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Muscle Loss in Perimenopause: What the Scale Won't Tell You
Two years ago I picked up a barbell for the first time with the self-consciousness of someone who had spent two decades telling other people to exercise. I knew the physiology. I could recite the guidelines. What I did not know — what no textbook taught me, and what no lecture ever conveyed — is what it feels like to watch your own body reorganize itself from the inside out while the number on the scale barely moves. That gap between what I knew and what I learned is what this article is about. Because here is the thing about the sentence we've all repeated: you can't out-exercise a bad diet. It's true. It's also only half of a sentence, and the missing half has cost midlife women more than almost any other piece of health advice I can think of.