05/26/2026
Things I thought were just "getting older" that turned out to be fixable:
The stiff back every morning — fixable.
The 3am wake-ups — better.
The mood that had no reason — getting there.
The joint pain that made me move like I was 80 — so much better.
The weight that appeared out of nowhere — still a work in progress, but moving.
The exhaustion that no amount of sleep fixed — way, way better.
I kept chalking things up to "this is just what getting older feels like."
And some of it is aging. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
But a LOT of it was my body not having the support it needed to function well in THIS stage of life.
There's a difference between aging and being undernourished.
And once I started treating my body like it needed something different — not less — things started to shift.
Save this if you need the reminder. 💜