S2 Ep101: 23 Tips to Drop Peri &Post-Menopause Pounds: UPDATE!
- Author
- Lauren Streicher, MD
- Published
- Thu 02 Nov 2023
- Episode Link
- https://audioboom.com/posts/8393856
You are never going to get your 20-year-old body back any more than you are going to return to a wrinkle-free face. In Episode 100, I went through all of the reasons why on average, women put on 5-7 pounds during perimenopause, and are twice as likely as mid-life men to have obesity. So now that you understand why you woke up one day and your scale registered your mother’s weight, there are strategies to prevent the weight gain in the first place, keep it from continuing to climb and take it off.
- Medical reasons WHY it is important to maintain a healthy weight (Skip the first 5 minutes if you don't want to hear this! )
- If perimenopausal weight can be PREVENTED
- Interventions that have NOTHING TO DO WITH DIET or EXERCISE
23 TIPS that will help you- Cut down on calories from ALCOHOL
- Eat less in RESTAURANTS
- Reduce PORTION size, without being hungry
- Increase ACTIVITY without exercising
- The best medical clinician to help
Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 12: Your Muscles on Menopause with Amanda Thebe
Episode 77 Fezolinetant! A New Non-Hormonal Hot Flash Drug
Episode 87 Will THAT Really Help Your Hot Flashes? Lifestyle and other Interventions
Episode 95 Non-hormonal options to treat VMS- Herbs Spices &Wishful Thinking
Episode 100- Why Women Gain Weight in Menopause
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Dr. Robert Kushner and Six Factors to Fit
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Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
