Dr. Roxanne Edrington- Life After 40

From our guest, Dr. Roxanne Edrington

"Life after 40 can be rough!! As we age, we have fatigue, joint pain, weight gain, unbalanced blood sugar, unbalanced hormones and much more . There are several things we can do to slow down the aging process. I designed this group to educate, motivate and provide answer to some of your health and wellness goals. We, together as a team, can collaborate on ideas to Add Life to Our Years…. not just Years to Our Lives!!"

More about Roxanne here
https://www.drroxanne.com/about-me

Check out Roxanne's Life After 40 Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3708705795837967/


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Transcript

Colton Cockerell: 0:04

Hello and welcome to a another exciting episode of Bridge the Gap. We're balancing life through health, wealth, business and relationships.

Trisha Stetzel: 0:17

Hey everyone, welcome to Bridge the Gap this month on the show we're focused on health and wellness and today we're going to discuss why it is harder to lose weight after 40. And who better to talk about this then Dr. Roxanne Edrington. creator and founder of Life After 40 Roadmap Program Roxanne, Welcome to the show.

Roxanne Edrington: 0:40

Thank you so excited to be here. It's always fun.

Trisha Stetzel: 0:44

Well, we we are and we're having a discussion about people over 40 And he does not fit in. So Colton is not with us today. It is just Roxanne and I. He's out. And really, you know, right before we started the recording for the show, Roxanne and I were having a great conversation about how you know, most of us, after 40 are really struggling with losing weight, we can't lose weight nearly as fast as we used to, or our bodies just don't do what we want them to right. And Roxane, you've got some strategies that you want to share on the show. But before we go there, I would be remiss if I did not mention who our sponsor is for this segment. And it would be Sharer McKinley Group LLC, thank you to them for sponsoring this segment. So Roxanne let's dive into it. Share some strategies with me about life after 40.

Roxanne Edrington: 1:37

Yeah, so you know what probably one of the biggest things that I see, after the age 40, everyone can kind of and they see it themselves. As we get older we lose muscle mass, we don't have to lose muscle mass, I think we just think that as we age, we need that we naturally lose muscle mass. But by if you're eating in a way that is like taking in protein that's going to maintain muscle mass. And if you're moving around an exercise that will help maintain muscle mass. But when we lose muscle, we actually slow down our metabolism. Because the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn throughout the day, if you're not eating in a way to support your muscle mass, or if you're not eating, and you start you start losing muscle, because if you're not eating enough food, you will break down muscle mass to provide those nutrients so your body can continue to go on. So if you're losing muscle mass, you absolutely are going to be slowing down your metabolism. And which means that you can eat what you have been eating, which may be not very much and it might be very healthy. But if you slow down your metabolism, you will start putting on weight. So we need to be eating in a way to maintain our muscle mass. And the other thing that happens over time is we might put on 20 or 30 pounds for you know about five years, then what now we've created something that is called the elevated setpoint. And the elevated setpoint is basically the weight or body feels it should be at it's kind of like our temperature, we are normal temperatures 98.6 We have a set point in our weight. And I'm sure everyone can tell me what that weight is the weight that if you go out, you know somewhere for the week and you eat all this food, you might go up two pounds from this certain specific weight. Or if you go on a diet, you start losing weight, and you lose maybe five pounds. But if you have one cheat meal, it will go back to that number. That is your set point. And so what we want to do, or what people have to understand that when you start losing weight, you need to do it slowly. Because if you lose 10 pounds, your body is going to want to go back up to that normal setpoint. So you need to like maybe lose five or 10 pounds, try to stay there, hold it for about two weeks. And then you can continue. If you keep trying to diet or do whatever you're doing to lose the weight, you are going to jump back up to that setpoint. So just remember that, you know you got to be patient and go through the if you really want to have permanent weight loss. But as we age, the big thing is, is we do start putting on weight if we have that weight on us for two to three years, now we've made a new setpoint. And so the elevated setpoint that we've created will make it hard for us to lose weight, how we used to lose weight, you're just going to have to slowly lose some of that weight, be patient and then continue to start losing weight. It doesn't work like it did when we were younger. On the third day, I

Trisha Stetzel: 4:34

think a few of us may have felt that to Roxanne with you know sitting around after we went into the pandemic right a lot of us stopped moving we may have been eating a little differently. And that new set weight was not desirable. And it does take time and I appreciate you and your advice so much because it really is with you know your enthusiasm that keeps me on track.

