happy to help you find your way. I also agree with @psuLemon : understand the diet before you really try it. Lot's of information in the announcements here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum

What approach are you using? I have been doing transdermal progesterone and estrogen lately. I was doing transdermal estrogen, and micronized progesterone, but didn't like the side effects of the progesterone.

Hi. Consider joining us here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/506-near-or-post-menopausal-group I found it a challenge as well. There's quite a bit of research that suggests that peri-menopause is associated with higher than normal ghrelin levels. Leptin is often impaired. There's also quite a bit of research…

This is such a great thread!!!

How steep is your deficit? How many calories are you eating?

Recipes I'm trying: https://www.delish.com/cooking/g25984873/easy-shirataki-noodles-recipes/

Thanks for posting this!

I will. I'm sure liking carbmanager too. Thanks for the suggestion. One thing I like about carbmanager is it shows photos of recipes and all the details, grades them, and then auto fills them into your log.

No. Do you like it?

no one? Ah well. Does anyone use the free version for tracking? I kind of like it.

Well done!

Glad you're feeling a bit better.

Thanks!

There are cheese only granola bars. Kinda spendy, but they might be worth it. https://www.amazon.com/Sonoma-Creamery-Cheese-Crisp-Bars/dp/B07C5LXZRD/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?keywords=cheese%2Bbar&qid=1560170449&s=gateway&sr=8-2-spons&th=1

Looks yummy!

You're definitely not alone!

I haven't yet. I should...

Funny how humans are.

That's an interesting read!

I had that happen last spring. I was using prometrium (progesterone), then it got swapped with a generic and I felt HORRIBLE. I convinced the pharmacist to return me to prometrium. He did. Then this month there was another generic. This one, so far, works ok. It's frustrating!

I had major carb cravings for about 18 months during peri-menopause. Fortunately, it got better!

Oh lordy. Yes. I've been on prednisone three times (for a short time each time) and each time I gained weight like crazy. UGH! I found, for me, that menopause was about 18 months of intense hunger, carb cravings, and unsteady blood sugar.

Interesting to know about the low carb tortillas. I'll tell me sister to watch for that.

Such a great thread!!

I am not particularly low carb (I'm slow carb). I go through phases too. Probably 10 eggs a week when I'm in an egg phase.

I agree, we probably don't know the actual reason/mechanism, yet.