If you recently turned 40 or older, you may have been told to start losing weight or avoid gaining weight to prevent common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
If you recently turned 50 or older, you may be experiencing newfound freedom with the kids are out of the house, your career on auto-pilot, and having more time for YOU - finally!
Add these experiences together and you may be searching for the next best trends in healthy eating and exercise - and why not, now that life can be about you.
And then life gets hard. You experience the grief of seeing your kids move out, your parents and friends age, your relationship with your partner or spouse moving into uncharted territory as empty nesters, and your body has decided to gain more than a few pounds around your waist.
On top of all this, your emotions and hormone regulation seem to be constantly in head-on collisions with each other.
To cope you enlist old friends...restricting or bingeing on food and spending hours at the gym or on the couch with your bestie Netflix.
It's hard to find the middle ground between health and emotional coping during midlife, and it can be the perfect time to slide down the slippery slope of wellness trends only to trigger food restriction and bingeing with a side of body shame.
But it doesn't have to be this way! Listen to my conversation with Tammy Beasley, certified eating disorder registered dietitian as we talk about...
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