Amy Says…
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I noticed that my checkout clerk at the grocery store was wearing a personal air conditioner around her neck. Even though the store was cool and actually the weather outside was cool too. I was wearing a fleece and a coat.
I made small talk and used the A/C around her neck as an ice breaker. The clerk immediately told me, a stranger, her menopause story and that it helps with hot flashes.
You might think this is an overshare. The thing that stood out to me about the conversation was that I don’t think that either my mom or my grandmother ever talked to me about menopause growing up and now it’s a mainstream conversation in public between strangers.
It’s my opinion that this is a good change. Menopause is a natural part of being alive. Conversations about it should not be kept hidden.
The two conversations I share on the show this week are both about topics that are sometimes kept private. Weight loss and menopause. I hope you enjoy them.
One of the things I think about a lot is that talking to our age group peers about these topics is important but so is sharing this information with younger women so that they can be more prepared in the future. So maybe consider sharing these conversations with younger women that you know. There is a share button at the bottom of this newsletter that should make it easy to forward.
What is the most off the rails conversation you’ve ever had with a stranger?
Discussion: What is the most “off-the-rails” conversation you’ve ever had with a stranger?
Inspired by my conversation at the grocery store hit reply and share with me a random conversation on an unexpected topic that you’ve had with a stranger or in an unexpected place. I’ll share some of the interesting ones in next week’s newsletter and I am thinking I maybe should make a real life reward for people who participate. Does anybody want a sticker?
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Weight Loss | The Step-by-Step Method That Helped Lori Balue Keep Weight Off After 50
Lori Balue
Lori Balue was 11 or 12 years old the first time she went on a diet. By the time she was in her early 50s, she had spent four decades cycling through Atkins, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, low-fat everything, HCG drops, paleo, vegetarian, and more diets than she could name. She was still searching. What finally worked wasn't a newer version of the same old approach. It was understanding why none of those other things had actually worked in the first place. For anyone navigating weight loss after 50, especially women watching the scale creep up while their patience wears thin, her story offers something more useful than another plan: a framework for understanding your own body.
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Frozen shoulder. Brain fog. Joint pain that arrived in your early 40s and quietly settled in. For millions of women, these are the opening chapters of a menopause experience that nobody prepared them for: not their mothers, not their doctors, not even the lifespan education curriculum that some of them taught in school. What makes this so frustrating is not just the physical discomfort. It is the years that can pass before anyone connects the dots. If you have ever sat in a doctor's office and been told "you're fine" while knowing, deep down, that something is off, this is for you.
Amy Benjamin
Special offer from Amy Benjamin for you:
Menopause Survival Guide (Free) A practical, science-informed menopause handbook with checklists, symptom prompts, and simple daily strategies to improve energy, sleep, mood, and clarity, plus doctor visit question guides. https://amybenjaminmoore.com/used
📕 🎧 Things Worth Your Time
This is where we share the cool suggestions for books, podcasts, gadgets that make life better and other fun stuff that our guests share during their interviews.
Amy Benjamin suggests: Setting a nice table with fine china to enjoy a meal.
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