Hormone-triggered weight gain is a serious, overlooked and misunderstood health problem facing many mid-life women. The author of Screaming to Be Heard explains how hormone imbalances cause weight gain, and how women can break out of this trap through hormone balancing, meal plans designed for a mid-life woman's body chemistry, and simple exercises. Most of all, she shows women how to stop feeling defeated by hormone changes and mid-life middle spread.