25/05/2026
There have been two moments in my life when I felt I had lost control of my body.
Pregnancy. And menopause.
I have been in menopause for six years. I came into it with a strong foundation - a disciplined lifestyle, good habits, a fairly balanced base. Menopause doesn't negotiate with your previous good behaviour.
The hardest part has not been any single symptom. It has been the moving target. Just when you find what works, something shifts. Hormones fluctuate in ways that resist prediction and the road keeps changing beneath you.
For the most part I feel good. Strong energy, occasional hot flushes, test results that come back optimal across almost everything. But I gained weight I cannot lose. And I have tried.
At some point I made a decision. To stop measuring my health by the most visible metric and start trusting the ones that actually tell you something. Muscle mass. VO2 max. Biomarkers. All optimal.
I chose to listen to the body.
Acceptance is not giving up. It is learning to trust a body that keeps changing the rules - and finding peace with not being in control of all of it.
Living this has also shown me why female health is both the hardest thing to research and the most important thing to get right. The body that keeps changing the rules is the one the wellness industry needs to understand far better.
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