Show Notes
I spent twenty years teaching women how to lose weight, wrote a best-selling book on it, and then in my forties a menopause belly showed up that I could not get rid of no matter what I did. These are the 10 things that finally got rid of my menopause belly at 48... the hormones, the muscle, and everything else that actually moved it after eating less and working out stopped working. If you liked this, watch 10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48
Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. I'm a clinical nutritionist and a skincare founder. I built my whole career on weight loss. So when the menopause belly showed up and wouldn't budge, it broke my brain a little. First I explain why this belly is different. Menopause belly fat is a completely different kind of fat than the soft stuff you had in your thirties. When your estrogen drops, your body starts storing fat around your middle. That's why eating less and working out stops working the way it used to. Then I walk through everything that actually moved it. HRT was my foundation, and nothing else worked until I handled it. Building muscle over 40 is the real secret, and I explain what can cost you the muscle you need if you're not careful. I cover how much protein I actually eat, the cortisol and sleep piece, and the creatine I wish I'd started years ago. I also show you how I track it all with DEXA scans and bloodwork. Then I tell you the one thing on this whole list that works against my belly, and why I do it anyway. And I tell you about a woman named Betty, who taught me exactly why I bother with any of this. In this episode: The kind of belly fat that laughs at eating less and working out The hormone move that finally took my body out of full storage mode Why getting smaller made me look worse, and the one thing that fixed it The stress hormone that might be the whole reason your belly won't budge The one thing on this entire list that works against me, and I do it anyway The supplement I thought was only for 22-year-old gym bros A woman named Betty, and the real reason I refuse to disappear
This one is for every woman who did everything right, watched the belly show up anyway, and got told it's just your age.
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