5 mistakes that make perimenopause weight loss harder than it needs to be (and what to do instead)

[00:00:00] Emily Field: If you’re in your forties or fifties, and feeling like fat loss is suddenly harder than it’s ever been, this episode is for you because today we’re diving into the five biggest mistakes I see women make when they’re trying to lose fat during perimenopause, and more importantly, what to do instead.

 

[00:00:17] Emily Field: Welcome to Macros Made Easy, the podcast that takes the confusion out of tracking macros. I’m your host, Emily Field, a registered dietician that specializes in a macros approach. In each episode, I help you learn how to eat in a way that supports your health, body composition, and athletic performance goals.

 

[00:00:32] Emily Field: We’ll cover the basics of macronutrients, how to track for various goals, the role of macros in your health, and how to make sustainable changes to your habits. I’ve helped hundreds of people experience more food freedom and flexibility while navigating their nutrition. So whether you’ve tried macros and it just didn’t stick, or you just heard the word macros yesterday.

 

[00:00:51] Emily Field: I can’t wait to help you too. Perimenopause is a wild ride, not just hormonally, but logistically. You’re juggling work kids, aging parents, a household, and somehow you’re supposed to prioritize your health too. For many women, this stage of life feels like one long stress spiral, and when the strategies that used to work for fat loss stop working, it’s frustrating, even defeating.

 

[00:01:16] Emily Field: But here’s the thing. This season can be a powerful turning point. When women learn to fuel their bodies, train with intention and stop relying on restriction, they unlock strength, confidence, and energy that spills into every area of their life. That’s why I love working with this population so much. But before we get into the five mistakes, I wanna name what’s really going on behind the scenes because perimenopause is unlike any phase you’ve been through before.

 

[00:01:42] Emily Field: Perimenopause is the transition phase leading up to menopause, and it can last anywhere from a few years to over a decade. During this time, your hormones, especially estrogen and progesterone start to fluctuate. Unpredictably. That means changes in your sleep, mood, energy cycle, body composition, and even how your body responds to stress, food, and exercise.

 

[00:02:05] Emily Field: It’s not just getting older. It’s a real physiological shift that deserves real support. And I’ll just say this, working with midlife women is some of the most rewarding work I do because once they decide they’re ready to make a change, really ready, they show up differently. There’s intention behind their effort.

 

[00:02:24] Emily Field: They’re not just chasing the shiny next trend. They’re coachable, curious, and willing to do the work, not because they want to impress anyone, but because they want to feel like themselves again. They’ve already spent decades tangled up in diet culture. They’ve done the juice cleanses, the low carb razzes, and the just eat less and move more.

 

[00:02:45] Emily Field: When they finally get the real tools, personalized strategies, and the truth about what’s going on in their bodies, you can almost hear the sigh of relief. And they’re not just doing it for themselves. They’re acutely aware of the patterns that they want to break, whether it’s how their own mothers talked about food and weight, or how much time they’ve spent shrinking themselves.

 

[00:03:05] Emily Field: They want better for their kids. They wanna model a different relationship with food, exercise, and body image. One that’s rooted in strength and self-respect, not shame and restriction. And they’re also seeing their parents aging, maybe dealing with preventable health issues, fragility or loss of independence, and they’re thinking, that’s not gonna be me.

 

[00:03:24] Emily Field: They wanna stay strong, mobile, and capable for as long as possible. They’re not just aging, they’re choosing to age on purpose. And the changes they make, they ripple into everything. When a midlife woman feels strong and energized, it changes how she shows up in her relationships, in her work, in her leadership, and in her legacy, she starts making decisions from a place of power instead of burnout.

 

[00:03:47] Emily Field: And honestly, that’s transformational. That’s why I care so much about this work because when a woman in midlife learns to fuel her body and build strength instead of trying to shrink herself, she doesn’t just change her health. She changes the story for generations before her and after her. But in order to do that, she has to first understand the invisible weight she’s been carrying and where it’s really coming from.

 

[00:04:10] Emily Field: Midlife women, and that might be you are often chronically stressed and overextended. I. You’re likely in what we call the sandwich generation, where you’re raising kids or supporting your young adults while also helping aging parents. Maybe you’re also at the top of your career, managing a team, leading a business, or working at a high stakes role that demands a lot of you.

