How to Train Your Body to Burn Fat After 40

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Hey, Dr. Mindy here, and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast, where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in.

So I hear from so many of you, specifically women over 40, where they're like, I've been eating less, I've been fasting more, I've been exercising more, and I'm just not getting a result. Put in the comments if that's you. Because what I want to show you is that there is an actual strategy to start to send the signal to your body that it needs to burn fat. It's like a switch you didn't turn on.

In this video, I'm going to show you what it looks like to burn fat after 40 This is the moment for both men and women, but especially women, that fat burning capability starts to slow down. I want to show you not only why that happens, but I want to again, at the end, give you a checklist of five things you can do to start to train your body to burn fat because that's all it is. You got this, I promise you. That's all it is. You just gotta start to train the body, say, hey body, here's the fat. This is what I want you to burn and it's not that hard. I'll show you how. Are you ready? Here we go. So the Eat Less, Exercise More routine is very, very outdated. I hope we're all on the same page as that. It changes the set point that starts to make it harder and harder to lose weight. And for women, after 40, we lose estrogen. And estrogen isn't just a reproductive hormone, it is a metabolic hormone. And what we know on the research around estrogen is that estrogen was a weight regulator. There's a 22 study in the Frontiers and Endocrinology that said that estrogen supported energy in three major key ways. It helped you burn more fat when you were at rest. Gosh, I wish I could go back to my younger self and remind her to be grateful for that. It suppresses your appetite via sending signals to your hypothalamus in your brain. And it actually influenced adipose tissue function. So when there is lower estrogen, adipose tissue does not interact with hormones like leptin, which leptin is your fat burning hormone. So when all three of these advantages move away, it gets really hard to start to burn fat. And I will tell you for myself, this has been a really interesting piece because I've been an athlete my whole life. And when I hit 40, I was just like many of you, I was just like, whoa, what is going on? The clothes are tight, the scales going up. And it was like there was a switch that went in an opposite direction and many of the things that I'm going to teach you today, I started to do. In fact, little fun note, I found fasting originally for myself because I was like, I'm eating less, I'm working out more, I'm gaining weight, what's going on? And that was when all the fasting information was emerging. But there's more than just fasting you can do. So I'm going to give you some really concrete ideas.