Ep. 313 - Q&A considerations around menopause, medication, hunger & weight gain
ESGfitness
Emma Storey-Gordon
4.9 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Solo Q&A on the road!
Topics:
Medication side effects re: hunger & weight gain
Reducing protein intake as a Vegan (potential use of supplements)
FOOD VOLUME - underrated
Sh*tty stories from awful PTs that leave a lasting impact
Menopause considerations and exercise
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | I am recording from London, so the quality might not be quite as great. |
| 0:11.3 | And I tried to do an Instagram live and a Facebook live. |
| 0:18.2 | But I put it up, so I think there's some good content in here. |
| 0:21.2 | And do you know what? In perfect action. So I hope you enjoy. If you do enjoy, please tag me at ESG Fitness. |
| 0:30.6 | Or if you want to talk to me about coaching or mentoring, ESG Fitness at ESG Fitness.com.uk is my email address. I would love to hear from you. |
| 0:46.5 | Right. Okay. I think this is working. I think I'm going to try and do a double live, live on Facebook and live on Instagram I don't know if this is going to be |
| 0:58.8 | quite stressful I already feel like I'm sweating live on Facebook and live on it's spam I don't know |
| 1:05.6 | yeah okay I'm sweating a little bit okay it's fine we're here I don't know how the audio is going to be as well because I don't have my normal set up. But I do have some excellent questions. So, question one. Also, this chair is very loud. I have been taking medication for neuropathic pain. Oh, by the way, |
| 1:31.6 | I did, Amelia and I did a shoot this morning to get some stuff for the IQ. And I had to try and |
| 1:39.2 | read off a teleprompter. Now, if anyone watches, I mean any of our lives, but there's a reason that I don't read out the questions because I actually find it. |
| 1:48.0 | Like, I'm actually very bad at reading. |
| 1:51.0 | And so anyway, we had to read off the scripts and it was just, it was a very challenging experience, I have to say. |
| 1:58.0 | I wonder what the video will look like. But anyway, I'm going to read |
| 2:02.2 | these questions, even though I normally get Chloe to read them or Andy or Shona or Catherine. |
| 2:09.4 | Anyway, right, I've been taking medication from neuropathic pain. One of the listed side effects |
| 2:15.3 | has increased hunger and weight gain. And when I started meds is when I started having issues. |
| 2:22.3 | I'm not sure if this is a psychological as I know it's a side effects. |
| 2:28.3 | Do I just accept it? Any tips of getting past this mindset? |
| 2:31.3 | I think this is a really good question and it's one of the reasons that when I do talk to people about medication and certain side effects, I don't |
| 2:38.8 | always mention all of the side effects and I don't always think it's useful. And I know that, |
| 2:43.7 | in fact, I've spoken to Dr. Mike about this because we were talking about, I can't remember exactly |
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