Why I don't workout on my period.
I was scared to take my foot off of the gas pedal and do less in my workouts in case what was already feeling out of control, begin to snowball.
I donât ask ANYTHING of my body more than yoga or walking at least 10 full days out of the month. I donât permanently go off of any food groups (well except meat bc I am a vegetarian for ethical reasons.) I donât have an elaborate fitness and nutrition plan. I donât have a perfectly sugar free or alcohol free diet. I donât have an unusually fast metabolism (in fact I am a SLOW burner.) I donât say no to a cocktail at the top of a mountain, or a homemade cookie that anyone made and looks delicious. I nap any chance I can get and binged watched all 8 seasons of Game of Thrones in 6 weeks recently.
I donât follow a lot of the typical fitness and nutrition âprogramsâ as they are laid out.Â
Why?
4 years ago I started to notice a trend in my clients where they either were working hard and NOT getting results OR they couldnât follow through l
...2 Simple Swaps that Finally Helped My Peri-Menopausal Body Lose Weight
 I didn't need to step on the scale to know. I FELT lighter. In my body and in my mind.Â
In my personal training and health coaching practice I was beginning to notice a pattern of women over 35 doing everything they could to lose weight. Calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, dozens of various diets and nutrition philosophies paired with consistent, high intensity interval workouts. This was the way to lose weight wasn't it?
But instead of losing weight they were gaining weighting, or feeling stuck and more depleted than ever.
I was baffled.
Everything I knew as a trainer and coach was working backwards for my poor exhausted, peri-menopausal clients.
Then some time around the age of 37, I noticed a very similar shift in my own body. My same HIIT workouts were leaving me depleted. My afternoonâs plagued with brain fog, my skin felt like it was rapidly aging before my eyes and I noticed excess weight gain around my belly that hadnât been there before.
As much as I wanted to bla...
