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Just to update. After four weeks the tummy trouble is easing up on the first non-fasting day thankfully. It was getting really embarrassing having to delay rushing to the toilet after eating lunch. I am eating a lot less to reduce the risk of volatile gut response. Intriguingly my moderate hot flashes I've had for a few…
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You are so right WendyRenaud about a support group! Unfortunately I seem to be in the unique category of, as was expertly termed in a book title, "warm bottles and hot flashes". I have no support group for this. Either my friends are in their 40s with older children and aren't obese or they are in their 40s with younger…
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Thanks for your insights. It's encouraging to see women in perimenopause CAN lose weight- just more slowly than before.
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Yes, looking after little ones and going through early menopause actually sucks. Of course I adore my children, but losing weight while going through all of these motherhood and menopause changes is challenging to say the least.
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Thanks lithezebra for the tip. Not sure I will go Yasmin route but will try to remember the value of a mother's body even when our society doesn't - at least in media it doesn't.
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Hiya, I haven't really felt much change whenI've cut sodium. I hate drinking water so I have to say that I should try what you've done and throw water in. I so relate to your feeling like bricks; my whole body feels like sponge. I've looked online for alternatives but aside from treating perimenopause symptoms not much…
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I'm new to this whole MFP and also Canadian but living in England.
