October 29, 2025 • 27 mins
🎙️ Curious about the secret to maintaining health and vitality as you age? Join Merry and Cathy as they chat with Chelsea McLeod, a health coach transforming the lives of high-performing women through hormonal balance. Could traditional weight loss methods be failing you due to hormonal changes rather than age? Chelsea shares her journey from the corporate world to health coaching, revealing how understanding hormones like estrogen, progesterone, and cortisol can revolutionize your health.
Discover why coffee on an empty stomach might be sabotaging your day and how meal timing could be the key to better sleep and metabolism. Chelsea’s success story with her client Kate will inspire you to take charge of your health journey. Don't miss her practical tips and learn how to connect with her for more personalized guidance. Tune in and share this episode with anyone seeking a vibrant, energetic life in their fifties and beyond! 🌟
More about Chelsea
Chelsea is a corporate dropout turned hormone health coach for high-achieving women.
Founder of the Healthy Hustle method, a holistic health coaching program designed to deliver rapid results by fixing root cause imbalances in the body that are common in high performing women in stressful roles.
After spending 13 years in global brands and heading up a $60M ecommerce business, she went all-in on her high ticket health coaching business to help a generation of overperforming women look and feel amazing by healing hormones and gut issues.
She has helped 250+ busy, driven women lose up to 30lbs in under 3 months.
Her Healthy Hustle program delivered outstanding results for female leaders at Amazon, McKinsey, Google, LinkedIn, Mediacom, adidas, Crocs, Reebok, Moderna, Mars and Prana, as well as C Suite clients and multi six figure entrepreneurs.
Clients in her signature program lose an average of 8lbs in JUST the first 3 weeks in the program.
They drop multiple dress sizes, sleep through the night for the first time in years, clear their skin, heal hormone issues, reverse autoimmune conditions, massively increase energy, heal adrenal fatigue, and reverse diagnosed conditions such as PCOS and endometriosis
She had to heal her hormones first after years of hustling in corporate and nearly losing her brother to a traumatic brain injury from a football accident.
A fitness junkie, Chelsea teaches soulcycle style spin where you'll find her in the studio making epic house and hip hop playlists and transformational athletic experiences for rooms of 40+ riders.
She fought in a sanctioned USA boxing fight and captained her college field hockey team at Rhodes College, competing in the NCAA tournament.
Her dream is to help thousands of women heal and level up their lives, launch a corporate hormone health education program, and build a scalable health program for underprivileged women who need support in their health journeys.
Connect with Chelsea
Website: https://chelseamcleod.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chelseajmcleod
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthywithchels/
TikTok: @healthywithchels
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-mcleod/
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Merry Elkins (00:01):
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Merry Elkins (00:55):
And I'm Mary Elkins. Thanks for joining us
today. As always, we're here tobring you conversations that
matter, especially in the secondhalf of life.
Cathy Worthington (01:05):
That's right. Today, we're diving into
something that affects so manyof us, our health, our energy,
and yes, even our hormones.We've heard from our listeners
that staying at a healthyweight, keeping energy high, and
managing stress gets morecomplicated as we get older.
Merry Elkins (01:22):
Absolutely. And here's the truth
that may have worked in ourthirties and forties don't
always work the same way in ourfifties, sixties, and beyond,
although we wish they did. Andour bodies are constantly
changing, and that means ourapproach to health needs to
evolve too.
Cathy Worthington (01:40):
If you've ever felt frustrated because
you're doing all the rightthings and the scale just won't
budge, or your energy is stilllow, you're not alone. There's a
lot of science behind this.Hormonal changes, especially in
women, play a major role inmetabolism, sleep, and even how
our bodies process stress.
Merry Elkins (02:00):
And that's why we are really excited about today's
guest, Chelsea MacLeod. Chelseais a health coach who works with
high performers, and those arepeople who are already juggling
busy lives and careers but wantto optimize their health.
Cathy Worthington (02:16):
And she has an incredible program called
Health Coaching for HighPerformers, and she's also the
author of The Busy Girl's Guideto Hormonal Weight Loss. Her
work is really about cuttingthrough the noise and helping
people take practical stepstoward better health.
Merry Elkins (02:32):
And I love that she focuses not just on weight
loss, but on energy, stressmanagement, and creating a
healthy relationship with food,and certainly very important,
ourselves.
Cathy Worthington (02:44):
So let's bring her in. Chelsea, welcome
to Late Boomers.
Chelsea McLeod (02:48):
So nice to be here, ladies. Thanks for having
me.
Merry Elkins (02:51):
It's wonderful to have you. And Chelsea, to start
off, can you tell us a littlebit about your background and
how you began working in thehealth coaching business for
high performers, especially.
Chelsea McLeod (03:03):
So my intention was actually never to be a
health coach. I just happened tobecome one. You know, I was
working and grinding myself intothe into the ground in corporate
for ten years. And in theprocess, you know, had a number
of different hormonal imbalancesthat I didn't realize were
hormonal imbalances at the time.You know, I wasn't sleeping
well.
(03:23):
I clothes didn't fit quite theway they used to. My skin was
not the way it used to look, andI was quite anxious a lot of the
time. Right? Like, I was runningfrom thing to thing to thing and
had no scheduled free time, andI was just doing the most. But
all of the work I was doing withmy exercise and trying to eat
the right things just wasn'treally delivering a proportional
(03:45):
result.
And so I ended up going anatural route to fix things like
type two diabetes and PCOS. Andin the process, I healed a
number of different symptomsthat I thought were normal, but
they're totally not. Whilethey're really common amongst
women who are, you know, workinghard, they're traveling a lot
for work, maybe they have kids,they're very, very common, but
(04:07):
they're not Like
Cathy Worthington (04:08):
what?
Chelsea McLeod (04:10):
Not sleeping through the night, weight gain,
hair loss, bloating after meals,not going to the bathroom once a
day, peeing all the time. Justthings like that that women are
like, well, I'm just gettingolder. This is just me now. And
what I want so many women tounderstand is that's actually
not true. And a lot of thesethings can be reversed and and
(04:33):
fixed using the right protocols.
Cathy Worthington (04:35):
Well, many of our listeners are baby boomers
and in their fifties, sixties,and up. So why do hormones play
such a big role in weight andenergy at this stage of life?
Chelsea McLeod (04:48):
So I always say that women don't necessarily
gain weight because of theirage. They gain weight because
their hormones are imbalanced,and they may have some habits
that are not really supportingthem in this phase of their
life. And so, you know,metabolism is so we we talk
about how the metabolism justgets slower with age, but that's
not always necessarily true, butyour hormones do impact your
(05:09):
metabolism. So when yourhormones shift or, you know,
you're you have too much of oneand not enough of the other,
that's where it can be a lotharder to lose weight using the
traditional approaches. That'swhy you get so many women who do
personal trainers, and they gosee doctors, and they're just
told to change their birthcontrol or go on Ozempic or, you
know, move more and eat less.
