I get a message from a friend who is in her early 40s and I'm like okay now I need

talk about this on the podcast and the message I get from her is identical to the message I've received from quite a few people who I would consider close friends and a few who are like kind of acquaintances I talked to on occasion, like about other stuff, usually

not health related, usually like marketing and business related stuff, right?

Okay, but here's the deal because I think probably a lot of women can relate to this.

You are in your 40s and you're frustrated because you are doing all the things. Right. You're trying the new

workout. You're lifting lifting heavy you're tracking your steps you're drinking your water

You're tracking your macros you're doing it to it the tea like you are just following it precisely because you're like, I cannot handle

how stressed out it makes me to be having this extra weight on. I did a podcast recently and I don't know if I've talked

about it here, but I really do think that one of the things that keeps fat on us, obviously we know is stress.

But I think, and I don't know that this is true for so much for men but I know it's true for women.

I know it is and we don't need even a study to prove it.

I know you're going to agree with me.

Monitoring your weight, worrying about your body image, worrying about why you're gaining

weight or what's going on with your body. Like, is my body changing? Is this where I lose it?

That is so freaking stressful for women.

You're walking, right?

Anyways, I would love for you to have this conversation

with your significant other and ask them as they

age, is it a stressor to worry about how your body is changing because I think I just believe it's

really really underrated how stressful it is for women to experience that

Because you feel like you just have no control and it can be scary and then it's like part of your identity and

then it means will I be less attractive will I become invisible will my

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