{"id":253459,"date":"2022-09-21T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T09:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maureenkemeny.com\/?p=253459"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:09:39","slug":"how-women-age-40-can-eat-fat-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maureenkemeny.com\/how-women-age-40-can-eat-fat-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"How Women 40+ Can Eat Fat To Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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No, this isn’t a trick! You can – and should – eat fat to lose weight. For biological reasons, women are predisposed to gaining more weight than men. Moreover, as women age beyond 40, many hormone levels decline and this plays a role in weight gain. It may seem counterintuitive, but especially after 40, you need fat in your diet not only for weight loss but for overall health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It DOES matter where your fat is stored.<\/strong> Visceral fat in the abdominal cavity is less healthy than subcutaneous fat on your butt and thighs. Visceral fat tends to accumulate around organs, get inflamed, and tend to affect insulin signaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People often use exercise to help with weight loss, but you can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your body composition and how you look depends more on what you eat than how much you exercise. This means that with your limited time, you’ll get a much bigger return on your investment if you focus on food shopping, planning, and preparing healthy meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One aspect of nutrition that women have trouble embracing is that fat – the right kind of fat- is important for health and weight loss.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Yes- butter, quality meat and cheese belong in a healthy diet! This does not mean however that saturated fats, especially from animals, are not harmless. You want to eat these foods in moderation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may be hard for you to wrap your head around. For so many years we were told to eat a low-fat diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I too followed the low-fat diet that the USDA used to recommend for so long and I did have resistance to the new mindset at first. It\u2019s really hard to change the mindset that fat is bad and not healthy. Fats, especially saturated fat have gotten a bad rap, mostly from bad science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the book ‘The Big Fat Surprise’ Nina Teicholz after an extensive reveiw of research on saturated fat states that the science supports that a high fat diet is healhtier than a diet low in fat and high in processed carbohydreates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STEP ONE – RECOGNIZE YOUR THOUGHTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first step is to understand your thoughts about eating fat. Write down exactly what comes to mind when you think of including more fat in your diet. Free flow your thoughts. For example, you may have thoughts like:
“This is crazy.”
“There\u2019s no way saturated fat can be good for me.”
“If I eat fat, I\u2019ll get fat.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get all your thoughts down on paper.<\/strong> I\u2019m suggesting this because, to create change, you first need to look at your thoughts. You can\u2019t create change if your thoughts don\u2019t support the change you seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I needed to do research, and lots of it so that I could create thoughts that supported adding more fat to my diet. I recommend reading THE BIG FAT SURPRISE<\/a> by Nina Teicholz. It discusses the flawed science of saturated versus polyunsaturated fats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding the benefits of fat may help you change your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


We need fat because fat:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n