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Menopause can lower your metabolic rate a bit - but that is not true for everyone. What mostly happens is that as we get older we move less and exercise less. If you keep moving, do some exercise and eat a sensible amount, your weight will be fine. The difference in metabolism is not big at all between old and young - its…

Home made spicy bean burgers, peas, crinkle cut oven chips. It was too big a dinner and I felt very overfull.

For aesthetics you definitely need to do resistance training of some sort. And like the guys said, weight training and marathon training don't really go together.

Are you perhaps one of those people who want to lose loads of weight really quickly and go from 0-100 (ie start on a very low calorie intake, only eating 'really healthy' food, saying you'll go to the gym 5 times a week? If yes - you are probably doomed to failure. Eat at a sensible deficit, maybe start a little bit of…

yeh - I do this too - if I don't eat breakfast, or skip a meal, I end up eating bits and pieces all day and it adds up to more than a meal.

IF you are experiencing amenorrhea, you are restricting your calories far too much - up your calories to a sensible amount - that should help stop the binging - you mustn't starve yourself or you will end up in all sorts of trouble.

You certainly do!

You can definitely lose the fat - I had my son when I was 36, and my hips are narrower now than they were before - because I've lost the love handles and firmed up and lifted my bottom through exercise.

Easiest thing is just quick add say 200 calories or so for those sort of things. Unless you are troughing great big scoops of nutella!

A percentage is just that - a proportion of whatever the calorie amount is.

Start off by brisk walking pushing your baby in the buggy. Hills are great! If you want more, then there are tons of workouts on Youtube for free, you can do in your own home for half an hour at a time. Start small, and if you feel like you are enjoying it and want to do a bit more, and you can get childcare, a…

That body weight planner is bang on for me! I'm around 106 pounds, female age 54, height 5 foot, do a fair amount of walking and gym a couple of times a week, so I got moderate activity - gave me 1710 calories to maintain (which is what I have been eating for the last year or so). Pretty clever.

I love that ab ache (I only really get it after a real go on the roll out wheel)! Makes me know I hit those little monsters hard!

I'm 54. I just count calories - make sure my fibre is ok - otherwise I eat a reasonably healthy diet and exercise regularly (I walk a fair amount and weight train a couple of times a week). That's it. The calorie content of what you are eating is more important (for weight loss/gain) than the macronutrients.

You are very young, so if you give it a bit of time your skin should recover at least a bit.

I have been looking at cinnamon bun recipes but am afraid they will be something that would have to be added to this list!

Grapes, apple crumble, Christmas cake, mince pies. I love them all.

@Machka9 - you wrote this just earlier! I'm very much this way and pretty much always have been. :) I enjoy some food, of course, but I've thought of food as calories/fuel since I was 16 or 17 years old.

That calorie goal doesn't include any exercise calories you might earn, so you can add those on if you like. Or set it for a lower weekly weight loss ...

Once upon a time in Hollywood. Loved it.

Why are you on MFP if you only see food as fuel? Surely it must be massively easy to eat exactly the correct amount of great nutrients and you wouldn't need any help with either bulking/cutting/whatever? Me - I love food - good quality ingredients, well cooked/prepared. Bloody lovely.

Water, then tea with dash of semi skimmed, then cafetiere coffee, dash of semi skimmed again.

At the moment I do the same as you and go in my lunch break - however, I'm leaving this job early next year and will probably have to find a new routine that works for me - dreading it actually ...

Either overnight oats (with protein powder, nut milk, yoghurt, fruit) to take to work or if I'm home a boiled egg with marmite sourdough soldiers.

I am going to experiment with a breakfast smoothie with coffee, chocolate protein powder, oats, almond milk (and maybe peanut butter).

Sorry - is it 3 cups a day or 3 cups a meal (9 cups)?

haha! When I do the big house clean on a Thursday morning, I don't let myself have my coffee until its almost all done ...

Same here - my diet is pretty healthy, so I just concentrate on calories.

And it can sometimes help a little with weight loss, as thirst and hunger signals can be easily confused.

Flat white if I'm out. IF I'm home or at work, I make a cafetiere with a little bit of semi-skimmed milk. No sugar - yuk.