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The Midlife Vitality Project: Where Perimenopause Becomes Your Comeback Story Naturally!
If you’re a woman over 40 who is tired of feeling tired, foggy, or stuck in a body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore and are looking for a natural approach that will work for YOU to help you start feeling like yourself again, this podcast is for you.
In The Midlife Vitality Project podcast, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, cancer survivor and fellow perimenopause warrier, Joanne Willis, guides you through a real midlife health and life transformation — not one that relies on pills, weight loss injections, HRT or quick fixes, but through understanding your body’s signals and rebuilding your health from the root - naturally - with the power of nutrition!
In each episode, Joanne will dig deep into the real reason behind midlife weight gain, mood swings, fatigue, and other wacky and worrying symptoms of perimenopause — and teaches you how to rebalance your metabolism, hormones and blood levels to achieve your best health and lasting vitality through menopause and beyond.
Because midlife is not the end my friend — it’s just the beginning of your next chapter - the chapter that's all about you and living your best life!
The Midlife Vitality Project: Where Perimenopause Becomes Your Comeback Story Naturally!
Episode 14: Getting started on my plan (and why my mindset almost tripped me up before I even started!)
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In Part 4 of this mini-series where I walk you through my own midlife health and weight loss journey following The Metabolic Balance® Program, I’m sharing the importance of mindset and how my own mindset almost derailed me before I even started!
I talk openly in this episode about my own struggle with all-or-nothing thinking, fear of failure and the pressure I tend to put on myself to do things perfectly.
That mindset has held me back more times than I’d like to admit — not because I didn’t care, but because the fear of not being able to fully practice what I preach and stay committed even when life gets hard made it feel safer to wait.
In this episode, I share:
- why choosing a start date can feel so loaded, especially for women who have “started over” many times before
- how perfectionism and all-or-nothing thinking quietly sabotage momentum
- why it does matter to choose a start date with fewer distractions — particularly during the first two phases (the initial 16 days), when the metabolic reset is most structured
- why waiting for the “perfect” time often keeps us stuck longer than necessary
- and how learning to navigate real life — unexpected events, social situations, and curveballs — is what actually builds long-term success
This episode isn’t about lowering standards.
It’s about finding flexibility in the rules to support a growth mindset — shifting from perfection to progress, and from self-pressure to self-trust.
Because life is not linear. There will always be something coming up unexpectedly.
So learning how to get back on track — without shame and guilt — is far more important than never stepping off it in the first place.
In the next episode of this mini-series, I’ll share what it was really like to start following my personalized plan as I enter Phase 1 — how it felt in my body, what surprised me, and why it was far more doable than I expected.
Ready to Take Your Own First Step?
If this episode resonates — and you can see yourself in the pattern of waiting, restarting, or putting pressure on yourself to get it “just right” — you don’t have to figure this out alone.
I’m currently accepting new clients into The Metabolic Balance® Program, and for a limited time until January 4th, I’m offering a $300 year-end discount on the program investment.
👉 Click here to learn more and get started
This is a supportive, personalized process — not a test of willpower or perfection.
Just a clear next step, taken with intention.
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