Midlife weight loss advice: Liz's pick of what works
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Finding it harder than ever to lose fat or maintain a healthy weight as you've moved into midlife? Liz shares weight loss advice for midlife women from top experts from our podcast archives for this episode.
Liz also reveals her personal tips and tricks for maintaining a healthy, happy weight - the importance of protein, her go-to breakfasts and snacks, and her experience of intermittent fasting.
In this episode, there's Dr Andrew Jenkinson on bariatric surgery and how our hormones control our appetite, Dr Chris Van Tulleken on what ultra-processed foods are really doing to our bodies, and nutritionist Aaron Deere on how our nutritional needs change with age.
Meanwhile, Dr Gabrielle Lyon discusses the midlife muscle crisis, clinical researcher Megan Ramos reveals whether midlife women should practice intermittent fasting, and author Johann Hari shares his experience - and perspective - of weight loss drugs.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Listen to Why willpower won't help you lose weight, with Dr Andrew Jenkinson
- Listen to What ultra-processed food is really doing to our bodies, with Dr Chris Van Tulleken
- Listen to Eat to beat disease in midlife, with Aaron Deere
- Listen to The midlife muscle crisis, with Dr Gabrielle Lyon
- Listen to Intermittent fasting for women, with Megan Ramos
- Listen to Are weight loss drugs too good to be true? - with Johann Hari
- Purchase A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
- Email us your questions at [email protected] OR leave a voicemail, text, WhatsApp message or WhatsApp voicenote our number - 07518 471846 for the chance to be featured on the show
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a very warm welcome back to the Lizar Wellbeing Show. How is the year going for you so far? |
| 0:07.6 | Well, congratulations on getting this far anyway through January, known to be the most miserable month of the year. |
| 0:13.9 | Things can only get better, as they say, right? And you are in the best place for a bit of wellness |
| 0:19.5 | positivity as this podcast is specifically created to help us all have a better second half, making us stronger, fitter, happier, healthier than ever. I'm Lizale and I just love finding ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. And, you know, |
| 0:39.9 | I think if we're completely honest with ourselves, our weight is probably a very good foundational |
| 0:45.3 | place to start to make sure that we are setting ourselves up for that better second half in the |
| 0:50.9 | best possible way. What's right for us at 30 or 40 is probably not going to be exactly |
| 0:56.1 | the same as we're 60 or 70. So we've got to acknowledge that we've got probably a decrease in |
| 1:01.1 | energy needs. This is a minimal protein diet to prevent deficiencies. And if you put this into context, |
| 1:08.5 | this number is too little for a menopausal woman. So one of the features of |
| 1:14.0 | ultra-processed food is it's soft. We consume calories at a rate that our bodies can't keep up with. |
| 1:20.4 | Weight loss is sort of seamless. You don't really feel very hungry. You feel as if your body wants |
| 1:25.3 | to lose 40 kilograms. It doesn't seem like a chore or an effort. |
| 1:30.3 | So all this month, we've been looking at new healthy routines, eating well and moving more. |
| 1:36.8 | I loved hearing from our Olympian, Sally Gunnell, about how transformational lifting weights can be. |
| 1:44.0 | And then party animal turned biohacker, Divinia Taylor, had some fascinating insights about how |
| 1:50.7 | eating more fat can help us lose fat from our bodies. |
| 1:55.2 | I have to say, that was a fun one to record for sure. |
| 1:58.2 | Yeah, she really is a firecracker that one. |
| 2:00.0 | So to round off this month, |
| 2:01.7 | I have pulled together some of the most fascinating and hopefully useful conversations we've had on |
| 2:07.2 | the show about sustainable weight loss, because this is something that I get asked about a lot. |
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