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Reviewed by Helen Kollias, PhD and Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD
At some point in my mid-40s, the scale started climbing.
A pound or two turned into five, then 10, then 20.
It seemed as if I was doing all the right things: Eating less, moving more, rinse, repeat. Yet, the harder I worked, the less the scale seemed to respond.
Had perimenopause destroyed my metabolism?
It sure felt like it.
However, after asking my doctor to run a series of tests, I learned that my metabolism was, in fact, fine. Instead, like the vast majority of midlife women, the true causes of my weight gain stemmed from several subtle issues that I would have sworn, at the time, didn’t apply to me.
If, like me, you or your client are currently stuck in what…