If I had a dime for every time…I heard someone in perimenopause lament “I’m eating even better than I ever used to and I’m now exercising every day, so where did that 10 pounds come from?!!”
Weight gain doesn’t have to be part of the menopausal journey, but it sure is frustrating when it seems to appear just around the waistline.
Notable Quotes
I really don’t feel like myself and especially find the weight gain depressing.
Sandra
I feel like weight loss is MUCH more difficult and slow. Takes weeks of diligence to lose a few pounds…but can regain them in two days.
Isabelle
I have noticed weight gain in areas where I never had problems and having the usual efforts to lose the weight not work.
Diane
More Information
Blog posts tagged as weight gain:- Your Health ≠ Your Weight
- From Ballet to Medicine: A Physician’s Career Pivot Toward Wellbeing
- Breaking Ground (Revamp)
- When Pillars of Wellness Intersect!
- The Power of a Walk
- Beyond Surgery: Rewiring the Brain for Lasting Weight Loss
- Voices With Vigor: Weight, What?
- Weight Loss: Connection is the Key
- Menopause! The Conference.
- Reset/Recharge Podcast
Additional Video Links
Video Link: “The Problem with Poodle Science” is a must-watch 3 minute animated video put out by the Association for Size Diversity and Health and will leave you pondering about weight and health.
Resources:
- Our MenopauseMenu Pinterest website is chock full of helpful pins and boards to help you navigate weight issues.
- Kima Cargill, PhD’s book The Psychology of Overeating explores how our limitless consumer culture offers an endless array of delicious food as well as easy money whilst obscuring the long-term effects of overconsumption.
- Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung, DSc RD can be truly transformative, especially in our grab-and-go and eat-on-the-run modern culture.
- The Case for Keto was published in 2020, written by Gary Taubes (an award-winning science and health journalist) and “…puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we’ve come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice.”
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is a beautiful and refreshing book which is also now available on podcast and Netflix – Samin Nosrat is a delight!
- Just when you might feel just a tad overwhelmed with weight research studies, here is a very compelling article from 2021: Obesity Paper Has Diet Researchers Riled Up, by investigative writer Sophie Putka from MedPage Today that focuses on a compelling journal article by David Ludwig, MD PhD who is a well-known expert in the field.
- Thinking about intermittent fasting (aka eating windows)? Not so fast – this 2022 study from the New England Journal of Medicine Calorie Restriction with or without Time-Restricted Eating in Weight Loss reminds us it is really just another diet (calorie restriction).
- Time to ditch the artificial sweeteners: non-sugar sweeteners should not be used for weight loss, according to the WHO guidelines, in this summary from May 2022.
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