How To Overcome Weight Loss Resistance

You may notice that every day a garment item feels tighter and every month another garment item no longer suits you.

Try as you can eat healthier food .... And smaller amounts of food .... And to follow a daily exercise routine, you are not able to lose weight.

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Calories in versus calories out remains a valid datum. However, during menopause, there is another factor that contributes to weight loss resistance. It is related to the hormonal changes you are, and have been, experiencing during menopause.

What triggers weight loss resistance during menopause?

Weight loss resistance is triggered by the changing levels of hormones in your body throughout your passage through menopause.

Menopause is a time of the biggest hormonal changes in your body. It results in hormonal imbalance. Hormonal imbalance is the cause of weight gain during menopause. It is also the cause of menopause weight loss resistance.

Your body functions like a full sized symphony orchestra. In such an orchestra, all players are finely attuned to one another. The various parts of your body are like the musicians and your hormones are like the conductor of the orchestra.

Prior to perimenopause, your hormones work in harmony by co-existing with one another in a certain ratio. They are said to be in balance. This keeps your body healthy and functioning.

With the onset of perimenopause, the levels of your hormones change. The ratios between them also change. This creates imbalance between them.

The changing ratios between all of your hormones is kick started by a change in the ratio between estrogen and progesterone. The levels of both hormones fall during perimenopause, from their levels before perimenopause. However the levels of progesterone falls further than the level of estrogen, disturbing the balance between them.

The changing ratios between estrogen and progesterone, gives rise to changing levels of the other hormones, which in turn sets off changes to the levels of still other hormones … and so on.

As your hormones control all of the systems of your body, the end result of erratic hormonal production is disruption to those systems that effect your weight.

The hormones that have the biggest affect your weight are insulin, thyroid and cortisol.

The most likely hormone causing your weight loss resistance

While low levels of thyroid hormone and high levels of cortisol makes it difficult to lose weight, both of which are common during menopause, high levels of insulin is the most likely cause of your weight loss resistance.

Insulin is a hormone produced and released by your body, when you eat. Insulin directs the cells of your body to remove glucose from your blood and utilize it as an energy source for all its needs.

Glucose provides your body with energy, without which it could not function. Think of the relationship between glucose and your body, as being similar to gasoline and your car.

Think of insulin knocking on doors of the cells of your body. Those cells politely receive insulin’s invitation and allow glucose in. With glucose in your cells, your cells can tackle important tasks such as growth, movement and repair.

What happens to insulin during menopause?

Insulin levels rise in almost all women during menopause, due to the hormonal imbalance triggered by changes in estrogen and progesterone.

Your eating habits also affect your insulin level. Your eating habits consist of

what you eat

when you eat

how you eat

All three factors affect the level of insulin in your body.

With more insulin in your body, your body tries harder to get glucose from your 

blood into the cells of your body.

However, once your cells have received enough glucose, they ignore the call from insulin to receive more glucose. Your body responds by producing more and more insulin, which is ignored by almost all the cells of your body.

There is one type of cell that listens to the call of insulin …. your fat cells. Your fat cells remain best friends with insulin far after every other cell tells insulin to shove off. Your fat cells keep receiving glucose.

This condition is known as insulin resistance.

If your body is insulin resistant, not only will you gain weight but you will be unable to lose weight….because your body will continually be adding fat.

All menopausal women are insulin resistant to some degree.

What to do to lose weight

By modifying your eating habits, you can reduce the level of insulin in your body.. thus enabling fat loss and weight loss to occur. Once you have modified your eating habits, an increase in your physical activity/exercise will expedite your weight loss.

I have just completed making the 2nd in a series of videos that provides you with some tips to get you started. Click here to watch the video.

Just as every woman’s experience of menopause is unique to her (no other woman experiences it in the same way as you), the specific eating habits that lead to weight loss are unique to each woman. There is no “one size fits all” in regard to eating habits. There are 2 reasons for this

the exact changes that are occurring in your body now are unique to you

the circumstances in your life now are unique to you

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