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Are you experiencing weight gain and perimenopause?

If you're eating less and exercising more but still gaining weight around your middle, dealing with mood swings, and feeling like your body has turned against you… you're not doing anything wrong, your hormones are shifting.

How many of these sound like you?

☐ You're gaining weight in midsection no matter what you try

☐ Your periods are irregular, heavier, or more painful

☐ You have hot flashes or night sweats that disrupt your sleep

☐ Your mood swings are unpredictable—irritable then tearful

☐ You can't lose weight the way you used to in your 20s and 30s

☐ You're more sensitive to stress and it shows up as weight gain

☐ Your energy crashes in the afternoon and you crave sugar

☐ You feel puffy, bloated, or inflamed even when you eat "clean"

If you checked 3 or more, your hormones are shifting and your body needs a different approach.

Maybe you think you just need to eat less and move more, but here's the truth…

Your Hormones are Changing How Your Body Stores Fat

As estrogen and progesterone decline in perimenopause, your body becomes more insulin-resistant. So your blood sugar spikes and crashes much more dramatically. When blood sugar is unstable, your body stores fat (especially around your middle) instead of burning it. This isn't about willpower or calories. Your hormones are literally telling your body to hold onto weight as a protective mechanism.

Your Metabolism Has Shifted

Declining estrogen affects how your body builds and maintains muscle mass. Less muscle means slower metabolism, which means you burn fewer calories at rest than you did in your 30s. But here's the catch: restrictive diets make this worse. When you drastically cut calories, your body thinks it's starving and slows your metabolism even more. You end up in a cycle of eating less, losing muscle, slowing your metabolism, and gaining weight anyway.

Your Body’s Stress Response is Making Everything Worse

Perimenopause is already stressful on your body. Add work pressure, poor sleep, and life demands, and your cortisol stays elevated which increases belly fat storage, disrupts blood sugar, and makes you crave sugar and carbs constantly. It also interferes with thyroid function, which further slows metabolism. So even if you're "doing everything right," chronic stress is working against you hormonally.

You’ve probably already tried these…

"Just Eat Less and Exercise More"

Why it fails: Restricting calories and doing intense cardio raises cortisol, depletes muscle mass, and slows your metabolism. Your body interprets this as starvation during an already hormonally stressful time. You might lose a few pounds initially, but they come back—with extra.

"Cut Out Carbs or Try Keto"

Why it fails: Extreme low-carb diets can work temporarily, but they often backfire in perimenopause. Your thyroid needs carbs to function properly, and your cortisol is already high from hormonal changes. Cutting carbs too low can worsen fatigue, mood swings, and metabolism issues.

"Do more High-Intensity Workouts"

Why it fails: When your nervous system is already stressed from hormonal changes, adding more physical stress through intense exercise increases cortisol and inflammation. You end up more exhausted, hungrier, and holding onto weight despite working out constantly.

"It's Just Part of Getting Older"

Why it fails: Weight gain and hormonal chaos aren't inevitable. Women who support their changing hormones with the right nutrition, stress management, and movement strategies can maintain healthy weight and feel great through perimenopause and beyond.

Weight gain is just one piece of the puzzle.

If you're dealing with weight gain and perimenopause, chances are you're also experiencing chronic fatigue, poor sleep, stress and burnout, digestive issues. That's because they're all connected—symptoms of the same underlying imbalances.

The Performance Advantage program doesn't just address fatigue—it addresses the ROOT CAUSES of why professional women burn out, gain weight, lose energy, and feel like shadows of their former selves.

In 12 weeks, we'll help you: