#403 - Eating Less Is Why Your Body Isn't Changing After 40 with Craig McDonald

Sarah is 41, a single mum, and 17kg lighter than when she joined us 12 months ago. Before that, she'd done every diet going. Keto, shakes, very low carb. She lived on salads, almond milk and a bit of protein, and said no to potatoes every time. After a really hard few years, she hit 109kg, the biggest she'd ever been. Then one New Year's Eve photo with her daughter made her say "enough". Now her main carbs are potatoes and sourdough. She eats real butter and normal dairy. She trains with actual numbers to hit instead of guessing. Her bloating is gone, she sleeps 8 to 9 hours a night, and she's rebuilt her body with muscle, not just dropped weight. The part I love most? She hasn't been on a single coaching call. Her check-ins, her data and the women in our community got her here. In this episode she shares exactly what changed, what she'd say to anyone sitting on the fence, and why she's locking in for another 12 months. RESOURCES + LINKS Metabolic Reset Challenge Learn more about our Winatlife Coaching options Saturée products use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first order. Pro-Metabolic Company use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first purchase. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Post a screenshot on Instagram stories and Tag @kittyblomfield for your chance to win a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen Review on Spotify FOLLOW Kitty Blomfield @kittyblomfield Craig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonald

Yep, I know. This one's going to ruffle some feathers. I sat down with my gorgeous friend Theresa, who works with people with severe chronic illness and trauma, and she doesn't hold back. Here's what we get into: → Why a low energy brain props itself up on stress hormones (hello, can't sit still) → Why stimulants like coffee and ADHD meds actually CALM some people down → The nutrient bottlenecks she sees over and over: B1, magnesium, potassium, zinc, copper and light → How living in fear literally burns through the minerals your brain needs to make energy → What she sees in people who've been on these meds long term → And my own story of never being able to sit down and relax, and what was really driving it Theresa is so clear on this: the symptoms are very real. But if we only cover them up, we miss what the body is actually asking for. RESOURCES + LINKS Metabolic Reset Challenge Learn more about our Winatlife Coaching options Saturée products use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first order. Pro-Metabolic Company use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first purchase. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Post a screenshot on Instagram stories and Tag @kittyblomfield for your chance to win a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen Review on Spotify FOLLOW Kitty Blomfield @kittyblomfield Theresa Piela @theresapiela

Part 2 of our deep dive with @katedeeringfitness @thenutritioncoach @jfwellness, this one's about the research they don't want you questioning. At the end of 2025, the FDA quietly removed the cardiovascular black box warning from hormone therapy. The reasoning leaned on studies from 1991 and 1996. When those same claims were tested properly in randomized controlled trials, they didn't hold up. We break down: – what the Women's Health Initiative actually found (and what it didn't) – where the "60 picogram" ideal estrogen number really comes from – why estrogen is the same hormone doctors block in breast cancer patients – whether skipping hormone therapy actually dooms your bones, heart and brain RESOURCES + LINKS Metabolic Reset Challenge Learn more about our Winatlife Coaching options Saturée products use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first order. Pro-Metabolic Company use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first purchase. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Post a screenshot on Instagram stories and Tag @kittyblomfield for your chance to win a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen Review on Spotify FOLLOW Kitty Blomfield @kittyblomfield Craig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonald

Sat down with Kate Deering, Emma Sgourakis and Jay Feldman for the deepest dive we've ever done on estrogen and it changes how you should be thinking about menopause. You've been told menopause = estrogen deficiency. Get the levels back up, symptoms go away. That's not the full story. Blood tests only measure what your ovaries are producing. After menopause your body keeps making estrogen in your fat, muscle, brain and bone and there's no test tracking that. So plenty of women being told they're "low" are actually estrogen dominant, with no one checking. We get into: – why "normal" thyroid labs can still mean you're functionally hypothyroid – the direct link between constipation and estrogen overload – what's actually happening when estrogen "fixes" your hot flashes – why in excess, estrogen behaves like a growth hormone, not an energy hormone This is Part 1 of 2. Part 2 (dropping next week) is about what the research actually shows on hormone therapy including what the FDA didn't tell you. RESOURCES + LINKS Metabolic Reset Challenge Learn more about our Winatlife Coaching options Saturée products use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first order. Pro-Metabolic Company use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first purchase. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Post a screenshot on Instagram stories and Tag @kittyblomfield for your chance to win a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen Review on Spotify FOLLOW Kitty Blomfield @kittyblomfield Craig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonald

Nobody is telling you this about Ozempic. 1 in 5 women who come off Ozempic regain all the weight within a year. And when it comes back, it comes back about four times faster than if you'd lost it through diet and training. I sat down with Jay Feldman (he's basically a walking encyclopaedia on this stuff) to go through what these drugs are actually doing in the body. Not the marketing version. The mechanism. They don't fix your metabolism. They shut down the reward centre in your brain so food stops feeling good, the same pathway recreational drugs hit. That's why the weight comes off. It's also why 60 to 70% of people are off these drugs within a year, and why a big chunk of what's lost isn't fat, it's muscle and bone. We also got into the "food noise" conversation, and Jay makes a pretty compelling case that it's a term the drug companies invented, not a diagnosis. This isn't an anti GLP-1 rant. There's a real conversation in here about when they might actually make sense too. But the risks that don't make it into the ads deserve equal airtime. RESOURCES + LINKS Metabolic Reset Challenge Learn more about our Winatlife Coaching options Saturée products use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first order. Pro-Metabolic Company use discount code KITTY20 for 20% off your first purchase. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Post a screenshot on Instagram stories and Tag @kittyblomfield for your chance to win a tub of Saturée Premium Collagen Review on Spotify FOLLOW Kitty Blomfield @kittyblomfield Craig McDonald @iamcraigmcdonald