Women, as you've gotten older, have you found it increasingly more difficult to lose those last ten pounds ... or find the sex drive you once had? Suzanne Somers shares her secrets to beating the age game in her latest book, Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat After Forty. "It has just been such a privilege to be the messenger for women, a champion of women," she says about her 20th book. "I had three years where I lost my hormones - oh my God, I looked everywhere in the house, couldn't find them anywhere! And when I figured out this thing for myself I started writing the books for women, because I get it! I get how awful you feel, and you don’t know why and you go to the doctor and all they can do is give you an antidepressant or a sleeping pill or an anti-anxiety pill. We get put on more and more drugs, and by the time we get to be my age, we can’t think anymore, and by the time you get in your 70s you get scatterbrained. Women start talking about senior moments and foggy brain, and guess where we end up? We end up in a nursing home. So my book is to see that end point where you want to end up and start now so that you can achieve the goal of not ending up in a nursing home."

Suzanne explains what she finds sexy at this stage in her life. "Health, "she tells Rachael. "There is nothing better than health! I’m loving my 60s because I got it together." Suzanne recalls how one day she pushed away from her desk and was shocked at her midsection. "I thought, 'I’m bloated today like I’m nine months pregnant!'" she laughs. "What did I eat? I thought it must be the egg I'd eaten, so I stopped eating eggs and took this test that I write about in the book. By the time the test results came back two weeks later, I had lost ten pounds just giving up eggs!" Suzanne explains that she learned that she was allergic to eggs. "You know when you’re trying to lose weight and you’re really putting out effort? Maybe it’s a food that your body tells you, 'I hate you! You can’t give me this, it’s like poison!'"

As for Suzanne's libido these days, she says it's obvious why you can have more sex when you're older. "Well, you have more time," she smiles. "You stop driving the kids to school and all that. And you sit around the house going, 'What could we do ...?' But after 40, your hormones start dipping and rising, and I have more 40-year-olds tell me, 'I’m just not interested anymore.' And I go, 'No, you’ve just forgotten!'"

For women looking to follow Suzanne's advice, she recommends checking out the book's companion website, SexyForever.com. "It's a coaching plan online," she says. "Some people need a trainer to exercise, so this is a coach that you can go to every day and they will talk you through it."

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