The Leaner You Podcast with Daniel Rosenthal and Santo Chiappetta
Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 15 segments
Daniel is away again this week, so we're reposting another one of our most popular episodes. \__ What used to work doesn’t work anymore in perimenopause. Same meals, same workouts, same effort……
absolutely Otherwise, we wouldn't have jobs right now if we weren't able to help these women going through perimenopause, right? And the truth is that your metabolism does not drop in perimenopause.
The rules of fat loss have not changed, okay? Now, I'm not saying that to deny the experience that you're having, okay? I'm saying that because I want to let you know that you actually have a lot more control than you realize.
That statement or those statements, I'm making them to help you feel like you actually have power to do something and to change this.
Because what has actually changed, and I made a list here of things that have actually changed around this kind of age.
Sleep quality is probably worse, and that may well be related to perimenopause and hormonal shifts.
Your recovery has slowed down just as part of having like a body that isn't 20 years old anymore.
I think of it as we need an extra night of sleep before we fully recover from a workout.
Your daily movement may have decreased because this has happened to me and I've had to be very intentional about it.
And I guess your structure overall has either weakened or has just completely fallen apart.
And the old approach, the things that used to work don't work now because you're almost a different person now.
You're at least a different version of who you were, the way that you live life, your responsibilities.
absolutely Otherwise, we wouldn't have jobs right now if we weren't able to help these women going through perimenopause, right? And the truth is that your metabolism does not drop in perimenopause.
The rules of fat loss have not changed, okay? Now, I'm not saying that to deny the experience that you're having, okay? I'm saying that because I want to let you know that you actually have a lot more control than you realize.
That statement or those statements, I'm making them to help you feel like you actually have power to do something and to change this.
Because what has actually changed, and I made a list here of things that have actually changed around this kind of age.
Sleep quality is probably worse, and that may well be related to perimenopause and hormonal shifts.
Your recovery has slowed down just as part of having like a body that isn't 20 years old anymore.
I think of it as we need an extra night of sleep before we fully recover from a workout.
Your daily movement may have decreased because this has happened to me and I've had to be very intentional about it.
And I guess your structure overall has either weakened or has just completely fallen apart.
And the old approach, the things that used to work don't work now because you're almost a different person now.
You're at least a different version of who you were, the way that you live life, your responsibilities.
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