Thanks Hurdity - appreciate your thoughts. I, like you, try to eat a healthy diet and I do exercise, but it's literally been these past 3 months that I've put on this weight (since I started the HRT). Nothing else has changed. I know what you're saying about the metabolism thing, but I'm really thinking it's the Oestrogen.
Thing is, the reason I was put on HRT was that I went to the Doctors and said I felt "down, etc" and was sweating a lot. They did a thyroid test and that came back fine. This wasn't long after I lost my Dad and she said a lot of it could be down to that, obviously.
I started to read about HRT, etc, and it was me who suggested it to the Dr...... now I'm wondering if I actually need it at all, given the problems I've had since I've been on it. The weight gain is not good, though...... if anything is going to make me "down", it's putting on weight.
I'm going to talk to the Dr next week and see what she says..... if she suggests stopping the HRT and seeing what happens, I will (I can always go back on it if need be).
Not sure if I will have to work hard to lose the weight now, or if stopping the HRT will be enough to reduce it. Been reading on other forums etc, that lots of ladies lose weight when they stop the HRT.