Roxanne Edrington: 4:59

Yes and In the biggest point out of all through this is people have to understand when you lose weight, and if you get stuck for a little while that is okay. It doesn't mean it's not working. It just means your body's readjusting. So be patient, I see a lot of people after 40, they get impatient like, Well, I'm not losing, I'm gonna go back to my old ways don't stay, patients keep doing what you're doing. Because on a cellular level, there's so many changes. So the third thing is stress. You know, as we get older, we have a lot more stress, we have kids, we have like maybe even adult kids, we have, you know, finances, we have so many things that are happening. And we get stressed out, when we get stressed, we make more cortisol, cortisol is like glucose. So when we if we have elevated cortisol in our bloodstream, that's like having elevated glucose. So we can't get away with eating these high carbohydrate meals, where if you know, you're under a lot of stress, basically cut back to more protein and vegetables for a while, just because you are already internally making glucose. So even if you're eating like you'd normally be eaten, and you usually lose weight, but if you have a lot of stress, it's unfortunate that our body is providing these, these this glucose into our system, which is going to aid in having more belly fat. So again, if you know you're under a lot of stress, it's important for you to kind of cut back on your carbs and focus more on protein and vegetables, stay that route for a while. And when the stress is the hard stress, once it's in a better place, you can start incorporating some more carbs. But people generally don't do that. Because think about it, what happens when we get stressed, we want more sweets, and we want more alcohol, junk food. Yeah, and all of that is, is carbs. And we already have a lot of glucose in our system. So now we're throwing more glucose in our system. Right, so that's not good. And after 40, our body doesn't respond to high glucose as well as it did like in our 20s and 30s. And then one of the fourth reasons is our hormones do change. But what I want to say is just because our hormones are changing does not mean that that's the reason why we're putting on weight. Yes, we're gonna have hormone changes. But there's a lot of things that happen when our hormones change, whether it's low estrogen or high estrogen, both of us can affect us, if we're making a little bit less estrogen, that's going to make us feel a little bit more tired and a little bit more fatigued. So we're not as motivated to work out. If we if if something happens, that's creating an elevated estrogen. Now you're gonna be putting on more body fat because estrogen tends to make us put on more fat. But the other thing about that is, if we're under stress women, there's a lot of women that might take some hormones. When we're under a lot of stress, cortisol binds or competes for the receptor site for progesterone. So if we're under stress, we have a lot of cortisol that's going to bind to where progesterone should bind onto the cell. Which means even if you have enough progesterone in your system, your body is not using it, which means now you're going to look like you have low progesterone. And a lot of times, you're gonna go to the doctor and they're gonna give you more progesterone, well, that's not actually going to help the situation. Again, we got to focus on, you know, getting rid of the cortisol. And we also have to understand that when we're eating foods after the age 40 that are creating a spike in our blood sugar that affects estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Especially for men. Men, when you eat something and it creates a spike in your blood sugar, there's something called aromatase, so your body is going to take that testosterone and convert it to estrogen. Already as men age, they're gonna have less testosterone, but usually it's because in times of a lot of stress, your body's not going to make the testosterone but what's worse is because they're stressed now their testosterone is declining. How do men deal with the stress they drink? Or they eat a lot of carbs or sweets, which now they're creating aromatase, which is taking that little bit of testosterone and half and converting it into estrogen, which that's not good. They're gonna start having man boobs and bellies, and that's

Trisha Stetzel: 9:05

terrible. It's horrible being more than 40

Roxanne Edrington: 9:08

Yes, I know. And then of course as we get older we need to sleep for some reason people think we don't need to sleep i We know people you and I know someone who used to sleep just four hours a night you as we get older, we need to sleep more and when and even if it's just seven hours, that's great. Our body when we sleep, that's when our body repairs and restores and that's when our body makes growth hormone. But on top of that, when we sleep that is going to pretty much control our appetite. If you're not sleeping if you're getting less than seven hours, what happens your body makes less leptin and more ghrelin these are hormones leptin is responsible in making you feel full ghrelin is a responsible to stimulate your appetite. So if you have less leptin, you're going to be hungry all day and more ghrelin not only you hungry all day, but it's going to keep stimulating your your appetite. So you're not going to feel full when you eat and your appetite stimulated, which that's going to put on weight. And then the well, it's not the last thing. But one thing again, I put this as number six, you know, the poor eating that you've done. Even through COVID, maybe the last three years, people been eating bad. So when you do try to make some of these changes, just know, it's not going to happen overnight, there's a lot of things on the cellular level that need to be fixed. So what I see with a lot of people 40 and up when they start making changes, and they're not happening as fast as they think the all the work they're putting in, if they're only losing like two or three pounds, they get frustrated, and they just want to quit, you can't quit, you just have to, you just got to understand trust the process. And now if six or eight weeks goes by, and you're not seeing any movement, well, then you might need to get some help. But be patient with yourself, it's not going to happen right away. And a final thing, probably the biggest thing is through research, you can look this up medical research. And research in general shows that one out of three people after the age 40 will become insulin resistant. And that's kind of like one of the other things I've talked about because the high cortisol because of all these other things, you tip, you typically one in three after 40 will have insulin resistance, they don't even know they have insulin, insulin resistance, there's not a typical lab that you can take. Sometimes people might see the cholesterol go up, triglycerides go up, that can be an indication. But generally a lot of doctors don't put it all together and say you're insulin resistant, your blood sugar might be fine, your hemoglobin a one C might be normal, your glucose levels might be normal, but it still doesn't mean you have some of this insulin resistance. When you have this insulin resistance, it basically creates high glucose levels in your in your bloodstream all day long, which means you're going to be putting on fat. The worst part of this is how people try to combat this people over 40 They try to eat less and exercise more. And this just makes the root cause the insulin resistance even worse. So these are the seven things that actually why after 40 We have issues, but the good news is all this can be reversed. Oh

