The Midlife Feast

Today's episode of The Midlife Feast may not be of interest to everyone, but it's an important conversation to have as many women often find themselves trying to conceive after 40.  And the hormonal changes that are happening in perimenopause can make getting pregnant, and staying pregnant, more challenging.Dr. Jordan Robertson ND is my guest today, and we talk about why fertility declines as we age, what hormones are involved in assessing fertility, why integrative approaches may be better than alternative ones, and why you shouldn't lose hope if you find yourself struggling to conceive.Dr. Jordan is a Naturopathic Doctor, author, and podcaster who is taking women's health research and making it more accessible for the everyday woman. Her mission is to create confident women's health consumers and help women learn to take care of themselves and their families with the best research in integrative and conventional medicine. Learn more about Dr. Jordan at www.drjordannd.comFor information about me and how I help support women in all stages of midlife with non-diet health and hormone support please visit https://linktr.ee/JshuberWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!Ditch the food guilt for a more peaceful (and nourishing!) relationship with food.  Grab my free Food Guilt Decoder here: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

This week's episode is a story session about Lindsay's experience of going into menopause at 42, and what she'd like others to know about her experience.While perimenopause is often missed, or misdiagnosed for several years, it's even more likely to be missed for women who go into menopause early before the age of 45.And for women who stop having periods earlier than expected, it's important to have a hormone-savvy practitioner on their team to help them manage the long-term risks of being without estrogen for longer than expected.Looking for support in perimenopause and menopause? Click here to learn more and grab some of my free resources for women in midlife.What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!Ditch the food guilt for a more peaceful (and nourishing!) relationship with food.  Grab my free Food Guilt Decoder here: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Even if you're not on an anti-diet journey, you're going to want to listen to this episode with Dr. Maggie Landes MD. We talk about her cancer diagnosis and how her journey convinced her to break up with the BMI, why most clinical encounters don't require your weight (and how to talk to your doctor about it), and why telling someone to "lose weight" is not only bad medicine but unethical. Maggie Landes is a board-certified physician, public health nutritionist, and anti-diet wellness expert. Her dual-mission is focused on not just helping women in midlife escape the grips of diet culture and recover from their lifelong turbulent relationship with food, but Maggie, in her Pro2Pro services, supports other health professionals to participate in, and promote, a weight-neutral approach to practice.She is also the creator and host of “The Eatfluencer Podcast” where she and her guests unpack all the issues related to constructing a healthy, complete, and high-quality life unlimited by the oppression of diet culture.All of her personal coaching and programs support the Health at Every Size philosophy (HAES®), the framework of Intuitive Eating, and a weight-inclusive, body-neutral approach to health and wellness. Learn more at https://www.maggielandesmd.com and grab her “Client to Clinic” Health Pro Resource Bundle here https://www.maggielandesmd.com/pro2proWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!Ditch the food guilt for a more peaceful (and nourishing!) relationship with food.  Grab my free Food Guilt Decoder here: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

In today's final episode, I'm ending the Midlife Un-Dieting Miniseries by talking about what happens when un-dieting meets menopause nutrition, and how gentle nutrition can help you make peace with food and meet your health and nutrition goals by discussing my '4 Pillars of Intuitive Nutrition.  Need help making peace with food in midlife after a lifetime of dieting?Beyond the Scale Group ProgramFree Menopause Nutrition for Un-Dieters GuideConnect with me on Instagram - @menopause.nutritionistWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Welcome to Day 4 of the 'Midlife Un-Dieting Miniseries. Have you ever tried to write an essay about a book after having skipped the middle and gone right to the end? If so, then you know that the ending doesn't always make sense if you don't know the whole story.  Gentle nutrition is the intuitive eating principle that everyone wants to dive into, but in today's episode I explain why the work of un-dieting needs to come first, otherwise you risk turning intuitive eating into another diet.Need help making peace with food in midlife after a lifetime of dieting?Beyond the Scale Group ProgramFree Menopause Nutrition for Un-Dieters GuideConnect with me on Instagram - @menopause.nutritionistWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Welcome to Day 3 of my Midlife Un-Dieting Miniseries. You've probably heard mindset described in relation to goal setting before, but today's episode isn't about staying focused on your goal, or how to adopt a "winning" mindset.It's about permission vs. restriction and what happens to our brain when we say YES instead of NO. Understanding why control creates craving may be the "aha" moment you've been looking for to get out of the diet mentality and make peace with food.Need help making peace with food in midlife after a lifetime of dieting?Beyond the Scale Group ProgramFree Menopause Nutrition for Un-Dieters GuideConnect with me on Instagram - @menopause.nutritionistWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Welcome to my 5-day miniseries on Un-Dieting in Midlife. Today is day 1, and in this short episode I'm talking about why making your nutrition goals primarily about weight loss may be keeping you from what you're really looking for.I talk about why the desire for weight loss keeps us stuck in the diet cycle, and the beliefs that we need to change about diet, weight, and health to get out of the diet mentality (without feeling like we're free-falling!), and into a more sustainable relationship with food. If you can't imagine a world where your decisions about food aren't based on changing your weight, you'll definitely want to tune in.Beyond the Scale Group Program Free Menopause Nutrition for Un-Dieters GuideConnect with me on Instagram - @menopause.nutritionistWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Welcome to Day 2 of the Midlife Un-Dieting Miniseries.  and today we're digging into 3 common beliefs you need to un-diet to have a more peaceful relationship with food.I break down why you can let go of the fear that food is "addictive", why weight isn't a proxy for health, and that willpower isn't the reason why diets haven't worked for you.Need help making peace with food in midlife after a lifetime of dieting? Beyond the Scale Group ProgramFree Menopause Nutrition for Un-Dieters GuideConnect with me on Instagram - @menopause.nutritionistWhat did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Perimenopause often shows up at a time in our lives when there's a lot going on. Work and family obligations may be expected life demands, but navigating the loss of a parent and a spouse's major health concerns may not be. Today's story session with Amanda Bullat RDN, a fellow non-diet dietitian who works with women in midlife, shares her experience of navigating the hormonal ups and downs that crash-landed into her life while she was in her late 30s.Amanda specializes in supporting middle-aged women of all sizes who are struggling withdisordered eating, chronic dieting, eating disorders, and body shame. Using the frameworks of Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size®, and the therapeutic Be Body Positive Model® created by The Body Positive, Amanda supports clients as they re-discover how to Savor Food & Body.To learn more about Amanda, visit her website at www.alpinenutrition.org  or follow her on Instagram @alpinenutrition.What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!Ditch the food guilt for a more peaceful (and nourishing!) relationship with food.  Grab my free Food Guilt Decoder here: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist

Meno-rage: IYKYK. But why does it happen? Who do so many women from all walks of life relate to this volcano of anger? Is it just hormonal? Or is is cultural?Mona Eltahawy is my guest this week, and we break down the cultural understanding of meno-rage, and what women can do about it.Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. She is founder and editor-in-chief of the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2105) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world.Support her latest project (which I'm also a part of) at https://unbound.com/books/bloody-hell-and-other-stories/.What did you think of this episode? Click here and let me know!Ditch the food guilt for a more peaceful (and nourishing!) relationship with food.  Grab my free Food Guilt Decoder here: https://www.menopausenutritionist.ca/FoodGuiltDecoder📚 I wrote a book! Eat To Thrive During Menopause is out now! Order your copy today and start thriving in midlife. Looking for more about midlife, menopause nutrition, and intuitive eating? Click here to grab one of my free guides and learn what I've got "on the menu" including my 1:1 and group programs. https://www.easy.link/menopause.nutritionist