“I’m doing everything right and I can’t seem to lose weight.”

As a personal trainer and nutritionist who specializes in helping women navigate their hormone health journey, train and fuel in sync with their cycle, and live in harmony with the infradian rhythm, I hear this phrase often.

Women in particular start to see the weight and inches fall off when they start exercising and making wiser eating choices, and then there comes a point when the plateau hits.

Then what?

That’s when folks usually ditch the treadmill or gym membership and decide to chalk up some money for a trainer. Or, they give up entirely. After all, it feels like hard work without much payoff.

But there’s an alternative.

In fact, getting to the ROOT of that weight loss plateau is actually going to help you uncover so much more than that. It’s likely going to bring awareness to areas of your life that are lacking, such as your productivity, your female cycles, and even your moods week to week.

Once we get in tune with our infradian rhythm, we can start to function optimally and start working WITH our female physiology as opposed to against it. And ladies, this is the key.

Here are my absolute best tips for breaking that plateau:

  1. Address all 4 areas of optimal health to see what areas you can improve in: nutrition, sleep, fitness, and supplementation. Perhaps it’s as simple as “Are you exercising frequently?” or “Are you sleeping 7+ hours per night and sleeping well?” If one of these lifestyle aspects is amiss, it can affect how you feel and how your body responds to training.
  2. As it pertains to supplementation, proper testing of hormones AND working with a holistic-minded practitioner are key to knowing what you can take to give you a boost. Checking your thyroid (T3 and T4 included), along with progesterone (during luteal phase), estradiol, insulin and A1C, and cortisol can give your Dr. an idea of what’s at play for you.
  3. Training in sync with your cycle and maximizing strength training during low hormone phases is absolutely essential to preventing muscle loss as we age. Check out my SYNC program as an option to help you become more aware and know how to navigate this journey.
  4. Ridding your diet of dairy and inflammatory foods like gluten can go a long way. Try it, long-term.

Only when all of these fundamentals are addressed and doing well can we expect to see results in our bodies.

Books I recommend include: In the Flow by Alisa Vitti, ROAR by Dr. Stacy Sims, and Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden.

Yours in Health & Fitness,

Jenny L. Swisher, CPT/FNS and Founder of Body Electric

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