Trisha Stetzel: 12:10

good. Like, oh, no, doom and gloom are all over 40, it's never gonna come back.

Roxanne Edrington: 12:17

No, like, this is just the reason why after 40, it's easier for us to put on weight, especially in our in our midsection and feel tired and not be motivated. So these are the seven reasons why but the great news is is it can be reversed, it doesn't mean doesn't mean it can't be helped, or that we can do something about it. It's just biochemically these things are going to happen, every single one of us and unless you're aware of it, and understand why it's happening, you're probably not going to be able to fix it. But if you do know, well, then you can do the strategies that we talked about in other podcasts where you can do things to actually fix them. So that again, you're feeling good, you have more energy, and you're getting rid of that belly fat.

Trisha Stetzel: 12:57

Yeah, absolutely. So Roxanne, really the the advice here, if you're struggling is you, you've got to go to smaller meals more times a day, right, which is a struggle for some people I know, as a busy business owner or a corporate person, I may skip breakfast, I may even skip lunch, and then I'm really hungry by the time I get to dinner. But that doesn't keep my as you call it, fire lit, right. So learning to just have those small snacks or meals throughout the day will help keep that fire lit and keep your metabolism going. I think that's a great plan. So you talk a little bit in some other podcasts about meal prep and being able to, you know, plan for the week. How important is that Roksanda plan for your week?

Roxanne Edrington: 13:50

Yeah, it's very important because as that, you know, everyone talks about if you fail to plan, just plan to fail, right? I meal prep on the weekend, I have my food because if I don't meal prep and have my food with me, either I'm not going to eat or I'm going to grab something convenient because once I'm hungry, I don't care, which this leads to all the stuff that we talked about that puts weight on us after 40. So you do need a meal prep you knew you do need a plan. And people say that it's a pain in the butt. But I'll tell you what, I typically do it every day and the times that I don't do it. To me it's harder to go find food. It takes me longer to go find food to eat and feel good than it does for me just to take the 10 minutes to meal prep in the morning like grab stuff. So I've done it both ways. And I feel good I have great energy when I have my food the days I don't man those are the roughest days ever. I'm tired. I just I'm not as motivated to answer calls or do what I'm supposed to do. So to me the investment of having my food with me is like night or I mean it is it it's it's more of a reward to have my food because when I don't have my food my day is just not good.

Trisha Stetzel: 14:57

Yeah, absolutely well and we My husband and I both work from home, as you know, and we actually meal prep when we're prepping dinner. So while we're making dinner that night, we prep for the next day. And there are some times that we don't because we have busy we have stuff going on and just like you, it's like, Ah, I don't have any food today. What are we going to eat? Because we live out in the country, we don't have a whole lot of junk choices. Yes. So meal prep is very important even even if you're working from home. So meal prepping or eating those smaller meals throughout the day sleep. You guys sleep is not just for dead people. I'm just saying everyone needs to rest, right? We've got to get our rest for sure. And movement. So there is no shortcut. Right? We got to do the right things for our body, particularly after 40 Roxanne, thank you so much for being on with me today. I know we miss Colton. Not really. There's a great discussion. If you guys want more information, please reach out to Dr. Roxanne or you can even find her life after 40 roadmap program. Likely on Facebook and or her website. So check those out. And thank you again for being here with us today. Anytime we appreciate you. Awesome. And we'll probably have you back. How about yeah, that's all right. Thank you and guys, tune in next week for another exciting episode of Bridge the Gap.

Colton Cockerell: 16:30

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