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Funny how women will lose weight on vacation while eating pasta, gelato, bread and drinking wine… but gain weight at home eating rice cakes and tracking every crumb.

Maybe the problem isn’t just the food.

Maybe it’s the chronic stress.
The all-or-nothing mindset.
The sitting all day.
The ‘start over Monday’ cycle.
The nervous system running a marathon 24/7.

Vacation often comes with mor movement, better sleep, SLOwER meals and maybe a touch of more laughter, less rushing, and less food obsession.

Ummm no, this doesn’t mean calories stop mattering BUt your body responds to more than math.

A regulated body behaves differently than a stressed one.

That’s the conversation more women need to hear.

Ahhhhh- the trickle down effect. Let’s see what that might feel like.

Perimenopause can make our hunger signals appear louder and less predictable. It can interupt sleep which imoacts our appetite AND cravings go up.

When cravings go up, our stress/cortisol increase and ya, more emotional eating and water retention start to become frequent.

What’s next? Energy dips…which lowers NEAT (we move less without realizing) and therefore burn fewer calories.

We have a greater muscle loss risk and that lowers our metabolic output if we are not strength training!😩

BUT it doesn’t mean you can’t lose weight! You have not built the right systems- for the last 20, 30, 40 years we taught ourselves to eat less and and burn out. Go from one extreme to another and guess what… it has never worked because here you are. Perimenopause simply pulls back the curtain on bad habits that we’ve accumulated over time.

So in perimenopause- you don’t need another hack or detox- you need better foundation. You need to CHALLENGE your old mindset and develop better habits.

What habit would you work on FIRST???

Dance/Cheer mom life.

Some people hear judgment in what others are saying, I know that, I get that, I’ve been there.

My page has never been about judgement- AT ALL!

What I’m actually offering is perspective. If something I say makes you uncomfortable, it might be worth getting curious about why.

No judgement.

Hormones matter — but most women skip the basics that support them.

Before buying the next gut detox, cortisol cocktail, glp-1 supplement or hormone meal plan ask yourself if you’ve really prioritized sleep, consistency, stress management, protein, or even eating enough.

It’s because you keep messing with it.

You skip breakfast.
You ‘save calories.’
You under-eat protein.
You live on coffee.
You white-knuckle all week.
Then you wonder why Friday night feels feral.

That’s not lack of control.
That’s BIOLOGY doing its job.

If you restrict, it rebounds.
If you stress, it spikes.
If you sleep 5 hours, it screams.

Blaming perimenopause might feel validating, buuuuut it also keeps you powerless.
You actually have control over things like
Blood sugar swings
Low protein
Inconsistent meals
Chronic stress
Years of dieting

That’s what dysregulates appetite.

No patch, pill, or detox can ‘fix’ this.
It’s time to get back to basics and forget all the dieting ‘rules’ you’ve learned and still being blasted with on Social media.

Back to basic💕