le partners dropping the pounds with far less The movie “Tully” is about a mom called Marlo (played by Charlize Theron) who just had her third child and is on the very brink of postpartum depression, until her brother sends a night nanny (Tully) to her rescue.
In order to be able to play the role realistically, the ever fit and gorgeous Charlize Theron had to pile on 50 pounds of excess weight in order to accurately depict what a real postnatal body looks like. Although Charlize is no stranger to body transformation, she says losing the weight after the movie was complete took a lot longer at 42 than it did in her 20s.
“It took me a year and a half to lose that weight. It was one of the hardest things that my body went through — and women do this every day,” she told NPR. “When I do it, people are like ‘so brave’ — and I’m like: No. Women do this all the time and we don’t acknowledge it enough.”
It’s a fact that as one’s metabolism slows down, it becomes a lot harder to shed those extra pounds that you may be carrying around. This is especially true for women, so it can be doubly frustrating if you’re in this age group and trying to lose weight with a male partner or friend.
So what are the main reasons women over 40 find it so much harder to lose weight…