Four Secrets to Tackle the Biggest Weight Loss Hurdles as You Age

In his current show Dr. Oz discusses a weight loss plan that will help to lose 40 pounds of weight before spring, but one needs to overcome four hurdles to achieve this goal.

“Losing weight is a marathon and not a sprint. And as you age, you will encounter four big hurdles,” says Dr. Oz in his “Lose 40 pounds by spring” weight loss plan for viewers. Dr. Oz with guest speaker and Weight Watchers leader Liz Josefberg, reveal to viewers four secrets on how to tackle the biggest weight loss hurdles a person faces as they age.

Dr. Oz begins by explaining to his viewers that his decision to partner his show with Weight Watchers is due to the success Weight Watchers achieves toward helping people lose weight. He promises that by following the four secrets he and Ms. Josefberg will discuss about how to tackle the biggest weight loss hurdles, that each viewer can achieve a weight loss of up to 40 pounds—giving them the body that they desire by spring.

However, meeting the challenges of achieving weight loss differs for different age groups. Ms. Josefberg explains that all the people she meets in Weight Watchers fall into categories where difficulties in achieving weight loss can differ—in particular, for women in their 40’s whose bodies are changing and who are finding it more difficult to lose weight.

“In the 40’s I hear about these physical changes where it just feels like Wow! These things are mounting against me. And, I don’t want to put myself first anymore for my own health and wellbeing,” says Ms. Josefberg. She admits that even for herself as she ages that she is finding it difficult to prevent weight gain; that it takes two days instead of one day to recover from a workout; and, how that priorities change with kids in school, when sometimes she will have to cut her workouts short.

Aging and lifestyle changes that affect weight loss are the focus of what Dr. Oz says are his practical weight loss methods designed for tackling the biggest weight loss hurdles.

“My goal for everybody out there that is that you are going to lose no more than 1 or 2 pounds every week. That’s between 4-8 pounds a month. If you stick to it—doing the math pretty simply—by this spring you will be 40 pounds lighter. And you know what the beauty of this saw is? The slower that you can gently edge that weight off, the more difficult it is to regain it,” says Dr. Oz.

The first step toward weight loss that Dr. Oz advises viewers to follow is about tackling that first hurdle that affects so many women in their 40’s—their metabolism.

Hurdle #1: As you age your metabolism slows down
“As a woman ages, for every decade, you will lose about 5 percent of your metabolism. That’s a big difference, a huge difference in the ability of your body to lose weight,” explains Dr. Oz. “If you eat the same things at 40 as you did were when you were 25, you are going to gain a lot of weight.”

As an example of what is going on with a woman’s body, Dr. Oz shows a chart that illustrates resting metabolic rates of an average woman as she ages:

• At age 20 a woman has a metabolic rate that burns 1572 calories
• At age 30 a woman has a metabolic rate that burns 1525 calories
• At age 40 a woman has a metabolic rate that burns 1478 calories
• At age 50 a woman has a metabolic rate that burns 1431 calories
• At age 60 a woman has a metabolic rate that burns 1384 calories

The 200 calorie difference between a woman’s 20’s and her 60’s translates into 20 extra pounds of weight gain in a year states Dr. Oz. To tackle the metabolism hurdle, Dr. Oz says that we need to make smarter food choices at meal times with “Triple Power Meals.”

Triple power meals as explained by Ms. Josefberg, are meals that are higher in fiber, higher in water and higher in lean protein. The result of these triple power meals is that they leave you feeling fuller.

“At every meal you are going to try to do three things. You are going to try to get into a low fat dairy, a lean protein and a whole grain,” says Ms. Josefberg.

Examples of triple power meals for a day include the following dishes:

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