Is it Underfueling? Or is it Perimenopause? with Pat Spencer (Episode 120)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Pat Spencer couldn’t help but think she’d be faster if she were lighter. After all, that’s what everyone in endurance sports tells you. But instead of gaining speed, Pat went from being a competitive age group triathlete to not being able to do any endurance sports because of a profound case of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S) she suffered while training for her 4th Iron distance triathlon in 2016. She still suffers the consequences today, seven years after she found herself in that hole. We talk all about her journey and how it can be easy to confuse perimenopausal symptoms with low energy availability (LEA) because the two mimic one another, and how LEA can make perimenopause worse.

Pat Spencer is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a therapist with a private practice in central New Jersey, and founder of Getting Your Mind in Gear, a mental coaching company specializing in female and LGBTQIA+ cyclists and endurance athletes. She is a former long course triathlete, marathoner, and open water swimmer. Pat is also an avid gravel cyclist, loves resistance training, and has a passion for scuba. You can learn more about her and her work at gettingyourmindingear.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.4	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:34.3	So before we get to it this week, I have some stuff on my mind. We had our very first
0:41.1	feisty menopause performance retreat at Lake Nona last weekend. And I just want to say that I
0:47.9	have come back with my heart about 10 times bigger. It was amazing, like really amazing. And honestly honestly not in the ways that I expected it to be
0:58.5	amazing. I mean, yes, we accomplished all of the stuff that I had hoped. We got these detailed
1:04.7	dari motion analysis movement scans that showed where we were strong and where we had
1:10.1	vulnerabilities and our
1:11.3	musculoskeletal system. We had heavy lifting and nutrition clinics and the most
1:16.6	outstanding presentation by Dr. Vonda Wright at the Houston Clinic. And if anyone wants a doctor
1:22.3	who is going to take them to the next level, it's Dr. Vonda Freakinakin' Right. But really what made it one of the most
1:29.1	special weekends of my life as far as events are concerned is that we had this incredible community.
1:38.1	Women came from all over the country, Alaska, South Carolina, New York City, Wyoming, you name it. And everyone was so
1:47.6	open-minded and open-hearted and just wanting to bond and share and lift other women up as they
1:54.1	elevated themselves. And we went dancing and we sang and we jumped around like wounds and we smashed a lot of preconceived
2:02.8	notions about what menopausal women look like and what they do and their outlook on life.
2:10.2	And here's where I really have some stuff on my mind.
2:14.4	I heard far too much this weekend how women felt lonely, alone, and or dismissed.
2:23.4	We honestly had one of the most amazing trainers in attendance, so skilled, so accomplished, so
2:30.8	accessible, so smart. The kind of trainer, honestly, you dream a finding. And she has faced
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