Weight

Because the real- the other thing we could do is look at the, the weights

Weight.

Yeah, yeah

Are you under 85?

Well, if a sheep is on...

Well, weight-wise, maybe is a better way to...

Weight-wise, a sheep would be more.

I still think I could take a whale or just jam my fist in the bowl.

Get

Learning them together makes them much easier to remember.

Next, we have 重量, meaning weight.

The character 重 means heavy, and 量 refers to a measurable amount.

Literally, 重量 means the measured heaviness of something.

In everyday Chinese, it simply means weight.

Here's an example.

这个箱子的重量是多少? How much does this suitcase weigh? Whether you're mailing a package, checking luggage at the airport, or buying fruit, 重量 is a very useful everyday word.

Next is 容量, which means capacity.

You know, it doesn't have to be dumbbells or kettlebells.

It can be resistance bands or it can be your own body weight.

But it is essential that we incorporate some strength training into our weekly schedule.

But that, again, doesn't have to be long, long sessions.

We want to create more muscle mass in the body because we store more body fat as the estrogen drops.

So we need more muscle mass, which also then helps burn more calories at rest and helps our metabolism.

And when it comes to weight, what role can exercise play in managing weight at menopause? And I feel like you started kind of getting onto that a little bit there by saying how actually, well, muscle can help to better support your metabolism, you're burning more calories.

So is that kind of the only role that exercise plays in terms of helping weight, manage weight, or are there other roles that it can play too? Yeah,

... especially on a GLP-1.

And this is where we go and we look at those people who have saggy skin, they have Ozempic face, right? They're losing weight much faster.

They're catabolizing muscle, and then they're all mad because they don't, you know, look the way that they wanna look even though they lost the weight.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

The deficit is what-

It's all good and fun until you lose a lot of the weight and then you're like, "Oh, wait, I don't look how I wanna look."

Mm-hmm.

What are we doing right now? I know it's a time, you know, it is funny.

Weight-wise, and I guess it's a couple weeks.

It's not just one week.

That's the difference in August.

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Tell him you're not traveling flash.

You pull over for a busted tire, why not pull over for yourself? We're good at carrying weight.

weight.To help you carry what's in your head.

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