“I have significantly decreased my calories and I am working out more and harder than ever.  Why am I not losing weight?  In fact, I feel puffier than ever!  There is something wrong with my body.”

Have you ever thought this?  It is not your imagination.  There is nothing wrong with your body.  In fact, your body is super smart and it is fighting for survival.  

The trouble is, health media has led us to believe that we should be able to push our bodies harder, faster, and longer and exist purely on water and grit.  The need to eat is a sign of weakness.  If we could just work, run households, mentor our children, prep perfect meals (and then have the mental fortitude to not eat them), while getting up at 5am to complete grueling HIIT workouts, we should look and feel our best.  

Well, guess what?  That is not true at all.  Let’s look to science as proof.

When women train in an underfeed state here is what happens:

• Loss of Bone and Muscle
• Reduced Rates of Muscle and Bone Repair
• Decreased Thyroid Function
• Metabolism Slows Down

Women in peri/menopause are already apt to suffer from all of the above.  Adding fasted workouts magnifies all of these effects. 

Not to mention, often we end up making up for the calories later in the day when we are not moving.  These calories are more likely to be stored than used. 

The Bottom Line:

The female body is built for survival.  To sustain basic functions, it will find fuel by going into low power mode and then break down healthy bone and muscle to find needed nutrients.  

Right now, there is a lot of confusion about cutting out all carbohydrates, if eating only plants is the answer or if meat is ok too, and then whether to eat at all, or if fasting is the fast route to perfect health. 

The important thing to keep in mind is that there are many bodies out there at different ages, doing many different things.  What works like a charm for some, might give horrendous results for others.  

Here is the message for active peri / menopausal women: to build and maintain your lean tissue and burn fat for fuel, fuel your workouts.

Some clean and unprocessed carbohydrates before the workout will help the body free fat for fuel during the workout.  Consuming 25-40 grams of protein after the workout (and carbohydrates for longer endurance efforts) will allow the body to go into repair mode and build bone and muscle. 

The frustrating part is that our bodies are very sensitive to the type and timing of nutrients.  Worst case is a caffeine-fueled and underfed workout, followed by a hours of eating as little as possible, only to be undone by overeating late in the day.  

The most health-giving plan is:

• Eat a steady flow of the most whole and unprocessed foods throughout the day
• Get plenty of veggies and protein 
• Eat to support your workouts 
• Avoid overeating in the evening while at rest
• Include appropriate amounts of the best fats and carbohydrates 
• Resistance train 2-3x weekly
• Include daily low intensity movement like walking for 30+ min
• Limit HIIT workouts to 2X weekly
• Add active rest days
• Make sleep a priority

If you’d like to read directly from one recent study that verifies this information, check it out here:

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP284967

If you are over being frustrated by your body, are tired of being tired, and feel like everything you do makes things worse rather than better, it is time to learn how to take care of your body NOW!

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In perimenopause and menopause our hormones are totally different, so our approach needs to be different too.

Best news is, the approach we need does NOT include:

• Punishing amounts of exercise
• Starvation
• Unrealistic goals that take you way out of your comfort zone.
• Fasting
• Keto

It DOES include:

• Feeding ourselves the BEST foods on a regular basis to assure out body it is fed and cared for.
• Editing our exercise to make it efficient and effective so we don’t waste time spinning our wheels.
• Learning to apply easy and strategic self-care to help our hormones settle down.

Have you tried and failed to change your health in the past?  Consider this:

1. Now is the time to take your health seriously.  What we do RIGHT NOW decides if we will spend our golden years sick and broken or thriving and enjoying life.  

2.  Just about EVERYTHING you read or see in Health Media is NOT designed for women in Perimenopause or menopause.  Our hormones are DIFFERENT than men and younger women.  Things that work for other people are likely to make things WORSE for you right now.  

3.  We cannot afford to waste time with-fast fix weight loss schemes that will likely cost us precious bone and muscle, cause us to gain belly fat, and can even cause us to become more at risk for heart attack and stroke. 

Everything in How to Powerup Peri/menopause: the Complete Guide and the Powerup and Reset Program are designed for women in Perimenopause and Menopause to:

• Help you feel better RIGHT NOW
• Find your best health and make it last a lifetime
• Lose stubborn fat, especially in the belly
• Increase or preserve bone and muscle, the key to aging well
• Keep our cortisol levels down
• Decrease inflammation

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