# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLc3mf-xXuC
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-28T16:25:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

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At 48, with 20+ years in practice, I see this constantly: Women hit perimenopause, start gaining weight without changing their eating habits…panic and start eating 1200 calories, doing intermittent fasting, working out daily… and GAINING weight. 

Here’s why: During perimenopause your body is under more stress and therefore is already increasing inflammation. Sever restriction just adds more stress, which doesn’t just slow your metabolism - it destroys it.

Despite what bro bodybuilders might tell you, yes your body thinks you’re in a famine. She wants to protect you, so she slows your thyroid function by up to 50%, spikes your cortisol, and forces you to store every calorie as hormonal belly fat for “survival.”

Even worse? Eating too little sacrifices muscle mass. So even if you initially lose weight, you’re losing a larger percentage of muscle - making your body composition worse, not better. That’s why crash dieting like the 90’s and fasting doesn’t work for perimenopause women.

Another truth? Too little carbs makes this WORSE. Your thyroid after 40 needs carbs to produce the T3 hormone that keeps your perimenopause metabolism humming.

My client Jenn came to me desperate after YEARS of extreme intermittent fasting - sometimes 72-hour fasts, or one meal every 48 hours. She thought her metabolism was completely destroyed. She had tried to break the pattern and eat more, but it quickly turned to weight gain. 

But as soon as I had her eating in a way that supported her blood sugar, energy, sleep and gut health, everything changed. She was eating more food than ever and lost 40lbs in 6 months.

I promise: Your body isn’t broken. 

It’s just stuck in survival mode from years of the “eat less, move more” lie creating hormonal weight resistance.

🔥 DM me “METABOLISM” if you’re ready to heal your hormones and work WITH your body, not against it.

Drop a 🙌 if this explains everything!

#metabolismafter40 #perimenopausemetabolism #thyroidafter40 #hormonalbellyweight #womenover40

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hormonalbellyweight, perimenopausemetabolism, womenover40, thyroidafter40, metabolismafter40

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