‣ Book Your COMPLEMENTARY CONSULATION and CALORIE CALCULATION call:- how much & what to eat🍴🌮- exercise & lifestyle recommendations🚶‍♀️🏋🏽‍♀️- specific resources to support you on your journey📕https://calendly.com/d/2p8-mxx-dgf/free-consultation-call-zoom⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠‣ Take The Fat Loss Fix Quiz: https://1ck2gu1qfir.typeform.com/menometabolismDo you ever hit that point where one tiny thing—a comment, a messy counter, tracking one more meal—sends you straight into “I can’t do this anymore”?

You’re not dramatic.

You’re not lazy.

You’re not self-sabotaging on purpose.

Your brain is in survival mode, and during perimenopause and menopause, that shift becomes even more intense.

In this episode, I breaks down the real reason your fat loss stalls when your brain is overwhelmed, chronically stressed, and rewired from years of hustle, responsibility, trauma, under-eating, over-training, and “pushing through.”

You’ll learn:

- Why your brain defaults to old habits even when you deeply want to change

- How chronic stress literally shrinks and inflames key areas of your brain

- Why willpower disappears when your nervous system hits “low power mode”

- The connection between stress, overwhelm, and being stuck in a fat-storing state

- Why eating less + moving more backfires when your brain feels unsafe

- How this shows up as irritability, shutdown, brain fog, shame, or feeling like you’re “failing”

This episode is raw and deeply personal—touching on the moments that shaped my own stress response, the years my mom spent stuck in this overwhelmed state, and why understanding this brain-body connection is one of the most important pieces of fat loss for midlife women.

If you’ve ever wondered:

“Why can’t I just get it together?”

This episode is the missing link.

Your brain isn’t broken.

It’s overwhelmed—and once you know how to shift it out of survival mode, fat loss stops feeling impossible and you finally feel like you again.

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) – Intro: Why Fat Loss Stops Working in Midlife

(01:11) – How the Brain Can Block Fat Burning

(04:00) – Chronic Stress & “Low Power Mode” Explained

(07:02) – Brain Changes: Decision Fatigue, Reactivity & Overwhelm

(14:17) – Why Stress Forces the Body to Store Fat

(19:41) – How Trauma, Overworking & Dieting Rewire the Brain

(25:12) – Cortisol, Hormones & Blood Sugar Chaos

(29:40) – Why Eat Less & Move More Makes It Worse

(35:25) – Simple Nervous System Tools to Exit Survival Mode

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When your menopause brain blocks fat loss | MMP Ep. 256

The Metabolism and Menopause Podcast