This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

I'm so excited today to have JJ Virgin with us.

She is the four-time New York Times best-selling

author. She is a celebrity nutritionist, health expert in the Fitness Hall of Fame. She's also a

mentor and friend. I am so honored to have you this afternoon.

Thank you so much for carving time out of your very busy schedule. Where are you connecting

with me from? I am in San Diego in an Airbnb for a couple months escaping the Florida.

Heat. Thunderstorms actually. It's way past heat. It's daily thunder thunderstorm so I can imagine we just got the

tail end of a hurricane and it knocked at our Wi-Fi for 24 hours and in my house

with teenage boys using Wi-Fi was apocalyptic. Like last night they were paralyzed,

they didn't know what to do with themselves. I'm like, read a book. A book? Yes, they're like, what?

I'll read on my, no, I can't even read on my iPad because I can't even do that I said you will you will survive I promise

Now I know that we share you know a love and a passion for helping women get healthier and certainly, you know, aging in reverse.

I like to think of it that way that we just get better and better each year that we grow wiser and stronger and fitter.

But one of the questions when I reached out to my tribe of women

was they were curious, I mean,

and I know that we're very aligned on this,

you know, what are some of the key reasons that you see, you know, working with your clients,

why they get stuck. You know, I know, we know Perry menopause, menopause, the game changes, not nearly as easy as it is in our 20s and 30s

What are some of the reasons that you that you kind of see women getting stuck in

Middle-age and beyond with their weight.

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