Show Notes
Two trips to Spirit Halloween this month, and Eva realizes for the first time in her adult life she can fit into everything instead of eyeing the inflatable dinosaur costume.
The scale reads 179, a number that hasn't started with a one and a seven since the 1990s, and finally back in a gym she loves: a strength circuit class full of people “kind of old and trying not to die.”
Kami's daughter turns nine, which means a zoo trip that leaves Kami sore for days, a sleepover that falls apart at 3 a.m., and a Halloween calendar with more moving parts than an airport. Her birthday weekend also brought something truly frightening to her neighborhood, and Kami talks through what it was like to learn about it.
Eva starts seeing a food therapist, and the rule so far: parents control the environment, kids control how much.
Kami's four weeks without estrogen patches during the shortage, which ended in a hallway meltdown over spilled coffee and her nine-year-old patting her back: “It's okay, mommy. You'll get your meds.”
Questions answered by this episode Is there an estrogen patch shortage right now? What happens if you stop estrogen patches suddenly? Can HRT help with ADHD symptoms in perimenopause? Is it normal to forget to eat on tirzepatide? Should you work out on an empty stomach on a GLP-1? What is a Glow peptide stack? Why does Botox come as a powder? How do I help my child with overeating without shaming them? What does a food therapist do for kids? Follow us on Instagram: @lessofyoupodcast
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Co-hosts: Eva Sheie & Kami Gamlem Assistant Producer: Mary Ellen Clarkson Engineering: Victoria Cheng Theme music: Old Grump, Smartface
Less of You is a production of The Axis.
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