When I quit soy I had a few months of frequent but very brief hot flashes.

It was a nice respite from being freezing all the time.

Now, I might get one every 2-3 weeks.

And now that the weather's starting to turn, I'm freezing again.

I keep getting thicker around the middle. But it could be that's my own d*mn fault ... in perimenopause I was a gym rat with a lot of upper body strength. Lately I can't stand a workout that doesn't involve sunshine, so while I'm three pounds lighter, and running mileage that I couldn't even have imagined three years ago, I've lost a good bit of muscle mass in the arms, shoulders and upper back - it might have been that muscle that was keeping the menopot off.