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Stop starving and start strategizing. In perimenopause, the biggest intermittent fasting mistakes are using fasting to eat less, forcing a fasting window that’s too aggressive, and fasting hardest during already stressful seasons. Learn how to make fasting work with your hormones by prioritizing protein, preserving muscle, and choosing a sustainable approach that supports fat loss, energy, and long-term results.

Intermittent Fasting Mistakes in Perimenopause (And the Fix)

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Three weeks into summer and the snack drawer has already been hit eleven times before noon, and here I am thinking about your gut, because nobody warned us that our gut and our hormones are basically in a group chat together, and in your 40s, that conversation changes EVERYTHING.
If you’re bloated by 3pm, carrying that low belly puff, and doing all the right things with nothing to show for it, this is not your fault. There’s a whole crew of bacteria in your gut that helps decide how much estrogen stays active in your body, and when that crew gets thrown off, your hormones feel it. Eating less makes it worse, not better.
Mollie lost 12 pounds and the back pain she’d carried for years went away. Shannon lost 7.5 inches and 5.5 pounds. Not by eating less. By finally eating enough of the right foods and letting her gut and hormones get back on the same team. So proud of them both!
Your metabolism is not broken, ladies. It’s just waiting for a different set of rules.
Read this one. I think it’s going to click.

Gut Health and Hormones in Your 40s: The Connection No One Warned You About

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