#147 - How She Did It: Stacey Ditches Supplements, HRT, Depression & Diets for a Sustainable Total Body Transformation

Feeling better in perimenopause has less to do with doing more and more to do with finally giving your female body what it needs.In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading health, fitness and performance experts for ambitious active women who love to run, sits down with Stacey, a health education specialist and longtime runner, to share her journey from restrictive dieting, excessive fasting, poor sleep, headaches, injuries, and frustrating hormonal symptoms to a much simpler approach to health and performance. Stacey explains how learning when and how to fuel with her female physiology changed the way she sleeps, runs, recovers, and feels day to day.They discuss why more cardio and longer workouts are not always better, especially as women move through perimenopause, and why strategic strength training, female-specific fueling, and recovery can make a bigger difference.Stacey also shares how she stopped letting the scale dictate her progress and began focusing more on strength, energy, fewer injuries, and overall well-being.Her biggest lessons are refreshingly simple: be patient, stay consistent, keep things flexible, and stop expecting overnight results.RESOURCES + LINKSLearn & level up with my free nutrition guide & award-winning 1:1 Academy to thrive through perimenopause with less stress: https://www.breakingthroughwellness.comTake advantage of our podcast listener discount & save 20% off Kion’s science-backed clean products, like Kion Aminos mentioned in this episode. Code "LOUISE" saves on all future orders: https://www.getkion.com/pages/maximizing Check out my FullScript here where you can see my curated supplement picks, by topic, to address your concerns & save 25% off!  A small portion of EACH sale goes back to support BTW.  Thank you!Learn, laugh & level up with a Breaking Through Wellness masterclass here.Link to check out Function Health & save $25 off comprehensive, proactive blood work using code “LVALENTINE11”  here.  $25 goes back to support BTW with each new sign up! Thank you!Episode Highlights:(0:00) Intro(3:09) Stacey’s perimenopause success story(9:46) Feeling stuck with hormonal symptoms(15:25) How nutrition changed sleep and headaches(22:05) Why less running can be more(31:00) Simple tools that made a difference(44:26) Improving physical and mental health(47:31) Looking beyond the number on the scale(53:26) Why women need different strategies(55:39) Turning overwhelm into sustainable habits(1:00:04) Building consistency for long-term results(1:04:56) Patience, simplicity, and Stacey’s final advice(1:08:29) OutroTune in weekly to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause" for our simple female-specific science-based revolution. Let's unlock our best with less stress!I'd love to connect!Email 💬  [email protected]  Please note if you want to be a podcast guest, there is a fee and interview process. This is safe space and curated Community exclusively for women who love to feel, look and run our best without B.S. noise, endless pills, extreme diets or misleading fads.