Menopause and weight

Everyone knows that weight gain and aging are intertwined. In especially important periods of life a woman is constantly getting fat, but the only period in life in which this can not be avoided in any way is the menopause. Menopause or menopause is when women stop menstruating and ovulating. Most often, women after forty years with great difficulty can keep their body in the norm, because it is very difficult to lose weight. Weight, which is typed during menopause and after it is over, it is very difficult to dump. As a rule, all the pounds are collected on the hips and abdomen.

Adding weight to menopause is most often due to this:

1. Reducing the mass of muscle tissue.
2. Rapidly reducing the level of estrogen.
3. Incorrect nutrition and way of life.
4. Absence of physical loads.

Many women begin to gain weight for the pre-menopausal period (the period before the menopause), and this age is 35-55 years. Of course, the kilograms collected during this period, it is very difficult to dump, but it is quite possible to control your weight. Specialists have shown that women who gain weight after menopause are subject to increased risk of breast cancer. Studies have shown that if you after this period gain 10 kilograms, the risk increases, and if you lose weight, then it decreases immediately. With the help of proper nutrition and exercise, you can control your weight and keep it at the same level.

Kilograms that you type before menopause are distributed throughout the body: hands, hips, abdomen, buttocks, and the weight that you gain during the menopause, mainly accumulates on the stomach, which makes the Iphigura become apple-shaped. If you do not follow it, then it can lead to cardiovascular diseases.

Symptoms and signs of menopause

• night tides and sweating;
• unexplained abrupt addition to weight, features in the abdominal part;
• nervousness;
• slight mucosal vagina;
• spontaneous incomprehensible changes in the menstrual cycle (monthly may be easier than usual or worse), irregular monthly;
• insomnia or sleep disturbance, which previously did not bother you:
• depressiveness;
• unusual mood swings.

The reasons for gaining weight

In the menopause, weight is added to women not only because of hormonal changes that occur in women's organizations, even hormones are the main reason for not very pleasant changes in the female body, which also affects the body of a woman. The forms of the body also vary from the process of aging and from the way of life. Here are the reasons why a woman is gaining weight:

1. Overeating - you consume too many unnecessary calories that are not able to digest and burn, so they have to put off their nets.
2. Many women by this time develop insulin resistance, so the body is forced to keep calories, and not to process them.
3. Psychological factors - chronic fatigue, persistent stress, increased anxiety. Because of these factors, the body functions fail, a constant feeling of hunger (often false) begins to appear, which is the reason for the appearance of extra centimeters.
4. Aging - with age, every woman's muscle mass decreases, azhiro cells and interlayers, on the contrary, become larger. Because of this, calories start to be burned more slowly, and that muscle mass, which has become much smaller, can no longer process as many calories as it could at a young age.
5. Sedentary lifestyle - over the years the body ceases to express its need for calories in order to produce energy. As a result, all the excess calories are set by fat, which eventually displaces muscles and becomes in their place. The metabolism of substances becomes noticeably slower, and as a result, fat becomes more and more in the daytime. As a rule, women in the menopausal period practically do not go in for sports, as before, so the calories remain on the stomach.
6. Hereditary factors, too, should not be forgotten. This also plays the strongest during the menopause at the expense of weight.
7. Hormonal imbalance - a deficiency of hormones can also contribute to the accumulation of fat deposits.
8. Diseases of the thyroid gland - if you are upset by the thyroid gland, the weight may increase.
9. Slow metabolism - due to the fact that there are no physical exertion, and there is only the aging process, in the menopausal period of life of the woman, the more kilograms are added.

How to prevent weight gain

It is worth pointing out that the weight will increase in any case, this can not be avoided, but you can apply several methods that will help to resist:

1. Start moving constantly, be more active.
2. Watch your appetite.
3. With the help of hormone therapy you can maintain the desired level of hormones in the body, which will contribute to self-control over weight.
4. Revise your diet, it should be less fatty foods. Eat less fats of animal origin, choose vegetable fats, for example, olive, lean and peanut butter, nuts.
5. Count your calories eaten per day. You begin to grow old, no matter how terrible it may sound, so your body needs fewer calories. Eat food sensibly. It is not necessary to reduce your calories to a minimum-this is also dangerous, because it will begin to be greedy and will pick them up, thereby increasing body weight.
6. Start playing sports. Perhaps you will like aerobics, which will increase the level of metabolism, due to which the fats will begin to gradually burn. Remember that physical load is also useful in that it builds muscle mass.
7. Start thinking about yourself today, now! Do not delay! Any woman should go on a diet and start training after thirty years. So you can keep your weight in the norm and moreover, warn the fullness.
8. Bring in your diet more vegetables, fruits, vegetable proteins, and instead of hamburgers, pork and potatoes, eat tuna, chicken breast, salmon fillet and isalata without oil.
9. Eat more fluid, well, if it's ordinary water, refrain from carbonated drinks and drinks that contain caffeine.

Perimenopause and weight gain

Perimenopause is a period of time that precedes menopause. It is in this period of time that a woman changes, changes in her organism occur that usually indicate that menopause is already around the corner. This can begin at any time, you can wait for this with 35 years and up to 60, moreover, these signs can last from two to six years. It is these women who are overweight. Such fullness can not be prevented, even if the woman is on a strict diet.

The weight loss methods that you used before can be completely useless. During the period of perimenopause, a large part of women are completely polnetic in the abdominal cavity. During perimenopause, there may be hormonal oscillations, accumulation of fatty glands and a decreased level of estrogen.

Advice to women who want to be in shape after 40 years

1. Make sure that the portions are small.
2. Reduce the consumption of calories.
3. Do not sit on a hard diet.
4. Remember that your body needs water.
5. Refrain from rapid weight loss. So there can be an osteoporosis.
6. Start an active lifestyle.