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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a question very specific to middle-aged (let’s say, 40 to 60) women who are significantly overweight but were thin and athletic in their 20s and 30s, and specifically women who are unhappy with this weight change.

How much weight have you gained from age 30? Was it mostly having kids, mostly menopause, both, or neither? Did you notice your body change all of a sudden, or was it a gradual weight creeping up and up? If you do wish you weighed less (and some people just accept it and that’s ok) what would you have done differently, lifestyle-wise, and at what age? What advice would you give to women under 35 who think “oh I would NEVER let my body get like THAT”?[/quote]

"Gaining Weight" is not equal to "Body Falling Apart"[/quote]

Yeah, agree that phrasing it that way is hyperbolic, but I think I get the point. It’s one thing to gain a couple of pounds here and there, and accept it, or not. The falling-apart thing, I often think it applies to people who used to be able to outrun the fork. For example, people who are hardcore athletes in their 20s and 30s and then obese by 50.  This does happen. An injury, a child, and menopause and not significantly changing your eating habits. [/quote]

To me "body falling apart" means you're suddenly getting injured often, your back hurts enough that it limits your activities, your balance is off, you have constant unexplainable aches and pains etc., NOT oh I've gained 15lbs.[/quote]

This, especially if the weight gain is just "I went through menopause and got thicker around the middle." That's different than gaining weight because of a chronic injury that keeps you from being active, because in the latter case, that can very easily snowball. I saw this with my mom. Chronic back problems that led to her being very sedentary, which led to gaining weight, which made her back problems worse, which made her even more sedentary.

One of the very best things you can learn in life is to fine a way to get moving again, safely, after an injury or when dealing with chronic pain. After watching this happen with my mom, it made me very proactive when I started having back and alignment issues in my early 40s. I got a PT and an ortho ASAP, I went to all my PT appointments and followed my orthos advice to take up some low impact exercise and be consistent about it. And it worked. When I experience back or hip pain now, my reaction is to do some of my PT exercises, take the anti-inflammatory my ortho prescribed, and then go to a barre or yoga class and take a walk. Not to pound a bunch of aspirin and then lie in bed all day, which is how my mom used to approach it.

Move it or lose it.[/quote]

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