 

[00:04:31] Emily Field: It’s stress on stress, on stress. And this dress isn’t just, I had a rough day. It’s ongoing. It’s the background hum of constant responsibility that wears down your nervous system and disregulates hormones like cortisol, which directly impacts your ability to lose fat. Sleep well recover from workouts and regulate appetite.

 

[00:04:50] Emily Field: You’re also time starved and decision fatigued. You make a thousand decisions a day for everyone else. Like what’s for dinner when the vet appointment is whether your dad needs to go to physical therapy. So when someone tells you to just track your food, it’s easy to feel like really one more thing. And if you do carve out the time for yourself, there’s guilt because that selfish voice kicks in, even though, let’s be real, when you don’t take care of yourself, resentment usually follows and layered into all of that is the fact that you are physiologically changing and no one prepared you for this.

 

[00:05:25] Emily Field: You’re dealing with hormonal shifts that affect your hunger, mood, sleep, energy, and how your body holds on, or lets go of fat. You might be thinking why isn’t what used to work working anymore? And I just want you to know you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re just in a new chapter with a new set of roles.

 

[00:05:42] Emily Field: But here’s the encouraging part. Most midlife women I work with are ready for depth, not quick fixes. I. They’ve been through the crash diets, the detoxes, the meal plans, and now they want sustainability. They want strength, they want energy. They want confidence that doesn’t depend on the number on the scale.

 

[00:05:59] Emily Field: And when they learn how to truly fuel their bodies, train with intention and create realistic strategies that work for this season of life, the results are incredible. Not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, and relationally. So let’s dive into the five mistakes I see most often when it comes to fat loss in perimenopause, and more importantly, what to do instead.

 

[00:06:21] Emily Field: Mistake number one, holding onto a restrictive dieting mindset. You’ve been taught that eating less is the answer, but in perimenopause, that approach can completely blackfire. When you chronically undereat, especially during an already stressful and hormonally volatile time, your body reads that as a threat.

 

[00:06:40] Emily Field: Cortisol goes up, metabolism slows down. You start losing muscle instead of fat, and the result is you’re exhausted, hungry, moody, and wondering why your weight won’t budge. What your body actually needs in this season is fuel not restriction. You need enough calories, especially from protein and carbs to support muscle growth, recovery, and hormonal balance.

 

[00:07:02] Emily Field: That’s how you preserve and even build a metabolism that works with you, not against you. The mistake here is that believing, eating less is going to give you better results because that’s what you learn from diet culture, your mom or every magazine you’ve ever read. The mindset often sounds like I need to cut carbs.

 

[00:07:21] Emily Field: I just need more willpower. I shouldn’t eat unless I’ve earned it. But this quickly backfires. So let’s talk about the science behind it. Chronic calorie restriction raises cortisol levels. In perimenopause, your baseline cortisol is often already elevated due to stress, poor sleep, and hormonal shifts consistently.

 

[00:07:40] Emily Field: Undereating adds another layer of stress to the body, which can lead to increased fat storage, especially around the abdomen, and worsened sleep and anxiety and cravings. Think of undereating as a signal to your body that food is scarce. And when that happens, your body responds by trying to conserve energy, not burn it.

 

[00:07:59] Emily Field: This restrictive dieting mindset also slows down your metabolism through adaptive thermogenesis. I. The longer and more aggressively you diet, the more your body adapts by lowering its metabolic rate. This includes reductions in your resting energy expenditure, so you’re burning fewer calories at rest, your non-exercise activity thermogenesis or neat, so you’re subconsciously moving less throughout the day and hormonal production like thyroid hormones or reproductive hormones.

 

[00:08:30] Emily Field: In perimenopause when estrogen and progesterone are already declining, adding suppressed thyroid output and lower energy availability, that’s just a recipe for fatigue and weight loss resistance. Again, this restrictive dieting mindset will also disrupt your appetite regulating hormones, long-term undereating increases ghrelin the hunger hormone and decreases leptin, the satiety hormone, which makes cravings worse and can lead to episodes of overeating, especially when paired with emotional or stress eating.

 

[00:09:00] Emily Field: Lastly, I’ll say that if you’re undereating and not strength training or not recovering well, your body will start breaking down muscle for energy. You’re gonna see a loss of lean muscle mass. Less muscle means a slower metabolism and a harder time achieving the toned look that many women want in midlife.

 

[00:09:18] Emily Field: So what do we do instead? Let’s shift from restriction to fueling. Let’s prioritize protein to support muscle retention and appetite control. Aim for that 30 grams or more a protein per meal and spread that protein across the day. This is gonna begin, especially important for you as muscle building gets harder with age.

