12/27/2025
Women 35+ are carrying more cognitive load than any generation before them: careers, teams, deadlines, kids’ schedules, a household, relationships, constant stimulus.
High output with zero margin for recovery.
Yet the advice is still frozen in time. Eat less. Move more. Cut carbs. Try harder.
So when a woman starts to feel uncomfortable in her body, she does what she’s been taught: restrict harder.
1200 calories. More cardio, less food, more willpower.
That doesn’t create fat loss results. It overwhelms an already stressed and burnt out system.
A body under chronic stress plus chronic under-fueling doesn’t get lean. It gets inflamed, it gets exhausted, and it gets reactive
Cravings increase. Food noise gets louder. Binges feel out of control.
Cortisol stays elevated. Sleep degrades. Digestion slows. Inflammation rises. And the body drives fat storage to the belly.
So it feels like maximum effort with zero return. Not because the body is broken, or because you’re past the point of your life where it works - it’s because it’s stressed and starving.
The answer is not more restriction - the answer is regulation.
Regulating stress.
Fueling metabolism and hormones with nutrition frameworks that work in real life.
Removing friction with systems and environments that make follow-through automatic.
Every woman I’ve worked with was busy- Jobs, kids, social lives, to-do lists.
And every one of them lost fat and regained control.
Not through restriction - through nourishment.
So don’t go into 2026 with more intensity - go in with a plan.
DM THRIVE to learn how the Resilient Body Blueprint helps women lose fat, restore control, and build a body that works with their life instead of against it.