(05:31):
And that's not always gonna helpwomen get where they wanna go,
which is why we have to look athormones first. Taking a
hormones and nervous systemfirst approach just makes what
women are doing so much moreeffective. Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (05:42):
That sounds good. I haven't heard of this
before.
Merry Elkins (05:44):
Yeah. I haven't either. Does that
Cathy Worthington (05:45):
involve does
Merry Elkins (05:46):
that involve taking hormones, or what are you
talking about there?
Chelsea McLeod (05:53):
So I don't work with clients in an HRT capacity,
but what I do do is dofunctional medicine lab testing
that explains why they don'tfeel or look the way they want
to. So this is testing that's alittle bit different than what
you would do with a doctor. Youknow, I always say that doctors
are looking for disease. Andwhat I'm doing is I'm looking
for imbalances. I'm looking for,you know, is your estrogen being
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produced in the right amount?
Sometimes it's too much.Sometimes it's too little. What
about your progesterone? Youknow, if your cortisol is really
elevated, which is a stresshormone, that's gonna impact
your ability to release weightand and actually burn fat. And
so we need to look at all ofthese hormones together to get a
really good snapshot of yourmetabolism and what's going on
just underneath the hood.
(06:35):
So for a lot of women, becausethey're really stressed, a lot
of them have maybe lost ahusband, or they've been through
a a job loss, or gone throughsomething stressful with a
child. So they've been in what Icall survival mode for so long,
and for some of these women,it's decades. And that impacts
your body's ability to actuallylook and feel good. So once
we're able to stabilize awoman's nervous system, get her
(06:58):
hormones back into balance, fatloss becomes a lot easier. Mhmm.
Merry Elkins (07:02):
I think I need you. And on that note, you call
your program health coaching forhigh performers. Talk about what
a high performer is. What doesit mean in the context of
health?
Chelsea McLeod (07:15):
So most of the women I work with are just busy.
So I it's anyone from age 35 to65. I do have clients who are
older as well. But I would saymost women struggling with
hormonal imbalances aresomewhere in between there. And
so it's women who are maybe in acorporate job.
It's a lot of women who are,maybe recently retired, but they
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had a really long career. Theywere really busy, or they were
raising a bunch of kids, youknow, like, had a a busy life.
So these are women who identifyas just very busy women. There's
also women who own businesses,women who have podcasts, who
have a lot of demands on theirphysical body, but also are on
camera a lot or at events a lotor they travel a lot. So any
woman who has a lot of demandson her on her physical or
(08:01):
emotional body is who I helpbest.
Cathy Worthington (08:05):
That's amazing. And in your book, the
busy girl's guide to hormonalweight loss, you emphasize
simplicity. What are some of themost common mistakes people make
when they try to lose weightduring midlife?
Chelsea McLeod (08:20):
Just adding a bunch of cardio. Going to the
gym for three hours, trying tomake complicated meals or do
complicated cleanses, spending alot of money on juices. But when
we don't really get to the rootof what's going on with your
hormones first, nothing isreally that effective. And so I
see women wasting a lot of moneyor making it more complicated
than it needs to be. And we canalways start with just eating
(08:44):
the right foods.
And I think a lot of women don'tknow what the right foods are,
so that's where a coach can bereally effective in helping you
understand what those foods are,but also not just what what is a
healthy food, but what's ahealthy food for you? Because
the reality is a lot of womenhave food sensitivities that
maybe they are don't know about,or because their hormones are
operating in a certain way,there might be things that they
(09:04):
could benefit from removing oradding for a certain amount of
time. And that helps get theirhormones back into balance so
they're able to release weight alittle bit quicker.
Merry Elkins (09:20):
Yeah. Any any suggestions on, like, a real
healthy dinner or breakfast orlunch?
Chelsea McLeod (09:29):
So for most of my clients, when we start, a
smoothie is a really good way togo. And I think a lot of women
feel like, oh, you know, Ishouldn't be eating fruit, but
that's actually not the case. Wejust wanna eat be eating the
right fruit. So I always tell myclients, you know, go have a
smoothie with a cup ofblueberries and then four big
handfuls of spinach, some reallyhigh quality pea protein, and
(09:51):
then a scoop of almond butter,and maybe maybe a half of
banana.
Merry Elkins (09:55):
Wow. Yeah. No no apples or or grapes. Well,
grapes are very fattening, butMhmm. What what about apples?
I have apples every morning, soapples and yogurt. And
Chelsea McLeod (10:08):
Yeah. You could do apples. I I don't usually
have them in smoothies, butapples are great.
Cathy Worthington (10:13):
Yeah. I did a smoothie this morning with all
those greens and Oh. Proteinpowder and yolk a little bit of
yogurt.
Chelsea McLeod (10:21):
Amazing.
Cathy Worthington (10:21):
And blueberries were in there.
Merry Elkins (10:24):
And Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (10:24):
I put I always put a couple of pieces of
frozen mango because it makes itslushier, colder. That sounds
good. But the maximum bananashould only be half a banana.
Right? And I freeze them.
So I have a half of frozenbanana in there. That makes
fabulous. It's really ultragreen and ultra thick. Mhmm. I
(10:48):
love that.
I'm glad Sounds delicious. Thatthat's a certified way to do it.
Merry Elkins (10:53):
Yeah. Well, I like to eat my fruit, so that I hope
an equally good way. We've heardfrom listeners, and they say,
I'm eating less and exercisingmore, but nothing's changing.
You talked about this a littlebit, but what's happening inside
the body when this approachdoesn't work anymore?
Chelsea McLeod (11:17):
It's different for everyone. So this is why we
need to take a reallyindividualized approach for each
woman. Sometimes it could betheir thyroid's not like firing
optimally. For some women, it'stheir estrogen isn't quite as
high as it used to be. For otherwomen, it's their cortisol is so
elevated that their metabolismis impacted.
And so and some women, you know,maybe they think they they might
(11:39):
should be eating the wrongthing, so there's a lot of
systemic inflammation in theirbody that's Mhmm. Kind of making
it more difficult to loseweight. Because we have to
remember weight isn't alwaysjust fat. Sometimes it's
inflammation. And when your bodyis eating the when you're eating
the wrong things for your bodybut don't know it, you can hold
on to a lot of water weight aswell.
So for a lot of women, when wewhen we do food sensitivity
testing, we take out the foodsthat they're sensitive to for a
(12:01):
short period of time until theirgut is repaired. We, even out
their hormones using functionalmedicine supplements that are
really powerful. We support theliver so it can remove excess
hormones and just get everythingback into balance. Women are
able to really accelerate theirresults faster than anything
else they've tried.
