Are you doing everything "right" but still feeling exhausted, foggy, or stuck in a body that doesn’t feel like your own? You’re not alone — and it’s not your fault.

What if the real issue isn’t your willpower, but your blood sugar?

In this blog, based on an episode of Women’s Health Unwrapped with nurse and integrative health consultant Beverly Mazza, we explore how blood sugar balance could be the key to finally feeling good again in perimenopause and beyond.

So many women have spent years—decades, even—believing that being thinner will make them more confident, more attractive, more successful, more accepted. That thinness is the goal. That happiness is on the other side of a smaller dress size.

What we’re not told is that weight is not the best indicator of health. And that chasing it without looking at the bigger picture can do more harm than good.

If you’d told teenage me that one day I’d be a personal trainer, I would’ve laughed. PE was a source of stress, embarrassment and discomfort. I didn’t feel sporty, coordinated, or confident. Like so many women, I spent years believing that movement just wasn’t “for me.”

In my twenties, I joined a gym because I thought I needed to lose weight to feel better — to fix what was wrong with me. I didn’t enjoy it. I dipped in and out. I forced myself to go, but never really felt connected to what I was doing.