# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbog6V7yj66
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68793678-ciarafoyinc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-04T21:20:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

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After 40, everyone starts telling you it’s just age.

I’m 50. I’ve been a nutritionist specializing in women’s health & hormones for over 20 years, and that sentence has taken more from women than any hormone ever has.

Your doctor says it. Your trainer says it. Your girlfriends say it too, and not because they don’t care about you. They got handed the same script you did. Nobody in that room was ever told what to actually do about it, so “you’re getting older” became the answer everyone repeats.

You say you’re exhausted, gaining weight, not sleeping. Someone says that’s just age…You believe it and you stop asking questions. That’s the part that costs you.

Your body started running on different rules somewhere in perimenopause. Nobody handed you the new ones. So everything that worked at 35 quietly stopped working and you decided the problem was you.

The rules changed and your routine didn’t. That’s what’s happening.

Doing something different is the whole ask, and I won’t pretend that part is fun. It’s protein, which you have already heard a thousand times. It’s fibre, which you haven’t, and far more of it than you think. It’s sleep you have to defend. It’s muscle you have to build on purpose. It’s blood sugar you stopped paying attention to twenty years ago. It’s a glass of wine early or not at all, because alcohol anywhere near bedtime wrecks the sleep you just worked for.

So yes, I’m 50, in white shorts, in a field full of my girlfriends, holding a plastic goblet, dancing like an idiot in the best possible way. And I slept beautifully that night.

Worth every bit of it.

You get one life and you’ll never be younger than today. Go be loud, take up space and enjoy.

Comment “STACKING” for my quick start guide on how to get started looking and feeling your best. 

Where are my fellow GenX & Millennials?

Send this to the girlfriend you want to be dancing with at 70!

Follow for what 20 years of clinical work actually shows about women over 40.

#genxwomen #womeninspiringwomen #perimenopausehealth

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