Menopause is going to turn you from Barbie to Roseanne Barr

Ok. I have just reached menopause. I have been doing CICO for the last year, and to be completely honest, I have to eat less by 35% than what the calculators say in order to keep at the same weight and even less than that to lose.

I think that it's easy to say that you should just watch your calories and energy expended (which, of course, is true overall) when you are a woman at this age. Somehow my body obviously requires much fewer calories than the calculators say, even though I am working out and weighing everything. I figured out what works for me, but holy heck, I'm not eating much. I keep losing though, and that is good. Hard work is required. Menopause is difficult, all the way around. Hot flashes, emotional turmoil, just understanding that you have entered a new phase of your life, a phase that signals the beginning of the end stages.

I guess I have compassion for those of us in menopause. It's hella hard, and it's hard work, but we can achieve the weight we desire. But it is still much more difficult than it was twenty years ago. By far.

Fucking hormones. It's like teenaged years in reverse!!!!!

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