Hello ladies.
When I entered the menopause in my mid fifties I was appalled at my thickening waistline so I took up running. I also saw a photo of a typically pear shaped, post meno woman in my trusty meno book and wasn't impressed with that either! I am 5 foot 2 and always slim and I didn't want that to change.
Fast forward almost ten years and my attitudes, like everything have changed. I now closely resemble the photo in my book but I'm okay with that. The running didn't really alter my shape nor did using the rowing machine in my bedroom or indeed the cross trainer at the gym. I know it is possible to obtain a very athletic physique in your sixties because I know someone who has done it but she lives in the gym and it has taken over her life.
On the plus side, I still weigh 8 stone and don't have a spare tyre or any sort of paunch. I just seem to have spread out! I noticed that my bottom has lost it's curve and is now flat which I think is an old lady thing. Perhaps my fat stores have moved from my bottom to my belly?
One of the reasons I no longer stress about my figure is because I have more pressing concerns regarding the menopause, mood swings for example. In the grand scheme of things I would settle for looking worse but feeling better!
Take care ladies.
K.
