28/05/2026
At 35 I could get away with it.
The late nights. The wine. The skipped meals.
The workouts I pushed through on no sleep.
My body bounced back.
From 45 ? It keeps score.
If your body feels different right now — harder to manage, harder to understand — you are not imagining it.
This is perimenopause. And nobody prepared us for it.
Here’s what’s actually happening 👇
✦ Inflammation you could once ignore now shows up as joint pain, bloating, exhaustion and weight that won’t shift
✦ Sleep is being stolen by night sweats and a racing mind at 3am
✦ Your body composition is changing even if the scale says the same number
✦ Brain fog is real — oestrogen protects your brain, and right now it’s fluctuating
✦ Your mood isn’t you — it’s your hormones dropping and spiking without warning
This is not the time to push harder.
This is the time to get intentional.
Intentional with what you eat.
Intentional with how you move.
Intentional with how you rest and recover.
Your 40s are not the beginning of the end.
They are the beginning of knowing yourself deeply enough to do things differently.
You deserve that. 🤍
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