135. Why Midlife Women Can’t Lose the Last Five Pounds with Kim Hynes
Release Date: 12/22/2025
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Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This episode is one of those conversations that feels easy, natural, and surprisingly comforting. I’m joined by Jen, the creator behind the popular TikTok and Instagram account @jenopause_midlife, and what happens is an honest, fun, and deeply relatable conversation about midlife, hormones, and everything women were never really taught about this stage of life. We talk about what it’s like to start...
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140. A Simple Meal Prep System That Actually Works in Midlife and Stops the Takeout and Snacking
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: Meal Prep Made Simple In Episode 140 of the Emotional Eats podcast, Kim breaks down the simple system she uses to...
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139. Alcohol and Midlife Women: To Drink or Not to Drink
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: To Drink or Not to Drink in Midlife In today’s episode, we’re talking about alcohol in midlife through a...
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138. Why Anxiety Increases During Menopause and What To Do About It
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: If you are a woman in perimenopause or post-menopause and you’ve noticed more anxiety, restlessness, looping...
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137. The Episodes That Sparked the Biggest Conversations with Women Over 40 in 2025 Around Gut Health, Menopause, Menopause Weight Loss, Vaginal Health, Hormones and Emotional Eating.
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This special Best of 2025 episode brings together the most listened to, most shared, and most talked about...
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136. How to Set Real Boundaries with Dysfunctional Parents Without Turning to Food
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This episode is a reminder that you are not “too sensitive” for needing boundaries and that healing does...
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135. Why Midlife Women Can’t Lose the Last Five Pounds with Kim Hynes
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: If you’ve ever felt frustrated, stuck, or conflicted about that last bit of weight, this episode offers...
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134. Why starting in January Backfires for Your Midlife Midsection and Metabolism
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: If you are a woman in your 40s, 50s, or 60s who keeps promising yourself you will “start fresh” on Monday,...
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133. Your Over 40 Guide to Saying No to Nonsense
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: This fun, lighthearted episode has a big dose of truth underneath it. Kim is 59 and officially in her “not...
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132. Post-Menopause Belly Fat? These 5 Fixes Feel Like Cheating Part 2
Emotional Eats Podcast: What Women Over 40 Really Need to Know About Food, Hormones, and Their Bodies Without the Diet Culture Spin
Join the Cool Girl Collective We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community. This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness. 👉 Click Here to Join: Feeling better in post-menopause isn’t just about food and workouts. In this second half of the series, we...
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We created the Cool Girl Collective for women over 40 who are ready to feel supported, seen, and understood. Inside, you’ll find real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, chronic illness, relationships, and everything midlife brings along with with humor, heart, and community.
This is your safe space to ask questions, share your story, and find practical tools for your health and happiness.
👉 Click Here to Join: https://www.skool.com/coolgirlcollective/
If you’ve ever felt frustrated, stuck, or conflicted about that last bit of weight, this episode offers reassurance, perspective, and permission to choose health, peace, and sustainability over constant striving.
In this episode, Kim tackles a question she hears constantly from midlife women and clients: What about the last five to eight pounds?
Should we keep pushing, or is there a point where the body is actually asking for safety, stability, and compassion instead of more effort?
Kim shares why this topic is complicated, emotional, and deeply tied to decades of diet culture, especially for women over 40 navigating perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. She reframes weight loss for midlife women to look consider body trust, metabolism, hormones, nervous system safety, and long-term health rather than scale obsession.
You’ll hear why holding onto weight, especially in the midsection, is often a protective response rather than a failure, and why doing “all the right things” does not always mean the body is ready to let go of more. Kim explains the difference between fat, inflammation, water retention, and body composition, and why the scale alone is not the best tool.
Topics covered include:
· Why the last five pounds are often the hardest in midlife
· How diet culture keeps us blaming ourselves instead of listening to our bodies
· The role of safety, stress, and the nervous system in fat loss
· Why under-eating can stall progress even when habits feel “clean”
· How protein, fiber, and food volume support metabolism
· The impact of skipping meals, especially breakfast
· Strength training, progressive overload, and why muscle matters more than scale weight
· Non-exercise activity and why daily movement counts more than you think
· Inflammation, alcohol, sugar, gluten, and individual food sensitivities
· Why midlife bodies respond better to gentleness than pressure
· Tiny shifts versus overhauls and why patience matters
· Choosing between feeling leaner versus weighing less
· Letting go of perfection and redefining success at this stage of life
Connect with Kim:
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Website: https://wellspringcounselingandhealth.com/
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