Stop Eating Less | Menopause in the Light, Part 3

Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten · Aug 13, 2026 · 44m · transcript

When your body begins changing during perimenopause and menopause, the fitness industry's answer is usually predictable:

Eat less.

Cut the carbs.

Skip breakfast.

Fast longer.

Do more cardio.

But what if eating less isn't actually the strategy your body needs?

In Part 3 of Menopause in the Light, Coach Alex Van Houten turns to nutrition—and challenges the idea that midlife health is simply about making the number on the scale smaller.Menopause changes physiology, but it doesn't erase physiology.

Energy balance still matters. But so do muscle mass, protein intake, sleep, training, insulin…