You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,

and other experts to help

you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hello, strong feisty women.

So this week, we're talking menopausal weight gain with Diana Reed of the global dietitian.

Diana is licensed as a dietitian in both the U.S. and Luxembourg and works with clients that are seeking to improve their health and quality of life through balanced eating and what she

calls a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies. Diana is also 53. She lifts weights.

She runs, rides bikes, and has written about her own journey with body changes and weight gain

after going through early menopause at 42 due to surgery for PCOS and endometriosis.

I have a lot of mixed emotions about this one.

Not this show.

I absolutely loved this interview.

But with the topic, I've been very upfront and honest about my whole journey with weight. I wrote about weight for

women's health and fitness magazines for a couple of decades. And Lord knows how many weight loss

pieces we did, thousands. And for a long time, I thought I was doing something good.

Helping women get healthier, because I believed, like so many of us did, the controlling

weight was the key to maintaining health. And more importantly, I believe that you could control

weight. As I got deeper into the science and worked with hundreds of women, it became

very, very clear to me that none of it was that simple. For one, weight can be protective,

and this is something that we just don't talk about enough. Just this past February in 2021,

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