Welcome to HealthyHer Midlife—the podcast for women 40 and beyond who want real, natural solutions to feel strong, calm, and confident again. Hosted by certified nutrition consultant and health coach Kristine Roberson, each episode blends personal insight, holistic wellness, and practical coaching tools to help you reduce stress, balance hormones, boost energy, and rebuild trust with your body. Listen weekly and visit HealthyHerMidlife.com for free resources and coaching.
Your Metabolism Isn't Broken — It's Playing a New Game (Part 3 of 3)
If you've spent the last few years feeling like your metabolism turned on you in menopause, this episode is for you. It's Part 3 of our 3-part series on midlife metabolism — the wrap-up where we finally answer the question: is this a winnable game, or not?
In this episode, I talk about why the body you had at 25 isn't coming back (and why that's not a discipline problem — it's just biology), why it might be time to give yourself permission to stop chasing the scale, and why longevity — not just weight loss — might be the more meaningful goal for your midlife and postmenopause years.
You'll learn:
Why your metabolism at 50 was never supposed to function like it did at 25
The difference between changing your body and feeling good in it — and why only one of those has ever been the real point
Four moves that are still fully within your control, even though your hormones aren't
The three things to focus on first if menopause metabolism feels like too much to hold at once
This wraps our 3-part series on menopause metabolism. If you missed the first two, catch them on the blog: Part 1 on why your calorie deficit isn't working (https://healthyhermidlife.com/podcast/podcast-episode-why-you-arent-losing-weight-in-menopause-part-1-of-3/), and Part 2 on the five real reasons your metabolism shifts (https://healthyhermidlife.com/podcast/podcast-episode-5-reasons-menopause-slows-your-metabolism-that-arent-muscle-loss-part-2-of-3/).
Ready to put this into practice without counting a single calorie? Grab my free Midlife Metabolic Reset guide (https://healthyhermidlife.com/reset) — link in the show notes. Real food, real support, no scale required.
1 Sept 2026
5 Reasons Menopause Slows Your Metabolism (That Aren't Muscle Loss) (Part 2 of 3)
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on midlife metabolism. Last episode (https://healthyhermidlife.com/podcast/podcast-episode-why-you-arent-losing-weight-in-menopause-part-1-of-3/) we covered a study showing standard calorie formulas overestimate perimenopausal resting energy expenditure by an average of 215 calories a day, and that muscle loss only explains 1% to 2% of that gap.
So this week: if it's not muscle, what is it?In this episode:
Why estrogen receptors living inside your mitochondria change how efficiently your body turns food into energy
How insulin resistance in perimenopause reroutes glucose toward fat storage, independent of age or weight
Why your hunger hormones (ghrelin and leptin) can leave you hungrier while burning fewer calories
Why fat oxidation, your body's ability to actually use stored fat for fuel, becomes less efficient
How the cortisol and sleep feedback loop compounds everything else on this list
One practical thing you can do about each of the five
Up next in this series: does any of this mean the fight is unwinnable? (Spoiler: no.)Grab my free Midlife Metabolic Reset guide (mentioned in this episode) at healthyhermidlife.com (https://healthyhermidlife.com/reset)Read the full blog post on this topic at healthyhermidlife.com (https://healthyhermidlife.com/body/menopause-slows-metabolism/)
Check out the referenced podcast episode on sleep and cognitive behavioral therapy here (https://healthyhermidlife.com/podcast/podcast-episode-the-sleep-fix-that-doesnt-start-with-a-supplement-drawer/).
18 Aug 2026
Why You Aren't Losing Weight in Menopause (Part 1 of 3)
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on midlife metabolism.
You've been in a calorie deficit, tracking everything, following the formula to the letter, and the scale still isn't moving. This week I'm digging into a new study that measured perimenopausal women's actual resting calorie burn in a lab and compared it to what the standard calculator formulas predict.
Spoiler: most of those formulas overestimate by an average of 215 calories a day, and it's not because of muscle loss like we've all assumed.Then I go down a bit of a rabbit hole into BMI, because it turns out that formula has the same problem: it was built almost 200 years ago from data that never included women like us, and I think you'll never look at it the same way again.In this episode:
Why standard calorie formulas overestimate resting calorie burn in perimenopausal women by an average of 215 calories/day (and up to 400 for some formulas).
Why muscle loss only explains 1-2% of that gap, not the whole story.
The surprising 1830s origin of BMI, and why it was never built with women's bodies (let alone menopausal ones) in mind.
What to track instead of a perfect calorie number: satiety, energy, and sleep.
Why this is actually good news, and how it connects to trusting your body over the formula.
Up next in this series: what's actually slowing your metabolism down in menopause (if it's not muscle loss), and whether any of this means the fight is unwinnable.Research mentioned in this episode:DelBiondo GM, et al. "Resting Energy Expenditure is Overpredicted in Midlife Females: Examining the Accuracy of Predictive Equations and the Role of Lean Soft Tissue in Perimenopause." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42012364/ (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42012364/)Grab my free Midlife Metabolic Reset guide (mentioned in this episode) at healthyhermidlife.com (https://healthyhermidlife.com/)Read the full blog post on this topic at healthyhermidlife.com (https://healthyhermidlife.com/)
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