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Why You're Suddenly Gaining Weight in Your Belly After 40

You have not changed a thing. Same food. Same life. Same you. So why has your body started acting like a stranger, packing weight around your middle in a way it never di

The Real Reason You Gain Weight Every Fall (and How to Stop It This Year)

Every year it is the same story. You get to January, you go to button your favorite jeans, and they just do not button the way they used to. And you stand there thinking

The Silent Thing That's Been Happening to Your Bones

In the last five years, I have broken more bones than I can count. My tailbone. Bones in my leg. Bones in my foot. My elbow, more than once. And some of those breaks? I

The Five-Second Skill That Changes Everything

You walk into the kitchen after a hard day and you are eating before you even asked yourself if you were hungry. The scale is up two pounds and you have already decided

8 Years Later: The Weight Loss Secret Nobody Posts About

Everybody loves a before and after. Nobody shows you the eight years that come after the after. That is the part they leave out. The part where most people, quietly, ga

The Truth About Emotional Eating (It's Not Really About the Food)

It's nine o'clock at night. You're standing at the kitchen counter, eating something you didn't even really want. You weren't hungry. You know y

Normal" Labs, Still Exhausted: The Truth About Your Thyroid

"Everything looks normal." You have heard those words. And you wanted to believe them. But you walked out of that office and cried in your car, because you know your own

It's Not Too Late (For Your Body, or the Dream You've Been Putting Off)

There is a dream you have been putting off until you finally get your body handled. You know the one. And somewhere along the way, quietly, you started to wonder if mayb

5 Signs You're Not Eating Enough Protein (and What to Do About It)

Your hair is coming out in the shower. You are hungry an hour after you eat. The scale is going down, but somehow you feel softer, not stronger. And you are tired in a wa

The "Healthy" Foods Quietly Feeding Your Sugar Cravings

Your yogurt has more sugar in it than a candy bar. I am not saying that to be dramatic. Go pull one out of your fridge and turn it around. I will wait. This is the epis

How to Eat Real Food Without Blowing Your Budget

"I can't afford to eat healthy." Have you ever said that? I did, for years. And I want to gently tell you today that it is not true. In fact, it might be costing you

Why You Need to Eat More, Not Less (to Finally Lose Weight After 40)

What if the reason you cannot lose weight has nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with the fact that you have been eating too little? I know how that soun

Your Scale Is a Coach, Not a Judge (Here's How to Read It)

Your scale is a coach, not a judge. Here's how to read it. How many mornings has the number on your bathroom scale ruined your whole day? You stepped on it before y

Why You Gained Weight in That Hard Season (And Why It Was Never Your Fault)

Almost every woman I have ever coached has lived through it, but very few of us have ever heard it named out loud. The season your weight went up and stayed up. Or the se

Cortisol Isn't the Villain, But It Might Be Wrecking Your Midlife Metabolism

If you're doing all the right things and still feel tired, wired at night, and stuck with weight that won't budge around your middle, this episode is for you.

What Your Doctor May Not Have Told You About GLP-1s

If you're on a GLP-1, thinking about starting one, or quietly wondering how you'll ever get off it without gaining everything back, this episode is for you. Th

Why Diets Stop Working After 40 (And What to Do Instead)

You weren't failing those diets. Those diets were teaching your body to fail you. Have you noticed that the diets that used to work in your twenties barely move the

The "Healthy" Foods That Are Quietly Spiking Your Insulin

You're not failing. You've been fooled. The foods that were keeping me stuck, tired, inflamed, holding onto weight no matter what I did, were not the cookies.

Why Your Autoimmune Disease Might Be Making It Almost Impossible to Lose Weight

If you've been told that the weight gain, the exhaustion, the brain fog, and the joint pain are just "part of having an autoimmune disease" — this episode is for you

Why Every Woman Over 40 Should Know About Creatine

Episode Summary Women have up to 70-80% lower creatine stores than men — and most of us have never been told that. In this episode Lisa digs into what that means for you