# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-20T02:46:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

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You’re eating more protein than ever and you’re softer than you were at 40.

I’m 50, and I’ve spent 20+ years specializing in women’s hormones. You were told to eat more protein. Nobody told you what has to work first.

1. Where it’s coming from. Bars, shakes, anything with protein on the front. You hit the number and you ate a food product, and it’s the pattern I see most.

2. How much landed at once. Load most of it into one sitting and you’ll feel it all afternoon, heavy and not wanting the next meal.

3. Whether any of it is moving. Bloated, not digesting well, bowel movements nowhere near daily. Oestrogen and progesterone changes slow motility down. All the protein in the world won’t help if it’s sitting there.

4. Whether you can break it down. Bloating after meals, heartburn, waking up nauseous. That’s usually low stomach acid and not enough enzymes. The food sits too long, it ferments, and that pressure is what you feel coming back up.

5. Whether anything is telling your body to build muscle. Something has to request the build, and that’s resistance training with real load. Walking is great for blood sugar. It won’t hold onto your muscle.

Protein is the delivery. Lifting is the order.

One client came to me already tracking macros and already training hard with a trainer. If it fit her macros she ate it. Fibre was low and her belly was distended.

We never touched her training. We fixed her digestion, supported her blood sugar, raised the quality of her food and got the fibre in. Her energy got better, her sleep got better, her recovery got better, and twenty pounds came off. Now we’re raising her macros.

Liver, digestion, blood sugar, cortisol, thyroid. Fix that order and the protein finally does something.

Comment ORDER and I’ll send you the link to my free class on August 25, where I teach the whole sequence. Follow me first so it lands in your DMs, not your message requests.

Save this for the next time you buy a bigger tub of protein powder.

Send this to the friend who hits her protein daily and can’t work out why nothing changes.

Follow for the order nobody taught you.

#proteinforwomen #perimenopause #womenshormones #guthealth #over40women

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over40women, guthealth, womenshormones, proteinforwomen, perimenopause

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