call the doctor and ask for a thyroid test.
Also, you should ask for further testing; there are a number of additional tests that many experts believe give more accurate readings of thyroid function.
3. Adjust your eating habits for maximum energy to achieve weight loss after 40.
Your goal at this stage in your life is to keep yourself feeling full without succumbing to the temptation to eat like you could at age 20.
One strategy is to eat more frequently but consume less at each sitting.
An added benefit of eating this way is that it’s easier to keep your blood sugar steady, so you don’t have the peaks and valleys that contribute to fatigue.
Here’s the rule: Try eating five to six small meals a day, and don’t go more than three or four hours without eating. For example, you might eat a healthy breakfast before you leave for work, then have a nonfat yogurt in the late morning. Then, instead of eating a big pasta lunch and spending the afternoon in a stupor, eat a light lunch and spend the rest of your lunch break taking a brisk walk. An afternoon snack of trail mix and an apple keeps you from needing the 4 p.m. sweet treat and makes it easier to avoid overeating at dinner.
Your goal is the opposite of the starvation approach to dieting — you want to trick your body into feeling satisfied and well-fed at all times, though the total amount you’re eating is less.
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4. Time your eating to take advantage of your body’s natural rhythms.
Don’t like to eat breakfast?
Sorry, but there’s no way around this one; eating a good breakfast is one of the key habits experts have identified that keeps thin people thin.
When members of the National Weight Control Registry (people who have maintained a weight loss of 30 pounds for