Merry Elkins (12:17):
Do you do food testing with a blood test, or
how does that work?
Chelsea McLeod (12:22):
Yeah. It's with a blood test.
Merry Elkins (12:24):
Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (12:24):
That's good. How important is sleep when it
comes to hormones and metabolismand weight management?
Chelsea McLeod (12:31):
Absolutely critical. And I'd say for a lot
of women 40, sleep is a reallybig issue. And for a lot of
them, maybe they're getting inbed, but they can't fall asleep.
But I I what oftentimes I see isalso the two or 3AM wake up,
which indicates that theircortisol is elevated. Oh,
Merry Elkins (12:47):
no. Four 4AM.
Chelsea McLeod (12:49):
4AM. Yeah. It just we get to look at the
underlying hormonal situation,and and there's two pieces.
Right? Like, we have to look atlifestyle practices that make
sure that you're getting highquality sleep and able to sleep
through the night.
So there's all sorts of thingswe talk about, like, you know,
making sure your dinner andbeverages are pulled forward at
(13:09):
least two hours before going tobed. Minimizing blue light at
night can be really effective.So if you have to look at
screens using blue lightblocking glasses is a huge hack
that many people find is reallyeffective. But also sub certain
supplements can be reallyeffective at just helping you
reset your circadian rhythm. SoI'll usually tailor those to the
(13:32):
client's needs, and andaccording to their symptoms, and
they're usually able to healtheir sleep cycles within a
couple of weeks.
Cathy Worthington (13:40):
That sounds a good that's a good track record.
Merry Elkins (13:42):
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, let's talk a
little about stress. Youmentioned it earlier, and so
many of us are just stressed outwith everything going on in our
lives, which is a lot when youlive in the city and you're
working and you have kids oryou're taking care of older
people or you lose a spouse orempty nest or whatever it might
(14:04):
be.
But so how do you deal with biglife transitions? How does
stress impact the hormonalhealth and our weight?
Chelsea McLeod (14:16):
Yeah. You know, I always say for women, it's
about learning skills. Andthere's no real hacks for for
managing stress. It's reallyabout becoming the kind of
person who understands whattheir stress signals are. They
understand when their body isgoing into survival mode, and
they understand, you know,number one, how to nourish their
body in a way that's not gonnafurther elevate their stress.
(14:36):
Because a lot of women arestressed just by a function of
what they're eating because theydon't understand the skill of
eating in a way that supportstheir nervous system. And so
Mhmm. You know, sometimes frontlike, going upstream a little
bit and looking at all thedifferent lifestyles that are
affecting stress. And then alsoin the moment, what are we doing
to manage stress? So a couplereally powerful things are using
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the breath.
The breath is the fastest way toreset your nervous system, bring
your cortisol down, and justdoing four four count box
breaths. You breathe in forfour, hold for four, breathe out
for four, and hold for four.When you feel your chest start
to, you know, pound a littlebit, when you feel, you know,
when your husband does somethingthat really pisses you off and
you just feel the flutter inyour heart, it's it's saying,
(15:18):
oh, that there it is. Just takea moment, breathe. Sometimes
moving your body to kinda movesome of that energy can be
really helpful.
And, you know, when you aregoing through a really stressful
period I mean, I have so manyclients who have been through a
divorce or gone throughsomething really stressful with
work. And so we get to figureout those strategies that are
(15:39):
gonna help them in their uniquesituation based on what's going
on. And a lot of that has to dowith how we're moving our body,
just to fundamentals, you know.What are we eating? How are we
moving?
Are we drinking enough water?Like, making sure that we're
doing all we can to support ourbody with inputs during a time
where there's a lot of outputsbecause we're stressed.
Merry Elkins (15:57):
Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (15:58):
Oh, yeah. Well, maybe could you share a
success story, someone youworked with who made changes and
saw dramatic results?
Chelsea McLeod (16:09):
I have one client named Kate. She was 64
and came to me and had gainedprobably about 40 pounds over
the last twenty years, and thenhad just kinda slowly crept up
after her third kid, and nothingreally changed about her life,
but she also never reallyinvested in learning how to take
care of herself. And so she waseating a pretty standard
American diet, you know, a lotof starchy carbs and a lot of
(16:33):
beige foods, as I call them,which those are totally fine. We
just wanna build them into themix of other foods. Right?
And so Mhmm. She playedpickleball, but didn't really
have a strategy of how to keepher hormones balanced, how to
manage stress, how to understandher internal world. And as a
result, she was kinda trying todo the things where she was
going to the gym, and she wasdoing the Zumba class, and she
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was eating more salads, and shewas like, this is not working.
And so she came into my sixmonth program where we work on
really healing the hormones. Andwe ran her functional medicine
lab tests and found that hercortisol levels were through the
roof, which explained that whythis was so difficult for her
and why she was having troublesleeping.
So we changed the way she didher wind down routine at night.
(17:16):
We got her on some functionalmedicine supplements. She did a
couple protocols that reallysupport her liver so she could
get out this backlog of, youknow, toxins and hormones that
had been sitting there fordecades, and really systematized
the way she ate. So we gave herthe skill of how to cleverly
balance her blood sugar becauseshe she was, you know,
(17:37):
prediabetic. And so she, youknow, her blood blood sugar was
very unstable from all thestress and from all the, all the
carbohydrates.
And so we were really, really,deliberate about healing the way
that her blood sugar looked on aday to day basis. And as a
result, you know, she lost 15pounds in her first four weeks
Oh. And proceeded to lose anadditional 15 pounds. So she's
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now at 30 down in under sixmonths, and she's feeling
incredible. She sized downmultiple sizes in clothes and
has pulled out all of herclothes from, you know, from
decades ago.
And she
Merry Elkins (18:12):
didn't she thought she was gonna have to
Chelsea McLeod (18:13):
donate them. And so what I wanna tell women is
that, you know, there's sothere's so much opportunity for
healing when you have the rightprotocols that are really backed
up by science and clientresults. I love that.
Cathy Worthington (18:26):
I love that.
Merry Elkins (18:27):
That's great.
Cathy Worthington (18:27):
It's great story. Yeah. Yeah.
Merry Elkins (18:29):
Yeah. Good for Kate. Inspiring. Absolutely. All
for all of us.
If someone feels completelyoverwhelmed and doesn't know
where to begin, you you'vementioned the breath, but is
that the first step? Are thereother steps that people can
take?
Chelsea McLeod (18:48):
Absolutely. There's so many little things.
And I just did a I think a lotof women get really overwhelmed
by this because they're onInstagram, and they're seeing
all these things that they'resupposed to be doing, and their
friends are on GLP ones, andthen their other friends are
seeing the personal trainer. Andeveryone has the thing that they
swear by. And Yeah.
