Hot and Healthy – Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time – Day 16 (2/26/2024)

I may be sick. I was hoping yesterday was it, but alas, wrong again. It’s just a small cold, no fever, but It’s pissing me off. I slept well although I feel like taking a nap right this second. 

I’ve had my yogurt, tea, and some water...working on more and then we’ll see if I motivate or nap. 

Let’s talk about logging what you do. It wasn’t until I started seeing the calories and fat on paper that I realized how many extra calories I took in a day. By “on paper”, I really mean on my Loseit! App. The app breaks it down into Fat, Carbohydrates and Protein, called Macronutrients, and then it adds some sublevel stuff. So, this demanded I look up what I should be intaking a day for health and for weight loss. 

My search was “what percentages should a female have of proteins, fats and carbs during menopause to lose weight”. 

Remember what I said about the internet yesterday...you find what you want to find. 

Here are the results, at least the ones that made sense to me. 

From Women’s Health: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/food/healthy-eating/a705352/best-macros-for-fat-loss/ 

They do a whole explanation but here are the numbers they come up with.

50% carbs

35% protein

15% fat 

Then From Yahoo!Life: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/research-shows-menopausal-weight-gain-174105857.html

10% carbs

20% protein

70% fat

(70 percent healthy fats, 20 percent protein, and 10 percent complex carbs.) 

Seriously different results so I changed the search term to “what should a menopausal woman do about macros to lose weight”. 

It located a macros calculator: https://healthyeater.com/menopause-macro-calculator

I tried it. I ended up with the same percentages no matter what lifestyle was chosen. Only the calorie intake changed.

30% carbs

35% protein

35% fat 

And from the National Library of Medicine:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6947726/ 

40-50% carbs

20-25% protein

30% or less fat 

Can we agree that Yahoo!Life is out of their bloody minds? I mean, maybe they have something, but it is quite out of the norm of the others I looked up. 70% Fats? Healthy or not, I don’t think so. I mean, sure, that is more fun but, nope. 

I’m going to stick with the macros calculator and just up my protein. 

I did not work out today and took this as my off day. I will get back at it tomorrow. I still drank my protein shakes and logged everything I ate and drank and was still under by 93 calories.

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