Avoid The Menopause Weight Gain

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.3 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Menopause officially starts when a woman has not had a period in her menstrual cycle for 12 months. This is a time where many women find it is easy to gain weight and difficult to lose it. It’s one of the common concerns from our clients during the perimenopause and menopause stage of life! In this episode, we’ll shed some light on how stress can be a big component to weight gain during and leading up to menopause, and some things you can do about it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:05.2	Today we have a very popular topic to share with you.
0:09.4	Oftentimes clients want to know how they can avoid gaining weight during menopause.
0:15.1	Listeners, is this you?
0:17.1	Some of these women have already started to gain weight and their pants are tighter and they don't
0:23.7	really feel like, hey, I'm out of control, my body's taking over.
0:28.8	So how can we avoid menopausal weight gain?
0:32.5	I'm Melanie Beasley.
0:33.8	I'm a registered and licensed dietitian and I've worked with many women in these perimenopause
0:39.4	and menopause ages and yes, weight gain is a common concern for so many. Today, Brittany Vincent,
0:48.3	who is also a registered and licensed dietitian, will take a deeper dive into looking at the reasons for that menopause weight gain.
0:56.8	And we're also going to share some possible solutions, right, Brittany?
1:01.0	Yes, absolutely. Good morning. I think this will be a very popular topic because, as you mentioned,
1:08.9	we see a lot of clients concerned about this.
1:13.0	And the fact is menstruating women, they store weight generally in your hips, your thighs,
1:20.3	your butt, and during perimenopause, weight gain in the midsection.
1:25.5	And then during menopause, this weight gain in the midsection and then during menopause, this weight gain in the midsection
1:29.6	happens. And that's just a part of the hormone changes during that time. And after the age of 30,
1:41.2	we lose on average about a pound of lean body mass.
1:46.7	Wow.
1:47.5	And we've sort of addressed this on some of the other radio shows about how critical it is
1:51.8	to eat protein, a lot of protein.
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