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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep in mind, it will be much harder to lose the weight in 5 years than now. Late 30s, I was a bit smaller than your size and didn’t do much about it. I felt fit enough, ate a balanced but not restrictive diet, exercised, etc. 10 years later, I’m 20 pounds heavier even though I eat better and exercise more. It’s impossible for me to drop any weight.

If I could, I’d go back to 38 and work on my fitness and lose that bit of baby weight (last kid at 37). [/quote]

I am 5 years older than OP and losing weight now (just 10lbs worth of vanity pounds). It is coming off the same way it always was. Calories in vs calories out will always work,  before, during and after menopause. [/quote]

Not necessarily true. I am 55 and trying to lose 15 lbs via weight watchers and the weight is coming off at a snail’s pace. Vs 6 years ago I lost 15 lbs via WW (so ate exactly the same as I am now to lose weight) and I lost 1-2 lbs a week on average. [/quote]
With WW you are not tracking calories so you do not really have an exact comparison. You might be moving less and your body composition might have deteriorated if you were not lifting during the last six years. So while it might be harder now it is not just because you got older. [/quote]

I’m the WW poster and I hear you on the calorie piece but per WW’s calculations I should be losing weight so long as I stick to their point calculations, and I am, but I’m barely losing. I’ve never lifted weights, and I exercise the same as I always have for probably 10 years - walking 3 miles 5 days/week and yoga 2/week. I mentioned this to my doctor and she chalked it up to aging metabolism. [/quote]

If you never lift and only ever do cardio you will have for sure lost muscle with age, so your body composition is less favorable than it was for weight loss. I would also not count on WW calculations to tell you how much you need to eat to lose. Calorie tracking is the most reliable way to lose fat and to know what is actually happening.[/quote]

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