Husbands, weight gain for your wife in menopause is not what you think it is. She is going to gain a new type of fat called visceral fat that does not respond to calories in calories out. She could have the same diet and be doing the same amount of exercise and still be gaining weight. But it is not even that she is gaining weight so much as it is a body composition change. The loss of estrogen is responsible for weight distribution in the body, and that weight distribution starts to move weight