What I Stopped Doing to Lose Weight Over 40 (And Keep It Off)

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of weight loss for women over 40 and the changes in metabolism and exercise effectiveness during perimenopause.

Send us Fan Mail Weight loss for women over 40 doesn't work the way it did in your 30s. Through perimenopause, the same eating and exercise that always got results stop moving the weight, and it's hard to understand why. For years, I thought eating very little and doing hours of cardio was discipline. I'd weigh myself every morning and let that one number set the tone for my entire day. I was working harder than ever, and my body slowly stopped producing the change it always had. In my mid-30...

People in this episode

Host: Andrea Cutuk

Topics covered

• weight loss
• women over 40
• perimenopause
• nutrition
• exercise
• metabolism

Keywords

• weight loss
• women over 40
• perimenopause
• nutrition
• exercise
• metabolism
• cardio
• diet

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