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And I never looked back, mainly because I hate doing endurance cardio. It's not fun. It takes up a lot of time. But in my 20s, I was doing a lot of it and a lot of resistance training. And what's interesting is I have more muscle. I'm stronger now than I was in my 20s because I was doing loads of cardio and loads of resistance training.

I dumped a lot of the cardio, flipped it into high-intensity interval training. I, you know, walk and rock. And I'm now, you know, more ripped than I am now than I was then.

I dumped a lot of the cardio, flipped it into high-intensity interval training. I, you know, walk and rock. And I'm now, you know, more ripped than I am now than I was then.

I dumped a lot of the cardio, flipped it into high-intensity interval training. I, you know, walk and rock. And I'm now, you know, more ripped than I am now than I was then.

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So I'm 60 wonderful. 60 wonderful, okay. 60 wonderful. And I'm an open book. I'll tell you everything I'm doing. I've been on hormone replacement therapy from the moment my hormones started to shift. And here's what was super cool about that. So when I was on Dr. Phil, he had a little chapter in his book called Weight Loss Resistance, and I thought, what a concept.

So I'm 60 wonderful. 60 wonderful, okay. 60 wonderful. And I'm an open book. I'll tell you everything I'm doing. I've been on hormone replacement therapy from the moment my hormones started to shift. And here's what was super cool about that. So when I was on Dr. Phil, he had a little chapter in his book called Weight Loss Resistance, and I thought, what a concept.

So I'm 60 wonderful. 60 wonderful, okay. 60 wonderful. And I'm an open book. I'll tell you everything I'm doing. I've been on hormone replacement therapy from the moment my hormones started to shift. And here's what was super cool about that. So when I was on Dr. Phil, he had a little chapter in his book called Weight Loss Resistance, and I thought, what a concept.

I fell in love with this idea because working in real life, working in the wild, I saw people that were eating right, exercising, and stuck, especially perimenopausal women. And this whole idea that nothing changes when you're perimenopausal, your metabolism stays the same, has got to be men saying that. Not one perimenopausal woman will say that to you, I don't think. Yeah.

I fell in love with this idea because working in real life, working in the wild, I saw people that were eating right, exercising, and stuck, especially perimenopausal women. And this whole idea that nothing changes when you're perimenopausal, your metabolism stays the same, has got to be men saying that. Not one perimenopausal woman will say that to you, I don't think. Yeah.

I fell in love with this idea because working in real life, working in the wild, I saw people that were eating right, exercising, and stuck, especially perimenopausal women. And this whole idea that nothing changes when you're perimenopausal, your metabolism stays the same, has got to be men saying that. Not one perimenopausal woman will say that to you, I don't think. Yeah.

And when did you start? Because I think that's a big question that people are very confused with. Well, yeah, you start when things start to shift. So that's different for everybody. That could be late 30s. It could be early 40s. For me, early... early 40s, I think I was around 44, I remember all of a sudden, I used to always be the sweaty one, like sweaty, sweaty, sweaty, you know?

And when did you start? Because I think that's a big question that people are very confused with. Well, yeah, you start when things start to shift. So that's different for everybody. That could be late 30s. It could be early 40s. For me, early... early 40s, I think I was around 44, I remember all of a sudden, I used to always be the sweaty one, like sweaty, sweaty, sweaty, you know?

And when did you start? Because I think that's a big question that people are very confused with. Well, yeah, you start when things start to shift. So that's different for everybody. That could be late 30s. It could be early 40s. For me, early... early 40s, I think I was around 44, I remember all of a sudden, I used to always be the sweaty one, like sweaty, sweaty, sweaty, you know?

And all of a sudden I'm cold and I got a little constipated. I started to lose my eyebrow. And this happened like that. And one of my friends was an integrative med doc who was like, looked at my TSH, which was 2.25, I remember. Totally in the range. And I was hypothyroid. And the minute he gave me a little thyroid, it's like the lights came back on. Everything normalized.

And all of a sudden I'm cold and I got a little constipated. I started to lose my eyebrow. And this happened like that. And one of my friends was an integrative med doc who was like, looked at my TSH, which was 2.25, I remember. Totally in the range. And I was hypothyroid. And the minute he gave me a little thyroid, it's like the lights came back on. Everything normalized.

And all of a sudden I'm cold and I got a little constipated. I started to lose my eyebrow. And this happened like that. And one of my friends was an integrative med doc who was like, looked at my TSH, which was 2.25, I remember. Totally in the range. And I was hypothyroid. And the minute he gave me a little thyroid, it's like the lights came back on. Everything normalized.

The next thing that happened was I could not recover from my workouts like I used to. Now I know from, you know, Dr. Vonda Wright, that this is... musculoskeletal syndrome due to menopause. But back then I was like, I had no clue. I was just like, what is going on? And my gums started to bleed a little bit and my dentist was like, that's low estrogen.