Anonymous wrote:OP or PP with similar stories, would love to know what your eating looks like on an average day. I'm post menopausal at 54 and weight has been stacking up for a while. My insurance won't authorize the weight loss drugs and I really want/need a reset that's sustainable. Thanks in advance!

I’m 43 now, and the PP with the 50 + lb weight loss I’ve been maintaining for 4 months thus far. I posted a to about my experience in a thread titled “Let’s lose together” and from that thread here’s an example of my eating for two days when I was in weight loss mode:


Yesterday I had a bowl of mixed berries and 2 slices of prosciutto for breakfast and a cup of hot tea with cream. For lunch I had more strawberries, and a slice of homemade veggie quiche. A cup of iced coffee with cream for an afternoon snack. For dinner I had baked chicken drumsticks, a salad with balsamic vinegar, steamed green beans, and 1/2 c of wild rice. After dinner for a snack I had a couple slices of manchego and a slice of watermelon.

Today I had hot tea with cream, a plain Greek yogurt with fresh blueberries for breakfast. For lunch I had the same thing as yesterday. Afternoon iced coffee with cream. For dinner we are having vegetable lasagna, another salad with balsamic vinegar, and roasted cauliflower. I don’t know if I’ll want a snack later, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Yesterday my app tells me I ate 1350 calories. So far today I am at 600 and would expect to be between 1200-1300 after dinner, more if I have a snack later, but aiming for under 1500 per day.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound like you are engaged in disordered eating.

Having engaged in disordered eating 2x/life - once in HS and once in my early 30s - I am acutely aware of this and that's not happening here. My disordered eating usually means I am so anxious that I cannot eat and, again, that's not happening here.

Oh you have a history of it? My comment stands.

Your comment is unneeded and unhelpful.

Miserable people that can’t fathom consuming an appropriate amount of food for energy needs just default to “disordered eating” comments. These same people think humans were never meant to be hungry for more than 10 minutes.

OP or PP with similar stories, would love to know what your eating looks like on an average day. I'm post menopausal at 54 and weight has been stacking up for a while. My insurance won't authorize the weight loss drugs and I really want/need a reset that's sustainable. Thanks in advance!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like you are engaged in disordered eating.

Having engaged in disordered eating 2x/life - once in HS and once in my early 30s - I am acutely aware of this and that's not happening here. My disordered eating usually means I am so anxious that I cannot eat and, again, that's not happening here.

Oh you have a history of it? My comment stands.

I think the "cutting back on consumption" = 500 calories a day

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Anonymous wrote:I maintained a pace of roughly 8lbs/month for the first 5 months/40 lbs. once I hit 140 lbs it slowed significantly. It then took me the next 5 months to shed another 14 and I haven’t lost anything in the subsequent 4 months and have been bouncing between the low and up to 5 lbs above the low ever since. I’m not actively trying to lose anything else, just trying to maintain at this point.

Got it. Wondering if this will be me. I would love to lose another 12-15, but even 10 would be great (hitting 130 in an earlier life would have thrown me into a panic - now it's my dream).

How are you maintaining? Do you find it a challenge?

Yes and no. It’s been 13+ months since I started trying to lose. So I really overhauled my diet and lifestyle and those changes are pretty engrained. I’ve dialed back on exercise and given myself a little grace on a piece of candy or a glass of wine which is generally what contributes to the +/- 5 lbs. but I’m going to consider that mostly just normal fluctuations and give myself a win of having basically maintained for 4 months. I hope I can keep it where it is and the +/- 5lbs doesn’t seem to impact how my clothes fit, so I’m pretty content with where I am. I can see where it would be so easy to slip back into the habits that led to my weight gain though and I’m trying hard not to do that.