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THE YOYO CHRONICLES·WEDNESDAY, 11 JULY 2018·
Join me on my weight loss journey:
My Facebook group is called NoToTheYoYo. I am truly fed up with yoyo dieting and am working towards a stable healthy weight for life; hence my second hashtag - YesToAstableWeight. I have been trying to shed about 60 lbs since September 2014 and to motivate and hold myself acc
ountable, I set up my blog; The YoYo Chronicles in 2016 and so far I have lost 30lbs. My weight has gone up and down my entire life but this journey has been by far the hardest because of peri-menopause and menopause. I wish I knew enough about menopause when I was a teenager because I would have planned my life differently. It would not have stopped me wanting to be a lawyer, but I would have made sure to become a mother at the optimum time to avoid IVF and so on. That is a story for another day. I always wanted to have children but in the so called high achieving group that I grew up in, it was not something that I felt able to express so I stifled that inner voice. Thankfully, I have a lot of nieces and nephews. As you can imagine, there is a lot of talk about menopause in my Facebook group and it's effect on women, but my group is different from other midlife or menopause groups because it is aimed at arming younger women with sufficient information to enable manage them their careers alongside their general and reproductive health. I want my young nieces who are members of my group to have all the knowledge that I did not have growing up but also to show the older women that is possible to be healthy, happy and fulfilled before, during and after menopause. I truly believe that there are two types of people; the living and the dead and that age has nothing to do with it. A good diet and exercise regime is the closest most of us will get to the fountain of youth so I encourage everyone in my group to drink up. Old age and decrepitude is not inevitable. We can tip the odds back in our favour quite a bit and have fun while doing so. The other thing, I struggled with all my life was being a feminist that loves fashion and beauty. In my group with celebrate lipstick loving feminists along with those who do not wear make-up or embrace feminism. I love my group because it is a safe place where we can share information and where we are enough. Until next time it’s
