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Fab Fit Forty Plus || What Losing 100+ Pounds in Midlife Taught Me About Life, Love and Loss
Fab Fit Forty Plus || What Losing 100+ Pounds in Midlife Taught Me About Life, Love and Loss
This podcast helps midlife women aged 40 to 60 lose weight and transform their health naturally and sustainably. The host shares strategies and lessons learned from losing over 100 pounds in her mid-40s during perimenopause. She discusses real-life tools for nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress management, motivation, and mindset, moving away from quick fixes and fad diets.
Episodes
Why I Built An App For Cravings (FYOURI ) And What Five Candied Walnuts Taught Me
Today I introduce you to FYOURI - my new cravings reset app that I created to help women manage cravings with no shame, no judgement, and just strategies that work. Most of us have been there... full after dinner, not hungry, and still reaching for something. This isn't a willpower problem. It's a biology problem. And nobody ever gave us the right tool for that exact moment.In this episode
Your Health Transformation Toolkit - 3 Sentences To Use That Change Everything: The Permission You've Been Waiting For - Genuinely Yours in Midlife
This is not a mindset episode to help you on your health transformation. It's a tactical one! Today I'm sharing 3 simple but powerful tools! Three specific sentences that you can start using today! For the moments when the friction and the resistance of your health journey feel like they might win. What stops most of us during our weight loss and health transformation in midlife isn't
Sneaky Sugars: The Sugar Hiding In Places You Would Never Expect - | How and Where To Find the Sneaky Sugar That Affects Your Weight Loss Goals in Midlife - Part 2 of a 4 Part Series
Welcome - Part 2 of my 4 Part Sugar Series:You switched to almond milk specifically for your health. You chose the sriracha because it is just chilli, right? You have been buying the organic wholegrain bread because it says all the right things on the front. You are making the effort. You are trying. And then you turn the packet around and you see it. Sugar. In a place you would never have thought
Why Muscle Is The Most Underrated Tool In Every Woman's Health Arsenal. And Why You Cannot Afford To Ignore It Any Longer - The True Benefits of Muscle for Women in Midlife
This is not just another podcast about building muscle as a woman in midlife and beyond. This is a podcast that starts with a story about two photos. And two comments on those two photos...Two comments on the same pair of arms, taken three weeks apart. In the first photo, relaxed — a woman commented to say I had the "rich girl arms she had always wanted". In the second photo, flexing — a
The Truth About My AHA Moment That Ignited My 100+ Weight Loss in Midlife - Why There Wasn't Just One, And Why That's Actually Better
Everyone wants to know "the one moment" that changed everything for me and launched my 100+ pound weight loss transformation in my 40s. They want to find out my secret cinematic turning point. The lightning bolt that made it all click. My Aha Moment! I get asked this question almost every week. And my answer always disappoints people at first.Because the truth is there was no single aha
Sugar And Your Body: The Truth, The Myths, And Why This Matters For Women 40+ | How Does Sugar Impact Your Weight Loss Goals in Midlife - Part 1 of a 4 Part Series
Welcome - Part 1 of my 4 Part Sugar Series:Maybe you have been trying to cut back on sugar for years — doing all the right things, choosing the natural alternatives, reading the labels — and still feel like something is not quiteworking. Or maybe you are simply tired of the guilt and the confusion and the contradictory advice. Today, in part 1 of this four part series focusing on Sugar and how it
You Are Not Behind: You're Right On Time! Why It Is Never Too Late To Transform Your Health In Midlife - Why The Women Who Struggle With Their Health The Longest Make The Most Powerful Transformations
Have you ever looked at someone else's transformation and felt that quiet, crushing sense that everyone else figured this out years ago — and you are still at square one?This episode is for you!I recently received a message from a woman, I will call her Emily, who said she had been trying to lose weight since her 20s. Nearly thirty years. And she was wondering if it was simply too late. If she
I Tracked Calories For Years And Still Gained Weight. Here's Why! Part 1 of 3 - Why Calorie counting and calorie restriction is the wrong approach for weight loss for women in midlife
Millions of people are using just one calorie tracking app right now. And yet obesity rates keep rising. And so many of us (me included for decades) are still struggling... So what is actually going on?In Part 1 of this three-part series, I make the case for why calorie counting and calorie tracking is not just ineffective for most women in midlife, but it is actively working against your weight l
Reconnecting to Your Inner Rebel: Why Losing Weight on Your Own Terms Is the Only Approach That Actually Lasts For a True Sustainable Health Transformation for Women in Midlife
Do you remember the teenage rebel version of yourself? The one who questioned everything. Who pushed back againstrules that didn't make sense. Who refused to just go along with things because everyone else was. The one who, somewhere along the way, went quiet.What if I told you that reconnecting with that version of yourself — your inner rebel, your questioning, defiant, nobody-tells-me-what-t
START HERE! WELCOME to the Fab Fit Forty Plus Podcast: Real Weight Loss, Honest Advice, and a Genuine Health Transformation for Women 40 and above
Welcome to the Fab Fit Forty Plus Podcast: What Losing 100+ Pounds in Midlife Taught Me About Life, Love and LossThis is the show I spent twenty years looking for and could not find... So I made it!If you are a woman in your 40s, 50s or beyond, navigating perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause or simply the reality of midlife, and you are done with starting over, done with the shame, done with pr
You Don't Need to Punish Yourself to Lose Weight — Why Self-Love Is the Most Powerful Weight Loss Tool You've Never Been Told About - Weight Loss and Health Advice for Women 40 and Above
What if everything you believed about motivation and weight loss was wrong?What if the harsh inner voice — the one that says you have no willpower, you always fail, you ruined everything — is not your fuel but your cage? What if the very thing you have been relying on to push yourself forward is the exact thing that has been holding you back?In this episode I am sharing something I spent two decad
5 Weight Loss Quick Wins – 5 FREE Easy Wins to Support Your Health Transformation Journey Today — No Willpower, No Overhaul, Just One Small Change You Can Start Today!
