265 - Nutrition, mindset and maintaining a healthy weight in menopause

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, Dr Louise is joined by Manisha Morgan, whose own experience of menopause led her to train as a nutritionist. Manisha offers support to women who are fed up with yo-yo dieting to build a positive relationship with food, lose weight, and lead a healthy lifestyle. She helps women learn mindset techniques to help improve self-confidence and implement habits that can lead to long-term success. Manisha talks about the importance of acknowledging cultural attitudes and approaches to food, and how genetic doesn’t necessarily dictate your future health. Finally, Manisha shares three achievable goals: Manage your expectations, start small and then gradually build up. So for example, if you don't go for a walk, start going for a 20-minute walk and then maybe gradually increase that over a period of time. Start to include protein in every single meal that you're having, breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you're having three different meals, there are lots of different things that you can have. If you have a 'bad' day, don't let that throw you off. Just pick yourself up the next day and continue with whatever new habits you’re establishing. You can follow Manisha on Instagram @manisha_your_nutritionist Click here to find out more about Newson Health.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.7	Today on the podcast we're going to talk about something that we all have to do. We can't avoid it,
1:07.8	but we have to talk about eating. It's something that there's lots of things we can
1:12.3	avoid doing or we can choose not to do, even if they're healthy, but we all need to eat
1:17.3	clearly. But what we eat can make a huge difference to how we feel, how we look, how we sleep,
1:24.2	how we interact with others. So I've got with me today, Manisha, who has a lot of experience
1:29.5	in nutrition and a lot of experience in educating others in very simplistic ways to really help
1:35.6	improve their, I'm not going to say diet because everyone thinks about losing weight, but just what
1:39.7	they eat. So welcome to the podcast today. Hi, Louise. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me.
1:46.8	Oh, no. Thank you. So tell me a bit if you don't mind about you and the work that you do.
1:52.3	So I'm a nutritionist, but I haven't always been one. So I started going through the menopause when I was around about 46 and I was the first one in my group of friends
2:01.3	and I very quickly had to learn a lot. I wasn't on social media at the time, but gradually over
2:08.1	previous experiences as well, such as having to have IVF, I started to understand the power
2:12.8	of nutrition. And I think for me, what was the most important thing was I am an older mom,
2:19.1	so I'm nearly 53 and my children are 12. And for me, it was all about, well, I have to eat.
2:26.3	We all have to eat. So I have to learn how to eat the foods that I enjoy, not what other people
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