Menopause Weight Loss
Reaching the menopause can be a challenging time of life with the changes occurring in the body and an array of problematic symptoms that manifest. Weight loss is uppermost in many women's minds and searching for the best ways of achieving it after the seeming inevitability of gaining the extra pounds can be a stressful undertaking when you don't know what to look for.
That's why this website was created, to provide some basic guidance and information that can help you to counter any unwanted changes in body size and shape in as simple yet effective a way as possible.
Health, Diet and Nutrition
The first place to start is not necessarily in the gym, as many women mistakenly believe is the only way to shed those extra pounds that appeared as if from nowhere. It is at the dinner plate!
The changes in hormonal balance in the body can play a part in the way in which food is processed which can result in more fat being stored than before the menopause. Discovering just where these changes are occurring and why can be the first positive steps to reversing the process and getting the weight and size back under control.
It is definitely worth taking a long hard look at what you are consuming day to day and finding out where you can make the necessary changes to turn the tide in the other direction. It almost always comes down to food and where to make the necessary changes that will force the body to stop storing excess fat and instead burn it to reach the equilibrium that should exist in the fat to muscle ratio.
What Can I Learn?
Knowledge is power, but only when it's acted upon. However, you need to accrue the knowledge first before you can take that action, so this is the first step. Here you can learn how to make the necessary changes to your diet that will help you to burn the excess fat that has accumulated in your body rather than to keep storing more of it.
There are a number of popular commercial dieting programs that can help you to not only lose weight by reducing your body's fat content, but help you to alter your regular dieting habits. The aim is to eat less of the foods that are causing the increase in fat storage and more of the foods that help you maintain a healthy equilibrium.
It can be quite useful to have access to a good source for rating diet plans and be able to weed out the best ones from the less effective ones to ensure you maximize your time and get the utmost benefit from what you are eating. The most popular program out there is Weight Watchers of course, which relies on a traditional dieting method to help you get in shape and then to stay in trim for the long term.
For people who lead busy lives without the luxury of spare time to devote to working with that kind of traditional diet, there are convenient alternatives in the meal replacement types of home delivery diets such as Jenny Craig, Medifast and Nutrisystem diets, for example. These programs are very effective at helping to reduce your weight and body size while training your body to eat less on a daily basis. All are useful in one way or another and different programs will appeal to and work best with different people, depending on their lifestyles and needs.
Without going into detail here, since this is just a welcome page with an overview of what you'll find inside, I can tell you that there are just a few foods that you need to remove (or dramatically reduce) from your diet that will have a profound effect on the way your body metabolizes what you consume in a positive way. But you'll need to look inside to have those little secrets revealed to you!
See an Expert Talking
Below is a pretty good video I found on getting rid of belly fat (visceral fat) that tends to accumulate at this stage of life. I watched it a couple times over and got a lot from it, so I believe that it's well worth taking a good look for yourself!
Additional Reading
What's inside can be found through the individual titles which are grouped together below for easy site navigation. Just click the title that takes your interest and that will open the page for you to read.