Have you ever looked around and seen all the extras people use when training in the gym?

If you want to take your lifting skills to the next level, some of these accessories could be perfect.

Your perimenopause symptoms didn’t just pop up overnight. Years of lifestyle and nutrition habits have gradually disrupted your hormones, depleting you of essential nutrients needed to balance hormones and support your body through this normal life transition. This includes getting adequate sunshine.

With campaigns like Slip, Slop, Slap encouraging you to cover up from any sun, spending long hours behind desks in offices, and using chemical-based and PUFA-filled lotions, it’s no wonder there is an epidemic of low vitamin D levels!

In my latest podcast, I discuss how our indoor lifestyles and fear of the sun are contributing to PMS, problematic periods, infertility, and perimenopause symptoms. Perimenopause isn’t a diagnosis, and you don’t have to suffer. Painful heavy periods are NOT normal.

So much division on social media about evidence-based calories in/out or those who claim it's more complex.

In today's podcast, I explore these ways of thinking and weigh in with my opinion of fat loss and what it takes for 40+ women struggling with perimenopause symptoms, stubborn belly fat and fatigue.

Laura is only at the beginning of her journey and yet she has had so many improvements.

Hear Laura's story about buying into the supplement fads, hitting her 40's with nothing working like it used to and feeling like she was just hanging on giving everything to family.

Just weeks into the program she has turned all that around, reduced from a table full of supplements to just a couple of targeted, no more sugar cravings and lost inches. That's all with calories increasing.

She's now primed and ready for a fatloss phase!

You may have seen me post a bit about the carrots salad and it's gaining popularity across social media.

I get a lot of questions about it and it's benefits when I post so this week I've answered all those common question and more on the good old carrot salad!

I have a special guest, Amy Bowe, joining me to discuss all things lifting as women and discovering feminine power through it.

We cover the journey, what it takes to build a body you love, and how it beautifully impacts so many other areas of life.

I sit down with client Kelly Amundsen and talk about how life feels now.

Kelly came to me unable to look at herself in the mirror, hated what she saw and was unable to step on a scale.

Working in with Kelly with where she was at, she has achieved great results. Hear how she feel is the best she ever has and can't remember a time she felt this good.

She has lost 50sm, gained muscle and won back her life.

Episode #19 of the Body By Design Podcast is Out now on Spotify an all major podcast platforms

In this episode I chat with Kitty Martone about the importance of progesterone, and why in perimenopause it is progesterone that is low and not estrogen.

We also cover other hormone topics such as Estrogen dominance and birth control where I reveal an emotional life event I've never publicly spoken about.

Kitty is co owner at Ona's

https://us.onasnatural.com/

And can be found on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/healthygutgirl_/

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