Fit and Fabulous at Forty and Beyond with Dr Orlena

By Dr Orlena Kerek weight loss coachAlternative Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement

Fit and Fabulous at Forty and Beyond with Dr Orlena episodes

November 02, 2021 What if Healthy Living Were Easy? Episode 150
I'm always saying healthy living is easy. Eat more vegetables, do some exercise. It's so easy!

But making those changes can feel hard. Our brains like to make a lot of fuss and tell us it's going to be hard!

We don't like to make changes! Especially changes that feel "hard".

Today I'm talking about "what if it were easy?"

And how my clients go from "I never thought I could do it" to "oh wow! It's so easy!"
Healthy Habit Challenge
If you'd like to join the Healthy Habit Challenge, you can sign up here: https://www.drorlena.com/healthy-you-healthy-family-habit-challenge

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

19 min
October 26, 2021 How to Stop Emotional Eating Podcast Episode 149
Do you feel a slave to emotional eating? You know you're doing it but feel powerless to stop?

You're not alone.

Today I'm chatting with Tricia Nelson from Heal Your Hunger.

She chats about why we eat emotionally and what we can do about it.
Connect with Tricia
Heal Your Hunger website: https://www.healyourhunger.com
Join Dr Orlena's Healthy Habit Challenge:
https://www.drorlena.com/healthy-you-healthy-family-habit-challenge

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

27 min
October 19, 2021 How to Not Die of Diabetes. Podcast Episode 148
Type 2 diabetes is a scary disease with horrible complications, including death.

The good news is there are lots of things you can do to not get it!

Today I'm talking to Sunjay from Stay Whole. Sunjay helps people who've been diagnosed with prediabetes transform their lives and not progress to diabetes.

Sunjay shares his top tips on how to keep it easy and fun.
Connect with Sunjay
IG: https://www.instagram.com/staywholelife/

Website: https://www.staywhole.co.uk
Connect with Dr Orlena
Join FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthyhappyparenting

Book "October Chat": https://bookme.name/drorlena/oct-chat

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

28 min
October 12, 2021 How to be Happier by setting Emotional Boundaries Episode 147
Do you ever find yourself upset because someone else is upset? It's easy to take on someone else's emotions.

Today we're looking at how to set boundaries so you don't spiral down the negative plughole of someone else's big emotions.

Plus how negative emotions can help you discover what you do want.
Road Map to Healthy You Workshop
Wednesday at 9.30 am Eastern Time. Find out more here: https://www.drorlena.com/workshop
Book a Call with Dr Orlena
https://bookme.name/drorlena/healthy-you-healthy-family-scholarship-program

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

19 min
October 05, 2021 Making Weight Loss Easy with Dr Lisa Oldson, Episode 146
Dr Orlena chats to Dr Lisa Oldson, weight loss physician.

Dr Lisa shares her wealth of experience in how to make weight loss easy and what often trips people up.

Plus her concept of "wabi sabi weight loss".
Connect with Dr Lisa:
Website: https://www.oldsonmedical.com
Join Dr Orlena's FB Group
Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthyhappyparenting
Contact Dr Orlena
Email: [email protected]

Book a "chat about the group program": https://bookme.name/drorlena/healthy-you-healthy-family-scholarship-program

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

28 min
September 23, 2021 One Simple Tip to Make Healthy Living Easy Episode 145
Do you plan your "healthy life"? Think about how you'd like your life to be in a year? Or 5? Or 10?

Planning your life is a simple but effective tool.

Once you've decided what you'd like to achieve, you're far more likely to reach your goal.

Dr Orlena shares wins from her plans from a year ago.

As well as looking forward.

Lia and Wendy share their healthy living goals for the next year and how they're excited that it's going to be easy and fun!
Free Group Coaching
Weds at 9.15 am Eastern Time. (Join Dr Orlena's email list to be sent link.)
Want to Join Dr Orlena's Healthy You Healthy Family Group Program?
Please email [email protected]

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

22 min
September 21, 2021How to Set Limits Without Depriving Yourself Podcast Episode 144
Using a structure or framework for healthy living can be really useful. But often it turns into a "set of rules". Rules that make you feel deprived and hard to follow.

In this week's episode you'll learn:

Why limits can help you enjoy healthy eating

How to create limits so that you don't feel deprived

The difference between limits and choices

How to make healthy choices easy

Join Dr O's Free Coaching
Wednesday 29th September at 9.15 am Eastern Time
Interested in joining the Healthy You Healthy Family Program?
Email [email protected] to find out more.

