Reply to Is weight gain hormonal?

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "Is weight gain hormonal?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been struggling with perimenopause for six years. I don't drink alcohol, I don't eat sugar, no gluten or dairy. Excercise 2x per day. Cannot lose weight. Tried IF but am going to have to do it more agressively. [/quote]

Be careful.  At our age, too much fasting can put your body into stress, increase your cortisol, send your adrenals out of wack and have your body trying to hold on to weight.  
I'm not talking 16/8 but OMAD, and longer fasts.

I'm in my 50's and in perimenopause for many years too.  I am a keto eater, who was really trying to fast a lot.  
 
Even if you're not Keto, I highly recommend the Keto Diet podcast with Leanne Vogel.  She is very focused on hormones and how they affect us as older women.  She talks how you should only fast on certain days of your cycle, add in healthy carbs on certain days (like beans, or sweet potatoes), and then alternate with some 24 hour days.  And throw in a plant based only day or two.  She has lots of good advice that helped me stop OMAD fasting as much, eating some lower fat on certain days, and I finally broke a 5 year stall, by analyzing what days in my cycle were better to fast for me.
  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics