Why Is It So Difficult to Lose Weight After 50?
Losing weight after 50 gets harder. During perimenopause and menopause, estrogen drops alter your metabolism. Falling estrogen levels affect methylation (energy production) and, with lower progesterone, lead to reduced muscle mass, a slower thyroid, and decreased insulin sensitivity. As a result, your body burns fewer calories, stores more abdominal fat, and reacts more strongly to stress and sugar spikes. So it’s not about willpower; it’s a natural biological transition which calls for a new strategy focused on nourishment, blood sugar balance, and a sense of purpose.
🔑 Key Takeaways
1. Stop Dieting and Start Nourishing
Focus on nutrient-rich foods and balanced meals that support hormone function, energy, and metabolism, rather than relying on restriction or calorie counting.
2. Balance Blood Sugar and Manage Insulin Resistance
Pair meals with protein and healthy fats, move after eating, and establish consistent meal timing to stabilise energy, mood, and cravings.
3. Reconnect With Your ‘Why’
Understanding your deeper motivation behind weight loss fuels consistency and helps regulate stress naturally, turning midlife change into a purposeful transformation.
Menopause weight loss requires a different approach. The rules you followed in your 30s and 40s won’t work anymore. That’s because the menopause transition brings a unique set of challenges that affect your metabolism, energy, and how your body stores fat.
Your body burns fewer calories at rest, and stores more abdominal fat. This shift in body fat distribution during menopause is driven by a decrease in estrogen levels and an increase in cortisol, leading to more visceral fat and increased metabolic health risks. Many women experience what’s commonly called a menopause belly, which is an increase in abdominal fat that can feel stubborn and emotionally challenging.
If you’ve ever stood on the scales thinking, “I’m eating well, I’m exercising, I’m cutting back on my wine – why won’t my body respond?” you’re not alone.
As Ms Longevity, I see this all the time women over 50 who eat better than they ever have, yet their weight, energy, and mood feel out of control. Your body isn’t broken; it’s adapting. The key is understanding how your metabolism changes and what it truly needs now.
Metabolic Science Simplified: What Really Changes for Menopausal Women After Menopause
Your metabolic rate drops, and a slower metabolism means your body processes calories differently than before. This is why menopause weight gain and body composition changes are so common during this stage.
Many women in midlife discover that the same strategies that worked in their thirties now backfire. The weight settles around the middle, a hallmark of menopausal weight gain, as hormonal changes make gaining weight a common experience during menopause. During the menopause transition, women gain weight more easily, especially around the abdomen, due to shifts in estrogen and progesterone. Cravings intensify, and energy crashes hit harder than ever. Falling estrogen and progesterone levels affect insulin sensitivity, thyroid function, and cortisol rhythms, slowing your metabolic rate and changing how your body uses fuel.
The concern is that increased visceral fat and metabolic changes during menopause can raise the risk of health problems such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and other complications that impact long-term well-being.
Instead of fighting these changes with more restrictions, it’s time to understand what your metabolism is really asking for
🎥 Watch the video: 3 Secrets to Lose Weight in Menopause Without Restrictive Dieting
Estrogen isn’t just a reproductive hormone, it’s one of your body’s greatest fat-burning allies. When levels drop, mitochondria (your energy factories) produce less ATP, slowing calorie burn even when you eat the same foods.
At the same time, progesterone, your calming, balancing hormone, also declines. Without it, cortisol can stay elevated, driving sugar cravings and abdominal fat storage. During menopause, hormonal shifts often lead to an increase in total body fat, especially around the abdomen, which can impact overall body composition and metabolic health.
And it’s not just about hormones, it’s about communication. Your brain, gut, and fat cells all speak through chemical signals, and menopause changes the tone of that conversation. Ghrelin (your hunger hormone) and leptin (your fullness hormone) become less synchronised, so you feel hungrier even when your body has enough fuel. This leads to overeating, not from mental weakness, but from disrupted feedback loops.
Furthermore, your muscle mass naturally decreases by about 1 to 2% per year after the age of 40. Less muscle means fewer mitochondria and a lower resting metabolic rate. Since muscle burns more calories than fat, losing muscle not only slows your metabolism but also makes it harder to manage body weight as you age. That’s why long walks and salads no longer shift the scale: your body’s energy equation has changed.
