Our Tips For Keeping You In Shape During Menopause

To enjoy better health during menopause, we must combine a healthy diet with adequate management of emotions and physical activity, in according to our possibilities.

Menopause is a significant stage in a woman’s life. It varies from person to person and may or may not cause unpleasant symptoms before and upon arrival.

Coping with a new hormonal stage isn’t always easy, as depression can present itself among other age-related motivational issues.

Hence, it is worth knowing a few tips to keep yourself happy and healthy during menopause.

Just as there are psychological problems during this phase, there are also many risks of disease present. However, with proper care, you can prevent and avoid these risks and all the complications they cause.

Remember that an optimal quality of life should be maintained over time, at any age, in any situation and, most importantly, at any hormonal stage.

What bothersome symptoms can you experience during menopause?

• Hot flashes
• Irritability
• Depression
• Drying of the skin
• Decreased libido

Some tips to keep you happy and healthy during menopause

Take part in physical activity

Performing exercises is a way to cope with menopause in better conditions because, in addition to giving you energy, it will strengthen your bones despite age and the hormonal changes that this phase conditions.

• The best thing to do is to set up a training session adapted to your age and your physical resistance. The goal is to increase your energy, improve your flexibility and ensure that the symptoms of menopause are perceived minimally.
• With the onset of old age, your muscle tone begins to degenerate. This is another of the reasons that should encourage you to practice regular physical activity, in addition to the desire to alleviate the effects of menopause.

Relax

To relax from the stress that punctuates our days, nothing better than to perform these different methods.

There are several options when it comes to relaxation exercises. These have positive effects on the mind and body, especially at the onset of menopause.

• You can perform exercises like yoga or pilates. They help reduce stress and with it blood pressure, as well as the episodes of anxiety characteristic of menopausal symptoms.

Leave your bad habits aside

Having habits that are toxic to your body will only amplify the symptoms that occur during menopause.

Start by leaving out cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. You will see an improvement in your body’s reaction during this new hormonal phase, preventing it from experiencing intolerable changes.

By letting go of the toxic habits that you have had throughout your life, you are giving your heart and the quality of your bones more protection.

Indeed, don’t forget that from now on, you need it more than ever because of the high risk of osteoporosis caused by the lack of estrogen.

Eat a good diet

Eating a balanced diet is one of the most effective tips to prevent the discomfort of menopause from crippling you for days or months, while your body adapts to it.

With the arrival of this hormonal phase, a tendency to gain weight occurs, accumulating mainly in the abdominal region.

Therefore, it is recommended that you cover your energy needs for the day of 1800 calories, but not overdo it.

In this way, you will avoid the weight gain which is very common at this point in the life of women. This can indeed lead to an obesity problem, with serious consequences on health.

Tone the pelvic muscle

Toning the pelvic muscle is important in reducing the chances of suffering from urinary incontinence. Indeed, it is a symptom that can appear following a loss of supportive force that occurs after menopause.

Obviously, the million dollar question is: How do you tone that muscle? The answer is simple: you can do it through Kegel exercises.

How to do Kegel exercises?

• Get up and adopt a “chair” position, as if you were sitting.
• Squeeze the perlvic muscle for 5 seconds, as if you were holding back the desire to urinate.
• Release the muscle for 3 seconds, then contract again.
• Do 3 sets of 10 repetitions, then increase the number of repetitions each week.
• If the exercise seems difficult to you, you can resort to geisha balls. They will allow you to perform the exercise more easily, but by soliciting the same effort from the perineum.

Taking care of your body in an integral way is essential to cope with the changes of menopause on your body in the best possible way.

Now that you know our tips, don’t hesitate to use them!