You know, Jane's doing keto, andthen, you know, Cynthia's doing
(19:10):
Peloton. And we we all have ourthing. Right? But at the end of
the day, this has to becustomized for you. Like, what
works for your friend might notfor you, which is why it can be
really powerful.
You know? Obviously, it's easyfor me to say, but it can be
really powerful to skip the lineand get a professional who who
understands how to do this forwomen. Right? And so, I just
launched this little challengewhere I I just wanted to give
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women those micro habits, thosethings that they could start
with where regardless of who youare or what your hormonal
situation is, here are, like,the the few things that I would
recommend doing. And one of themthat's really powerful and makes
a huge difference, but peopleare quite resistant for it.
Are you ready for it? Yes.Moving your coffee after
breakfast so you're not havingit on an empty stomach. Oh. It
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makes a really big differencewith your nervous system and
with your with your heart rate,with your cortisol levels.
And when women do that, theyfind that there's a huge
difference in how they feel in,you know, their energy
throughout the day, theiranxiety levels, and they're just
able to release a little bitmore inflammation faster. So
that's one
Cathy Worthington (20:15):
of great advice. So you're moving the
breakfast earlier, though.You're eat you're actually
eating before you drink coffee.
Chelsea McLeod (20:24):
If you if you absolutely need coffee, I guess,
yeah, you could move breakfastforward a bit earlier. Yeah.
Cathy Worthington (20:30):
Yeah. You're just delaying the coffee until
whenever your normal breakfastwould be. Right? Right. But I
know so many people that don'teven eat breakfast.
They just drink coffee.
Merry Elkins (20:40):
I do too.
Cathy Worthington (20:42):
It's like, I don't know how they do that
because it gets you so wired. Italso kind of dehydrates you.
Merry Elkins (20:48):
It does.
Cathy Worthington (20:50):
Yeah. Because I have a physical therapist. The
client was in the room and Iheard them talking and the guy
said, you know, I get leg crampsso bad after I drink my coffee.
He said, don't start withcoffee. Start with a large glass
of water.
You're dehydrated.
Chelsea McLeod (21:07):
Totally. Yeah. That he's absolutely right.
Cathy Worthington (21:11):
And what's another tip like that?
Chelsea McLeod (21:15):
Hydration first thing. A 100%. So I always tell
my women, if you can have a bigglass of warm water with a pinch
of sea salt and a squeeze oflemon Oh. It just helps hydrate
your gut. It hydrates yourbrain.
It gives you some minerals. Allof the water that you lost
overnight, you're replenishing.And I find a lot of women after
you know, I I always give them aseventy two hour period where
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they're allowed to feel bad forthemselves. But typically after
seventy two hours, they arefeeling so much better by having
the water first thing and havingcoffee a bit later.
Merry Elkins (21:46):
I always drink water in the morning, but I
don't add sea salt or lemon.
Cathy Worthington (21:51):
I do know about that little tip. I always
drink water first too. Mary,didn't know you do that. Yeah. I
always drink.
Merry Elkins (21:57):
Every morning, it's the
Cathy Worthington (21:58):
first Big glass of water.
Merry Elkins (22:00):
Big glass of water. Always warm even hot
instead of coffee. I don't drinkcoffee. But yeah. And it and I
drink it before I go to bed too,which is
maybe why I get up at
04:00 in the morning.
Chelsea McLeod (22:14):
It could be. It could be. I find a lot of
women's sleep is disrupted justbecause they're waking up to pee
because they're not timing theirfluids at the right time. But
once they do that, they're ableto sleep through the night.
Merry Elkins (22:25):
Yeah. Oh. That's interesting. Any other tips?
Cathy Worthington (22:29):
Yeah. Give us some more You know little little
Chelsea McLeod (22:32):
little tricks. One thing that's really powerful
for women, you know, 50, ispulling forward dinner earlier.
Having a really like, a trueearly bird dinner, you know,
like, the five, 6PM dinner isone of the best things you can
do if you really wanna improveyour sleep and burn fat faster.
So keeping your your dinner niceand light and having a bigger
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lunch and then a smaller dinnercan be really effective.
Merry Elkins (22:57):
I think Kathy does that. I don't. I like
Cathy Worthington (22:59):
I do.
Merry Elkins (22:59):
A nice dinner.
Cathy Worthington (23:02):
I do that. I either eat dinner earlier. I
don't eat dinner. I mean,sometimes that if I had a big
lunch, I don't even eat dinner.
Chelsea McLeod (23:10):
Kathy, maybe you should be a health coach. Maybe.
Cathy Worthington (23:15):
Well, maybe so. I'm good at I'm good at the
meditation aspects and thecalming and the breath and stuff
like that. Yeah.
Chelsea McLeod (23:24):
Very good. I'm impressed.
Cathy Worthington (23:26):
Tell us how our listeners can connect with
you and learn more about yourcoaching program or pick up the
Busy Girls Guide to HormonalWeight Loss. How do we do that?
Chelsea McLeod (23:39):
So if you're on Instagram, you can find me at
healthy with Chels. And there Ihave links to the busy girl
guide. I'm sure I can, sharethose with you to put in the
show notes as well. But if youdon't have Instagram, you can
also find me atchelseamccloud.com. And that's
spelled m c l e o d.
And I have links to all of myyou know, you can book a call.
(24:00):
It's a fifteen minute hormonereset session where we can come
face to face one on one, and Ican give you a little strategy
of where to start with balancingyour hormones and releasing
weight. And I also have apodcast.
Cathy Worthington (24:11):
Again was health or healthy?
Chelsea McLeod (24:14):
Healthy with Chels.
Cathy Worthington (24:17):
With Chels,
Merry Elkins (24:18):
not Chelsea.
Chelsea McLeod (24:19):
Just Chels.
Merry Elkins (24:21):
Spelled c h e
Chelsea McLeod (24:22):
l s. That's it.
Merry Elkins (24:25):
Alright. Yeah.
Cathy Worthington (24:26):
I'm good.
Chelsea McLeod (24:26):
I have a podcast called It's Not You, It's Your
Hormones. And there's onepodcast episode in particular
that I think your readers wouldreally like, and that's I think
it's episode six or seven, andit's on menopause.
Merry Elkins (24:39):
Oh. Mhmm. That's that's important.
Cathy Worthington (24:42):
That's a
Merry Elkins (24:42):
good one. So it's not
Chelsea McLeod (24:43):
you who
Merry Elkins (24:44):
get your hormones. Remember that.
Cathy Worthington (24:47):
What about this busy girl's guide to
hormonal weight loss? What isthat?