When it comes to measuring weight and body fat, the body mass index (BMI) is commonly used to classify obesity; however, it has limitations as a health predictor. BMI does not distinguish between muscle and fat or account for fat distribution, so measures like waist-to-hip circumference and body composition are often more accurate for assessing metabolic and cardiovascular risk, especially in midlife women.
As a longevity therapist, Ms Longevity helps women over 50 decode these changes so they can work with their biology instead of against it, rebalancing metabolism, energy, and hormonal harmony through targeted daily rituals and testing-based nutrition.
How Menopause Changes Where Fat Is Stored (Fat Distribution)
One of the shifts you might notice during this beautiful transition into your next life chapter is how your body begins storing fat differently. Even when your weight remains stable, you may find that fat seems to settle around your midsection, creating what we call visceral fat around your abdomen.
This change in fat distribution often appears alongside other menopausal symptoms, such as joint pains, sleep difficulties, mood changes, and vaginal dryness, that many women experience during menopause.
You’re not alone in this it’s a completely natural response to your changing estrogen levels, which have been quietly orchestrating your fat distribution and metabolic health for decades.
As your estrogen levels gently decline, your body wisely adapts by storing fat in the abdominal area rather than the hips and thighs. This increase in visceral fat isn’t just about how you look it’s your body’s signal that it’s time to support your metabolic health more intentionally.
This shift can increase your risk of metabolic challenges and affect your hormone balance, which is why many women find they gain weight more easily during this time, even when their daily rituals and movement habits haven’t changed.
Why Muscle Matters More Than Ever (Body Composition)
During menopause, building and maintaining your muscles becomes one of your most powerful allies for thriving in this next chapter of life. You’re not alone in noticing changes as your body shifts. It’s completely natural for muscles to decline as we age, but here’s what’s empowering to know: this doesn’t have to slow down your metabolism or make weight management feel impossible. When you have less muscle, your body simply burns fewer calories at rest, and you might notice changes in your strength, balance, and that vibrant energy you’re seeking to reclaim.
Strength-building rituals and resistance work aren’t just about sculpting your body they’re about supporting your metabolic health and creating resilience from within. You’re investing in how efficiently your body uses glucose, naturally supporting insulin sensitivity and making weight management feel more manageable rather than overwhelming. Plus, every muscle you build is supporting your bone health too, which becomes even more precious as your estrogen levels shift. This isn’t about what you’re losing, it’s about what you’re building for your future self.
By weaving strength-building into your daily rituals, you’re not just working toward a healthier body composition; you’re laying the foundation for your long-term vitality, resilience, and the independence that matters so deeply to you. Even simple bodyweight movements or resistance bands can create meaningful change in how you feel every day. Remember, this is your opportunity for transformation, not your deadline. You can reset and restore your muscle strength at any stage, and every small action you take today is building the foundation for thriving in the next 30 years.
Secret #1 – Stop Dieting and Start Nourishing
For most, the act of dieting started decades ago, before the first grey hair or hot flush. Decades of calorie counting have led us to believe that eating less equals losing more. But chronic restriction only tells your body that food is scarce. Cortisol levels rise, muscle tone decreases, and metabolism slows to conserve energy.
At this stage of life, nourishment, not deprivation, is your fastest route to change. Every cell relies on amino acids, healthy fats, and micronutrients to produce energy, repair tissue, and regulate hormones. Adopting a healthy lifestyle, which includes a balanced diet and regular physical activity, supports weight management and overall well-being during menopause.
When you start feeding your body what it truly needs, quality protein, omega-3 fats, colourful vegetables, and B vitamins, choline, and minerals like magnesium, you activate fat-burning pathways that restriction shuts down. Maintaining a normal weight is easier when you focus on quality nutrition and healthy lifestyle habits, which can also help reduce menopause symptoms.
🕊️ Daily ritual: Eat a protein-rich breakfast (2 Eggs, Greek yoghurt, or Shelled Hemp Seeds) within 60 minutes of waking. This helps balance cortisol and establishes stable energy for the day.
For more practical ways to rebuild your metabolism through daily habits, explore the Metabolic Rituals section inside the Ms Longevity Health Hub.
Secret #2 – Balance Blood Sugar and Address Insulin Resistance, Not Calories
During menopause, the drop in estrogen makes your cells less responsive to insulin, the hormone that moves glucose into energy. This insulin resistance can lead to higher blood sugar levels, as your body struggles to remove glucose from the bloodstream.
