Premium Fuel for Midlife with Heather Awad, MD - Ep.350
Release Date: 11/12/2025
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info_outlineAt 50, I thought my body was broken. I knew everything about nutrition, but nothing was working anymore. In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Heather Awad, MD, a family doctor and certified coach, helps professional women in perimenopause and menopause lose weight without counting or deprivation. Learn why kindness precedes confidence, how insulin resistance shifts at midlife, and why moving from grazing to real meals restores energy, focus, and leadership clarity.
Professional photos can be retaken. But kindness and confidence can start today.
What You Will Learn:
Why eating less and moving more, does absolutely nothing during perimenopause, revealing that something fundamentally different is happening in the body.
The moment at age 50 of wondering if the body was broken and questioning how someone with extensive nutrition knowledge could be failing at weight management.
How combining an understanding of the biology and nutrition of menopause with coaching to address emotional eating made weight loss simple and sustainable.
Why many professional women including those in corporate leadership hold themselves back from seeking promotions or starting businesses because they feel their body isn't under control.
The critical distinction that mindset work and being kind to yourself is a completely separate track from getting your body under control or losing weight.
How kindness to yourself is the precursor to confidence, and that being kind doesn't cost anything except intention and time unpacking the parts of yourself that don't want to be kind.
The fundamental difference between the weight loss world that asks us to work hard, measure, and count calories, versus nutrition that can be simple and nourishing without ever going hungry or counting anything.
How our culture has normalized overeating to the point where having a stomach ache after meals seems normal.
Why this meal-based eating pattern helps with the natural bump in insulin resistance that comes at menopause.
The biological reality that when estrogen drops during menopause, it affects the entire body including digestive hormones.
Why insulin resistance means the body suddenly needs much more insulin just to process the same food.
Why grazing becomes the default feeding pattern during intense parenting years.
Why nourishing your body becomes increasingly important at midlife.
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