Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the

health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

Today is a special treat.

I'm back to do the third installment in the Ask Me Anything and today is all about

weight loss resistance, plateaus and belly fat. I think for every person who's listening this isn't a particular

pain point for most if not all of us at some point in our lives and I do find women

north of 35 in particular are really struggling in these areas and I say this because we have so many questions that you all have submitted so thank you for that but also this is probably one of the most common questions

slash concerns that we feel across social media.

And so I'm really looking forward to unpacking this,

discussing it, and hopefully we can keep this discussion to under 30 to 40 minutes to make

sure that it is a short and sweet discussion and obviously if you're listening this and it triggers more

questions that you want to ask you know how to submit those support at Cynthia Thurlow.com so let's dive right in.

First question is from Chantal.

Question is, my question is about the dreaded belly fat.

I'm a 42 year old who's been fasting for 9 to 10 months now.

I've had some great results with a few

setbacks and weight gain but one thing that is constant is my belly fat. I exercise, I

do ab workouts, I fast 18 hours but still the belly remains. Any tips, thank you. Well first and

foremost when a woman is expressing concern over, I like to refer to it as fluff or belly fat or visceral adiposity as we like to refer to it in a more technical vernacular.

We're really speaking to some of the hormonal changes that are occurring in this transitional period, you know,

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