Truly Balanced: The Midlife Insider

A woman tracked me down on Facebook. I was scared to open the message. My mind went straight to the worst-case scenario. I opened it anyway. It was a thank you. She came into the ER late at night. Ruptured breast implants. She did not know if they were silicone or saline. She did not know what came next. She remembered one thing. I treated her like a human. I explained. I listened. I helped her breathe. She wrote, Your kindness really put me at ease. That line stays with me.

When she first reached out in January, she was at her breaking point. She had done everything she thought she was supposed to do. She cut back on food. She fasted for days at a time. She pushed through the fatigue and the hunger. But the scale would not move. She told me: “Even when I fasted for 3 to 5 days, nothing changed. I was truly frustrated.” It wasn’t just the number on the scale. Her energy was gone. She was dragging herself through the day. Her clothes no longer fit

One of my clients told me, “I thought this was just part of getting older.” She had started gaining weight during perimenopause. Her knees and hips hurt every day. She was always hungry or craving something. She tried to eat right.  She worked out. She drank the smoothies and followed the advice. But nothing worked. She was exhausted. She didn’t feel like herself anymore. That was her life for years. She kept pushing through, thinking it would get better. That was her normal.