Chelsea McLeod (24:53):
Tell us about that. Is a a book of little mini
micro habits that you can applyto start releasing weight and
feeling better. So it's it'sjust a free resource that I put
together for women who arereally looking to take that
first step to healing theirhormones so that they can
release weight and increasetheir energy. Oh, thanks.
Merry Elkins (25:11):
We have have to pick that one up. Definitely. No
matter how old you are, we allneed to increase our energy. Of
course. Absolutely.
Chelsea, thank you so much forjoining us today and sharing
your wisdom, and it really wasgreat wisdom. This has been both
inspiring and definitelypractical. I think our listeners
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are going to walk away with alot of hope, inspiration, and
good tips. They'll probably stopdrinking coffee first.
Cathy Worthington (25:40):
Oh, that's the hardest one. But yeah, I
wanted to thank you too Chelsea.And for those of you listening,
you can learn more aboutChelsea's work at our website,
chelseamcleod.com, which againis spelled chelseamcle0d. So
(26:01):
don't put a u in there. You'llinformation about her Health
Coaching for High Performersbook and program, and her book,
The Busy Girl's Guide toHormonal Weight Loss.
Merry Elkins (26:13):
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That's right. And thanks for listening, everyone.
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today. As always, we're here tobring you conversations that
matter, especially in the secondhalf of life.
Cathy Worthington (01:05):
That's right. Today, we're diving into
something that affects so manyof us, our health, our energy,
and yes, even our hormones.We've heard from our listeners
that staying at a healthyweight, keeping energy high, and
managing stress gets morecomplicated as we get older.
Merry Elkins (01:22):
Absolutely. And here's the truth
that may have worked in ourthirties and forties don't
always work the same way in ourfifties, sixties, and beyond,
although we wish they did. Andour bodies are constantly
changing, and that means ourapproach to health needs to
evolve too.
Cathy Worthington (01:40):
If you've ever felt frustrated because
you're doing all the rightthings and the scale just won't
budge, or your energy is stilllow, you're not alone. There's a
lot of science behind this.Hormonal changes, especially in
women, play a major role inmetabolism, sleep, and even how
our bodies process stress.
Merry Elkins (02:00):
And that's why we are really excited about today's
guest, Chelsea MacLeod. Chelseais a health coach who works with
high performers, and those arepeople who are already juggling
busy lives and careers but wantto optimize their health.
Cathy Worthington (02:16):
And she has an incredible program called
Health Coaching for HighPerformers, and she's also the
author of The Busy Girl's Guideto Hormonal Weight Loss. Her
work is really about cuttingthrough the noise and helping
people take practical stepstoward better health.
Merry Elkins (02:32):
And I love that she focuses not just on weight
loss, but on energy, stressmanagement, and creating a
healthy relationship with food,and certainly very important,
ourselves.
Cathy Worthington (02:44):
So let's bring her in. Chelsea, welcome
to Late Boomers.
Chelsea McLeod (02:48):
So nice to be here, ladies. Thanks for having
me.
Merry Elkins (02:51):
It's wonderful to have you. And Chelsea, to start
off, can you tell us a littlebit about your background and
how you began working in thehealth coaching business for
high performers, especially.
Chelsea McLeod (03:03):
So my intention was actually never to be a
health coach. I just happened tobecome one. You know, I was
working and grinding myself intothe into the ground in corporate
for ten years. And in theprocess, you know, had a number
of different hormonal imbalancesthat I didn't realize were
hormonal imbalances at the time.You know, I wasn't sleeping
well.
(03:23):
I clothes didn't fit quite theway they used to. My skin was
not the way it used to look, andI was quite anxious a lot of the
time. Right? Like, I was runningfrom thing to thing to thing and
had no scheduled free time, andI was just doing the most. But
all of the work I was doing withmy exercise and trying to eat
the right things just wasn'treally delivering a proportional
(03:45):
result.
And so I ended up going anatural route to fix things like
type two diabetes and PCOS. Andin the process, I healed a
number of different symptomsthat I thought were normal, but
they're totally not. Whilethey're really common amongst
women who are, you know, workinghard, they're traveling a lot
for work, maybe they have kids,they're very, very common, but
(04:07):
they're not Like
Cathy Worthington (04:08):
what?
Chelsea McLeod (04:10):
Not sleeping through the night, weight gain,
hair loss, bloating after meals,not going to the bathroom once a
day, peeing all the time. Justthings like that that women are
like, well, I'm just gettingolder. This is just me now. And
what I want so many women tounderstand is that's actually
not true. And a lot of thesethings can be reversed and and
(04:33):
fixed using the right protocols.
Cathy Worthington (04:35):
Well, many of our listeners are baby boomers
and in their fifties, sixties,and up. So why do hormones play
such a big role in weight andenergy at this stage of life?
Chelsea McLeod (04:48):
So I always say that women don't necessarily
gain weight because of theirage. They gain weight because
their hormones are imbalanced,and they may have some habits
that are not really supportingthem in this phase of their
life. And so, you know,metabolism is so we we talk
about how the metabolism justgets slower with age, but that's
not always necessarily true, butyour hormones do impact your
(05:09):
metabolism. So when yourhormones shift or, you know,
you're you have too much of oneand not enough of the other,
that's where it can be a lotharder to lose weight using the
traditional approaches. That'swhy you get so many women who do
personal trainers, and they gosee doctors, and they're just
told to change their birthcontrol or go on Ozempic or, you
know, move more and eat less.
(05:31):
And that's not always gonna helpwomen get where they wanna go,
which is why we have to look athormones first. Taking a
hormones and nervous systemfirst approach just makes what
women are doing so much moreeffective. Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (05:42):
That sounds good. I haven't heard of this
before.
Merry Elkins (05:44):
Yeah. I haven't either. Does that
Cathy Worthington (05:45):
involve does
Merry Elkins (05:46):
that involve taking hormones, or what are you
talking about there?
Chelsea McLeod (05:53):
So I don't work with clients in an HRT capacity,
but what I do do is dofunctional medicine lab testing
that explains why they don'tfeel or look the way they want
to. So this is testing that's alittle bit different than what
you would do with a doctor. Youknow, I always say that doctors
are looking for disease. Andwhat I'm doing is I'm looking
for imbalances. I'm looking for,you know, is your estrogen being
(06:14):
produced in the right amount?
Sometimes it's too much.Sometimes it's too little. What
about your progesterone? Youknow, if your cortisol is really
elevated, which is a stresshormone, that's gonna impact
your ability to release weightand and actually burn fat. And
so we need to look at all ofthese hormones together to get a
really good snapshot of yourmetabolism and what's going on
just underneath the hood.