To compensate, your pancreas produces more insulin, which can further disrupt metabolic health.
Fluctuations in insulin levels during menopause also influence how your body stores fat, manages energy, and responds to hormone therapies. Hormone therapy (HRT) can help manage menopause symptoms such as sleep disruption and weight redistribution. While it is not a weight loss treatment, it may indirectly support weight management by reducing visceral fat and improving sleep quality. The result? Blood-sugar spikes, energy slumps, and fat stored more easily around the abdomen.
This is why you might find yourself reaching for chocolate at 3 p.m. or craving toast before bed. It’s not a lack of control; it’s your brain’s way of crying out for balance.
Balancing blood sugar isn’t about cutting all carbs; it’s about pairing and timing foods intelligently. Add protein or fat to every meal, avoid grazing throughout the day, and finish eating at least three hours before bedtime to allow insulin to reset overnight.
Simple movements after meals, such as a ten-minute walk, light stretches, or tidying the kitchen, can dramatically improve glucose uptake and energy stability.
🕊️ Daily ritual: After each meal, move your body for ten minutes. It’s one of the simplest longevity tools you can use to stabilise blood sugar and support hormonal balance.
When blood sugar is stable, your energy, mood, and sleep naturally improve. This is the foundation of every transformation I see in my clients.
For deeper strategies, see the Metabolic Toolkit, which includes Ms Longevity’s favourite recipes to help with cravings and glucose balance.
Secret #3 – Reconnect With Your Why
Most women start a diet because they want to lose weight. But the truth is, weight loss alone rarely lasts. What keeps you consistent isn’t the number on the scale, it’s the meaning behind your goal.
When I work with women inside the Ms Longevity Health Hub, the real turning point comes when they reconnect with their why. For some, it’s the confidence to travel again. For others, it’s the strength to enjoy life without exhaustion, or to look in the mirror and feel proud of how far they’ve come.
When you know what you’re truly working toward, food choices stop feeling like a sacrifice they become acts of self-respect.
This shift also helps regulate stress naturally. The moment you stop fighting your body and start partnering with it, cortisol levels drop, digestion improves, and your metabolism begins to trust you again.
🕊️ Daily ritual: Take five minutes each morning to visualise your future self, the woman who feels light, strong, and in control. Ask yourself, “What does she do today that I can do right now?”
By the time most women reach midlife, dieting has become a lifelong coping mechanism. Yet chronic stress, mental, emotional, or metabolic, keeps cortisol high and blocks weight loss altogether. When you experience stress, your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is activated, triggering a cascade of physiological responses like increased heart rate and blood pressure. During menopause, frequent activation of the SNS, combined with hormonal fluctuations, can disrupt metabolic processes and make weight loss even more challenging.
Your nervous system needs safety, not another challenge. Before changing what you eat, reconnect with why you want to feel better. Is it energy to travel, confidence in your skin, or freedom from the daily fatigue that holds you back?
Your ‘why’ is what anchors new habits long enough to take hold. When stress softens and self-compassion grows, your metabolism begins to cooperate again.
🕊️ Daily ritual: Before each meal, take three deep breaths and slow down. This slight pause lowers cortisol and improves digestion a true longevity practice.
One of the most powerful transformations I’ve seen was with a client who said, “I realised I wasn’t eating for hunger, I was eating to calm my anxiety.” Once she addressed her stress triggers and rebuilt her routine around recovery, her energy and her body shape began to change naturally.
The Power of Movement: Exercise for Menopausal Weight Loss
Movement becomes your ally, especially as you navigate the shifts of menopause. You’re not alone in discovering that regular physical activity is one of the most gentle yet powerful ways to support your body through weight changes, reduce that stubborn belly fat, and nurture your overall wellbeing during this transition. This isn’t just about the numbers on the scale; you’re also building resilience against heart disease, supporting your body’s natural insulin sensitivity, and creating a foundation for sustained energy and emotional balance.
High-intensity interval training has shown beautiful results for women walking this same path as you, helping to address that frustrating midsection weight while restoring metabolic health. But here’s what’s wonderful, you don’t need to transform into someone you’re not to see real change. Whether it’s a mindful walk, cycling through your neighbourhood, swimming, or even dancing in your living room, these can all become powerful daily rituals that support your body’s natural ability to reset and restore. You have so many gentle options to choose from.
