Exercise Lightly in Order to Lose Menopause Weight

By Sydnee Hibbi

Some researchers are now saying you can actually lose more weight by not exercising. The reasoning is when you exercise it increases your appetite, so you eat more than you typically would otherwise. Ideally you should exercise lightly in order to lose menopause weight, because you aren't being a couch potato, but you aren't killing yourself either.

It's all about calories and your metabolism. Exercise speeds up your metabolism and if you do intervals, it goes into high gear. If you don't know what intervals are, let's say you are walking, you walk at your regular pace for maybe 15 minutes and then you speed walk for maybe 5 minutes and you continue this back and forth method for a minimum of 30 minutes and the weight will start coming off, and quickly.

There is every reason in the world to exercise, and not just to lose menopause weight. Of course exercise is an excellent way to help get that stubborn menopause weight to leave your waist, once and for all.

One of the symptoms of menopause can be depression. Well, of course that makes sense, considering all of the symptoms that you are faced with. Just to name some menopausal symptoms you may be having are; hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, bloating, of course gaining weight, insomnia, and so on. That's a fraction of possible symptoms.

There have been many studies that show exercising can relieve depression as well as anti-depressants. That's for mild to moderate depression. So it really is important that you get some form of exercise going, especially while you are in menopause.

Exercise of course helps to keep your heart healthy and may even help lower your chances of getting diabetes, and it's ideal to keep your bones strong which decreases your risk of osteoporosis.

Anyway, you want to aim for at least 30 minutes a day of exercise and don't go crazy with it, because there's no need and from what these researchers are saying, you'll probably add weight if you go hog wild. You'll work out hard for an hour, go home starving and grab the
bag of Oreos, and there goes your hard work.

You don't even have to walk or go to a gym. You can garden, mow the lawn, clean the house,
just get active. You need to jumpstart your metabolism so you will burn more calories even when you aren't active. That way, you won't be famished after a traditional workout and
remember, you really only need to exercise lightly in order to lose menopause weight.

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