What’s the Deal with Menopausal Belly Fat?
Big surprise, the loss of estrogen is the main driver of belly fat. In fact, 65% of women ages 40 to 59 are obese and so are nearly 74% of women 60 and older. During these years, women store the majority of their weight gain as abdominal fat, also called visceral adipose tissue.
This isn’t the fat under the skin that you can pinch; it’s behind the abdominal wall and around some of your vital organs. Complete loss of estrogen causes visceral fat to increase by 10% in just 5 months. Remember those apple and pear shaped body type comparisons? This is the apple – the shape that you don’t want.
The concern is that this kind of fat is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cognitive decline and other chronic health issues. It also produces large amounts of a protein that can turn a healthy cell cancerous. That’s no bueno.
Read MoreFeel Full of Gratitude With 3 New Things
One of the practices I have all of my clients do is to write down 3 new things before bed that they are grateful for. Sounds like an easy task until you try it. The hard part is the word “new.”
After a few days of the big things that come to mind, suddenly you have to start searching elsewhere for something new. And the delightful part is that throughout the day, knowing that you’ll have to come up with something later on, you start looking at everything through the lens of “Is there something about this that I am grateful for?”
Read MoreEven Super-Women Need Self-Care
As a busy entrepreneur in these hectic times, my business seems to always be my top priority. It’s my baby, how could I not put it first?
The mindset of sacrificing our own needs to meet the needs of others is something many of us share. We are super-women, able to get it all done in record time with our signature flair. But we need healthy, strong bodies to keep that S on our chests.
When we neglect our personal needs, it is easy for weight to creep in, let stressors affect us even more and soon, our physical and mental health starts showing signs of decline. Reduced estrogen as we age, which plays a vital role, speeds the process until it finally becomes the elephant in the room, and the room is growing smaller.
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