(06:35):
So for a lot of women, becausethey're really stressed, a lot
of them have maybe lost ahusband, or they've been through
a a job loss, or gone throughsomething stressful with a
child. So they've been in what Icall survival mode for so long,
and for some of these women,it's decades. And that impacts
your body's ability to actuallylook and feel good. So once
we're able to stabilize awoman's nervous system, get her
(06:58):
hormones back into balance, fatloss becomes a lot easier. Mhmm.
Merry Elkins (07:02):
I think I need you. And on that note, you call
your program health coaching forhigh performers. Talk about what
a high performer is. What doesit mean in the context of
health?
Chelsea McLeod (07:15):
So most of the women I work with are just busy.
So I it's anyone from age 35 to65. I do have clients who are
older as well. But I would saymost women struggling with
hormonal imbalances aresomewhere in between there. And
so it's women who are maybe in acorporate job.
It's a lot of women who are,maybe recently retired, but they
(07:37):
had a really long career. Theywere really busy, or they were
raising a bunch of kids, youknow, like, had a a busy life.
So these are women who identifyas just very busy women. There's
also women who own businesses,women who have podcasts, who
have a lot of demands on theirphysical body, but also are on
camera a lot or at events a lotor they travel a lot. So any
woman who has a lot of demandson her on her physical or
(08:01):
emotional body is who I helpbest.
Cathy Worthington (08:05):
That's amazing. And in your book, the
busy girl's guide to hormonalweight loss, you emphasize
simplicity. What are some of themost common mistakes people make
when they try to lose weightduring midlife?
Chelsea McLeod (08:20):
Just adding a bunch of cardio. Going to the
gym for three hours, trying tomake complicated meals or do
complicated cleanses, spending alot of money on juices. But when
we don't really get to the rootof what's going on with your
hormones first, nothing isreally that effective. And so I
see women wasting a lot of moneyor making it more complicated
than it needs to be. And we canalways start with just eating
(08:44):
the right foods.
And I think a lot of women don'tknow what the right foods are,
so that's where a coach can bereally effective in helping you
understand what those foods are,but also not just what what is a
healthy food, but what's ahealthy food for you? Because
the reality is a lot of womenhave food sensitivities that
maybe they are don't know about,or because their hormones are
operating in a certain way,there might be things that they
(09:04):
could benefit from removing oradding for a certain amount of
time. And that helps get theirhormones back into balance so
they're able to release weight alittle bit quicker.
Merry Elkins (09:20):
Yeah. Any any suggestions on, like, a real
healthy dinner or breakfast orlunch?
Chelsea McLeod (09:29):
So for most of my clients, when we start, a
smoothie is a really good way togo. And I think a lot of women
feel like, oh, you know, Ishouldn't be eating fruit, but
that's actually not the case. Wejust wanna eat be eating the
right fruit. So I always tell myclients, you know, go have a
smoothie with a cup ofblueberries and then four big
handfuls of spinach, some reallyhigh quality pea protein, and
(09:51):
then a scoop of almond butter,and maybe maybe a half of
banana.
Merry Elkins (09:55):
Wow. Yeah. No no apples or or grapes. Well,
grapes are very fattening, butMhmm. What what about apples?
I have apples every morning, soapples and yogurt. And
Chelsea McLeod (10:08):
Yeah. You could do apples. I I don't usually
have them in smoothies, butapples are great.
Cathy Worthington (10:13):
Yeah. I did a smoothie this morning with all
those greens and Oh. Proteinpowder and yolk a little bit of
yogurt.
Chelsea McLeod (10:21):
Amazing.
Cathy Worthington (10:21):
And blueberries were in there.
Merry Elkins (10:24):
And Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (10:24):
I put I always put a couple of pieces of
frozen mango because it makes itslushier, colder. That sounds
good. But the maximum bananashould only be half a banana.
Right? And I freeze them.
So I have a half of frozenbanana in there. That makes
fabulous. It's really ultragreen and ultra thick. Mhmm. I
(10:48):
love that.
I'm glad Sounds delicious. Thatthat's a certified way to do it.
Merry Elkins (10:53):
Yeah. Well, I like to eat my fruit, so that I hope
an equally good way. We've heardfrom listeners, and they say,
I'm eating less and exercisingmore, but nothing's changing.
You talked about this a littlebit, but what's happening inside
the body when this approachdoesn't work anymore?
Chelsea McLeod (11:17):
It's different for everyone. So this is why we
need to take a reallyindividualized approach for each
woman. Sometimes it could betheir thyroid's not like firing
optimally. For some women, it'stheir estrogen isn't quite as
high as it used to be. For otherwomen, it's their cortisol is so
elevated that their metabolismis impacted.
And so and some women, you know,maybe they think they they might
(11:39):
should be eating the wrongthing, so there's a lot of
systemic inflammation in theirbody that's Mhmm. Kind of making
it more difficult to loseweight. Because we have to
remember weight isn't alwaysjust fat. Sometimes it's
inflammation. And when your bodyis eating the when you're eating
the wrong things for your bodybut don't know it, you can hold
on to a lot of water weight aswell.
So for a lot of women, when wewhen we do food sensitivity
testing, we take out the foodsthat they're sensitive to for a
(12:01):
short period of time until theirgut is repaired. We, even out
their hormones using functionalmedicine supplements that are
really powerful. We support theliver so it can remove excess
hormones and just get everythingback into balance. Women are
able to really accelerate theirresults faster than anything
else they've tried.
Merry Elkins (12:17):
Do you do food testing with a blood test, or
how does that work?
Chelsea McLeod (12:22):
Yeah. It's with a blood test.
Merry Elkins (12:24):
Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (12:24):
That's good. How important is sleep when it
comes to hormones and metabolismand weight management?
Chelsea McLeod (12:31):
Absolutely critical. And I'd say for a lot
of women 40, sleep is a reallybig issue. And for a lot of
them, maybe they're getting inbed, but they can't fall asleep.
But I I what oftentimes I see isalso the two or 3AM wake up,
which indicates that theircortisol is elevated. Oh,
Merry Elkins (12:47):
no. Four 4AM.
Chelsea McLeod (12:49):
4AM. Yeah. It just we get to look at the
underlying hormonal situation,and and there's two pieces.
Right? Like, we have to look atlifestyle practices that make
sure that you're getting highquality sleep and able to sleep
through the night.
So there's all sorts of thingswe talk about, like, you know,
making sure your dinner andbeverages are pulled forward at
(13:09):
least two hours before going tobed. Minimizing blue light at
night can be really effective.So if you have to look at
screens using blue lightblocking glasses is a huge hack
that many people find is reallyeffective. But also sub certain
supplements can be reallyeffective at just helping you
reset your circadian rhythm. SoI'll usually tailor those to the
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client's needs, and andaccording to their symptoms, and
they're usually able to healtheir sleep cycles within a
couple of weeks.
