Just turned 40 and seem to be gaining weight

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Anonymous wrote:Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar. Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating. While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm. Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult. No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success. Good luck! You got this!!

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out.

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch. It's not complicated. But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing. I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree. Excess protein is also converted into glucose. By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so. Low normal weight. I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.

Do you try to get a certain amount of protein? Like 100+ grams?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar. Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating. While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm. Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult. No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success. Good luck! You got this!!

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out.

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch. It's not complicated. But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing. I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree. Excess protein is also converted into glucose. By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so. Low normal weight. I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.

If you eat more calories at lunch versus more calories for a snack, it actually doesn’t matter. No you don’t need to build an appetite for dinner of whatever. That’s how people overeat. I adored my grandmother but I would not take health and eating advice from her in 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have alway been able to maintain my weight without dieting. Just exercise moderately (like run 3 times a week and lift weights 2 times a week) and I am good.

For reference I am 5’7” and have consistently weighed 140ish my whole adult life. Have had 3 kids in the past decade and after third kid I have maintained around 145. Not ideal but had baby during Covid and then with 3 kids it’s been hard to lose the weight.

I started weight lifting around a year ago. Nothing super intense - just peloton classes 2 times a week. And I had to stop running but still walk 5-7 miles a day with walking dog and life.

I weighed myself today and I weigh 153! What is going on?!? Other than upping my working out if I just stop eating other than a small lunch and dinner will I be able to drop the weight? I know I snack too much now. I will cut that out.

I’m 62 years old and post menopausal. I am 5’7 and would be delighted to weigh 165! I don’t think a doctor is going to give you weight loss medicine for this amount of weight gain.

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Anonymous wrote:It happened to me. Nothing helped. I am doing semaglutide and it is now budging.

Will they give you semaglutide for 10-15 pounds? Ideally I would like to be 135. That is what I weighed before I had kids. I was 125 when I got married. I doubt that will ever happen again.

Op here

This is vanity weight. Are you really willing to inject yourself with a pricey drug that insurance won’t cover, for the rest of your life?

Is it really the rest of your life? I mean probably not. If I bring my daily calories down to 1000-1200 should that do the trick?

Op here

Yes the rest of your life unless you want to gain it all back plus some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar. Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating. While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm. Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult. No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success. Good luck! You got this!!

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out.

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch. It's not complicated. But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing. I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree. Excess protein is also converted into glucose. By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so. Low normal weight. I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.

Do you try to get a certain amount of protein? Like 100+ grams?

Three square meals person here. I don't count calories or macros or anything. But I eat protein at all meals. Breakfast will be egg or pb on Ezekiel or plain whole yogurt with pecans, nuts. Lunch protein is french lentils, any beans. Dinner protein is fish. I am pescetarian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar. Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating. While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm. Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult. No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success. Good luck! You got this!!

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out.

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch. It's not complicated. But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing. I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree. Excess protein is also converted into glucose. By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so. Low normal weight. I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.

If you eat more calories at lunch versus more calories for a snack, it actually doesn’t matter. No you don’t need to build an appetite for dinner of whatever. That’s how people overeat. I adored my grandmother but I would not take health and eating advice from her in 2024.

Building an appetite in thr afternoon for dinner...I'm not talking about being ravenous and then overeating. If you're ravenous in the afternoon you need to eat bigger lunch. Snacking does matter if you're trying to lose. Weight management isn't a calorie issue, it's a hormone issue. Having snacks keep insulin up. Being hyperinsulin you will store fat and not access reserves. People need to stop.snacking and be more deliberate with eating in fixed windows. Now if someone js hypoglycemic r not needing to lose weight, that's a different story. They may need to and want to snack. But when people are trying to drop weight but they eat several times a day, they are keeping insulin up and keeping storage, not burning reserves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar. Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating. While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm. Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult. No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success. Good luck! You got this!!

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out.

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch. It's not complicated. But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing. I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree. Excess protein is also converted into glucose. By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so. Low normal weight. I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.

If you eat more calories at lunch versus more calories for a snack, it actually doesn’t matter. No you don’t need to build an appetite for dinner of whatever. That’s how people overeat. I adored my grandmother but I would not take health and eating advice from her in 2024.

Building an appetite in thr afternoon for dinner...I'm not talking about being ravenous and then overeating. If you're ravenous in the afternoon you need to eat bigger lunch. Snacking does matter if you're trying to lose. Weight management isn't a calorie issue, it's a hormone issue. Having snacks keep insulin up. Being hyperinsulin you will store fat and not access reserves. People need to stop.snacking and be more deliberate with eating in fixed windows. Now if someone js hypoglycemic r not needing to lose weight, that's a different story. They may need to and want to snack. But when people are trying to drop weight but they eat several times a day, they are keeping insulin up and keeping storage, not burning reserves.

Having snacks doesn’t make you diabetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three square meals only. Absolutely no snacking. Let yourself get hungry BTW meals. You won't die. If thr urge to snack is too difficult drink sparkling Perrier or cup of tea, herbal, no sugar. Ditch fake sweetners. Up fat bc it's satiating. While you're trying to drop weight consider doing 16 8 fast. So your first meal would be say at 11am, big early lunch. Then finish dinner by 7pm. Ditch meal services and start meal prepping and cooking basic stuff. It's not difficult. No ultraprocessed food. You don't have to start with 16 8 right off bat. Try three square meals first in 12 hr window for one week and see if you drop. If you're still not dropping do 16 8
But you're active so I think 3 square meals you'll find success. Good luck! You got this!!

Not OP but if I snack I have carrots or other veggies. I have been eating a protein bar too but I think I need to cut those out.

I'm the three square meal poster above. I agree all snacks need to go. If someone can't cope with not eating BTW lunch and dinner, then they need to have a bigger lunch. It's not complicated. But we need to build an appetite for dinner. Remember in the days of our grandmother's snacking wasn't really a daily thing. I do not believe in counting cals. Waste of time. Use that time instead to meal prep. Only eat real food. There is no protein bar tree. Excess protein is also converted into glucose. By the way I am a 51yo woman in meno, and the same weight I was (and same measurements) as in my 20s. My bmi runs about 19 to 19.5 or so. Low normal weight. I do allow myself occasional chocolate. But probably now that I'm in meno I'll have to be more careful with that.

If you eat more calories at lunch versus more calories for a snack, it actually doesn’t matter. No you don’t need to build an appetite for dinner of whatever. That’s how people overeat. I adored my grandmother but I would not take health and eating advice from her in 2024.

Yeah, what you actually need to do is have more protein (but not necessarily more calories)… this usually comes at the cost of cutting out some carbs. I think it’s totally doable to have two low carb meals a day, and a more relaxed dinner, for weight loss.