Strategies For Achieving
Post Menopausal Weight Loss
...and how to avoid
post menopausal weight gain!
Here are some post menopausal weight loss principles to assist women in losing weight during menopause as well as after menopause. These are effective, natural alternatives to HRT.
We will consider various lifestyle factors when it comes to promoting post menopausal weight loss.
Nutrition
The first area we should always consider in any weight loss plan is nutrition. Specifically for post menopausal women, it is important that they control their overall calorie intake, consume adequate protein throughout the day, select the correct carbohydrates and don’t ever diet!
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It is important that post menopausal women control their calorie intake because as we age our daily calorie requirement decreases substantially. This may be due in part to a loss of muscle mass as we age.
Also, post menopausal women should endeavour to maintain their muscle mass as they age so consuming a small portion of protein frequently throughout the day is essential.
Insulin resistance
also tends to be associated with ageing and therefore, in order to avoid post menopausal weight gain, women should reduce their intake of high density carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice, cereals and flour-based products) and consume more natural sources of carbohydrates like fruits and vegetables.
They should place particular emphasis on the low-density carbohydrates, which are the more fibrous vegetables like, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, carrots, etc.
Exercise
The exercise requirement for a post menopausal women involves a combination of aerobic exercise and resistance training. The aerobic exercise helps to burn off more calories during the day, which makes it easier to create a calorie deficit and therefore lose weight.
The resistance training helps to maintain muscle mass, which means the woman’s metabolic rate will stay elevated making it easier to stay lean. The resistance exercise will also help to prevent osteoporosis by stimulating bone growth due to the longitudinal stress being placed on the bones.
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Supplements
There are a range of supplements that may be beneficial for post menopausal weight loss.
As mentioned earlier, insulin resistance is a common problem for most people as they age and it is highly likely to be a contributing factor for
post menopausal weight gain.
Glucose disposal agents
are proven to be effective at assisting the body in disposing of glucose more effectively and therefore keeping
blood sugar level stable.
By doing so, insulin will stay low and the body can access and utilise fat as a fuel source more effectively. Some of the world’s most powerful
glucose disposal agents
are contained in
GI Factor
and
SoLean 50+.
In fact, SoLean 50+ is a great supplement for post menopausal women to use. Not only does it contain glucose disposal agents, but all the ingredients contained in it are completely safe for them to use; it doesn’t contain any thermogenic ingredients. This means blood pressure will not be affected.
In addition to this SoLean 50+ also contains B vitamins for energy, calcium and therapeutic dosages of hydroxycitric acid (HCA). HCA has been shown in research studies to promote fatty acid oxidation in the body as well as inhibiting the conversion of carbohydrate into fat. However, HCA must be in therapeutic dosages in order to be effective.
After menopause, a woman’s endocrine system (hormonal system) goes through some massive changes. These changes are extremely complex and vary widely from person to person. They are the main reason for the problems associated with menopause.
Here is a very basic summary of what happens to a woman’s hormones when she goes through menopause:
• There is a substantial decrease in the production of the female hormones, estrogen and progesterone.
• There is a large discrepancy between the production of these two hormones.
• There is a changing ratio between the female and male hormones (androgens) being produced by the woman’s body.
Overall, we need to find ways to naturally increase the levels of estrogen and progesterone in a woman’s body and at the same time balance these hormones. It appears that widely prescribed HRT is NOT the correct solution!
Plus, we need to inhibit the body’s conversion of estrogen into androgens (these two groups of hormones are very closely related and only require a few molecular bond changes to be converted from one to the other).
Here is a sample of just some of the foods and herbs that may be worthwhile using on a regular basis in order to increase the female hormones as well as inhibiting the conversion of estrogen into androgens.
Tofu (soy bean curd), legumes, cinnamon, rosemary, fennel, black cohosh, natural progesterone cream, red clover, dong quai, liquorice and vitex agnus-castus.
Remember to always work closely with your health care professional when using the abovementioned foods and herbs because results will vary substantially from person to person.
Supplementing the diet with omega-3s and a high-quality multivitamin/ mineral supplement, like
MultiBoost
, is also beneficial because they improve the body’s overall functioning and omega-3s in particular, can also help to improve mood and brain function.
Lifestyle Factors:
Reduce Stress
We are all told to reduce our stress levels and this recommendation is even more important for a post menopausal woman.
The reason why is because a whole range of hormones come from the same basic precursor hormone in the body, pregnenolone. Therefore, if stress levels are high, more of this precursor is used to produce cortisol (one of the stress hormones), which means less is left to produce other hormones including progesterone and estrogen.
Cortisol is also strongly correlated with
insulin resistance.
Use Natural Household Products
There are many products in our bathrooms, laundries and kitchens that contain ingredients that are harmful to the human body and whose use should be eliminated or reduced as much as possible.
Some of the ingredients in these common household items have been shown to have severe and wide-ranging impact on the human body, particularly the endocrine system. It is also highly likely that they have an inhibitory effect on post menopausal weight loss.
The good news is that there are natural alternatives available on the market that don’t have these problems that are associated with them.
This is another area that is far beyond the scope of this article but there is plenty of useful information to be found on-line regarding this very interesting topic of post menopausal weight loss.
Overall, here is a good overview of some areas of your life that you should seriously consider as well as some simple strategies you can employ when it comes to post menopausal weight loss.
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