Cathy Worthington (13:40):
That sounds a good that's a good track record.
Merry Elkins (13:42):
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, let's talk a
little about stress. Youmentioned it earlier, and so
many of us are just stressed outwith everything going on in our
lives, which is a lot when youlive in the city and you're
working and you have kids oryou're taking care of older
people or you lose a spouse orempty nest or whatever it might
(14:04):
be.
But so how do you deal with biglife transitions? How does
stress impact the hormonalhealth and our weight?
Chelsea McLeod (14:16):
Yeah. You know, I always say for women, it's
about learning skills. Andthere's no real hacks for for
managing stress. It's reallyabout becoming the kind of
person who understands whattheir stress signals are. They
understand when their body isgoing into survival mode, and
they understand, you know,number one, how to nourish their
body in a way that's not gonnafurther elevate their stress.
(14:36):
Because a lot of women arestressed just by a function of
what they're eating because theydon't understand the skill of
eating in a way that supportstheir nervous system. And so
Mhmm. You know, sometimes frontlike, going upstream a little
bit and looking at all thedifferent lifestyles that are
affecting stress. And then alsoin the moment, what are we doing
to manage stress? So a couplereally powerful things are using
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the breath.
The breath is the fastest way toreset your nervous system, bring
your cortisol down, and justdoing four four count box
breaths. You breathe in forfour, hold for four, breathe out
for four, and hold for four.When you feel your chest start
to, you know, pound a littlebit, when you feel, you know,
when your husband does somethingthat really pisses you off and
you just feel the flutter inyour heart, it's it's saying,
(15:18):
oh, that there it is. Just takea moment, breathe. Sometimes
moving your body to kinda movesome of that energy can be
really helpful.
And, you know, when you aregoing through a really stressful
period I mean, I have so manyclients who have been through a
divorce or gone throughsomething really stressful with
work. And so we get to figureout those strategies that are
(15:39):
gonna help them in their uniquesituation based on what's going
on. And a lot of that has to dowith how we're moving our body,
just to fundamentals, you know.What are we eating? How are we
moving?
Are we drinking enough water?Like, making sure that we're
doing all we can to support ourbody with inputs during a time
where there's a lot of outputsbecause we're stressed.
Merry Elkins (15:57):
Mhmm.
Cathy Worthington (15:58):
Oh, yeah. Well, maybe could you share a
success story, someone youworked with who made changes and
saw dramatic results?
Chelsea McLeod (16:09):
I have one client named Kate. She was 64
and came to me and had gainedprobably about 40 pounds over
the last twenty years, and thenhad just kinda slowly crept up
after her third kid, and nothingreally changed about her life,
but she also never reallyinvested in learning how to take
care of herself. And so she waseating a pretty standard
American diet, you know, a lotof starchy carbs and a lot of
(16:33):
beige foods, as I call them,which those are totally fine. We
just wanna build them into themix of other foods. Right?
And so Mhmm. She playedpickleball, but didn't really
have a strategy of how to keepher hormones balanced, how to
manage stress, how to understandher internal world. And as a
result, she was kinda trying todo the things where she was
going to the gym, and she wasdoing the Zumba class, and she
(16:54):
was eating more salads, and shewas like, this is not working.
And so she came into my sixmonth program where we work on
really healing the hormones. Andwe ran her functional medicine
lab tests and found that hercortisol levels were through the
roof, which explained that whythis was so difficult for her
and why she was having troublesleeping.
So we changed the way she didher wind down routine at night.
(17:16):
We got her on some functionalmedicine supplements. She did a
couple protocols that reallysupport her liver so she could
get out this backlog of, youknow, toxins and hormones that
had been sitting there fordecades, and really systematized
the way she ate. So we gave herthe skill of how to cleverly
balance her blood sugar becauseshe she was, you know,
(17:37):
prediabetic. And so she, youknow, her blood blood sugar was
very unstable from all thestress and from all the, all the
carbohydrates.
And so we were really, really,deliberate about healing the way
that her blood sugar looked on aday to day basis. And as a
result, you know, she lost 15pounds in her first four weeks
Oh. And proceeded to lose anadditional 15 pounds. So she's
(18:00):
now at 30 down in under sixmonths, and she's feeling
incredible. She sized downmultiple sizes in clothes and
has pulled out all of herclothes from, you know, from
decades ago.
And she
Merry Elkins (18:12):
didn't she thought she was gonna have to
Chelsea McLeod (18:13):
donate them. And so what I wanna tell women is
that, you know, there's sothere's so much opportunity for
healing when you have the rightprotocols that are really backed
up by science and clientresults. I love that.
Cathy Worthington (18:26):
I love that.
Merry Elkins (18:27):
That's great.
Cathy Worthington (18:27):
It's great story. Yeah. Yeah.
Merry Elkins (18:29):
Yeah. Good for Kate. Inspiring. Absolutely. All
for all of us.
If someone feels completelyoverwhelmed and doesn't know
where to begin, you you'vementioned the breath, but is
that the first step? Are thereother steps that people can
take?
Chelsea McLeod (18:48):
Absolutely. There's so many little things.
And I just did a I think a lotof women get really overwhelmed
by this because they're onInstagram, and they're seeing
all these things that they'resupposed to be doing, and their
friends are on GLP ones, andthen their other friends are
seeing the personal trainer. Andeveryone has the thing that they
swear by. And Yeah.
You know, Jane's doing keto, andthen, you know, Cynthia's doing
(19:10):
Peloton. And we we all have ourthing. Right? But at the end of
the day, this has to becustomized for you. Like, what
works for your friend might notfor you, which is why it can be
really powerful.
You know? Obviously, it's easyfor me to say, but it can be
really powerful to skip the lineand get a professional who who
understands how to do this forwomen. Right? And so, I just
launched this little challengewhere I I just wanted to give
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women those micro habits, thosethings that they could start
with where regardless of who youare or what your hormonal
situation is, here are, like,the the few things that I would
recommend doing. And one of themthat's really powerful and makes
a huge difference, but peopleare quite resistant for it.
Are you ready for it? Yes.Moving your coffee after
breakfast so you're not havingit on an empty stomach. Oh. It
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makes a really big differencewith your nervous system and
with your with your heart rate,with your cortisol levels.
And when women do that, theyfind that there's a huge
difference in how they feel in,you know, their energy
throughout the day, theiranxiety levels, and they're just
able to release a little bitmore inflammation faster. So
that's one
Cathy Worthington (20:15):
of great advice. So you're moving the
breakfast earlier, though.You're eat you're actually
eating before you drink coffee.
Chelsea McLeod (20:24):
If you if you absolutely need coffee, I guess,
yeah, you could move breakfastforward a bit earlier. Yeah.
