9 Jun
Hello wise ladies. 60 here, fully out the other side, and I lurk on this forum partly to feel useful and partly because, honestly, I still need it. For anyone earlier in the process feeling like it will always be this hard: it does shift. I won't promise it disappears because that would be a lie, but the acute chaos, the not knowing what your body is doing from one week to the next, that does settle. I remember being 52 and genuinely not recognising myself. Now I feel like myself again, just a different version. What helped me most, and this is just my experience, was getting consistent with movement. I do strength work twice a week now, nothing dramatic, and I've kept my breakfast boring on purpose, same thing, enough protein, doesn't require thought. It frees up energy for everything else. I've still got ongoing stuff I manage, joint aches, the odd terrible night, a GP who I have to push a bit. But I'm not frightened by it anymore. That's the thing I want to hand forward to anyone who's in the frightening part right now. You learn your body again. It takes time but you do. x