 

[00:09:39] Emily Field: Don’t be afraid of carbs. Include quality, carbs to support your thyroid health, your cortisol regulation, and your performance in the gym. Carbs are not the enemy. They’re fuel for your brain, hormones and muscle. Lastly, eat enough calories to match your activity level support recovery, and. Signal safety to your body.

 

[00:09:58] Emily Field: This tells your metabolism we’re not in danger. It’s okay to build, not just to survive. The second mistake I’ll talk about today is chasing quick fixes instead of long-term change. This one’s a tough truth, but it has to be said quick fixes don’t work, especially in perimenopause. When you bounce from detox to challenge to 30 day shred, you’re not just confusing your body, you’re burning out your metabolism, your hormones, and your mindset.

 

[00:10:26] Emily Field: This season of life requires consistency, not chaos. You can’t strong arm your way into fat loss anymore. What you need is strategy. The women who win in midlife aren’t the ones chasing the fastest results. They’re the ones showing up for the basics, lifting weights, tracking macros, managing stress, and sleeping well.

 

[00:10:45] Emily Field: Not sexy, I know, but it’s effective. Play the long game here because when you do, the results compound in a way that no detox ever could. The mistake here is jumping from plan to plan, detox to detox, or challenge to challenge, and it often looks like 21 day fix, 30 day resets, 75 hard drastically cutting carbs and then binging or white knuckling through a challenge only to rebound after.

 

[00:11:11] Emily Field: And this has a lot of science behind it. It backfires fairly often. Yo-yo dieting creates metabolic instability. That repeated cycle of losing and regaining weight leads to metabolic adaptation. Your body becomes more efficient at conserving energy, which means you burn fewer calories doing the exact same activities.

 

[00:11:31] Emily Field: Fat is regained faster, especially visceral fat. The fat that surrounds your important organs in your midsection, it becomes harder to maintain or build muscle mass when you do this as well. The more times you start over, the more metabolically conservative your body becomes, which is exactly what you don’t want in perimenopause.

 

[00:11:53] Emily Field: It also backfires because it will disrupt your hormone balance even further. Extreme diets and rapid weight loss can suppress thyroid function, lower sex hormones, and increase cortisol, all of which are already in flux during perimenopause. This creates a fragile internal environment that’s not primed for fat loss, muscle gain, or stable energy.

 

[00:12:13] Emily Field: It undermines consistency and habit formation. Quick fixes don’t teach you how to eat in real life. They rely on external rules and short-term motivation, not skills. Mindset shifts or long-term strategy. Neuroplasty, or the ability to form new habits and patterns requires repetition and stability, not constant change.

 

[00:12:34] Emily Field: And lastly, I’ll say that psychologically, it’s gonna reinforce that all or nothing mindset, either win the challenge or fail that binary thinking. Erodes self-trust and leads to burnout, not body composition change. Pretty dismal. So what do we do instead? I encourage you to play the long game. I want you to commit to sustainable strategies like macro tracking for awareness and structure.

 

[00:12:59] Emily Field: Progressive overload. Strength training to build lean muscle mass daily walking to regulate blood sugar and cortisol. Prioritizing recovery. That’s your sleep, your stress, your hydration, so your body can actually change. And I’ll also encourage you to accept that results take time, but they also last when you go slow.

 

[00:13:18] Emily Field: Midlife fat loss isn’t fast, but it’s real. When you zoom out and take a six, nine, or 12 month view, the compounding effects of consistency are far more powerful than any detox could ever be. The third mistake I wanna talk about here today is using alcohol to take the edge off too often. I know alcohol can feel like the reward at the end of a long, stressful day, especially in midlife when your bandwidth is stretched so thin.

 

[00:13:46] Emily Field: But here’s the truth, alcohol has a much bigger impact on your body composition, energy, and recovery than most people realize. When you drink, your body puts fat burning on pause, it disrupts your sleep, throws off your hormones and makes it harder to bounce back the next day. So that just one glass habit, it really does add up.

 

[00:14:06] Emily Field: If fat loss, better energy, or more muscle definition are your goals, it’s worth looking at your relationship with alcohol and asking, is this helping or is it holding me back? You don’t need to give it up forever or totally, but you do need boundaries that serve you, and you might be surprised at how much better you feel when you drink with intention or not at all.

