In this episode:

- Essential fat for women: You might be striving for a body composition that is far outside the normal range for women... which means you are going to have to fight really hard

- Subcutaneous fat: The soft, pinchable, actually relatively healthy storage form of fat (which many women hate, but which your body loves)

- Visceral fat: The hard, potentially unhealthy fat inside the body that is common in midlife and around the menopause transition, and changes the SHAPE of your body

- How to measure (and not measure) fat: If you really want to know how much fat you have (and I'm not totally sure there's a ton of benefit in even knowing that, unless you're looking for another data point to obsess over), how to do it and not do it

- Why you hate your fat: It's your cultural program; the beauty and "health" industries taught you to hate this amazing storage fuel

- Why you shouldn't hate your fat: ...I know I'm not going to convince anyone to NOT hate their fat, but I had to at least make a case for why stored body fat is actually a miracle

- ...and more! This is an "unscripted riff" adapted from a coaching and teaching session inside The Metabolic Mentorship, my 6-month fat loss program for midlife women.