This question came up recently, and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Someone asked me how she could lose weight without having to stop eating, especially the foods she actually enjoys. It was such an honest question, and I think it speaks for so many women in perimenopause and menopause. Because let’s be honest, most women are not asking, “How can I follow another miserable diet that makes me feel hungry, restricted and slightly furious by 3pm?” They are asking,

From thunder thighs to meno belly, women’s bodies have been turned into marketing material for decades. Before diet culture sells women the solution, it often gives the body part a name. Thunder thighs. Muffin top. Bingo wings. Mum tum. Meno belly. Cortisol belly. Love handles. Saddlebags. Bra bulge. Spare tyre. Jelly belly. Cankles. Back fat. Double chin. Once you start noticing these phrases, it becomes impossible to ignore how often women’s bodies are chopped up into parts

GLP-1 has become one of those health terms that seems to have appeared everywhere almost overnight. One minute most people had never heard of it, and the next it was being used to sell weight loss injections, supplements, GLP-1 diets, meal plans, powders, probiotics and all sorts of “natural alternatives” aimed at women in perimenopause and menopause. As always, there is often a small piece of truth sitting underneath the marketing, but that truth can become very distorted wh