Carmen Hayward - Fitness & Nutrition Coach

Carmen Hayward - Fitness & Nutrition Coach You're doing the work. Beauty Salon

I find why it's not working.
55 lbs lost & muscle built in my 40s — after dieting since age 10.
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Meet Charlie, my 11 year old Staffy. ❤️ Also known as Charlie Warlie Pudding Pop (don't as me why I call him that 😅)He's...
09/12/2026

Meet Charlie, my 11 year old Staffy. ❤️ Also known as Charlie Warlie Pudding Pop (don't as me why I call him that 😅)

He's got some great tips for life we could all benefit from. (Especially the last one 🤭)

I'd love to know some lessons your pets have taught you 👇

In my mid-30s I thought consistency meant doing everything perfectly or not at all. I spent money on fat loss supplement...
09/11/2026

In my mid-30s I thought consistency meant doing everything perfectly or not at all. I spent money on fat loss supplements, practitioners trying to find a hidden reason I couldn't lose weight, and advice from anyone selling or using an extreme method.

What actually worked had nothing to do with any of that.

I'd convinced myself I was already trying — but I was avoiding the one thing that would've moved the needle: tracking and weighing my food. Once I stopped calling avoidance "effort," things changed.

There are no shortcuts. Just the basics, done consistently. For much longer than I wanted to admit that I had to do them.

In fact, here we are years later, and I still do the basics... day in and day out.

I used to blow up my entire plan the second I didn't see results in a week or two. New program, new trending diet plan, ...
09/11/2026

I used to blow up my entire plan the second I didn't see results in a week or two. New program, new trending diet plan, new "this is finally the one."
Every. Single. Time.

The problem was never the plan. It was that I never actually audited what I was doing before deciding it wasn't working.

Was I tracking everything, or just the easy stuff? Was I measuring my food, or guessing? Had I actually given it more than two weeks? How was my sleep? My stress? Was I only checking the scale and ignoring everything else? What did my weekends look like?

Half the time, "it's not working" meant "I haven't been consistent for long enough to know." The other half, it meant something I wasn't in check with was quietly sabotaging me.

Most of the time it's not that it isn't working. It's that it hasn't been given the chance to.

09/10/2026

You've got to watch this until the end 🤯🤯
Can we just stop misleading women for a minute?! I saw the caption to this reel, and I was like, "WHAT?!?!?"

Yes, some of this is correct. But you WILL NOT hold onto body fat in a severe calorie deficit (as per reel). Nor will you store fat in a regular calorie deficit (as per caption).

We need to stop the spreading of information that only confuses women and causes them to spin their wheels.

This stuff gets me so fired up!! Anyone else?!

And if you're ready to prove to your body that YOU are the one in control by collecting data and focusing on the scientifically proven basics, let's do it!

There is SO much menopause health information out there right now. Between the algorithm, the influencers, the grifters ...
09/09/2026

There is SO much menopause health information out there right now. Between the algorithm, the influencers, the grifters pushing supplements and weighted vests, and the "peptide of the week," it's no wonder so many women feel more confused than ever.

So we put together a short list of people we actually trust — real researchers, clinicians, and coaches who back up what they say with evidence instead of hype.

These are just a few. There are plenty more solid follows out there — full transparency, we were under a bit of a time crunch to get this posted today 😂 (we're doing the Creator College and the pressure was ON).

Join us in the fight against misinformation. Drop who YOU follow for legit, no-BS health content below 👇

For years, I believed every single thing in this carousel.I thought I wasn't restricting enough. I thought carbs were th...
09/07/2026

For years, I believed every single thing in this carousel.

I thought I wasn't restricting enough. I thought carbs were the enemy. I thought my hormones were sabotaging me and there was nothing I could do about it. I thought getting older meant I couldn't significantly change my body.

I was wrong about all of it.

There was never anything wrong with me physiologically.

It was beliefs. My dieting mindset. And my refusal to see that I needed to put time and hard work into the boring basics — calorie control, movement, lifting weights.

Not another hack. Not another 28-day fix.

Just the unglamorous stuff, done consistently, for longer than felt comfortable.

Took me until I stopped outsourcing my thinking to whatever diet was trending, and started tracking accurately instead of restricting harder.

It's never too late to unlearn this. If I can, you can too.

09/05/2026

The question at the end is rhetorical.
You do need to be in a calorie deficit to lose fat — any type of fat — visceral or subcutaneous.

No wonder women are confused during menopause.
One expert says one thing, another says the opposite (or in this case, the same one says both).

But the same rules still apply:
FAT LOSS REQUIRES A CALORIE DEFICIT.

Do hormones impact things? 100%.
But most of the time, what they impact are your actions.

Think about it —
Most women in their 40s are juggling kids, careers, aging parents, and the house… all while dealing with hormonal shifts that make you feel tired, anxious, moody, and unmotivated.

Those feelings lead to lifestyle changes you don’t even realize you’re making —
less meal prep, more takeout, less movement, worse sleep, more stress.
That’s what impacts your weight.

I’m not saying this to shame you — I’m saying it to empower you.
You are more in control of your body than you realize.
You do not have to fall victim to blaming your hormones.

It comes down to repeating the boring basics day in and day out.

👊 I'm REPOSTING this one because I want as many women as possible to see it. (I'd love for you to share or repost this 😉)

09/03/2026

Old me: up until midnight Googling why I can't lose weight, coming across something like "cortisol belly" to blame, and adding supplements to my cart.

New me: track your food and collect data. You are NOT a victim.

I used to think the answer was hiding in some article I hadn't read yet, or some supplement I hadn't tried yet. Another root cause, another hormone, another protocol.

It wasn't. It was just data I'd never actually collected.

"Track your food" sounds too simple to be the answer — I get it, old me thought the same thing. It felt too hard, too boring, not the "real" fix I was searching for at 11pm.

But it's the thing that actually works. Not another supplement. Not another article. Just knowing what you're actually eating.

If you're in the Googling-at-midnight phase — I can help. Comment MACROS and I'll send you my free tracking guide to start with.

09/01/2026

The "pretend you're a Victoria's Secret model going onstage in 7 days" diet tip is one of the most ridiculous things that I've heard. I was SHOCKED to hear this!

I see this kind of advice, and it drives me mental! It teaches women that food is something to be white-knuckled through instead of something you can actually trust yourself around.

Here's what I tell my clients instead:
Nutrition isn't about stressing over every morsel that goes into your mouth to stay a certain size.

It's about balance.

It's about eating in a way you can actually sustain, not performing mental restrictions, pretending you're a supermodel who can't eat.

We need to throw the skinny trend in the trash. Women's bodies aren't supposed to be optimized for a runway. They're supposed to be lived in.

Balance isn't the boring answer. It's the answer that actually works long-term.

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