Cathy Worthington (20:30):
Yeah. You're just delaying the coffee until
whenever your normal breakfastwould be. Right? Right. But I
know so many people that don'teven eat breakfast.
They just drink coffee.
Merry Elkins (20:40):
I do too.
Cathy Worthington (20:42):
It's like, I don't know how they do that
because it gets you so wired. Italso kind of dehydrates you.
Merry Elkins (20:48):
It does.
Cathy Worthington (20:50):
Yeah. Because I have a physical therapist. The
client was in the room and Iheard them talking and the guy
said, you know, I get leg crampsso bad after I drink my coffee.
He said, don't start withcoffee. Start with a large glass
of water.
You're dehydrated.
Chelsea McLeod (21:07):
Totally. Yeah. That he's absolutely right.
Cathy Worthington (21:11):
And what's another tip like that?
Chelsea McLeod (21:15):
Hydration first thing. A 100%. So I always tell
my women, if you can have a bigglass of warm water with a pinch
of sea salt and a squeeze oflemon Oh. It just helps hydrate
your gut. It hydrates yourbrain.
It gives you some minerals. Allof the water that you lost
overnight, you're replenishing.And I find a lot of women after
you know, I I always give them aseventy two hour period where
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they're allowed to feel bad forthemselves. But typically after
seventy two hours, they arefeeling so much better by having
the water first thing and havingcoffee a bit later.
Merry Elkins (21:46):
I always drink water in the morning, but I
don't add sea salt or lemon.
Cathy Worthington (21:51):
I do know about that little tip. I always
drink water first too. Mary,didn't know you do that. Yeah. I
always drink.
Merry Elkins (21:57):
Every morning, it's the
Cathy Worthington (21:58):
first Big glass of water.
Merry Elkins (22:00):
Big glass of water. Always warm even hot
instead of coffee. I don't drinkcoffee. But yeah. And it and I
drink it before I go to bed too,which is
maybe why I get up at
04:00 in the morning.
Chelsea McLeod (22:14):
It could be. It could be. I find a lot of
women's sleep is disrupted justbecause they're waking up to pee
because they're not timing theirfluids at the right time. But
once they do that, they're ableto sleep through the night.
Merry Elkins (22:25):
Yeah. Oh. That's interesting. Any other tips?
Cathy Worthington (22:29):
Yeah. Give us some more You know little little
Chelsea McLeod (22:32):
little tricks. One thing that's really powerful
for women, you know, 50, ispulling forward dinner earlier.
Having a really like, a trueearly bird dinner, you know,
like, the five, 6PM dinner isone of the best things you can
do if you really wanna improveyour sleep and burn fat faster.
So keeping your your dinner niceand light and having a bigger
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lunch and then a smaller dinnercan be really effective.
Merry Elkins (22:57):
I think Kathy does that. I don't. I like
Cathy Worthington (22:59):
I do.
Merry Elkins (22:59):
A nice dinner.
Cathy Worthington (23:02):
I do that. I either eat dinner earlier. I
don't eat dinner. I mean,sometimes that if I had a big
lunch, I don't even eat dinner.
Chelsea McLeod (23:10):
Kathy, maybe you should be a health coach. Maybe.
Cathy Worthington (23:15):
Well, maybe so. I'm good at I'm good at the
meditation aspects and thecalming and the breath and stuff
like that. Yeah.
Chelsea McLeod (23:24):
Very good. I'm impressed.
Cathy Worthington (23:26):
Tell us how our listeners can connect with
you and learn more about yourcoaching program or pick up the
Busy Girls Guide to HormonalWeight Loss. How do we do that?
Chelsea McLeod (23:39):
So if you're on Instagram, you can find me at
healthy with Chels. And there Ihave links to the busy girl
guide. I'm sure I can, sharethose with you to put in the
show notes as well. But if youdon't have Instagram, you can
also find me atchelseamccloud.com. And that's
spelled m c l e o d.
And I have links to all of myyou know, you can book a call.
(24:00):
It's a fifteen minute hormonereset session where we can come
face to face one on one, and Ican give you a little strategy
of where to start with balancingyour hormones and releasing
weight. And I also have apodcast.
Cathy Worthington (24:11):
Again was health or healthy?
Chelsea McLeod (24:14):
Healthy with Chels.
Cathy Worthington (24:17):
With Chels,
Merry Elkins (24:18):
not Chelsea.
Chelsea McLeod (24:19):
Just Chels.
Merry Elkins (24:21):
Spelled c h e
Chelsea McLeod (24:22):
l s. That's it.
Merry Elkins (24:25):
Alright. Yeah.
Cathy Worthington (24:26):
I'm good.
Chelsea McLeod (24:26):
I have a podcast called It's Not You, It's Your
Hormones. And there's onepodcast episode in particular
that I think your readers wouldreally like, and that's I think
it's episode six or seven, andit's on menopause.
Merry Elkins (24:39):
Oh. Mhmm. That's that's important.
Cathy Worthington (24:42):
That's a
Merry Elkins (24:42):
good one. So it's not
Chelsea McLeod (24:43):
you who
Merry Elkins (24:44):
get your hormones. Remember that.
Cathy Worthington (24:47):
What about this busy girl's guide to
hormonal weight loss? What isthat?
Chelsea McLeod (24:53):
Tell us about that. Is a a book of little mini
micro habits that you can applyto start releasing weight and
feeling better. So it's it'sjust a free resource that I put
together for women who arereally looking to take that
first step to healing theirhormones so that they can
release weight and increasetheir energy. Oh, thanks.
Merry Elkins (25:11):
We have have to pick that one up. Definitely. No
matter how old you are, we allneed to increase our energy. Of
course. Absolutely.
Chelsea, thank you so much forjoining us today and sharing
your wisdom, and it really wasgreat wisdom. This has been both
inspiring and definitelypractical. I think our listeners
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are going to walk away with alot of hope, inspiration, and
good tips. They'll probably stopdrinking coffee first.
Cathy Worthington (25:40):
Oh, that's the hardest one. But yeah, I
wanted to thank you too Chelsea.And for those of you listening,
you can learn more aboutChelsea's work at our website,
chelseamcleod.com, which againis spelled chelseamcle0d. So
(26:01):
don't put a u in there. You'llinformation about her Health
Coaching for High Performersbook and program, and her book,
The Busy Girl's Guide toHormonal Weight Loss.
Merry Elkins (26:13):
And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it
with a friend who might need allof these insights and tips.
Cathy Worthington (26:20):
And don't forget to subscribe to Late
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Merry Elkins (26:29):
That's right. And thanks for listening, everyone.
We'll see you next time on lateboomers.
Cathy Worthington (26:44):
Thank you for joining us on late boomers, the
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