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I gained fifteen pounds in roughly ten weeks. Not over a year. Ten weeks. And I was logging nearly a thousand miles of running, hundreds of miles of walking, and over a hundred hours of strength training during that same stretch.

The math made no sense. So in this episode, I am breaking down what was actually happening in my body and why everything I thought I knew about weight management stopped working almost overnight.

We are talking about RED-S, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, and why active women in perimenopause are almost never told this is a thing. We are talking about hormonal fat redistribution and why sizing up does not actually solve the problem when all the weight goes to one place. And I am being honest about where I am right now, because I do not have a tidy resolution for you yet.

If your body is doing something that does not match the math, this one is for you.

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