How Postmenopausal Weigh Gain Can Be Prevented

Empowher Asks: How can a woman prevent postmenopausal weight gain? Scott Keppel Nationally Certified Fitness Instructor Ways to prevent weight gain in post menopause are several. One thing we need to take into consideration is that your body is going through a hormonal changes, we cannot stop this. Testosterone levels are going to decrease, testosterone is a male dominant hormone that produces muscle, that decreasing means your going to have less muscle, which means your metabolism is going to slow down. One ton of muscle can burn 20 to 100 calories upon a fact it can only burn 8. So estrogen levels are going to go up Androgen levels are going to go up all of those that are more female dominant hormones cause the body to store so we can’t prevent that, the things that we can prevent is several women ones they go into menopause will lower their activity levels. Well if you lower your activity levels you’re going to gain weight so at that time you need to keep as active as you were if not increase that activity level to help combat those hormone changes. Often times it’s a hard time in a woman’s life so they’re going to turn into eating, a lot of individuals turn to emotional eating, if you’re eating more less activity weight gain is going to occur no matter who you are pre, post menopausal. It doesn’t matter. So what we need to keep in mind is okay, keep track of your food as menopause occurs and for most women it’s going to have between 40 to 50 in the western hemisphere it tends to be average age of 51 years old. It is when menopause is going to occur so you know it’s going to happen so what you can do is start to prepare for that keeping of your activity and as your experiencing that make sure that at least maintain if not increase those levels if not avoid weight gain at least slow it down. For more information on weight management visit www.empowher.com