Movement can also become your secret weapon against those uncomfortable hot flashes, night sweats, and restless nights, helping you feel more at home and confident in your changing body. Before you begin any new movement ritual, it’s wise to connect with a healthcare professional who understands your unique needs especially if you’re managing other health considerations. What matters most is finding activities that bring you joy and incorporating movement into your life in a way that feels sustainable and nurturing, rather than overwhelming. This is your opportunity to discover what makes your body feel alive and strong.
Mindful Eating: Reconnecting with Your Body’s Signals
In the midst of these hormonal shifts and changing daily rhythms, you might feel disconnected from your body’s natural wisdom about hunger and satisfaction. You’re not alone in this. Mindful eating becomes your pathway back to yourself a daily ritual that helps you reset and restore your relationship with nourishment while supporting your metabolic health. By creating moments of pause and genuinely listening to how you feel before, during, and after meals, you can rediscover the difference between your body’s genuine needs and the emotional pulls that stress or hormonal fluctuations can trigger.
Your daily nutrition rituals, built around whole, functional foods like vibrant fruits, nourishing fats, crunchy vegetables, and high-quality protein, become the foundation for your longevity and wellbeing.
Gently reducing processed foods, saturated fats, and added sugars isn’t about restriction; it’s about choosing what truly serves your gut health, hormone balance, and energy levels. These choices support not only your metabolic function but also the intricate connections between your digestive health, mood regulation, and hormonal rhythms.
By honouring your body’s signals, you’re creating space to step away from old dieting patterns that never truly served you. This is your opportunity to establish sustainable daily rituals that align with your biological age and support your overall well-being, helping you thrive in this next stage of life. You’re not fixing yourself you’re becoming your most vibrant, energised version, one mindful choice at a time. This journey supports not only your metabolic wellbeing but also helps you feel deeply connected, calm, and entirely in control of your health trajectory.
Addressing Underlying Health Issues That Can Stall Weight Loss
Suppose you feel like you’re doing everything right nourishing your body thoughtfully, moving with intention, and still not seeing the changes you’re working toward during menopause. In that case, you’re not alone in this journey.
For many women navigating this transition, the path to a healthy weight becomes complicated by underlying health shifts that can quietly stall progress, regardless of how dedicated they are to their daily routines. This isn’t a reflection of your effort or your worth; it’s simply your body signalling that it may be facing more profound metabolic changes that deserve your attention and understanding.
During your menopause transition, hormonal shifts can create a cascade of effects: weight changes, increased visceral fat around your midsection, and a higher likelihood of insulin resistance and metabolic challenges.
These biological changes can make it harder for your body to process glucose efficiently, leading to elevated blood sugar and, over time, increased risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and even breast cancer. If you’ve noticed stubborn changes around your middle or feel like you’ve hit a plateau, this may be your body’s way of asking for a new approach, one that reflects where you are right now.
One of the most functional ways to support these changes is to embrace movement and daily rituals tailored to your unique needs. High-intensity interval training and regular strength training are especially powerful for women in this life stage. They help reduce visceral fat, improve your body’s insulin sensitivity, and maintain the muscle mass that’s crucial for keeping your metabolism active and supporting your bone strength. Even if these forms of movement feel new to you, starting small and building gradually can create meaningful shifts. Remember, this is your opportunity for change—not your deadline.
Your nutrition rituals are just as transformative in supporting your metabolic health and hormone balance. Focus on whole, unprocessed foods, think vibrant fruits and vegetables, starchy carbs, quality protein, and nourishing fats from sources like nuts, seeds, and avocados.
These choices help regulate your blood sugar, support your heart health, and keep you feeling satisfied and energised. Limiting processed foods and saturated fats can further support healthy blood pressure and metabolic function, while fibre-rich foods like legumes and whole grains promote lasting fullness and stable energy throughout your day.
For some women, hormone replacement therapy may offer relief from menopause symptoms and support weight management. Still, it’s essential to work with a healthcare professional who understands your unique journey to determine if it’s right for you. Other underlying health conditions, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, thyroid dysfunction, or sleep apnea, can also make managing weight more challenging. If you suspect any of these conditions might be affecting you, partnering with a healthcare professional who truly understands women’s health and metabolic changes is key to finding the right path forward.