Transforming your health can often feel overwhelming and so often, so many of us don’t know where to start. So often, the best way to start is not a massive overhaul, not changing ten things overnight, but actually picking just one small change. Doable, manageable and within your control! Sounds good, but where do you start? Well, today, I give you 5 suggestions for that one small thing that yo
Not Another Protein Podcast — Why Protein Is About So Much More Than Muscle (And Why That Changes Everything) – Why is Protein for Women Important?
Protein is everywhere right now. High-protein yogurts, high-protein cereals, high-protein ice cream. Celebrities talking about it. Influencers swearing by it. Entire supermarket aisles dedicated to it. And if you are anything like the women I work with, you might be either completely over it (wondering if this is just another low-fat moment in nutritional history) or fully on board but confused ab
Cravings: Why You Get Them, What They Really Mean, and How to Finally Take Back Control - Managing and Dealing with Cravings when Losing Weight and Transforming your Health
You know that feeling. You've had a genuinely good day. You ate well, you moved your body, you made choices you're proud of. And then 10pm hits, the house is quiet, you sit down, and suddenly an overwhelming, consuming need for something hits you out of nowhere. Ice cream. Chocolate. Crisps. All of it. And no amount of knowing better makes the slightest difference.If that sounds familiar,
5 Easy Wins to Start Your Weight Loss Journey Today: No Willpower, No Overhaul, Just One Small Change - 5 Low Hanging Fruit / Quick Wins To Try Today to Lose Weight and Transform Your Health
What if the secret to transforming your health wasn't a complete overnight overhaul? What if it wasn't a new gym membership, a 30-day challenge, or a diet that leaves you exhausted and miserable by day four? What if it was just one small thing — today, right now, starting immediately?That is exactly what this episode is about. Welcome to the Low Hanging Fruit series — my favourite series o
How to Say No to Food, Social Pressure and Sabotage — The One Skill Every Woman Over 40 Needs to Lose Weight for Good
Does this sound familiar? You're doing really well with your health goals... and then someone puts a plate of food in front of you at a dinner party, or your colleague brings birthday cake to the office, or your family keeps pushing seconds at Sunday lunch — and suddenly all your good intentions crumble. You say yes when you meant to say no. And then comes the frustration, the guilt, the "
Why Quick Fix Weight Loss Programs Don't Work for Women Over 40 — and Why Slow Progress is Real Progress - Beach Body Quick Fix Weight Loss Programs Miss the Point Entirely and Here’s Why
Have you ever done a 30-day challenge, a rapid weight loss programme, or a "get your beach body in 8 weeks" plan — lost weight quickly — and then watched every single pound creep back on? Maybe with extra? You're not weak. You're not a failure. You were just sold a lie.I know this road intimately. In my 30s, I lost 75 pounds in just 6 months using an extreme programme. I was thri
Should You Weigh Yourself Every Day? The Honest Answer for Women Over 40 — Plus One Game-Changing Tip to Track Your Weight Without the Emotional Rollercoaster
Should you weigh yourself every day when you're trying to lose weight? It's one of the questions I get asked most by the women I work with — and honestly, the internet does not help. You'll find social media posts screaming "never weigh yourself, it's toxic!" right next to fitness influencers insisting you must track your weight daily or you're not serious. The truth,
Free Guided Meditation for Weight Loss Motivation — 10 Minutes to Reconnect With Your Why and Reignite Your Health Transformation - Weight Loss Mindset for Women 40+
You know that feeling when you've been doing all the right things in your weight loss journey and yet somewhere along the way the motivation quietly drains away?This episode is for that moment!This is a guided meditation and audio visualisation I created specifically for women on a weight loss and health transformation journey, and it's unlike anything else in this space! It's not abou
What If Losing Weight Didn't Have to Feel So Hard? The Raw, Personal Mindset Shift That Changed Everything for Me — and Could Change Everything for You - Mindset for Midlife Weight Loss
What if the hardest thing isn't actually losing weight? And, it's actually continuing to struggle with your weight and health for another year, another five years, another decade?That reframe changed everything for me! In this episode, I'm sharing it with you in the most raw, personal, vulnerable way because I genuinely believe it could shift something fundamental in how you approach y
Meet Vera Brown: How I Lost 100+ Pounds in My Mid-40s Naturally and Why I Created This Podcast for Women 40+ - My Personal Introduction to my Weight Loss and Health Podcast for Women
If you've just discovered this podcast and you're wondering whether it's for you, this is the episode to start with! I'm Vera Brown. I'm a weight loss and health, and fitness coach for women 40+. After decades of struggling with my health, I lost over 100 pounds in my mid-40s naturally, sustainably, over 2.5 years, during perimenopause. All while building a business and living in France, surrounde
