What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the mind of a Macros podcast as always. I am your host Mike Milner. Today's episode. I'm talking about a topic that is probably my most requested topic.

Finally, I'm doing a full episode on it. I am going to discuss menopausal weight gain, how to avoid it, and more importantly,

for those of you who are going through menopause or peri monopause and would like to lose weight, how can you

accomplish that? It's very doable. I'm going to break that all down in today's episode.

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All right, let's jump in. We are talking all about menopause. Why is it so difficult? Why is it so difficult to lose weight when you're going through menopause? Why is it so easy to gain weight?

Let's first officially define that

menopause is essentially a period where

when you go without a menstrual cycle for 12 months,

it's, that's kind of the definition

of when menopause officially begins.

So 12 months without a cycle.

That is the period of time where many women find it frustrating when it comes to weight loss and weight gain and

The weight gain seems to happen very easily

The weight loss not so easy and there's a reason for that

There are several different you know variables that come into play around that time during menopause. So first thing that we have to understand is the hormonal fluctuations that occur.

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