If you’re a 40+ perimenopausal woman who desperately wants to be part of the midlife movement of strong, hot, sculpted women — but finds herself emotionally spiralling, wondering if anything is actually working — then this week’s episode is one you don’t want to miss.

I know you’re showing up every day.

But stepping on the scale feels like an emotional rollercoaster.

Or you spend hours in the gym and still question whether you’re actually building muscle.

The years are flying by, and you don’t have time to waste — so how do you know if what you’re doing is working, or if something needs to change now, not later?

The answer is data.

Yes, it sounds clinical — but this is where the clarity lives.

In today’s podcast, I break down exactly what data you should be tracking, and how to tell if your plan is truly working for you.

This episode is the conversation I wish every high-achieving woman could hear.

So many women tell me, “I’m doing everything right.”

And what they usually mean is they’ve spent years chasing the same fixes: cutting carbs, fasting, eating “clean”, and training harder to force fat loss.

Then perimenopause arrives — and suddenly the belly fat, cravings, sleep issues, and slow muscle gain get blamed on hormones, as if that’s the whole story.

In this episode, I unpack the non-obvious part: many of those “fixes” create metabolic stress, and perimenopause simply amplifies it because your buffer is smaller now.

That’s why the same strategy that worked in your 30s starts failing loudly in your 40s.

If you’re disciplined, consistent, and still not getting a response from your body — press play.

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I’ve just come out the other side of back surgery and rehab and here's how I'm claiming back my body composition..

You already know what that does to a body.
Limited movement. No walking for a stretch.
Muscle drops. Body fat creeps in.

Here’s what didn’t happen.
I didn’t panic.
I didn’t rush fat loss.
I didn’t try to control the outcome while my body was busy healing.

Because I understand the exact process to get back to where I was.
And so will you, once you see it clearly.

This podcast walks you through the exact method I use, and teach:
Establish. Optimise. Body Composition Manipulation. Sustainability.

During recovery, my only job was nourishment, sleep, calm, and letting my nervous system stand down.

Now I’m training normally again I am applying my method to set me up to successfully gain back my muscle and reduce body fat.

In this episode I discuss
My establish phase and where I want to go

Now I’m moving into optimise.
Rebuilding training quality. Fueling output. Restoring capacity.

Body composition comes after that.
Not as a fight. Not through guessing but through a defined process driven by data and not emotion.

And sustainability comes after which I already know how to do.
Not gaining any weight in this period, or when I travelled for a month in Europe shows I know how to sustain the results.

If you’re disciplined, consistent, and data-literate....
yet quietly frustrated that your body no longer responds the way it used to, this episode will land.

Not because it’s motivating.
Because it’s precise. It has answers and strips away all the emotional knee-jerk responses.

Listen when you’re ready to stop trying to piece together all the drips of information out there and start applying a method that holds up in real life. I'm here for you.

Lou 🧡