# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T16:01:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

## Caption

My 40s started with a decision. Two months before my wedding, I called off the engagement myself and chose a different path, one built by me, for my own dreams.

I’m 50 now, recording Season 7 of The Empowered Feminine as a 50 year old woman for the first time, and I have a lot to say about the decade that followed that decision.

The ten years after held big risk, a move, a business I built from nothing, financial pressure, and friendships that carried me when I couldn’t carry myself. I challenged myself on every front. My health. My business. My community. I kept pushing for everything I actually wanted, not what I thought I was supposed to settle for. I stopped self-sacrificing. I stopped tolerating what I already knew wasn’t right for me.

In this episode I get into what perimenopause has actually looked like for me, HRT, why I added testosterone, and what’s really happened to my energy and my body composition. Building and protecting muscle has mattered more in my 40s than almost anything else I’ve done. I also share the one habit I credit most for getting me through this decade.

HRT hasn’t changed my weight or my body composition, and I want you to hear that from me directly, because the confusion around it is doing women a disservice.

At 50 I have something I did not expect at 40. Peace.

Life doesn’t end at 40. You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can build the business, you can start over, and you can decide you want something completely different.

Comment SEASON7 and I’ll send you the episode.
Save this for the birthday that has you dreading the decade ahead instead of looking forward to it.
Send this to the friend who thinks her best years are behind her.

Follow for what 20 years of clinical work, and my own 40s, taught me about becoming her.

#TheEmpoweredFeminine #Over40Health #Perimenopause #HRT #StartingOver

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startingover, theempoweredfeminine, hrt, over40health, perimenopause

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