5 hills I’ll die on as a nutritionist…and not one of them is “eat less, move more.” I’m 49. I’m leaner and stronger than I was at 35. And after 20 years in women’s metabolic health, these are the five I won’t back down on, the ones your doctor was never taught. 1. Insulin resistance is the root, not your weight. You can be thin and insulin resistant. Thin was never proof you were metabolically healthy. The scale was never the measurement. Your fasting insulin was. 2. “Normal” bloodwork isn’t optimal. Standard ranges are built to catch disease, not dysfunction. By the time your glucose flags on a lab, you’ve been insulin resistant for years. 3. When you eat matters as much as what you eat. Melatonin rises at night and blunts insulin, so the same meal at 9pm spikes your blood sugar higher than it would at noon. I stop eating by 7pm. 4. It was never willpower. The 3pm crash, the cravings, the weight that won’t move, that’s blood sugar and cortisol running the show, not weakness. 5. ...