05/26/2026
Perimenopausal and menopausal women, stop skipping meals in an effort to lose weight.
It doesn’t work in midlife, and it will cost you!
If I had a dollar for every women who comes
to see me and asks if they should skip breakfast, or just work through lunch or maybe cut down to one meal a day…l
Her is where “forgetting” to eat breakfast or “working through lunch” will get you:
A massive blood sugar crash, mood swings, irritability and fatigue ➡️
Leading to a cortisol spike (your brain sees a drop in blood sugar as danger and will raise cortisol to protect you) ➡️
A body with frequent cortisol spikes will not burn fat…that’s the last thing it wants to do. Its’s going to store that fat on your body to keep you safe ➡️
So you keep cutting back more and more and wonder why your clothes are tight and the scale isn’t budging ➡️
Finally, all of those skipped meals lead you to 6 pm, standing in front of an open refrigerator shoveling in anything you can get your hands on. How do I know this? I did this FOR YEARS as a practicing attorney. But I could get away with it in my 20s, I can’t get away with it now when my hormones are already in flux.
Stop skipping meals! Stop cutting more and more calories. If you truly can’t remember to eat during the day, set an alarm. As ridiculous as that sounds, it happens. Set the alarm, nourish your body and I PROMISE you that your body will respond in kind.
If you’re ready to stop the vicious cycle, comment READY and I’ll pop into your DMs with some info.