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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these people at 140 weren’t even fat. SMH.[/quote]

140 is overweight for me at 5’1. 130 is the upper limit of my bmi. [/quote]

You were barely overweight. If you'd lost 8 pounds you'd have been in the normal range. You couldn't lose 8 pounds through your own efforts? [/quote]

NP- I am roughly this poster and it's very hard losing weight as a short, middle aged woman. GLP-1s make it finally seem fair: exercise and good nutrition actually pay off in real ways combined with the medication. I was active and ate well before, and every pound took a month and tremendous mental effort. It was discouraging to the point of being depressing.[/quote]

I was thin my whole life and have gained 30 pounds in the last 5 years even though I increased my walking and decreased my carbs.  I lost about 10 pounds last year through 8 months of really intense dieting but then had a month where I had a lot of work meetings and had to eat more like a normal person and gained it all back in one month of not dieting.  So I haven’t really tried again.   I am wondering if a small dose would help me.  I am 5’4” and up to 155 now.  I’m already on HRT and that doesn’t seem to help.  [/quote]

Are we now deciding that gaining 30 lbs in menopause (wiht no health problems) is not normal? This has been normal since time began for majority of women.[/quote]

Might be typical but it isn’t a good thing [/quote]

I gained 30 lbs during peri and through menipause (a lot in bust size much to my chagrin). I eat healthy, exercise regularly, have good muscle mass, and my actual weight is not in the overweight category. My blood tests are all perfectly within normal range, I wear a size 8. What is the problem?[/quote]

30 pounds of fat that you keep on after perimenopause is 30 pounds of estrogen production, which can raise your risk of breast and other cancers that feed on estrogen (which is a lot).  In women, fat tissue produces estrogen, and this estrogen production continues through perimenopause and menopause.

It will be interesting to see if GLPs cause a decrease in hormone positive cancer over the longer term.  There is evidence on this for some cancers -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40839273/[/quote]

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