Wise Food Choices with Valeria Lopez
Have you been eating less, exercising more, and still watching the scale creep up? If that sounds familiar, there is nothing wrong with you.
I’m Valeria Lopez, Licensed Nutritionist and Certified Health Coach with 25 years of experience helping women over 40 lose weight, balance hormones, and feel like themselves again.
After working with thousands of women who had tried every diet, I kept seeing the same pattern.
The problem was never willpower. It was a "mismatch" between what their bodies were asking for, and what they were taught to do... basically a failed attempt to fix something that isn´t broken
On this podcast, I share science-backed, practical guidance on:
→ Why weight loss after 40 requires a completely different approach.
→ How your gut microbiome and hormones influence your weight, not just calories
→ How to eat to support your hormones, balance blood sugar, and build metabolic flexibility
→ The truth about intermittent fasting, carbs, and calorie counting for women in perimenopause and menopause
→ Simple, real-food strategies you can implement without counting, weighing, or obsessing
New episodes every week for women who are done fighting their bodies and ready to work with them instead.
This is not about restriction or punishment. It is about finally understanding what your body actually needs and giving it exactly that.
Subscribe for weekly episodes. Your body responds when you create the right conditions.
Wise Food Choices with Valeria Lopez
Before You Start Intermittent Fasting Again, Watch This
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Before you start intermittent fasting again, watch this. Intermittent fasting can be one of the most powerful tools you ever use for your metabolism. It can also make things significantly worse. Same protocol, same discipline, completely different outcome. And it comes down entirely to what you do before you start.
If you have tried this before and it stopped working, or it never produced the results the research said it should, do not go back and try the same way again. You risk coming out the other side with higher cortisol, more insulin resistance, and a metabolism that is harder to shift than when you started.
In this episode, I'm going to show you the one physiological condition that determines whether intermittent fasting will work for you, how to assess it before you start, and the exact first step that changes what happens next.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Before You Start Intermittent Fasting Again, Watch This
0:22 Same protocol, same discipline: why two women get completely different results
1:00 The one physiological condition nobody assesses before they start fasting
1:25 Why most fasting content was not designed for a woman's body or cycle
2:50 Cortisol is the hidden variable behind every fasting outcome
3:57 Why following the protocol perfectly can still work against fat loss
5:09 What actually drives fasting results: metabolic flexibility explained
7:16 3 questions to assess whether your body is ready to fast right now
11:32 What to build before you extend your fasting window beyond 12 hours
16:44 The 12-hour overnight window: where to start and why it works
❓ QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Why does intermittent fasting stop working for women over 40?
If your cortisol is already elevated from chronic stress, poor sleep, or being in the luteal phase of your cycle, extending the fasting window drives cortisol higher rather than creating the low-insulin fat-burning environment fasting is designed to produce. High cortisol directly increases insulin resistance, which is the exact opposite of what fasting is meant to do.
Is intermittent fasting safe during the luteal phase of your cycle?
The luteal phase increases your metabolic rate and your body's need for glucose, which puts an extended fasting window in direct conflict with what your biology is doing in the second half of your cycle. Women who fast during this phase often experience more fatigue, brain fog, and hunger without getting meaningfully better results.
What should I do before starting intermittent fasting?
The most important first step is assessing your gut function, because an inflamed or dysbiotic gut is not producing the metabolic signals your body needs for fasting to work the way the research describes. Building gut and liver foundation first, over six to eight weeks, creates the metabolic flexibility that makes fasting feel easy rather than like a fight.
📱 RESOURCES
Free Masterclass: https://www.thewisefoodsolution.com/webinar-ig
Website: https://www.valerialopezpoliero.se
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I'm Valeria Lopez, a licensed nutritionist with 25 years of experience in hormonal health, gut health, and fasting for women over 40. I've worked with over 1,000 clients who came to me after trying everything else. I reversed my own PCOS, perimenopausal weight gain, and sleep issues in my 40s. I know what it feels like to do everything right and still feel like your body is working against you.
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