The Menopause Blogs

  • Menopause and Scents – How do you smell to others?

    Menopause and Scents – How do you smell to others?

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 78, April 28, 2024

    I think I should expand on my blog from yesterday. Breaking from your routine is hard. When you are in menopause, routine is everything. When guests come, you eat out more, you eat and drink things you shouldn’t, sleep patterns are disrupted, and this will have an effect on you. It has an effect on…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 72 – 77, April 22-27, 2024

    Weigh in day was Tuesday and I clocked in at a solid 124. Not bad. Slow and steady wins the race, though I am disappointed I didn’t lose more. I think the last weigh in put me at 124.2. I don’t remember and won’t go back to look. I know I started at 130 so…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 71, April 21, 2024

    Happy Sunday. Two more days until weigh in. I want to talk about preconceived notions, gossip, and television. How old were you when you heard your first horror story about having a period? Was in on TV? A tale from a friend? An advertisement showing the worst case scenario? Did you read about it in…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 69 – 70, April 19 – 20, 2024

    Happy 420 everyone! Wow, I have been at this exercise regime for seventy days. 70…. It doesn’t seem so long right? But then sometimes, when I just cannot get my ass of the couch, it feels like forever. I feel the depression from the last week wearing off and I did work out, but it’s…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 68, April 18, 2024

    The Difference Between Protein Shakes Why is there so much information to learn when you are trying to lose weight and stay healthy? So I was reading the current AARP Magazine and came across this article: https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2024/top-protein-powder.html Shit, now I need to pay attention to what type of protein powder? I am not a true…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 65-67, April 15- April 17, 2024

    Sometimes it is hard to get motivated. Right now, I am in a slight bit of depression due to something that came up at the shrinks office. Maybe writing about it will get it out of my system. In 2015 we left PA for FL for warmer weather. Our house had not sold so we…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 62-64, April 12- April 14, 2024

    On Friday, I weighed in at 124.20 pounds and I am thrilled. I am 2 months and 3 days into this whole routine, and I have lost 5.8 pounds. It’s working. I’m not missing out on anything. I feel better. Little to Zero dairy. Red meat only twice a month. Protein shakes twice a day.…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 57-61, April 7- April 11, 2024

    I’ve been slacking on blogging but not slacking on working out. Weigh in is tomorrow and I hope to have lost just a touch of weight in the last week. Here are the workouts I have used, some are repeats, and you can find them on my YouTube Channel. Brian Syuki – Focus Fitness Juice…

  • Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 56, April 6, 2024

    Let’s talk about the “quick fix” for weight loss. There ISN’T one. Ozempic. Wegovy. Etc., Etc., Etc. Gastric bypass. Tummy tucks. You may call them “quick fixes”, but they are far from it and come with a host of complications themselves that one has a choice to avoid. That you have a choice to avoid.…