Sudden Flabby Thighs & Butt in Menopause and Perimenopause – Dr. Berg

Are your sudden flabby thighs due to fat, or could it really be atrophy?

hey Dr Berg here in this video we’re going to talk about fat thighs and a fat butt all right so if you know of anyone that has that have them watch this video because as you age you’re going to find out that it’s harder and harder to get lean especially in the lower part of your body and let’s first talk about some facts in the body okay some these are physiological facts number one um the most that you can burn as far as actual fat per week is to pounds okay so you can’t burn 5 pounds of fat a week it’s impossible if you are losing more than 2 pounds a week it’s just water weight so just realize that okay so 2 pounds is the most and that’s for a good healthy body with a good metabolism so if you’re not burning two pounds don’t get frustrated it could be just that your your metabolism is kind of broken and you might only burn one pound or less as you build up your health but the fact is that that’s the most you can burn per week all right now number two in order to burn fat your body has to be energetic it has to be sleeping it can’t be burnt out if you’re tired and you’re not sleeping chances are you’re not going to be a burn fat because it takes a lot of energy to get the metabolism to start burning this stuff off so you really have to get healthy first before you can start losing weight third in order to burn fat you can’t have cravings when you’re craving breads pasta cereal what you’re running on is you’re running on sugar fuel you’re not burning fat the way you know you’re burning fat is when you don’t have the cravings and the way you get rid of Cravings is we increase the greens and the potassium in the body by a factor of 7 cups a day and the Cravings should go down but the point is that you there’s no way you’re going to burn fat when you’re having these cravings and you’re starving and you’re hungry all the time that’s not going to work okay next thing is the body will always build back the muscle if it the muscle is wasting away before the fat okay now what is that that brings us to our next Point there’s a huge difference between fat um on your body and maybe cellulite let’s just call it cellulite and atrophy now atrophy is the wasting or or sagging of your muscles in other words when a muscle’s atro atrophied it’s sagging it’s weak it’s hanging there and that’s really what a lot of people have and they think that it’s all just silite and fat when in fact it’s just an atrophied muscle okay so because the muscle’s breaking down why because of the stress hormones of age will tend to make everything kind of droop and and it’s hard to get it lean okay so when we’re trying to lose weight we want to identify what the real problem is because if you think it’s fat and you start trying to burn this off you’re going to be very frustrated when it doesn’t work so let’s take a look at this atrophy a little bit more and how we can undo it in the body there’s two things that happen you have a breakdown of muscle and then we have a build building back up of muscle okay so when we exercise when we go through stress it breaks things down there’s a name for that it’s called catabolic like a cannibalistic your body’s eating itself up so it breaks things down it’s a breaking down catabolic and that happens during the day and then at night when you’re resting you should build things back up and so that’s when you’re burning fat but that’s when the muscle starts building back back up and that’s called anabolic and you maybe heard that from like anabolic steroids or something like that your body makes certain hormones that build things back up so really a person as they hit the age of 50 during menopause and they get atrophy they have a problem with this anabolic catabolic thing they have too much breakdown but not enough building back up okay why because the hormones are messed up so what can we do to improve that number one we do not want to exercise every day you don’t want to overtrain you want to take less frequent workouts and space it out and get more recovery so we want to recover longer we want to rest longer we don’t want to exercise over soreness why because when you’re sore that means your body is still in a catabolic State okay now to speed up the anabolic phase where we build back up the muscles there are certain amino acids that you can consume at the health food store and you can get these even as a One supplement you have to find them but the one that you need and I would buy this as a as a single source of three different amino acids uh Lucine Lucine is an amino acid that helps restore muscle tissue isol leucine is another recovery amino acid these are proteins and veine uh which will also increase the muscle repair so find a supplement with all three of these and I’ll I’ll type them out down here in the in the blog you can just click read more and get it and then also you want the co-actors because there’s also Associated things with these amino acids that help them work better and that’s called a co-actor It’s associated vitamin like B3 you need B3 B6 and vitamin C so find a supplement with Lucine isoline veine B3 B6 and and vitamin C and start taking that before you go to bed every night even when you’re not working out to speed up the process of recovery that will help the workouts work better and then you want to work out less so I recommend just work out until your disordes goes away and it could be once a week it could be once every two weeks when you start out but as you do this more it’ll get better and better and better the other thing you want to take is omega-3 that’s that flax oil because the flax oil is really good to repair not just the muscle but all the little uh structures in the muscle to help you like um the energy factories the metabolism factories so we want those omega-3 fatty acids to take a little flax before you go to bed and these amino acids you can get them from the heal store okay so the body will build back the muscle first before the actual fats burn and that is why people get frustrated because they think it’s not working but it’s really working their muscles are getting leaner or stronger but they’re heavier so the the scale doesn’t move but shrinking in size that’s a good thing and that actually must happen in the beginning especially if your body is broken down so don’t take that as a loss just go by size me measurement and also go by um um maybe how you look less sagging muscles but and that’s why people don’t necessarily lose the weight right away it could it take six weeks it could take eight weeks to be before you start losing weight on some cases because the muscles are so atrophy that it takes time okay so don’t give up apply this information and send me your success stories