For three years I did exactly what they told me to do. Eat less. Move more. Take vitamin D. Your labs are fine. I had gained 40 pounds in a single year. I was breaking out like I was fifteen again, my hair was falling out in the shower, and I was waking up at 3am wired and exhausted at the same time. So I pulled my own labs and read them myself. Almost everything was borderline. Some of it was out of range completely. Fine was never fine. What finally changed things was not a restriction plan. I stopped eating like a woman in her twenties and started eating for the hormones I actually have now. Protein at every meal. Fiber with all of it. Blood sugar that stays steady instead of spiking and crashing me into the couch at 3pm. That is the whole thing. That is what no one tells you. The stored weight started releasing. My hair grew back. My skin cleared. I slept through the night for the first time in years. Four years later I am 70 pounds down, size 18 to size 2, and I have not gained it back. I mapped out 28 days of exactly how I eat now. Breakfasts and dinners, high protein, high fiber, food my six kids eat too, nothing you cannot get at a regular grocery store. You already know what another six months of figuring it out yourself looks like. This is the other option. 28 days planned, nothing to decide, nothing to research. Comment PLATE and I will show you where to get it. #HealthyHormones #Perimenopause #GutHealth #hysterectomyrecovery #hormonebalance - @beautybykatguthealth