Gaining Weight as You Approach Menopause?
Many women who are approaching menopause find themselves experiencing unexplained weight gain, especially around the waists and hips, regardless of their best attempts to lose weight. Often the methods of weight control that worked for them before, suddenly stop working. In fact, abdominal weight gain is one of the most often heard complaints of perimenopausal women. Yet most women have been told, and believe, that those extra ten or twenty pounds are simply the way it is at this time of life and they should just accept their “middle-age spread.”
But you absolutely do not have to! You don’t have to resign yourself to weight gain at this stage of your life, but you must realize that your body is changing. For example, hormonal fluctuations, many years of exposure to toxins, and your body’s natural tendency for retaining fat cells which produce estrogen at this time can result in some extra weight. But it doesn’t mean you’re stuck with it.
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