Is it increase of appetite, being more immobile…?
How much the metabolism slows down?
Is the weight gain inevitable?
My mother have always been skinny but menopause hit her too, but it also coincided with my father’s death, whom we always followed a strict diet together due to his illness. It’s been years after his death but the weight stayed, so I don’t know how much additional effect it has on top of menopause
We are also relatively immobile big city residents.
I remember my grandma being very petty and very active in her little town and big garden.
In: Biology
One symptom of menopause is feeling exhausted. This exhaustion will likely lead to a less active lifestyle. If this person keeps the same diet as they had before, they will gain weight.
Another factor can be that they may not have gained weight per se, but the weight moved. The hormonal changes are known to shift fat storage from butt/thighs to the abdomen.
On top of all that, the hormonal changes can impact a person’s basal metabolic rate (overly simplified, how many calories they would burn in a coma). So if they changed nothing about activity levels or food consumption, the change in BMR can cause them to gain weight.
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