Menopause Is a Metabolic Event (Not a Failure).
It’s not just “getting older.” The metabolic shift is menopause-specific.
If you’ve ever looked at your plate in midlife and thought, “Wait… why is this suddenly not working?” — I want to offer a different explanation than the one most women default to.
Not: My metabolism is shot.
Instead: My blood sugar response is different now.
That shift sounds small, but it’s not. It changes everything—especially how you interpret hunger, energy, cravings, bloating, and weight.
How I figured this out (before I had the words for it).
In 2010, I was overweight, exhausted, and dealing with chronic issues that I couldn't make progress on.
And here’s the part that matters: I’ve spent my life around food. I cooked for decades at home, and I spent 15 years as a restaurateur. I knew ingredients. I knew kitchens. I knew what food looked like before it got “product-ized.”
So when I tried to fix myself the standard way—diet rules, white-knuckling, “good days” and “bad days”—it didn’t stick. It felt like fighting my own biology.
Eventually, I stopped trying to win through effort and started running a quieter experiment:
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What meals made me feel steady?
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What meals made me hungry fast?
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What foods kept cravings at bay?
I didn’t have a continuous glucose monitor. I didn’t have lab data. I had my body’s feedback.
And over and over, I noticed a pattern that didn’t fit the diet scripts:
It wasn’t just “carbs.” It wasn’t “fat.” It wasn’t “calories.”
It was food structure. It was processing. It was how quickly a food could be broken down and absorbed.
I didn’t call it “blood sugar” at first. I just knew this: some foods let me eat naturally, with no fatigue or bloating. Others put weight on before the weekend was over.
Then the science showed up and basically said: “Yes. That.”
A large study called the ZOE PREDICT study tracked 627 women using continuous glucose monitors—real-time, objective measurements, not food diaries or guesswork.
It included 342 premenopausal women and 285 postmenopausal women.
Here’s the finding that should permanently retire the “I’m failing” narrative:
