Dietician for Menopause Stage of Life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignore that poster above. You need to eat much more fiber and protein. Shea telling you to eat 1200 calories without having any idea about you height, weight, composition, lifestyle.

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Key is more protein. And make your carbs count! Ditch bread and not so useful carbs for starchy veggies and fruits. Try to limit your carbs like a diabetic diet. Eat lots of non-starchy veggies and good lean proteins.

Then add in some exercise. Walking is good, just move for 30-40 mins per day.

Once you hit 40 you need to do this. Then again around 50/when menopause fully hits.

I can eat as much as I want, as long as I keep carbs lowers (within range of diabetic needs, but I'm not diabetic and hope to keep it that way). If you do that, all you are really doing is eating healthy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can give it to you for free. Toss ALL processed food out of your house. Everything. Download MyFitnessPal and track every single morsel of food for the first week. Then after that set the calories to 1200, and stick to it. This is best and easily done by eating 1.5 meals a day, which at your age and apparent weight you need. Breakfast is tea or black coffee, no milk or sugar. Around 12pm you can have an 8oz glass of cold pressed green juice, a clear broth or veg based soup, and 8oz fruit. Snack at 3pm is 6 almonds and 2 dried apricots and 8oz Kombucha. Dinner at 5pm. It will be 6oz lean protein or a hard boiled egg, and 8-10 oz steamed veg. That's it. Of course, drink lots (64oz) water through the day.

You need to exercise every single day for 60 minutes. That's a 3 mile walk, a 5 mile run, or some kind of class that gets your heart rate up and makes you sweat for at least 30 solid minutes. Foam roll, stretch, ect after for at least 15 minutes.

You will lose weight and keep it off (Inlike to say you release the weight bc no one wants it back) but this is the new way you will be living your life until you die.

This is starving yourself. A recipe for bone density loss, an eating disorder, you name it. Don’t follow this moron’s advice.

This was a joke.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think you need a dietitian. I promise they aren’t going to tell you something you didn’t know.

-cut out most ultra processed foods, and have sparingly
-eat sugar sparingly
-eats lots of fruits and vegetables
-get enough protein (about 1 gram protein per kg body weight)
-lift heavy weights and do low impact (but rigorous) cardio
-limit alcohol

Most importantly watch the scale. If you see weight creeping up and staying up, adjust your diet. Making changes (and seeing results) when weight gain is small is way way easier than when weight gain is many pounds

[Anonymous]

I need to lose weight but the idea of eating a visibly countable small number of almonds makes me want to die early after eating whatever I want. Somehow it's symbolic. Like eating a nasty bran cereal.

[Anonymous]

Here’s what I have done (post menopausal):

Use Lose It, an app that helps you count calories. My intake is set for me to lose about a pound every 7-10 days. Any faster and your body will catch on and slow your metabolism. For me it’s 1750 calories per day.

I also keep my eating window between about 11am-6 pm. No drinking wine or snacking in the evening (sadly).

I walk and/or swim every day. I use Fitbit to motivate me and keep track of exercise. I do some Pilates and am starting to work on weight and resistance training.

I’ve lost over 15 lbs in about 3+ months. It’s slow but I feel healthy.