CONSUME CARBS FOR ENERGY
There is a reason the pro-metabolic eating movement, which advocates eating root vegetables, rice and sourdough bread, as well as fruit and even fruit juice along with other nourishing foods, is gaining traction. The low-carb approach just doesn’t work like it used to for perimenopausal women – including me – and that’s why you are seeing more and more people in the fitness and nutrition world advising against it. Personal trainer and holistic nutritionist Kate Deering, author of the book How to Heal Your Metabolism, explains: “It’s an energetic approach to the entire nutrition thought process. It’s about how to support energy production in your cells, because when your cells are producing adequate energy, then there’s enough energy for all the systems of your body to have fuel to do what they need to be doing.” Adam Poehlmann,
a trainer from Fort Collins, Colorado, agrees: “A good chunk of the women I train
are in menopause. What do…
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