# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-07-29T16:59:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

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I have never skipped breakfast. I did train fasted for years, and I stopped in my early forties because I was losing muscle I could not afford to lose.

I am a nutritionist specializing in women’s hormones and metabolic health for over 20 years. The women who arrive in my practice most depleted are almost always the most disciplined ones.

You fasted. You went carnivore. You cut the carbs to almost nothing. And for three months you felt incredible. Clear head, high energy, weight moving. You thought you had cracked it.

A randomized trial in Psychosomatic Medicine put 121 women through three weeks. The group held at 1200 calories a day had higher total cortisol output. That clarity you are running on is a stress response. It gets repaid.

A 12 week randomized trial in JAMA Internal Medicine compared 16:8 against three meals in 116 adults. The weight difference was not significant. The fasting group lost more lean mass in the arms and legs. You gave up the meal and paid in muscle.

Then it stops working. You try to eat more, the scale goes up, and now you are frightened of food in a way you never used to be. So you go back to restricting, because at least that worked once.

Here is the part nobody explains. I do not just hand you more calories. More food on a body that cannot handle glucose will put weight on. Blood sugar comes first. Then rhythm and consistency, until your body stops reading every day as a threat. Then the food goes up, in ratios that hold.

In 20 years I have not had a woman gain weight working with me.

Dr Jenn came to me eating one meal every 48 hours, sometimes nothing for 72. Every time she tried to eat more on her own she gained. She was terrified to add food. I asked her to trust me. Six months later she was down 40 pounds, eating more than she had in years.

Comment STACKING and I will send you my Hormone Stacking Method Quick Start Guide.

Save this for month three, when the energy starts sliding.

Send it to the friend who is three weeks in and has never felt better. She will not want to hear it. Send it anyway.

Follow for what 20 years of food diaries actually show.

#perimenopause #fasting #undereating #womenover40 #metabolichealth

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metabolichealth, undereating, womenover40, perimenopause, fasting

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