You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

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.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hello, Strong Feisty Women.

We have such a heartwarming show for you this week.

I had a chance to sit down with personal trainer,

healthy aging coach, and one of the original menopause feisty's Tanya Dalton. If you go to our

feisty menopause Instagram, she's one of our earliest posts, and you'll see her sitting there

over her think pad, looking studious, taking the menopause

for athletes course. And, you know, since then, I have been following her Instagram and her posts,

and she is 100% one of the most menopositive women I have ever seen. She has fully embraced this transition and not just on social media, but in actual life.

She's trying things she's never done before, including her first full Iron Man Triathlon at age 52.

And having done a full Iron Man Triathlon, too, actually, I can tell you, wow.

That is, I applaud her for taking that on at this point. And it's kind of the point of the show.

In one of her latest blog posts titled, Loving My Post Metapausal Body, Tanya writes, it's only taken me 50 years or so

to truly love the body I'm in. And she goes on to talk about spending much of her life battling

with body image issues, disordered eating, and all of the other psychological barriers that kept her on the sidelines,

instead of engaging in sports and activities,

she was otherwise pretty eager to try.

I wanted to hear more from Tanya and really appreciated her sharing so much of herself in this conversation,

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