Why Women Can't Lose Belly Fat After Menopause

You said "menopause . . . no longer producing or releasing eggs." Aren't women born with all their eggs? 🤔

I'm 60, have struggled with weight my whole life. Did have years here and there where I was thin and body building. Loved it. How is it that I've turned into this dumpy lump of a person just in a few short years?!?!?! I literally eat and eat and eat. So weird. I'm fat. Like not even ok. I'm tired. Have little desire to do ANYTHING. So annoying. I'm a wealthy professional and have a lot to live for. I used to eat sensibly, intermittent fast, no food from 4pm-10am. Now? I feel like I'm being controlled by food demons.
I know we care very much about one another in these commentary sections bc we share the same plight. All of you good people out here send me prayers and powerful mind positivity to get me going. Thank you. Love to all ....

Yet to find a marathoner with gut. Bye bye

Wow no point for fasting then.

Carnivore!

I tried HRT. It got rid of the hot flashes. Those seemed to be the worse for me because they brought on a lot anxiety. But now I have cysts all around my vagina. inside & out 😭😭😭 If I would've known that was going to happen I never would've done it. The doctor didn't mention anything about side effects. She just told me to read to pamphlet that came with the product. And who does that..........?????? what a mistake. She could've warned me. I wish I could sue. So embarrassing. 😢😢😢 I still have hot flashes and it's been 8 years😥😢😭 Could you suggest a more detailed keto diet please. Thx. Love your videos

65 now and had zero menopause symptoms. I’m 5ft1 and 145lbs (67k). Over the last 3-4yrs my weight had piled on around the middle. Almost everyone says it’s an inevitable part of getting older. I know i have good strength and constitution (rarely get ill despite little exercise and so-so diet). My thoughts now is how to treat my body better so i don’t get ill later on. Thankyou!

My mother is 90 and looks 20 years younger. She lives alone and does everything by herself. She never did any formal exercise but walks everywhere and carries heavy groceries home. ( Doesn’t drive). She ate healthy and never any fast food or junk food. She’s about 4’10 and weighs about 100 lbs. She eats 3 healthy meals a day and no snacks.

Says who? My mother is 88 and skinnier than when she was 55. I am 56 and skinnier than when I was 25. It deppans what you put in your moth and how much you exercise.

I’m 73
When I reached 160
I got scared
Because
I was gaining weight faster and faster.
It’s slow going
But since April
I went from 160
Now May 31 145
15 lbs
I feel a little better.
I started walking also
About 2 miles a day outside.
When it gets hard to loose weight
I don’t give up.
Maybe because Sardines Eggs Cheese
Almonds are curbing my appetite and hunger. I only eat a small amount of carbs. My stomach just hurts like someone put cement there.
I’m hoping if I get to 130 lbs the stomach will stop hurting me.

Because they eat crap and refuse to remember their yoga days with only green juices. This is outdated.

We did a study in the late 1990s on fat distribution in peri and post menopausal women. We found one group of women, relatively well-off, who exercised at least once every day, dieted rigidly (also ran food diaries) whose greatest accumulation of fat was on the belly and just could not get rid of it. The one thing these women had in common, and which distinguished them from others in the study, was that they had been children in the UK and Europe towards the end of WWII and the early post-war years of food rationing - so, chronically stressed and probably underfed

You need estrogen in every cell of your body, and it’s suddenly taken away. Like if a man loses testosterone at 60 and lives the rest of his life without it. How would that work out?

How bout manage the hormones with HRT?

I heard that fasting is too stressful for the adrenals.

Thank You.

I do this with hiking but not running. I try to pick trails with at least three or four intense hills and where I can rest after the climb. It truly feels wonderful! For myself, I then use some CBD gummies (no thc) but added passionflower and vitamins within the gummies, do backbends and forward bends to keep my spine supple and not seizing, and have the best sleep of my life. I have an awful neighbour, so sleep is an issue, particularly in the summer months. Talk about stress!

Some people like beer, wine and cookies. Telling me to eat a keto diet 24/7 would be like killing me.

Lolll, thank you, mr mansplainer. It's not working.

