I guess my biggest comment to any women who won't be approaching perimenopause until a few years/decades later is:

It's great there is alot of info. more than ever for women about perimenopause and menopause, whole books and talk/concern. But it is nothing to be fearful/overly concerned.

However it important to have a healthy attitude towards it all and that having/changing to healthy habits and exercise now, not to be forced to change in perimenopause/menopause (when there may be other things going in life), will make the whole business of weight management abit easier later as one ages. This preventive approach then becomes so embedded in one's daily ife that one doesn't think about it all the time. You just do it, practice it, like brushing your teeth or taking out the garbage (is that good analogy??). Because if you don't do either of these things, you know you will physically not feel great eventually.