Or book a chat here: https://bookme.name/drorlena/healthy-you-healthy-family-scholarship-program

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about
27 min
September 14, 2021how Sleep Helps you Lose Weight and Be Healthy Episode 143
Want to be healthy with heaps of energy? Are you getting enough good quality sleep?

Martin McPhilimey from Performance Through Health chats about sleep.

In this episode you'll learn:

why sleep is so important for your health and weight loss goals

What sleep apnoea is and how it can affect your sleep

How stress and screens can affect your sleep

Connect with Martin

You can find Martin at :

https://performancethroughhealth.com

Interested in Dr Orlena's Scholarship?

Email [email protected]

Or book a chat here: https://bookme.name/drorlena/healthy-you-healthy-family-scholarship-program

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about
30 min
September 07, 2021 Healthy Living Doesn't Have to Be Perfect Episode 142
Creating your healthy life doesn't have to be "perfect".

Dr Orlena chats about how it's better to go for "some changes" than "being perfect".

Erin Tarr chats with Dr Orlena and explains why she's joined the Healthy You Healthy Family group program and is ready to make lasting changes in her life.

Interested in the Scholarship for the Group Program?

Email [email protected]

Connect with Erin Tarr, confidence coach for teen and tween girls: https://erintarr.com

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

18 min
August 31, 2021 How a Busy Mom Became her "Healthiest Self" Episode 141
The idea of living a healthy life on autopilot sounds fantastic. But how do you get there? Across the "rickety bridge" of "life".

Today Dr Orlena chats to one of her clients, Alea Milburn from Prep Ahead Meals.

Alea talks about her experience of having a health coach.
Connect with Alea
Use code "ORLENA21" for her Breakfast and Lunch Meal Prepping Course: https://prepaheadmeals.com/learn-how-to-meal-prep-in-an-online-cooking-class/
Interested in Dr Orlena's Scholarship?
Either email [email protected] or book a call here: https://bookme.name/drorlena/healthy-you-healthy-family-scholarship-program

Free trial of Dr Orlena´s Menopause Thrive Community:
A doctor-led community for women done with menopause belly, broken sleep and flat energy — and done starting over.
Inside: 
⚡ Menopause Habits That Stick: 14-day sprint 
🥗 48 Menopause Thrive Recipes 
✅ The Menopause Thrive Checklist 
🩺 Weekly live Q&A with me 
👊 Access to me, here daily 
🤝 Women who get it
Free trial: https://www.skool.com/dr-orlena-menopause-thrive/about

36 min

About Fit and Fabulous at Forty and Beyond with Dr Orlena

From the publisher's feed

Welcome to Your Journey Back to Vibrant Health

If you're a woman over 40 who feels like her body has stopped cooperating—despite doing everything that used to work—you're in the right…

place.

This podcast is for you if you're juggling aging parents, demanding kids, a stressful career, and the hormonal rollercoaster of menopause that's turned your metabolism upside down. Maybe you're frustrated because the diet and exercise routine that worked in your 30s now feels completely useless. Those shifting hormones aren't just affecting your mood—they're making it harder to lose weight, build muscle, and maintain the energy you once had. You're not broken, and you're definitely not alone.

I know you want more than just to lose weight. You want to feel like yourself again—strong, vibrant, and confident in your own skin. You want the peace of mind that comes with knowing you're truly taking care of your long-term health.

Here's what makes this different: I don't believe in depriving yourself or following someone else's rigid rules. Instead, I'll guide you through my proven 4-pillar system that transforms women's lives from the inside out:

🌱 Nourishing Nutrition - Plant-forward eating that fuels your body (yes, you can still enjoy meat!), focusing on 30g protein per meal, 30g fiber daily, and 30 different plants weekly

💪 Movement That Lights You Up - Exercise you actually enjoy, plus the specific strength and interval training that works with your changing hormones instead of against them

😴 Restorative Sleep - The foundation that makes everything else possible

🧠 Emotional Wellness - Breaking free from stress eating, self-criticism, and the habit of putting everyone else first

Each episode gives you practical, science-backed strategies that acknowledge the reality of your hormonal changes and fit into your real life—not some fantasy version where you have unlimited time, zero responsibilities, and a 25-year-old's metabolism.

We'll tackle the biggest obstacles holding you back: feeling too busy to prioritize yourself, lacking a clear system that works, and turning to food when life gets overwhelming.

My goal? To help you build "oak tree" habits—strong, sustainable practices that become part of who you are, not another thing on your to-do list.

If you're ready to stop fighting your body and start working with it, welcome home. Your most vibrant, confident self is waiting.