{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Menopause Unscripted Podcast","title":"The Hard Truth About Menopause Weight Loss Most Women Avoid | #0107 | The Menopause Unscripted Podcast","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1127,"description":"\nFarah here.\nIn this episode of Menopause Unscripted, I talk about the hard truth most women avoid when it comes to menopause and weight loss. \nNot because it’s controversial, but because it’s uncomfortable. And yet, it’s the very thing keeping so many intelligent, capable, driven women stuck, frustrated and blaming themselves.\nThis is an episode about acceptance. \nNot giving up. Not settling. \nNot resigning yourself to feeling uncomfortable in your body. But accepting that menopause changes the rules – and that continuing to play by your 30-year-old rulebook is costing you far more than you realise.\nI see this every single week. Women telling me they’re doing exactly what they did in their twenties and thirties – the same workouts, the same food, the same intensity – yet their body is no longer responding. \nNothing has changed in their life, but everything has changed in their body. \nHormones fluctuate. Oestrogen declines. Insulin sensitivity shifts. Fat distribution changes. Recovery slows. Appetite signals alter. \nNone of this means you’re broken. But it does mean you’re not hormonally identical to the woman you were at 28.\nIn this episode, I explain why pretending your body hasn’t changed is keeping you stuck, and why doubling down with more cardio, less food and harsher discipline only makes things worse. \nAcceptance sounds like this: my body responds differently now, so I need to respond differently too. \nThat’s not weakness. That’s power.\nI also talk about why you cannot out-train chaos in menopause. \nPoor sleep, chronic stress, caffeine reliance, skipped meals, under-eating, wine to wind down and constant high-intensity exercise all signal danger to a menopausal body. \nElevated cortisol tells your body it’s unsafe to let go of fat – especially belly fat. \nExercise is not a stress eraser when your nervous system is dysregulated. You don’t need to sweat more. You need stability.\nWe go deep into why stress, sleep and recovery are no longer optional. Sleep...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i9gr5pa-XDNs6KPC_Oyy2ckLYaRMVoij_QkWymN0h-g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMWJl/YTAwN2Y4NmY1NjRl/ZTc1ZTc4MmMyNTU5/NWM4My5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}