The Galveston Diet , created by gynecologist Dr. Mary Claire Haver, is the first menopause-specific diet designed to help women lose weight at this delicate time in their lives.

During menopause, as we saw in the book The Diet for Menopause , it is not the loss of periods that causes overweight, but rather causes a “redistribution” of body fat that resembles that of men.

In parallel, to this problem in menopause is added that of metabolic slowdown, related to age and physical inactivity.

A problem that promotes the loss of lean mass. As a result, many women associate the risk of gaining weight with menopause.

GALVESTON DIET: THE DIET FOR WOMEN WITH MENOPAUSE
WHO WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT

Dr. Haver, as I wrote above, is the first to have created a weight loss method that is based on a specific diet for menopause.

The Galveston diet in fact combines intermittent fasting with a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates, where however some foods are encouraged and others discouraged. For example, there is very little saturated fat and very little red meat on the menu. The third aspect of the Galveston diet is exercise, but not physical activity in general.

In this article we see a sample plan and recommended foods.
Unfortunately, the Galveston Diet is a paid program. So I can’t offer you a detailed menu, but I can present you a diet plan that you can use in agreement with your doctor and that you can only find unpublished here on Dcomedieta.

THE GALVESTON DIET: FOOD FOR WOMEN IN MENOPAUSE

Recommended foods: especially green and leafy vegetables (broccoli, spinach, turnip greens, endive, endive, chicory, salads, Chinese cabbage, green cabbage), vegetables such as zucchini, aubergines, peppers, tomatoes, fruits such as citrus fruits and fruits reds, (in the slimming phase other types of fruit are not recommended, subsequently you can also opt for apples or pears), salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, avocado, almonds, walnuts, dark chocolate, whole white Greek yogurt, flax seeds and chia, olive oil.

Eggs, non-blue fish, white meat such as turkey, rabbit, chicken are also ok. Sugar-free almond or coconut milk. Coconut flour, almond flour.

Not recommended: sugar of all types apart from stevia, complex carbohydrates such as potatoes, bread and traditional pasta, rice and all products made from cereals, aged cheeses, red meats and especially cured meats, legumes except in moderation (because they contain carbohydrates).

INTERMITTENT FASTING IN THE GALVESTON DIET

The recommended practice of intermittent fasting is 16/8. That is, we fast for sixteen hours continuously, we eat within an eight-hour window. This means that eight hours must be counted from the first meal of the day to the end of the last.
This can be done in two ways.

Or by postponing breakfast to a pre-lunch meal from 11am onwards to finish dinner by 9am. Or if you feel the need to have breakfast early in the morning you don’t have dinner but, if we eat at 7.00, a large snack can be eaten by 15.00. In short, always count 8 hours between the beginning of the first meal and the end of the last.

During fasting hours, vegetable or light chicken broth is allowed and herbal teas with stevia are allowed.

SPECIFIC PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR THE MENOPAUSE.

Exercise is the third pillar of the Galveston diet. But activities that are too long and exhausting such as doing hours on a stationary bike and treadmill are excluded. Instead, half an hour to an hour of exercises is recommended, of which I will provide you with some free sample videos, with small half-liter bottles of water or with weights, to increase lean mass. Of course, the gym and / or the use of heavier weights is also fine. Instead, the rest of the time it is better to walk, ride a bicycle or other, but not do two or three hours of running, exercise bike or treadmill.

Let’s see the outline of this specific diet for menopause on page two, thanks to the orientation menu that Dcomedieta offers you exclusively, together with free videos to train in line with the doctor’s advice. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)