Insatiable with Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
258. Over 40? What Works Now: Perimenopause and Menopause Food and Exercise 101
Part of what’s been hard for me the last three years was I didn’t understand how drastically the hormonal shifts that start for women around 35 and accelerate in our mid-40s affects ALL THE THINGS.
And I’m someone who knows that our physiology and psychology are in a constant feedback loop.
Yet because perimenopause and menopause are women's health issues, they don’t get the attention they deserve. Nor do doctor’s really understand them all that well (the horror stories I hear from clients 😮💨).
I’m doing my part to change that with this special Insatiable episode. I’m sharing the major nutrition and exercise realities I wish I knew about perimenopause and menopause.
I had to learn about them through a lot of suffering with plantar fasciitis, insomnia, irritation/anger/rage, and grappling with significant weight gain that felt like it came out of nowhere.
While some menopause symptoms are inevitable, there's also a lot you can do to reduce and better manage symptoms through this profound threshold and beyond.
In this podcast, I discuss:
- How decreases in estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone affect your nutrition and exercise needs and why what worked before 40 often backfires now (and what I did to lose 20 pounds).
- The 2 key nutrition shifts I needed to make and why adding more of these foods in is more important than ever for your health and weight
- Why women need carbs at this stage (especially at night), a starting point of how many carbs you need, and the best time to eats something sweet if you’re struggling with sleep
- Why Intermittent Fasting (IF) often backfires and things to consider if you want to experiment with IF (and how eating a snack before bed actually helped my insomnia for a year!)
- The biggest exercise shift I made to support my health, weight, and peace of mind
- The simple lifestyle shift I didn’t know I needed to support my insomnia
Episode Links
Free Health Coaching Disruption Hour for Rebel Practitioners
Free Truce with Food community gatherings
Connect with Insatiable & Ali:
Why Am I Eating This Now? Group Program opens in September! Why does the same hard work and discipline that has gotten you so far in life backfire when you try and apply it to your eating? Don't settle for this “food thing” hanging over you any longer. Find out what’s really happening when your food discipline disappears in the moments when you feel like you need it most. 12 WEEKS. MASTER COACHING. GROUP SUPPORT. Learn more.
Call our new Insatiable hotline: (412) 475-8006. Click here to text (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won't be able to text back. Please don't delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for Insatiable ).
Help me reach 200 reviews by the end of the summer! It only takes 30 seconds to rate, review, and subscribe to Insatiable on your favorite podcast platform—it means more to me than you know—and helps others find the show!
Part of what’s been hard for me the last three years was I didn’t understand how drastically the hormonal shifts that start for women around 35 and accelerate in our mid-40s affects ALL THE THINGS.
And I’m someone who knows that our physiology and psychology are in a constant feedback loop.
Yet because perimenopause and menopause are women's health issues, they don’t get the attention they deserve. Nor do doctor’s really understand them all that well (the horror stories I hear from clients 😮💨).
I’m doing my part to change that with this special Insatiable episode. I’m sharing the major nutrition and exercise realities I wish I knew about perimenopause and menopause.
I had to learn about them through a lot of suffering with plantar fasciitis, insomnia, irritation/anger/rage, and grappling with significant weight gain that felt like it came out of nowhere.
While some menopause symptoms are inevitable, there's also a lot you can do to reduce and better manage symptoms through this profound threshold and beyond.
In this podcast, I discuss:
- How decreases in estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone affect your nutrition and exercise needs and why what worked before 40 often backfires now (and what I did to lose 20 pounds).
- The 2 key nutrition shifts I needed to make and why adding more of these foods in is more important than ever for your health and weight
- Why women need carbs at this stage (especially at night), a starting point of how many carbs you need, and the best time to eats something sweet if you’re struggling with sleep
- Why Intermittent Fasting (IF) often backfires and things to consider if you want to experiment with IF (and how eating a snack before bed actually helped my insomnia for a year!)
- The biggest exercise shift I made to support my health, weight, and peace of mind
- The simple lifestyle shift I didn’t know I needed to support my insomnia
Episode Links
Free Health Coaching Disruption Hour for Rebel Practitioners
Free Truce with Food community gatherings
Connect with Insatiable & Ali:
Why Am I Eating This Now? Group Program opens in September! Why does the same hard work and discipline that has gotten you so far in life backfire when you try and apply it to your eating? Don't settle for this “food thing” hanging over you any longer. Find out what’s really happening when your food discipline disappears in the moments when you feel like you need it most. 12 WEEKS. MASTER COACHING. GROUP SUPPORT. Learn more.
Call our new Insatiable hotline: (412) 475-8006. Click here to text (for privacy, we only see the last 4 digits of your phone number) and won't be able to text back. Please don't delete prepopulated numbers as that identifies your message is meant for Insatiable ).
Help me reach 200 reviews by the end of the summer! It only takes 30 seconds to rate, review, and subscribe to Insatiable on your favorite podcast platform—it means more to me than you know—and helps others find the show!