Stop working harder: What your body actually needs in midlife ... "I'm eating healthy and working out, but nothing is working, I'm exhausted and not losing weight" Sound familiar? I see you... You've been trying. You're eating 'pretty healthy'. You're trying to get your steps in. Following influencers on IG and buying supplements, but you still don't look or feel how you want. Maybe it's time to cut calories again!? I get it. You're tired and frustrated and wondering why your body doesn't seem to be responding. Here's the part nobody tells you : doing more isn't always the answer. Especially as our body shifts in midlife. Our body needs a better strategy, not more pressure put on it. In this article, I'm going to explain 3 reasons this happens - and what I'd change first. 1) You're probably underestimating how much you're actually doing. Your schedule, the stress and demands on your time add up more than you may realize. A jam packed schedule every day, even packed with things we enjoy, take a toll on our nervous system and impede our health and physical progress. Remember times before cell phones, advanced computers? We had time to be bored. There were less health issues then too ... something to think about. Time away from technology, legit time to be with our thoughts and emotions, actual physical and mental quiet time helps, ease our flight or fight state. Specific breathing techniques, coupled with stretches, somatic release (body movement) can absolutely turn our autonomic nervous system to rest and digest. This state of rest and digest, is where we heal, grow, and stabilize. When the body feels safe, it can focus on fat loss, muscle gain, and immune boosting. 2) You're not giving your body enough of what it actually needs We need sufficient protein for our needs, especially past age 40. Every year past 30, we start to lose muscle, and in order to maintain what we have or better yet, increase our muscle mass, we have to eat, train, and send the right signals in order to maintain and build muscle. It really is science. Because we are on the go, we don't consistently eat what we need in the amounts we need it. Each woman should be getting .7-1.2g of protein per lb of body weight. That is a lot more food than you may think, so the first step would be to weigh and track what you eat now for a minimum of 1 week and then progressively increase intake. Having meal strategies and recipes to help you attain those numbers and how to do it in phases, is what I'll teach you. Couple sufficient intake with strength training and quality sleep and you will feel like a new woman! 3) You're focusing on a number, instead of the whole picture Taking measurements of your body, tracking your strength and performance gains, monitoring and documenting your change in body composition, along with acknowledging and analyzing your mindset at benchmarks along the way will actually give you a more accurate picture of what is happening. There are a number of elements and processes occurring in your body daily that actually make up your total body weight, so it will fluctuate from day to day. Your body fat percentage is what you want to monitor and most likely reduce to ensure your health is increasing. When you build muscle, it weighs something, but you might exchange it for body fat, so you will look smaller, tighter, more "toned" but your weight may not decrease, or change, in fact it could increase. That is why being married to a number will mess with your head, health, and results. Learn how to read the whole picture. We rarely put time into acquiring the skills needed to stay with the hard boring things, because who even knows where to start!? This is why I don't believe in diets or another bootcamp you have to force yourself to get through. It truly is about our approach, our tools to help us get those habits in place, one step at a time. Your health is not one isolated behavior. Your health is a system. You require Strategy + Support. Tools that make it easier to implement habits and skills. When we put Nutrition + Movement + Mindset + Habits + Recovery + Support = Real lasting results. When these pieces work together, then you stop starting over constantly, and you start building something of substance, something that will last. I don't know about you, but I believe you deserve to stop the madness, stop the cycle, and take back control and own the life you want! So, are you ready to stop guessing and start building a health strategy that fits your life? That's exactly what I help women do inside Sassy Warrior Fit. We make transformations. We go from Rundown to Radiant. Join us by clicking the link below!