How you manage weight loss in your early years can drastically affect how you will go through the perimenopause. Symptoms will become more or less acute if you prepared a healthy terrain. In particular, your weight will impact your hormonal balance, as Kathy Wright points out.
So weight gain contributes to the estrogen dominance that causes so many symptoms during the early stages of perimenopause. Like bloating, indigestion and irritability.
Most women put up with minor issues until menopause when things get out of control. A woman’s health can deteriorate rapidly during menopause with the decrease of estrogen levels in the body. Digestive issues that were once merely a hassle become unacceptable when the body’s natural defenses against inflammation (estrogen being one) are exhausted.
Controlling your weight and your dieting habits impacts how you experience perimenopause symptoms and your well-being ('the ideal menopause') in many other areas.
