MORE BLOG POSTS — Weight Loss

Because “eat less and exercise more” is never going to cut it.   If losing weight after 40 were as simple as eating less and moving more, no one would need to write books about it, right? And most of us wouldn’t need to resort to fad diets and weight loss medications. But the truth is that no matter how clean your menu or how much cardio you clock in every week, your scale won’t blink an eye if other hidden factors are messing with your metabolism. After years of working with women who were eating well, exercising, counting calories,...

If your fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c are normal, you may assume your glucose metabolism is working just fine. But that’s not always the case. In fact, the metabolic changes that eventually lead to prediabetes can begin years—sometimes a decade or longer—before your blood sugar officially crosses into the prediabetic range. If you’re gaining weight around your middle, craving carbohydrates, crashing in the afternoon, feeling hungry two hours after eating, or wondering why the same strategies that helped you lose weight ten years ago now barely make the scale blink, your body may be telling you it’s time to...

Many of us celebrate every pound we lose with a high-five and a moment of gratitude for our trusty bathroom scale. But before you get too excited, it's important to know exactly what you're losing. Shedding body fat is certainly something to celebrate—but what if some of that weight is coming from muscle instead? The truth is, the number on your scale doesn't tell the whole story. If you're losing muscle instead of fat, you could actually be slowing your metabolism, weakening your bones, and making it harder to keep the weight off in the future. That's why successful weight...

If you're like most women who are eating less, exercising more, and still watching the scale refuse to move, you're probably wondering what gives. In fact, this is one of the most common frustrations I hear from women over 40 who are doing everything right, but nothing's working. For years, we've been told that weight loss is simply a matter of eating less and moving more. While calories certainly matter, that advice assumes your body's still following the 20-something playbook. For many women over 40, it isn't. As we move through perimenopause and menopause, your body undergoes a number of...

One of the most common complaints I hear from my female patients over 40 is that they're losing more hair than they used to—even if they haven't changed a thing. Sometimes it's the growing collection of hair wrapped around the shower drain. Sometimes it's the increasingly crowded hairbrush. Other times it's a ponytail that seems noticeably thinner than it once was. The truth is that some degree of hair shedding is completely normal. Most people lose dozens of hairs every day as part of the natural hair growth cycle. But if you're noticing more hair than usual in your brush,...