A simple weekend slip turned into a wake-up call. After letting intermittent fasting drift, leaning on late-night snacks, and saying yes to back-to-back drinks, the fatigue hit like a wall—stealing precious hours meant for family and fresh air. Rather than chalk it up to a bad day, we zoom in on what really changed and why midlife bodies respond faster and louder to small choices.
We walk through the chain reaction: how alcohol fragments sleep and stirs late-night hunger, how refined carbs spike and crash energy, and how perimenopause shifts magnify these effects. From there, we rebuild with practical, compassionate steps. Think: recommitting to a realistic fasting window, front-loading protein and fiber, closing the kitchen earlier, and choosing whole foods that keep blood sugar steady. If you eat meat, we talk quality and balance. If you’re plant-forward, we share anchors that satisfy without inviting the 10 p.m. pantry tour. No fear, no shame—just data you can use tomorrow.
Along the way, we share the mindset that keeps momentum: quick audits when fatigue flares, small course corrections instead of crash diets, and simple weekend systems that protect your energy. The message is clear and empowering: your 40s and 50s aren’t a cliff; they’re a feedback loop. Listen to the signals, adjust your plate and timing, and reclaim the hours that matter most. If you’ve felt that surprise nap creeping in, this conversation gives you the tools to push back with grace.
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Episode Transcript
Hello everybody.
This is Still Rose's podcast.
This podcast has become has beencreated for women by women to
elevate women's voices.
I hope everyone is feeling welland having a wonderful week thus
far.
I wanted to share something withyou guys that I noticed and for
myself, and so I want to call itout to you.
So um I think you guys haveheard me kind of get on my
little soapbox before aboutbeing mindful of how you're
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treating your body, eatinghealthy, exercising like the
whole bit.
I'm not so great with theexercising.
The eating healthy, I'm actuallypretty decent at.
Part of what spurred me alongwith getting healthier was
obviously physically like how Iwas feeling.
But then I had also read acouple books or some guests that
came on that were, you know,explaining to me different
things about when you get toyour 40s and 50s with
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perimenopause, menopause, thatyour diet actually really is a
it has a lot to do with howyou're going, you're physically
going to be reacting duringthese times.
So in my mind, I'm like, let medo the best that I can to give
my body what it needs because mybody's already going to be going
through something that is notgoing to be probably pleasant.
So let me just help as much as Ican.
So normally I'm pretty good withthat.
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And yes, like I have a sweettooth here and there for things
that are salty things, whatever.
Like I'm a big snacker, so I tryto like maintain some kind of
some kind of balance, um, whichagain, I usually am pretty
decent at.
Um, this past the past fewweeks, I've been having some
struggles with like keeping upwith my intermittent fasting.
So I've been trying to recommitthere, which this week is gonna
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be a big recommitting.
You, my husband and I are bothstarting down that journey
again, um, or re reinvigoratingthat journey.
But the one thing that this pastweekend I wanted to share with
you was that over the weekend, Ikind of just let it go a little
bit.
I really didn't do theintermittent fasting.
And I also had alcohol on Fridayand Saturday.
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And then I just I just wasn'teating well.
To be perfectly liketransparent, I just was not
eating well.
I was eating poorly.
Carb, like carby, you know,again, the alcohol I think
really had a lot to do withthis.
On the weekends, I really liketo, I do like to get a lot of
things done, but I also like tobe out and about and I like to
be out walking.
I like to be out physically withmy kids and, you know,
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interacting with them.
Like this is my time to reallyspend time with them.
Today, the first day in a reallylong time that I had to lay down
and take a nap.
Now, I think I've explained toyou guys before that I have
these days sometimes where I getthis really bad fatigue, comes
out of nowhere, and I have torush through whatever it is I'm
doing because if I don't, I'mgonna fall asleep.
I'm gonna have to just stop andgo lay down.
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So it hasn't happened to me in along time, in a while.
Long enough that I'm like, I wassurprised when it happened
today.
So I immediately had to like, Itold the kids, I was like, I
have to rush.
Mommy, mommy needs to lay down.
I don't feel good.
So I had to rush through likemaking lunch for everybody, and
then I eventually went to go laydown for like an hour and a
half, which honestly is huge ingeneral for the fact that I even
did that for myself, but I feltit in my body and I was like, I
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need to lay down.
But while I was doing that andwhile I was like holding on by a
thread, making sure thateverybody was settled so I could
lay down.
Um I started thinking about, youknow, why?
Why, why, why is this hitting melike this today?
You know, I should be okay.
Now, granted, yes, like I am onSlind, and so I'm sure that's
having some effects on my bodythat I'm still getting used to,
but I'm I've been paying veryclose attention to what, you
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know, my reactions have been tothat and anything that I've been
feeling there.
But then it clicked into place.
I haven't been doingintermittent fasting, which is a
big thing.
I've been eating late at night,snacking late at night.
Horrible, horrible habit that Ihave.
And I had stopped for a reallylong time.
So now that it I had it back,I'm like, this is terrible.
I can't do this anymore.
And plus I drank alcohol thisweekend.
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I think a combination of factorspushed me a bit into uh a worse
physical state and my bodyreacted to it.
And it kind of just all clickedinto place as I was taking my
nap.
And I'm like, I, you know, thisis if I were to let's say go
back to eating meat, if I wentback to just regular food,
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processed food, I can onlyimagine how badly my body would
feel if I was putting all ofthat into it.
So it was more of an awakeningalmost shock to my system.
Like, you have to stop this.
Like, you have to get get itback together because quite
frankly, I don't have time.
I don't have time for naps.
I don't want to waste time onnaps.
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I wanted to live my life.
So this is more of like a momentfor me, like a aha moment.
Like, oh, this is proof isn'tputting people, make sure you're
not like treating your butt yourbody poorly.
I know when you're young, youkind of don't pay attention to
it because you think you'reinvincible.
I get it.
I've been there.
We've all been there.
I'm talking to the 35 plus crowdwho's like, oh, now I'm starting
to feel things.
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It's time.
It's time to just treat yourbodies better.
It's time to try and put as muchgood raw food into your body as
possible.
If you're a meat eater, you're ameat eater.
Like, I'm not saying don't dothat, but you know, eat as well
as you can.
Avoid like the fatty fried, deepfried situations.
You know, try to eat things thatare a little bit better quality.
I just wanted to add that noteinto everybody.
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It was one of those moments thatI was just like, oh man, I
really have to get myself backon track.
So if you're starting to feelbadly, I encourage you to look
at your diet, look at how you'retreating your body, and like
look to food for support ingetting through whatever it is
you need to get through.
Some stuff, obviously, notpossible to use food to treat
it, but a lot of stuff is.
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So I definitely encourage you tolook at stuff like that.
I hope you all found thisepisode quick but informative.
Just kind of food for thought.
Pay attention to what you'reputting in your body because
your body is gonna react towhatever you're putting in
there.
And I hope you all have a greatday.
Thank you for hanging out withme, and I will catch you on the
next one.
Take care.
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