 

[00:14:27] Emily Field: The mistake is not realizing the metabolic cost that comes with drinking regularly as a stress reliever or social crutch. It often sounds like this. I deserve a glass of wine after today. It’s just a couple drinks on the weekend. It helps me relax and sleep, but this will backfire. Alcohol puts a pause on fat oxidation.

 

[00:14:50] Emily Field: Your body treats alcohol as a toxin, so when you drink, your metabolism shifts priorities. It stops burning fat and starts working to metabolize and clear the alcohol. Studies show that fat oxidation can be suppressed for several hours, and in heavy drinkers or multi-day drinkers, that can mean 24 to 48 hours of impaired fat loss.

 

[00:15:10] Emily Field: It also disrupts sleep and hormone regulation. So while alcohol might help you fall asleep faster, it interferes with REM, sleep and deep sleep cycles. The phases of sleep where recovery, hormone repair and fat regulation happen. So poor sleep equals elevated cortisol, poor insulin sensitivity, increased hunger the next day, and worse recovery from workouts, alcohol also impairs digestion and gut health.

 

[00:15:35] Emily Field: Alcohol increases gut permeability. You may have heard the term leaky gut. It reduces nutrient absorption, especially those B vitamins, magnesium and zinc, and it impairs the gut microbiome, all of which affect your metabolism, your mood, and inflammation. Lastly, alcohol lowers inhibitions and increases cravings.

 

[00:15:55] Emily Field: Alcohol impairs your judgment and increases the likelihood that you’re gonna make food choices that don’t align with your goals, especially if it’s paired with high fat or high carb foods late at night. So what do we do instead? I encourage you to set some boundaries that align with your goals. So be honest with yourself.

 

[00:16:12] Emily Field: Ask yourself, is this drink helping me truly relax, or is it just a habit? Is it making me numb out? Does it actually make me feel better or worse the next day? I would also encourage you to establish flexible boundaries. You don’t have to eliminate alcohol forever or completely, but consider alcohol-free weekdays limiting to one or two drinks per week.

 

[00:16:34] Emily Field: Choosing lower A BV or lower sugar options. Or maybe only drinking when you’re well fed, hydrated, and fully present, not emotional or depleted. I want you to find other tools for stress relief, walking, journaling, a good strength workout, magnesium baths, deep breathing connection with a friend. These actually help your body decompress instead of deplete.

 

[00:16:59] Emily Field: The next mistake I see women make when trying to lose fat and perimenopause is they underestimate the power of strength training. I get it. Walking, cycling, or cardio classes can feel safe and familiar. But if you’re not strength training in midlife, you’re actively losing muscle, and that muscle is your metabolic engine.

 

[00:17:18] Emily Field: It’s what helps you burn more calories, regulate your blood sugar, support your joints, and stay independent as you age. Strength training, especially at this age, is not about getting bulky. It’s about building the strong, lean, capable body that carries you into your fifties, sixties, and beyond. And we know that cardio burns calories during the workout, but strength training changes how your body functions every hour of the day.

 

[00:17:42] Emily Field: So if you’ve been avoiding the weights because you’re unsure or intimidated, I get it, but it’s time to change. That strength training isn’t optional in midlife. It’s foundational. You might be thinking that walking and cardio are enough and you’re avoiding weights due to the fear of bulking up injury or lack of confidence in the gym.

 

[00:18:01] Emily Field: That’s the mistake. And it often sounds like I just walk and do some yoga. Weights intimidate me. I don’t know where to start. I don’t wanna get bulky, but this is gonna backfire because starting in your thirties and accelerating into your forties and fifties, we see a loss of lean muscle at a more accelerated rate.

 

[00:18:19] Emily Field: Women naturally lose three to 8% of muscle mass per decade if they’re not actively strength training and less muscle means a slower metabolism, more fat storage, decreased strength, and a higher risk of falls and injury later in life. We also know that strength training improves your insulin sensitivity.

 

[00:18:40] Emily Field: Muscle tissue helps regulate blood sugar by acting like a sponge for glucose. When you lift weights, your cells become more insulin sensitive, which reduces fat storage, especially around the midsection. And this is a hallmark of perimenopause related fat gain. Better insulin sensitivity is gonna give you more stable energy, fewer crashes, fewer cravings, and better fat loss.

 

[00:19:01] Emily Field: We also know that the more muscle mass that you have, the higher resting metabolic rate that you will have, so muscle is metabolically active tissue. It burns more calories at rest than fat. Even a modest increase in lean mass can raise your baseline calorie needs, making fat loss more efficient and sustainable.

