Today we are talking about health. More specifically, what it looked like for me to lose weight inside

of paramenopause. Now, I know that not everyone likes to talk about weight, but I like to keep it real.

I like to tell you exactly what's going on in my life, the good stuff and the hard stuff.

And when I feel frustrated by a situation, I like to tell you exactly what I am doing

to get around it. That's the foundation for every bit of work I am doing and have done for

decades, is this is a problem I'm facing, This is an area of tension. And I tried a bunch

of stuff and here is what worked best. This episode that we're sharing today is the most popular

episode from all of 2025. And I think it's because it's something that so many of us are inside of and understand and feel

frustrated by and that is what happens to our body when our hormones start shifting and suddenly

all the things that we were doing are no longer working. I had a very specific workout routine and nutritional style, and it had

served me really well until it didn't. A couple of years ago, I noticed that my body didn't feel

like my body anymore. I was retaining more water and I had inflammation and the things that I was eating were

making me feel bad when they hadn't ever done that before.

And honestly, I was really frustrated about it for a while and I think I lived in denial.

I just thought, well, I'll work out more or I'll do this.

And it was just a waste of a ton of energy. I finally had to get very

real with myself. I had to have a come to Jesus. I had to have a okay if we're going to look for

a certain type of body. This is just me wanting the body that I had before paramedipause took over. If I wanted that,

I was going to have to change everything, not just how I worked out, but also what I was eating.

And in this episode, I tell you exactly what that looked like, exactly what that was. Spoiler

alert, it's pretty freaking boring.

I eat a lot of the same foods every single day. I get a lot of protein. I break my fast very

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