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Midlife Memoirs #1 Lupe

Midlife Memoirs #1 Lupe

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 Midlife Memoirs #1: Lupe — She Couldn't Do One Pushup, Now She Does 57 Welcome to Midlife Memoirs This is the very first Midlife Memoirs. The idea is simple. Real people, real midlife journeys, shared out loud. So we can share stories, help others, maybe laugh a little, and realise how far we have come. My first guest is Lupe, a dear friend I have known for close to 30 years. We first met at Gold's Gym Venice in the late 1990s. How Lupe and I Met Lupe was a flight attendant on a layover. She saw a fitness competition, looked it up, and came to find me because I was training Monica Brant at the time. She sat down with me outside Gold's Gym Venice and said she wanted to do a fitness competition. In eight weeks. I asked how much training she had done. How much dancing. Zero. Zero. So I asked her to do a pushup. She couldn't do one. On her toes. At 26 years old. We trained together for almost five years after that. She would drive from Hermosa Beach, then Huntington Beach, to Venice to train with me. And now, at 57, she can do at least 57 pushups in one go. 57 at 57. That says everything. The Kindergarten Lesson Lupe's analogy for walking into Gold's Gym Venice is perfect. She was entering kindergarten. She didn't even know how to do a pushup. I already had my masters, so to speak. I had competed and done it all. Her point, and mine: everybody wants to start at the end. Nobody wants to do the dirty work at the beginning. Everybody gets frustrated because they start and they are not already good at it. If you accept you are starting at the beginning, you can actually enjoy all the progress. And a good trainer at the very start can save you decades. YouTube and apps are fine. But a good coach for even a few months can save you from years of doing it wrong and then having to unravel it. When Midlife Crept In For Lupe, menopause did not arrive with a big announcement. It crept in, bit by bit, at around 51. She was flying back and forth to Sacramento caring for her mum, who had suffered a stroke and had aphasia. Life was full: a window cleaning business with her husband, a dog, all of it. One day she noticed she didn't think she had had her period that month. She put it to one side. Then came the hot flashes. Lupe had always been cold. Suddenly she was hot, and she didn't understand what was happening. Nobody had warned her, in any detail, what to expect. Her two older sisters, 18 and 20 years older, had completely different experiences. One, with poor eating and exercise habits, had terrible hot flashes. The other, with great habits, barely felt it. That contrast is the whole lesson. The Window Before It Starts Women who go into perimenopause insulin resistant get slammed. Women who go in healthy get through it far easier. That is why the late 30s and early 40s matter so much. Get your fasted insulin checked. Eat better. Watch your carbohydrate intake. Get your protein up. You don't have to be perfect. But if those habits are in place before things start changing, the experience is completely different. Once the weight is gained and the issues have piled up, it is much harder to undo. Like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. There are six hormones that change your body composition with age, but the two big ones are insulin and cortisol, and you can control both of those. Grief, Anxiety, and Thoughts That Weren't Hers Lupe's mum passed away five years ago. A year later, her husband's mum passed. Then his dad, about a year ago. Grief on top of hormones was, in her words, a recipe for havoc. Her superpower used to be sleep. Then she was waking at 2am, night after night. She started having anxious thoughts that had never been hers. Walking the dog and imagining another dog attacking it. Freaking out going through a tunnel on the freeway. Uneasy in an elevator if it stopped for a second. She didn't tell anyone. She thought people would think she was crazy. Estrogen keeps a lid on cortisol. When estrogen goes away, cortisol can rise, and worry rushes into the gap. That is why women can suddenly start worrying about things that never once entered their minds before. My own embarrassing moment: I lit a neighbour up over her dogs attacking ours. The old me would have had a calm conversation. That day, I went off like a flare. Afterwards I thought, who was that? Awareness is a huge part of it. The moment you recognise what is happening, it drops from a 10 to a 2. The Turtleneck Story ✓ Lupe's funniest symptom story: a turtleneck on a plane to Mexico, a hot flash closing in, and her ready to cut the thing off with scissors. ✓ Her rule now: wear something underneath you can strip down to, and only wear tops you can get off fast. Zip-ups, not pullovers. ✓ Costume changes, ladies. That is part of this journey too. The Worst Advice She Was Given A friend, a breast cancer survivor, told Lupe how terrible HRT was. It wasn't intentional. But Lupe trusted her, didn't do her own research, and it put her off even ...
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