In perimenopause the workout that kept you fit for years can stop showing up in the mirror, and with T1D the lows around training get harder to predict. In this episode I go through five things: what changes in your body and why the scale hides it, why lifting heavy matters more now, weights first or short intervals instead of long cardio, the night after a workout, and recovery. Nothing in here is about doing more.

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In this episode I break down what actually moves your blood sugar during a workday when there is no food involved: what cortisol does to your liver, why sitting still makes it worse, and why the 3pm crash is the result of your morning rather than a craving you failed to resist.

You're told that if you just had more discipline, you'd stick to it. But you already run a career, a family, the whole thing, so discipline clearly isn't your problem. This episode breaks down why "be more consistent" is the wrong answer for a busy woman with Type 1, where that myth even came from, and the one thing that has to come first before any plan survives a bad week.

Before kids, when the weight crept up you ate a little less for a few weeks and it came off. Then you had your baby, and eating less just stopped working - if anything, the harder you cut, the more stuck you got.

After a baby your sleep, your stress hormones, your metabolism and (if you have Type 1) your insulin all change how your body handles food. This episode breaks down exactly why, what almost nobody explains to Type 1 mums, and the approach that actually gets your energy, blood sugar and confidence back without starving.

If your blood sugar crashes halfway through training, you never really make progress, you spend the session drinking juice instead of getting stronger, and you start training scared. Where you inject, when you train, the kind of training that holds your sugar steady instead of dropping it, and the small tweaks around your session that keep you flat from warm-up to cooldown. Built for high-performing women with Type 1 who want to train without the fear.

Your endo is good at their job. Their job just isn't the thing you actually want.

They keep you alive, they keep your numbers inside a range, and then they send you home. But that range is so wide you can be 'normal' and still feel flat, still be stuck, still not lose the weight no matter how hard you work at it. When your Dexcom shows a high at night, you're told to change your dinner factor or raise your basal - a patch on the symptom, while nobody asks why your sugar is climbing in the first place, or how to make your body need less insulin at all.

You ate double on holiday. Wine every night, pasta, dessert, no tracking, no gym. And somehow you came home leaner than when you left.

Here is what actually happened. On vacation your stress finally dropped. Work stopped, you slept, you walked all day, you sat in the sun. When stress falls, cortisol falls, and your body stops fighting your insulin. You ate more and stored less, because the thing driving the storage was never the food but the stress.

If you want your everyday body to behave like it is on holiday, check this episode.

Every time you got promoted, your body seemed to get worse. More money, more responsibility, and somehow more belly fat, higher blood sugar, less energy. Nobody connected those two things for you.

Here is the truth: it was never you slipping. Success itself changes your hormones. More hours, more pressure and less sleep push your cortisol up and keep it there. High cortisol makes you resistant to insulin, so your body needs more of it, and more insulin means more storage, right around your middle. Studies of thousands of workers even show the people under the most job strain gain the most weight around the middle.

If you have climbed and watched your body get worse the whole way, send me RESET on Instagram and I will check if I can help.