 

[00:19:20] Emily Field: Remember, cardio burns calories during strength training changes the number of calories you burn all the time. I’ll lastly say that strength training and muscle building supports bone density and reduces the risk for osteoporosis. Estrogen plays a key role in maintaining bone mass, but as it declines, strength training becomes one of the most powerful tools you have for maintaining skeletal health and reducing fracture risk.

 

[00:19:44] Emily Field: So what do I want you to do instead? I want you to make strength training a non-negotiable in your routine. That means training two to four times per week with progressive overload. This means gradually increasing weight reps or time under tension. Over time, your body needs to be challenged in order to change.

 

[00:20:02] Emily Field: I want you to lift heavy enough to create some stimulus. If you can do like 15 to 20 reps without much effort, the weight is far too light. Focused on controlled compound movements like squats, deadlifts, presses, and rows, ideally in a program designed for progressive results. And lastly, combine that with walking and mobility.

 

[00:20:22] Emily Field: Walking is a great tool for recovery, blood sugar regulation and mental health, but it’s not a substitute for the muscular and hormonal benefits of lifting weights. Mistake number five is measuring progress only by the scale. If you’re still measuring your progress only by the number on the scale, you’re missing the big picture.

 

[00:20:41] Emily Field: Especially in perimenopause when hormonal shifts and body composition changes can make weight an unreliable measure of success. You could be building muscle, losing fat, improving your health, and still weighing the same muscle is denser than fat. It takes up less space. It looks better on your frame, and it revs your metabolism, and that doesn’t always show up in pounds.

 

[00:21:01] Emily Field: Lost. So I want you to shift your focus. Start tracking how your clothes fit, how strong you feel, how well you’re sleeping, and how much energy you have throughout the day. This season is about body recomposition, not just weight loss. And when you focus on the things that matter, the things that last, the results will be far more satisfying than anything the scale could show you.

 

[00:21:23] Emily Field: The mistake here is letting the number on the scale determine your mood, motivation, or sense of success. And it sounds like this. It sounds like I’ve only lost two pounds. This isn’t working. Why is the scale going up? Even though I’m eating better and working out, I just wanna be back at my preki weight.

 

[00:21:39] Emily Field: But this backfires the scale. Weight doesn’t differentiate between fat, muscle, water, or inflammation. Your weight is a composite of many variables, including hydration, hormonal levels, sodium intake, bowel movements, and muscle gain. You could be losing fat and gaining muscle, which is the goal, and still see the scale stay the same or even go up a little bit.

 

[00:22:00] Emily Field: Muscle is denser than fat. One pound of muscle takes up less space than one pound of fat. That means you could weigh the same or more and still wear a smaller pan size, look leaner and feel stronger. What you really want is body recomposition, more lean mass and less fat, not just a lower number on the scale.

 

[00:22:20] Emily Field: Looking at the scale will also not tell you the full picture because we see hormonal fluctuations in perimenopause that impact water retention. And obviously your weight shifts in estrogen and progesterone can cause unpredictable water retention. Bloating and scale changes even day to day. Midlife bodies don’t follow the same calories in calories out equals perfect weight drop model.

 

[00:22:42] Emily Field: You need more tools to assess progress, and relying on the scale can wreck your mindset. When progress is happening in strength, confidence, energy, or body shape, but you only focus on the scale, you miss out on the winds and often quit too soon. This fuels an all or nothing mindset and undermines long-term success.

 

[00:23:01] Emily Field: So what should you do instead? I really encourage you to measure what really matters. I want you to track body composition markers through progress photos. That’s the same lighting, same clothes, same time of day, circumference measurements, at least your waist, your hips, your arms, your thighs, but it can include even more.

 

[00:23:20] Emily Field: And how your clothes are fitting. How snug or loose your clothes feel over time. Track your performance and biofeedback. Are you lifting heavier? Are you feeling stronger, more energetic? Are you sleeping better, less bloated, fewer cravings? And then lastly, zoom out and look for trends, not daily fluctuations.

 

[00:23:38] Emily Field: The scale is just one data point and not even the most useful one in midlife fat loss. And here’s a bonus mistake I couldn’t leave out, and that’s overlooking stress management. Most midlife women have lived their entire adult life in a go, go, go state, high performance at work, caregiving at home, volunteering, showing up for everyone but themselves and never really stopping to ask, is this sustainable?

