The Effects of Menopause on Weight Gain

Women often hear with menopause that weight gain is inevitable and my body shape changed. Is that true? Is weight gain inevitable or does it not have to be? So there are a few things going on. One is that as we get older, our metabolism changes and we don't need as many calories as we did when we were younger. And therefore you want to have a lower calorie intake of about 1,600 calories,. That's one thing. The second thing is often people stop doing quite so much exercise and not being quite so active. Walking, getting out in nature, really, really important. As the hormones change, as your estrogen goes down or fluctuates, you can