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Rapid Weight gain/menapause?
I am a 43 yr old. women who has always exercised and has always had to watch my weight. Over the years I've successfully stayed at a healthy weight by following a low-calorie (sometimes low carb) way of eating and have always exercised. In the last year and 1/2, I have gained 25 lbs. (15 in the last 6 months) while continuing to diet and exercise the entire time (I have changed nothing and in fact have increased my exercise). This rapid unexplained weight gain has me going crazy. My thyroid has been tested and is well within normal range---my Dr thinks it's all just due to menapause--but this seems SO excessive especially for someone like me who is SO disciplined with my diet and also with exercise. WHat else could this be???? WHat tests should I have done and/or what kindof dr. should I see? an endrocrinologist???
sweetheart...sounds like you may be in menopause?...i say this because you've gone a full year without a period and I assume you are not pregnant?..Best to have your OBG test your hormone levels to confirm. Dried mucous membranes is also another symptom of peri and menopause in addition to lowered sex drive and other more popular symptoms. I started perimenopause at age 37 and have seen the symptoms intermittently. I am now 42 and experiencing the increased appetite, extreme weight gain in the mid area, and loss of sex drive/interest. Best to get tested to know for sure.
But why is this happening to some and not all of us. I work around over 200 women and some of them hit menopause and do not look a pound heavier or a day older yet I gained 40lbs in menopause etc..
Saadi65, I think that's a great tip! We should just be happy with the new stage in life. But I do miss the passionate nights with my husband, when all disagreements would be erased and it was just an enormous RESET. Now that is gone, he feels hurt (has no idea how to be supportive to what I am going through, just how much he suffers with this abysmal decrease in the sex drive...) I am now in constant stress- will I be able to give him (us) a good night tonight?
Hey: I started menopause at 40 years old I am now 56, I didn't gain wait back when I had the menopause start but in the last two years I have gained 20 lbs.. I have always been underweight 120. maybe 130 pregnant. I look pregnant, round belly, my legs have grown 4 times the size they were, and my butt is also 4 times the size it was. I feel big.
Hi I know what everyone is going through on this site... I too had a hysterectomy at age 31, was able to maintain a good cuddly but slimish figure right up till I hit 46 them bam... regularly gained 7-14lbs each yes kindof handled that but then I hit 53 and the weight poured on... if I was doing things different I could understand but I wasn't... The libido dried up and felt non-sexy for years... then I found the herb Muira Puama and now even though stil fat and gaining have a husband (got married 1st July 2014) and that department is fine... just the weight still piling on even when I fast let alone reduce my intake and getting moodier by the day. Dr says thyroid is ok but I know it isn't, dr says I am not gluten intolerant but I know I am, have been lactose intolerant since birth and am allergic to aspartame and other sweeteners.... What else can we do to save our mid-sections from out-growing us? I will keep searching until I find the answer... Hope we can all be saved from becoming blobs asap...
I am 48. All my life I have been 60 kg. A regular gym goer with controlled diet. In past 10 years weight began to climb, surely but steadily. Now, I am 78 kg. I still have my period but with all the tell tale signs of oncoming inevitable menopause.I have come to realise that no matter what we all do or say, nobody could have warn us of this drastic physical change. My fellow sufferers, here is what I did and wish that you all should do : continue your exercise, eat moderately, throw or give away your old size 8/10/12 clothes, buy yourself a new wardrobe and feel lucky and beautiful to be alive and reach this glorious confident period of life, where external validation should not matter anymore. As the truth be told, we are healthy and getting old. Very simple. Let's make the best of it.
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