Hi, I want to welcome you to Midlife Conversations. I'm Natalie Jill, your host, and I help

midlife women redefine and rebrand aging. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated

information and conversations around aging that are relevant to us now and breaking it all down

simply with actionable steps that you can implement to level up your life because your best years are yet to come.

I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living in their best midlife years.

On this show, I cover topics about our health, hormones, navigating weight, blood sugars, our mood, focus changes,

even our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.

We're going to be talking about the number one absolute best secret to losing menopause,

body fat, and it's not what you think. So you want to stay tuned in this whole episode

so you can hear the different things that cause the problem to begin with,

what we can do to change it, what we need to be looking at. And then I'm going to be sharing my

number one best secret, which is a lot simpler than you think. We make it harder than it needs to be,

but it can be a lot simpler. Before we dive into this topic, I want to make sure you don't miss another episode of this.

So if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit the subscribe button so you don't miss another show.

And if you're listening on the podcast, I do release one, usually two episodes a week now, usually two episodes a week.

And I want to make sure you get access to all those interviews and all of the solo episodes. So make sure you hit this subscribe button, the follow button, so you don't miss another episode. All right. So let's dive in. We're going to start first with what actually causes this menopausal belly fatter, as I call it, the midlife thickening. What exactly is going on? What's causing it? Where did it come from?

I'm going to break this down. There's really three categories that this is coming from.

Number one is just your hormonal changes. This is normal stuff that happens decrease in

estrogen, decrease in progesterone, the decline in estrogen levels. This is really something

during menopause.

It's a pretty significant variable because this helps regulate fat distribution.

And its reduction leads to fat being stored more and more in that abdominal area.

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