No need to powerlevel, but since you have: those 28 pounds would go away if you just committed to eating slightly less of everything.
Not sure how old you are - and please don't share more personal info - but if this weight gain is also coinciding with the beginning of a new decade of life starting from around age 30, your metabolism is also naturally going to slow down through each decade. The caloric amount one ate at 30, one cannot eat at 40 without weight gain. And again, we're talking like 100-200 calories less per decade to maintain weight. This is why very old people have such little appetite - they don't burn many calories as they did when younger.
However, the phrase "after fifty, it's your face or your fanny" exists for a reason. If one maintains their same weight from their twenties into their fifties and beyond, your face will age more rapidly. Sometimes a lady must chose to either make peace with the extra 10-15 pounds menopause wrought upon them in order to keep a more youthful looking face, or sacrifice the fall season of life's beauty as their face crinkles and falls without the extra fat to plump it out.
Thread tax: Ambie's moonface tells us that she's six hundred pounds of fat and no one will have sex with her.
