Are you in your midlife era and noticing weight gain? Are you struggling to lose weight now that you’re over 40? Are you considering one of the weight-loss pharmaceuticals on the market to help you battle your weight? Before you turn to weight loss pills, tune into this episode to learn a better way to manage your health for the long term.
On this episode, Jenn speaks with nutrition coach, geriatric pharmacist, and fitness pro, Amy Wilson. Amy helps women work through their midlife weight gain by focusing on stress management, sleep, and eating real food. She provides some incredible tips in this episode that anyone can start doing today to work towards achieving their best health and focus on optimal aging. Amy gives her opinion on pharmaceutical drugs such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic, talking about how they work in the body and the side effects that are being seen already. Tune in to gain a better understanding of how your body copes with stress and how to create optimal health, no matter your age.
The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.
IN THIS EPISODE:
● [4:38] Amy shares how she became a pharmacist and became passionate about health and wellness.
● [12:16] What gets us so stuck losing the midlife menopausal weight gain?
● [15:55] What is the connection between blood sugar and aging and how we are creating accelerated aging in the body?
● [22:55] How does stress impact our body weight?
● [29:44] Amy talks about dietary needs utilizing real foods.
● [33:34] How do you incorporate weights into your fitness routine?
● [35:30] How does sleep impact our weight loss?
● [38:57] As a pharmacist, what is Amy’s outlook on pharmaceuticals for weight loss such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic?
● [42:30] How can fad dieting affect our bones over time?
● [44:00] Skinny is not healthy, skinny does not equate to happiness.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
● [13:15] Our metabolism pretty much stays the same until we are 60-65. However what we have done to ourselves with fad diets has slowed the metabolism down.
● [36:51] Focusing on your sleep will have huge impacts on your health. Work on creating good sleep hygiene/sleep habits by going to bed at the same time every night and waking up at the same time every morning.
● [44:00] When you are on medications to treat side effects of other medications and you have no energy or don’t feel your best, that keeps you from living your life to the fullest. When you are scared to get off these medications because you are scared that you’ll gain weight back because you think skinny is healthy, that is psychological dependence.
● [45:00] We have to stop thinking that skinny equals healthy or that being skinny will make us happy, because it won’t. If you are not happy now, getting to whatever weight you think you need to be at, that’s not going to open up the doors and make everything all better. You have to be happy with who you are now. Stop fad dieting! Instead, focus on your nutrition, health, and building muscle and see what happens to your quality of life.
QUOTES:
[12:21] “This is what’s happened, we have accidentally, not on purpose, caused our issues, and how we have done that is what we started doing when we were 16, and that was dieting. That was the fad diets, starving ourselves to get into the prom dress, to get to the wedding, to be the bridesmaid or now its high school reunions,...
