Help! Menopause - my middle is getting thicker!

[Dogmama]

Attention span....mmmm...yeah...what were we talking about? Oh yeah, the weather....

How about memory retention? I just returned to school this year..holy moly. I had a "check up from the neck up" this week and my shrink prescribed something called Cerefolin NAC. It is basically a drilled down form of folate acid (B vitamin), b-12 and an antioxidant. Just started taking it yesterday & have already noticed a surge in energy. He said it helps memory & actually is used in pre-dementia people. Anyway, I liked that it is natural - OK - as natural as a drilled down vitamin can be. I *seem* to be concentrating better but I'm thinking it may be a placebo effect. Or maybe not. What was I saying?

[sundial]

I used to have an excellent memory. Now it's shot. I forget words mid-sentence and it's really embarrassing. I feel like I've got a short in the brain.

[Dogmama]

I used to have an excellent memory. Now it's shot. I forget words mid-sentence and it's really embarrassing. I feel like I've got a short in the brain.

Oh man, do I know that one! And I'm studying to be a therapist. It ought to be fun, "Gee Mr. Jones, how do you feel about your wife having an affair with....hey how about those Dodgers?"

[sundial]

LOL!

I can't seem to get my tummy to shrink much, if any, either. What was so frustrating about this process is I managed to lose weight on the same diet that suddenly put 15 lbs on me within 6 months of my surgical menopause.

[Selkie]

Don't they call that "brain fog?"

I've heard that the tendency for menopausal women to collect belly fat is the body's way of protecting one's bones. The dreaded "meno-pot."

I'm staying on the pill until I'm 60!!!

[shootingstar]

I've only been in perimenopause in less than past 2 yrs. Though my metabolism has changed in the last decade, I can attribute waistline problems are just snacking way too often. It is healthy stuff but it all adds up.

Would like to think my memory slight light flickers, are due to overflowing with too much in the head as one experiences more things in life.

I am intrigued about the experience of birth control pills, estrogen and weight control/gain. You see, I've never used pills ..at all. Ever. And I have had decent control of weight during cycling years when younger and years of normal menstruation before went to peri now.

[sundial]

Don't they call that "brain fog?"

I've heard that the tendency for menopausal women to collect belly fat is the body's way of protecting one's bones. The dreaded "meno-pot."

I'm staying on the pill until I'm 60!!!

Didn't work for me. Started meno-pot in my late 30's.

[cylegoddess]

fat cells make estrogen?!! NOOOOOO!!! So if your a pear shape, with saddlebags, nothing will help! ( as pears are more estrogen dominant ). How trippy. That must be why some women get thinner legs, when they hit menopause( go from pear to apple).

I have a thicker middle, but Im not menopausal. In fact, my waist is HARD. Is that muscle from riding>?Ive never had muscle there in my life!!
It would be nice to see some results from a year of hard training!

any body look at Sandra Cabots site? As soon as I hit menopause, I am doing her program( maybe no one else,cos its here In Oz.)