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Ep. 313 - Q&A considerations around menopause, medication, hunger & weight gain

ESGfitness

Emma Storey-Gordon

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9669 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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Transcript

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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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