You need to know that weight changes during menopause are widespread and absolutely not a sign of failure on your part. By addressing any underlying health shifts, focusing on nourishing daily rituals, and building sustainable movement habits, you can work with your body through these challenges and achieve a healthy weight that supports your long-term wellbeing.
This journey is about so much more than the number on the scale; it’s about reducing your risk of chronic disease, feeling strong and energised, and truly thriving through every stage of your menopause transition and beyond.
With the right support and a commitment to making functional, sustainable changes, you can reset and restore your metabolic health, manage your weight in a way that feels good, and embark on this new chapter with the confidence and vitality you deserve. You’re not trying to fight your biology you’re learning to work with it, building your foundation for the next thirty years of ageing without disease.
The Longevity View: Looking Beyond the Scales
Weight gain after 50 isn’t just about calories; it’s the sum of everything your body has carried for decades. The sleepless nights, chronic stress, emotional eating, environmental toxins, and hormonal transitions all leave biochemical footprints. The good news? Every single one of these can be improved. It’s also important to monitor blood pressure, as menopausal and metabolic changes can increase the risk of high blood pressure and related cardiovascular issues.
When I work with women inside the Ms Longevity Health Hub, the first step is to uncover why their metabolism has slowed. For some, it may be undiagnosed insulin resistance. For others, it’s poor liver detoxification, low thyroid output, polycystic ovary syndrome, or even sluggish gut motility from years of dieting. But most importantly, it’s rarely just one thing. It’s a system out of sync.
My typical client often arrives saying, “I’ve tried everything, but nothing works anymore.” When we assess the biochemistry, we often discover her body is still in fight-or-flight mode. She’s eating healthy foods but at the wrong times for her cortisol rhythm. She walks daily but under-sleeps and under-recovers. Her metabolism isn’t lazy; it’s exhausted.
This is why I use functional tools like methylation panels, fasting insulin tests, gut diversity assessments, and liver detox markers. These reveal what’s really holding her back and what her body needs most right now.
Once these pieces come together, weight loss becomes a natural by-product of metabolic harmony not a punishment for past choices. The Longevity View isn’t about perfection it’s about learning your body’s rhythm, respecting recovery, and aligning lifestyle with biology.
You can learn how to apply this approach through the Metabolic Toolkit, where I share testing guides, supplement support, and practical longevity rituals.
Claire’s Story – From Overwhelmed to in Control
Claire, 52, had spent years eating “healthy” ready meals after feeding her family. She was tired, craving sugar, and convinced her willpower was the problem. Looking back, she realised that changes in her menstrual cycle, like irregular periods and new symptoms, had signalled the start of her menopausal transition and influenced her weight and how she felt. Her day often ended with reheating a meal while still working on the laptop, leaving her feeling both unsatisfied and guilty.
When she joined to Ms Longevity, she admitted she felt completely disconnected from food and from herself. She had tried every diet under the sun, lost and regained the same weight countless times, and no longer trusted her body.
Together, we started small: three balanced meals a day, with protein at breakfast, and a focus on hydration and being present with her family during dinner. Within weeks, her energy began to lift. Her cravings disappeared, her sleep deepened, and for the first time in years, the scales started to move.
But the biggest change wasn’t her body – it was her mindset. She began enjoying meals again, stopped labelling foods as “good” or “bad,” and noticed how much calmer she felt. Once her blood sugar stabilised, her mood followed.
Months later, Claire shared, “I used to fear food. Now it feels like fuel again.” That moment when nourishment replaces guilt is where true transformation begins.
Today, Claire doesn’t count calories or fear carbs. She eats mindfully, moves daily, and finally recognises the woman looking back in the mirror, vibrant, confident, and in control of her future longevity.
Sara’s Story – Restoring Energy After Years of Exhaustion
Sara, 56, came to me frustrated and exhausted. She had gained weight steadily since her late forties, despite adhering to a clean diet and practising regular Pilates. Her GP told her to “eat less and move more,” but every attempt made her more tired. She was sleeping poorly, waking groggy, and running on caffeine and willpower.
Through Ms Longevity’s metabolic assessment, we discovered that her cortisol rhythm was reversed entirely – high at night and low in the morning – and her liver detox pathways were sluggish. She was doing everything right, but her body wasn’t processing energy efficiently.