 

[00:24:04] Emily Field: And the truth is, for a long time you could probably get away with it. But now in perimenopause, the rules have changed. As your ovaries start producing less estrogen and progesterone, your adrenal glands are supposed to pick up the slack. But if you’ve been running on fumes from undereating over exercising, drinking to cope and sleeping poorly, those adrenals are fried, and what happens then you get stuck, burned out, bloated, fatigued.

 

[00:24:30] Emily Field: This is the time in your life where stress isn’t just emotional, it’s biochemical. So if you’re not actively managing your stress. You’re actively working against your goals. Start thinking of rest, recovery, boundaries, and nourishment as part of your fat loss strategy because they are. The mistake I see women make is believing that stress is just a part of life and continuing to operate at full speed without realizing the physiological toll it’s taking.

 

[00:24:57] Emily Field: It often sounds like this is just how my life is. I’m always busy, I’ll rest. When things calm down, I’m fine. I’m just tired. It’s normal. I. But that backfires in perimenopause. Your adrenal glands take over hormonal production. As your ovaries begin to slow estrogen and progesterone output your adrenal glands step in and produce smaller amounts, especially of estrogen precursors like DHEA.

 

[00:25:20] Emily Field: But if your adrenals are already taxed from years or decades of chronic stress under eating poor sleep and over training, they can’t keep up. This leads to worse fatigue, brain fog, stubborn fat gain, especially that belly fat and increased inflammation. Midlife women are often living in a high stress default mode.

 

[00:25:39] Emily Field: You spent your whole adult life performing for your job, your family, your community. You’ve worn stress like a badge of honor, and because it’s always been this way, you don’t even register at a stress anymore. But chronic stress equals chronically elevated cortisol, and that’s gonna lead to poor sleep, poor recovery, muscle loss, insulin resistance, and fat storage.

 

[00:26:02] Emily Field: The stress load includes more than just what’s on your calendar. Stress isn’t just meetings or caregiving. It’s also undereating. Your body sees this as a threat over training. You’re not getting enough recovery here. Alcohol, which impairs your cortisol regulation and sleep, poor sleep, which amplifies every other stressor and mental load.

 

[00:26:22] Emily Field: That’s the decision fatigue, the emotional labor. It’s a vicious cycle that leaves your body stuck in survival mode, making fat loss nearly impossible. Pretty dismal. So what do we do instead? I want you to build a recovery strategy, not just a workout plan. Start treating stress reduction like a non-negotiable.

 

[00:26:40] Emily Field: That’s daily walking, especially outside at low intensity, setting boundaries around work and home responsibilities. Saying no to protect your yes. Improve your sleep hygiene. Set a consistent bedtime and a consistent wake time limit alcohol and screen use in the evening. Consider supplements like magnesium or adaptogens.

 

[00:27:01] Emily Field: And then lastly, support your adrenals with nourishment, not depletion. That means eating enough calories, especially carbs and protein strength training, but with recovery in mind and incorporating breath work, meditation, journaling, or stillness, even five to 10 minutes totally counts. So let’s bring it all together.

 

[00:27:22] Emily Field: Fat loss and perimenopause isn’t just about eating less and moving more. It’s about working with your body, not against it. We’ve been conditioned to believe that restriction, hustle, and constant control are the keys to success, but in this season of life, those strategies backfire. We talked about six major mistakes, restrictive dieting that slows your metabolism, chasing quick fixes instead of committing to long-term change, using alcohol as a coping tool without realizing its cost.

 

[00:27:49] Emily Field: Avoiding strength training when it’s the most powerful tool you have, relying only on the scale to measure progress and ignoring stress even when it’s the invisible anchor holding you back. These aren’t character flaws. They’re misguided strategies that many smart, capable women have followed for years because no one ever taught you differently, but now you know better, and that means you can do better with patience, strategy, and support.

 

[00:28:15] Emily Field: So if this episode made you feel seen, encouraged, or even just a little more informed, share it with a friend who needs to hear it. And if you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and get the tools that actually work for this stage in life, that’s exactly what I help women do every day inside Eat to lean coaching midlife can be powerful, and you deserve to feel strong, capable, and confident in your body.

 

[00:28:36] Emily Field: Let’s make that your new normal. Thank you so much for listening to the Macros Made Easy podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the one you’re listening to right now to share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at Emily Field Rd so that more people can find this podcast and learn how to use a macros approach in a stress-free way.

 

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