Episode 282: Why you're not making progress and exactly what to do about it

I'm going to use a fake name just to protect her privacy.

So we will go with Stacey.

Okay.

Okay.

So here's what she shared with me.

She is an ultra runner, but I don't believe that she actually has run a race recently.

So she is quite active and does run a lot, but had not done, I think, an ultra race in like the kind of recent history.

She has gained – 15 plus pounds over the past year.

She is fully in perimenopause.

There were a couple of times where she thought she was maybe in menopause because she'd gone like five or six months without a period, and then her period showed up.

And you know you are officially in menopause when you have gone one year without a menstrual cycle.

There's no blood test.

You can't tell if you're in perimenopause or menopause.

That is how you know, one year without a period.

That is the clinical definition of menopause.

So if you've gone six months and you get a period, you're not in menopause.

You start all over again from that six months, which in some ways can be really frustrating for women because it's like you think you know where you are in the process and then suddenly you get like thrown for a loop and you're like, oh, fuck.

It's like I'm starting over again.

Really frustrating.

So she is fully in perimenopause though, right? The fact that she's going these long stretches without a period really indicates that.

And so she's gained weight.

She's gained at least 15 pounds.

She said probably closer to 20.

Doesn't recognize her body.

Isn't happy with how she looks.