The overall consensus on Perimenopause is: we are screwed for 3-5 years.  

We will gain weight, we will not sleep, we be crazy emotional, we will break into full-body sweats at embarrassing times, and there is nothing we can do about it.  

Eventually, we will get through it and things will calm down.  The plan of action seems to be, put your head down, as if boarding up your windows for an incoming hurricane, and wait it out, hoping that the sun will come out when the storm has passed. 

But in truth, we are all going to be doing SOMETHING while that storm is blowing.  Even if we stay in bed eating brownies, that is a choice of what to do.  Why not DO things that help rather than hurt your long term health?

Perimenopause is a profound change.  The hormones that drive your cycle affect every system of your body.  They go from what has felt normal to your body for thirty years, to a wildly fluctuating period of change, and then settle into a hormonal profile that is totally different from where they began.  

In the end, you are living in a very different body.

This period of transition comes with symptoms that deeply affect your daily life physically, mentally and emotionally.  It is a HARD transition.  But, it is an important one.  

While the storm is blowing, you have no choice but to get up every day and put one foot in front of the other.  You get to choose what foods you eat and what you do to move and care for your body.  

What you choose to do here matters.

Poor choices, like crash dieting, punishing hours of cardio, or crawling in bed with the tray of brownies, will accelerate physical changes like:

• Loss of bone – osteoporosis
• Decrease in muscle – sarcopenia
• Increasing belly fat 
• Risk of cardiovascular disease.  

These will decrease your long-term quietly of life.  

The goal in perimenopause should be to maximize our Health-span; the number of years we live in good health rather than being infirm.  

Choices that work with, rather than against, your hormones at this time can help reduce or reverse this loss of lean tissue and increase in body fat, setting you up for a the best possible health-span.  

This is a time for relentless and consistent action against the odds.  

Staying motivated, takes a clear reason WHY.  If you were to have a massive heart attack and were placed you on a strict eating plan, you would stick to it as if your life depended on it, because it does.  However, vanity goals, like looking good for a trip to the beach, never have the same level of compliance.  It is time to change your thinking.  

Let’s throw vanity out the window.  

Know that the way you choose to move, feed, and care for your body RIGHT NOW will have a HUGE impact on your quality of life moving forward.  

Forget about punishing and depriving yourself to reach a scale-based goal or look a certain way.  Discover the habits that will preserve and build your muscle and bone while stopping or reversing fat gain.  Then stick to those habits as if your life depends on it.  Your eighty-year-old self will thank you.

Read Next: Should Perimenopause be a Weight Loss Pause? 

Should you fast? Read here for information on fasted exercise during peri/menopause.

Gaining fat? Read this: Gaining Fat?  What Your Peri/menopausal Body is Telling You

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!

Let me help. 

If you are deep in the Perimenopause transition, you need to REWRITE YOUR SELF-CARE MANUAL with How to Powerup Peri/menopause: the Complete Guide 

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If you are Perimenopausal or menopausal and feel like you are constantly struggling with inflammation, bloating, exhaustion, constipation, and sudden weight gain.  It is likely you suspect it is due to what you are eating, but don’t know what or how to change.  You need the Powerup and Reset Program.

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

If you have previously struggled to make real health changes stick, these are the programs for you. 

Instead of presenting a bunch of information and leaving you overwhelmed, with no idea how to apply it to your life, BOTH COURSES are filled with BEHAVIOR CHANGE strategy, tips and tricks, and realistic advice that walk you through how to apply everything successfully into your life and maintain it for the long term. 

These programs have been changing the lives of so many women.  Why not let it be you?

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