# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-31T23:15:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

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Instagram told you you’re not eating enough. Then it told you you’re not in a deficit. Same week, same feed. No wonder you changed nothing.

I’m 50, and after over twenty years of reading women’s food diaries I’ll tell you which one it usually is. The woman who can’t lose weight is usually eating more than she thinks. Not lying. Just never shown where it hides.

It hides in the fats. Olive oil, nut butter, avocado, cheese, nuts. Nine calories a gram. It hides in the protein you added on top without taking anything away. In the extra workout that let you leave the plate alone. And in never having weighed a full honest week, oil included.

The other story is real too, just rarer than your feed makes it look. If you’ve been fasting or on one meal a day for months and it’s stopped working, you’re the exception. In a 2020 JAMA Internal Medicine trial, 16:8 fasting was no better than three meals for weight loss, and lean mass fell more in the fasting group. I absolutely see these women in my practice. They are still the minority.

Two women. Two opposite fixes. On the “more than you think” side: digestion, blood sugar (which balances hormones, energy, mood and cravings), sleep, and honest portions. On the fasting side, the food goes up, in an order your body can trust. And it doesn’t take long to get your metabolism moving again when you focus on metabolic health, not just weight loss.

Dr. Jen was on the fasting side. One meal every 48 hours and not losing. Six months of eating multiple times a day, in the right order, and she was 40 pounds down.

She did it inside my six month group program, built around her bloodwork, health history and hormone testing. The next group starts September 21 and your 1:1 gets booked the day you join.

Comment TRANSFORM and I’ll send you the details. Make sure you’re following me so it lands in your DMs and not your message requests.

Save this for the next time a reel tells you you’re just not eating enough.

Send this to the friend who’s been told both.

Follow for a deeper understanding of women’s metabolic health and hormones in plain English.

#caloriedeficit #perimenopause #womenover40 #intermittentfasting #metabolichealth

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intermittentfasting, womenover40, caloriedeficit, perimenopause, metabolichealth

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