MyMT Education: Menopause Weight Loss, Cardiometabolic Health and Exercise [Video]

“I hired a Personal Trainer online for the first time during the pandemic. I was really enjoying the sessions, but I have to admit, I didn’t lose any weight whatsoever – in fact my clothes are now tighter and I feel swollen and bloated.

He has also put me on a high protein diet and I just feel heavy and bloated all the time. I’ve been reading your newsletters and I’m realising that menopause may have something to do with it. I’m 50 years old, have a full time job and have two teens at home as well – I do feel busy and over-whelmed.”  [Andrea, New Zealand]

Whether your clients followed Jane Fonda’s workouts or Bill Phillip’s prescriptive ‘Body For Life’ in the 1980s or not, exercise has always entered the mind of women who want to lose weight.

In the 1990’s when personal training arrived in New Zealand, workouts moved towards …