Thank you this makes sense. I'm finfing if i exercise more my weight is going up even though im doing IHT interval traing walking of high and low intensity i guess 3 mins on 3 mins off i guess 3ins is not enough recovery and im doing it for around 23-30mins. Thanks P.S wgat are you a Doctor of ? Any speciality ? Or a general physician? Thanks

Because they eat too much like pigs

This guy is fantastic. Easy to understand. First time hearing this and I am 58!

Well this is misleading cos I have lost a lot of belly fat after menopause. I've lost close to 4 stone and stomachs virtually flat now

Genius. That is why my wife is struggling to loose belly fat. I think I need to implementation this solution

It's very ambiguous to say to strengthen the other side because I even got home on replacement I got testosterone 100 some it doesn't make any sense the body changes the fat goes from the hips to the stomach and if you have trouble holding on to the the muscle that's why young women don't know what they look good give them the feminine look the hormones let me look in the mirror and they admire how they look when they're young but it has nothing to do with going to the gym it's all

I'm suffering now .I try being good, but it lasts one week n bang things start to go back. I'm fed up with myself

Corrinne Crabtree does a sensible podcast-give it a listen

"fewer symptoms", not "less symptoms"

Ironically now that I'm in menopause, i don't give a darn about the belly anymore. Lol

I’m 54 and my menopause hell… I cannot take the heat at all! And I sweat uncontrollably whenever I’m up and moving around… and then when I’m sitting I’m so cold I can’t stand it! I now take a sleep med for sleep…I’m a hot mess and I need help!

Thank you dear Dr Berg, you have helped me so much. Now i know why I experince so many of the above symptoms , my sympathetic nervous system was on overdrive.

Great advice as akways ! Thank you

Gtest Video 💯🙏🏻❤️

Sure wish this was true for me. It’s the polar opposite of my experience

Yeah not taking tablets Dr Eric...... sorry. So far so good.

Is menopause different Dr Eric - for women who have had babies - to those of us that have not????

There is a reason dancers mostly live a long time! Exercise!

Going through Menopause - don't have any of that. Thank god! I eat a lot of fish and seafood - vegetables and fruit. I drink coconut oil a lot and brush my teeth with that and bi carb mixture! I still eat what I want - but food I've cooked - not rubbish crap from Fast Food places. 'They' want us all sick - I won't be one of them. Even hate general tablets.

OMG! I have been in perimenapause for 5 years and finally hit menapause last year. I gained a full size around my midsection. I have been working out like a crazy person! That always kept me slim. Not anymore. I've even gained more weight! This video makes sense and I dont understand why more doctors dont tell you the truth! They want to push HRT. I started estradiol 2 months ago and Im sleeping better but the weight is not coming off. I've wanted to pull my hair out and never felt so awful and less sexy in my life. Im going to put all of these steps into action and see if the inches fall off around my waist. I just want my body back! Aging for women is a cruel joke! I hope this video is life changing! 🙏

I think your info is a bit outdated on Hrt!

I appreciate the education that is being shared, and thank you for that.. However, the younger women in the videos climbing up hills, don't appear to be going through menopause😂

That’s so funny. Now that I’m getting older, I do that naturally.

Maybe everyone in the west needs to stop seeing food as 'a treat' or a social activity and get for nutritional reasons.

What about keeping the balance if you don’t do exercises?

I've nevver had any problems losing weight after menopause.

I'm 57 and in better shape than ever. I carb cycle. It's very easy and I exercise about 3 days a week but it's enjoyable exercise. Eating good food matters.

I am doing this. I am on the treadmill on 10 incline, 5 speed for 30 minutes. I go sit drink water. Then I lift weights . Then rest drink water. Go walk a mile on the track or play pickleball. I am 56 doing 1200-1400 calories a day. I have lost 10 pounds. I sleep like a baby. Usually about 71/2 hours. I have more energy. I take a lot of vitamins. Collagen, multivitamin, probiotics and whatever my husband reads is good for us. Menopause gave me fat where I never had fat. I am going to lose 80 pounds and be done with eating out and menopause fat.

I have and I’m 65…. Post menopause

What kind of magnesium? thanks

It's visceral fat. That fat you can't "suck in", when you try to suck in your gut. Interestingly, it's the first fat to go with a non-processed food or carnivore diet.