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Podcast: Hopeful Hints
Episode: Why Weight Loss Stops Working for Women After 30 (It's Not Calories)
Description: If you’re eating less, working out more, and the scale still won’t budge, this episode is for you. Weight gain after 30 isn’t about willpower or “calories in, calories out.” It’s about hormones.
In this episode of Hopeful Hints, Dr. Tara Harding, DNP, FNP-C breaks down why traditional weight loss advice fails women in their 30s and 40s. She explains how estrogen decline, progesterone imbalance, insulin resistance, thyroid dysfunction, cortisol dysregulation, and muscle loss change your metabolism — and why eating less can actually make weight loss harder.
You’ll learn why intermittent fasting and inte...