What role does estrogen play?
There is a ton of misinformation and a lack of good, trustworthy information about "hormone imbalances" that occur normally in females during later life stages. In this case, I'm specifically talking about peri-menopause/menopause when estrogen in the body fluctuates. There are a ton of influencers (Goop) selling their own supplement protocols, 'experts' touting "hormone resets" or "hormone diets" (Dr Sara Gottfried), or worse yet, awful scammers (Vshred) claiming their fitness program will help females in this life stage with massive weight loss. I'm curious about understanding the role estrogen plays in losing fat and muscle growth and don't know where to begin. - When females have fluctuating estrogen, what challenges might there be in losing fat and/or gaining muscle? - Of the information you've shared about supplements, nutrition, blood testing, and type of exercise - what would add or edit to that?
Follow up on sleep…
My issue is waking up several times to use the bathroom. Use to be like three times during the night. I got it down to two sometimes once by trying not to drink any water pass 7:00pm bed time is 10:30-6:30am I feel so tired 🥱 and I don’t get a good night sleep because I have to get up at night and sometimes falling back to sleep is hard. For reference 44 years old, very active at the gym personal trainer and group X instructor for dance.
1st Lean Bulk
Do you have any tips for a first bulk? I've lost over 160 lbs over the last two years and have been in a dieting phase pretty much the whole time. I realize now that wasn't the best way to go about it.Do you have any suggestions how to handle eating more and seeing the scale go up from a mental perspective?