We adjusted her meal timing, introduced magnesium and methyl B-vitamin support for optimal methylation, and focused on restorative exercise instead of intensity. These changes also helped her maintain bone strength during menopause, supporting her overall health as she aged. Within a month, her sleep improved. Within three months, her energy returned. And by six months, she had lost 12 pounds and 3 inches from her waist – without counting calories or missing a meal.
Sara told me, “It wasn’t about the weight anymore. It was about feeling like myself again.” That’s what real longevity means: energy, confidence, and calm resilience from the inside out.
She now mentors other women inside the Health Hub, sharing what she learned about balancing her metabolism and restoring trust in her body. Her story proves that resetting your metabolism is possible at any stage of life, once you become clear on why it is important to you.
You’re Not Alone: Finding Support on Your Journey
Navigating hormonal shifts and metabolic changes during this stage of life can feel overwhelming, but you’re walking a path that countless women have travelled before you, and you’re not meant to walk it alone. The metabolic challenges you’re experiencing aren’t a reflection of failure; they’re your body’s natural response to profound biological changes. Reaching out to a healthcare professional, like Ms Longevity, as someone who understands functional longevity can offer you the therapist-led guidance you deserve, someone who’ll help you develop daily rituals that support your metabolism, hormones, and wellbeing in ways that feel sustainable, not overwhelming.
Building connections with others who truly understand this journey can transform your approach to health. Whether through support groups or online communities, sharing your experiences with women who recognise the complex interplay between gut health, cortisol rhythms, and metabolic function creates more than just accountability; it creates a foundation of wisdom and encouragement.
Remember, lasting change comes from consistency in small, functional habits rather than dramatic overhauls. Even five minutes of intentional daily rituals can significantly impact how you feel for weeks to come, and aiming for gentle, steady progress can improve both your body and your future self.
This isn’t about fixing what’s broken; it’s your opportunity to reset and restore your biology at precisely the right time. By seeking support that respects your intelligence and experience, and staying committed to habits that build resilience rather than restriction, you can thrive through this transition and create a foundation for the next thirty years. You’re not alone in this journey, and with the right functional tools and a supportive community by your side, this can become the chapter where you truly flourish.
A Smarter Way to Age and Feel in Control Again
If you take one message from this, let it be this: It’s not your fault your old diets don’t work your biology has changed, and that change is your opportunity.
By nourishing your body, balancing blood sugar, and becoming clear on why your future health is important to you, you transform menopause from a struggle into a purpose. This is the essence of the Ms Longevity approach, empowering women to age smarter through nourishment, metabolic repair, and daily rituals that truly work. These strategies can help you lose weight and manage menopause symptoms more effectively, supporting long-term health and confidence.
This is how women over 50 lower their biological age, restore energy, and finally feel in control again.
➡️ Join the Ms Longevity Health Hub to access daily metabolic rituals, testing tools, and expert direction to reset your metabolism naturally.
A Different Approach Weight Loss
Unlike quick-fix trends or one-size-fits-all advice, these FAQs reflect Ms Longevity’s functional, therapist-led approach to menopause weight management. Each answer helps women understand the why behind their metabolic changes and offers practical, sustainable strategies to restore energy, balance hormones, and support long-term vitality. The goal isn’t just weight loss it’s helping you thrive with confidence and clarity through every stage of midlife.
Ms Longevity empowers women to take control of the ageing process by focusing on metabolic health through personalised and supportive diet plans, helping them achieve lasting results and sustainable lifestyle changes.
Focus on nourishment over restriction balance blood sugar, eat protein at each meal, move daily, and support hormones with rest and stress recovery.
Do you lose weight on HRT?
HRT isn’t a weight-loss treatment, but it provides the oestrogens lost so can help reduce belly fat and improve sleep and mood, which may indirectly support a healthier metabolism.
Support metabolism with magnesium, omega-3s, and methyl B-vitamins; adaptogens and probiotics supplements can help balance hormones and reduce cravings.
Women typically gain 5–10 pounds or 2 inches around their waistline, primarily in the abdominal area, due to lower estrogen levels, a slower metabolism, and changes in muscle mass and insulin sensitivity.
Hormonal changes lower estrogen levels, slow metabolism, and impact insulin and muscle mass, making weight loss more challenging without adjustments to diet, exercise, and stress management.
