Done with Dieting: Total Health for Women 40+ with Elizabeth Sherman

Elizabeth Sherman
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You’ve tried the diets. You’ve done the research. You know what you’re supposed to do. And you’re still stuck. Done with Dieting: Total Health for Women 40+ is for women who are exhausted by the start-over cycle and ready to understand why nothing has stuck, and what to actually do about it. Host Elizabeth Sherman is a Master Certified Life and Health Coach with 20 years of experience working with women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. Each episode gets into the real reasons health habits break down in this stage of life, including hormonal shifts, depleted capacity, years of diet history, and a nervous system that never fully gets to rest. This isn’t another wellness show telling you to eat less and move more. It’s a show that helps you understand what’s actually going on in your body and your life, so you can start making changes that hold. New episodes weekly. Start with the 8 Basic Habits guide at elizabethsherman.com/habits.

  1. 2d ago

    288: The Anti-Aging Secret the Skincare Industry Won't Tell You

    You've been told that looking older is a problem, and that the fix is a shelf full of serums, creams, and a morning-and-night routine that eats your money and your time. In this episode, Elizabeth Sherman makes a different case: the thing that actually shows up on your face as you age isn't a missing product. It's stress. And the skincare industry will never say that out loud, because there's nothing to sell you against it. Elizabeth pulls this apart from a mall in Boston, where she catches her own brain deciding a new dress and a new couch will make her life better. That same pull, she explains, is exactly what happens when you look in the mirror at 55 and reach for the next bottle. She then does something most people in the wellness space won't: she lays out her own privilege honestly, including the cosmetic work she's had done and the reasons she looks the way she does at 57, so you can see clearly what's actually driving how a face ages. The turn in this episode is the part that matters most. Some of your stress is structural and you can't change it. But a second layer, the worrying, the anxiety, the resentment about things you can't control, is yours, and it's costing you more than the circumstance itself. Elizabeth connects this to what chronic stress does to your body over time and to research on how your beliefs about aging affect how long and how well you live. This isn't a stress-management protocol, and it isn't another product to buy. It's a clear look at why you're spending money and mornings on something that was never going to work the way it promised, and what to pay attention to instead. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why two women the same age can look a decade apart, and why it has almost nothing to do with their skincare shelfThe difference between the stress you can't change and the stress you're adding on top, and which one is aging youWhat Elizabeth has actually done to her own face, and the surprising reason she did most of itThe Listener Takeaway: Why This Episode Matters If you've ever stood at a counter and handed over real money for a small bottle because someone told you what it would do for the lines around your eyes, this episode is going to feel like a weight coming off. You are not failing at aging, and you are not behind. You've been sold a fix for a problem that a product can't touch. What you'll walk away with is permission to stop, and something more useful than another routine: a clear-eyed way to see where your stress is actually coming from, what part of it is yours to work with, and why the resentment you're carrying about the rest is quietly doing more damage than the circumstance ever could. That awareness is where real change starts, and it costs you nothing. RESOURCES The 8 Habits That Healthy People Do (And Why They Don't Stick) — free guide and checklist: https://elizabethsherman.com/habitsBecca Levy, "Longevity Increased by Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging" (2002), and her book Breaking the Age Code (2022)RELATED EPISODES YOU MIGHT LOVE 198: Stress: The Hidden Saboteur of Your Health (https://elizabethsherman.com/198) — If today's turn toward stress hit home, this one goes deeper on why bubble baths and breathing exercises miss the root of the problem entirely.205: How Body Image Changes in Midlife (https://elizabethsherman.com/205) — For the woman who's noticed the reflection change and felt the pressure to fix it, this episode unpacks where that pressure really comes from.158: The Ripple Effect of Self-Care (https://elizabethsherman.com/158) — A companion to the idea that caring for yourself isn't vanity or indulgence, and reaches further into your life than you'd expect.Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  2. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    Bonus Episode: Why You Know What To Do, But Just Don't Do It

    You already know what to do. Eat better, move your body, all of it. So why does the plan fall apart again by Wednesday? This episode is pulled straight from a live class I recently taught, close to word for word, because the response from the women who attended was strong enough that I wanted to bring it to you too. Inside, I walk through five real, often invisible reasons healthy habits quietly stop working for smart, capable women in midlife, and almost none of them have anything to do with willpower. You'll meet four different women along the way. One is fighting a rule about food she never actually chose. Another has exactly one hour in her day that belongs to her and no one else, except it never seems to survive contact with a Tuesday. There's a good chance you'll recognize a piece of yourself in more than one of them. By the end, you won't walk away with a new meal plan or a new morning routine. You'll walk away with something more useful: a much clearer sense of where your own particular friction point actually lives. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why "just try harder" was never actually a strategy, and what's genuinely been missing insteadThe five specific places where midlife health habits quietly break down, and why more than one might sound familiarHow to tell the difference between the friction point that's loudest in your life and the one that's actually driving everything elseThe Listener Takeaway: Why This Episode Matters If you've spent years quietly assuming something was wrong with you every time a health plan fell apart, this episode is going to feel like relief. It explains why the plans you've already tried were solving for the wrong thing in the first place. You'll leave with language for a pattern you've probably lived inside of for years without ever being able to name it, and having the words for it tends to change how it feels to keep going. RESOURCES Schedule your Free Diagnostic Call with ElizabethRELATED EPISODES YOU MIGHT LOVE 265: "Just Do It" and Why We Don't - This is the episode where the five-friction framework got introduced. Start here for the fuller breakdown of where it came from.227: The Thing Before the Thing - Goes deeper into why the symptom you can actually see is so rarely the thing driving it, the same idea behind the self-diagnosis section of this episode.221: Menopause, Sleep, Stress & Recovery - A full episode on the rest and recovery piece specifically, for anyone who saw themselves in the wine-and-pantry story.Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  3. Sep 8

    287 - How Your Environment Impacts Your Ability to Take Care of You

    You start Monday with a plan. Eat the vegetables, take the walk, get to bed at a decent hour. And by Thursday it's come apart, and you're standing in your kitchen at night wondering what is wrong with you that you can't just do the thing you already know how to do. If you've been quietly deciding that you're the problem, this episode is going to hand you a very different place to look. Elizabeth opens with a client who couldn't manage to drink water all day, until she changed one small thing about her setup and the problem disappeared without her trying any harder. From there, she gets into a story about an entire city that dropped its smoking rate sharply without making a single person quit. The thread running through both is the one almost no health advice will tell you: your surroundings are shaping what you do all day long, whether you're paying attention to them or not. Then she walks through the places this actually shows up in your life. The food within arm's reach and the clutter and noise you've stopped noticing. The partner who comes home with pizza the night you planned to cook, the friend you only ever see over a bottle of wine, the mother you love best over a big plate of food. The schedule that runs you into the ground for everybody but you. This is the layer women are least likely to examine, because we've been taught that our health is a personal responsibility, so when it slips, we point the finger inward. The honest part, and the reason this episode matters, is that you can't really see your own environment from the inside. It's too familiar. The very things making this hard are the ones you'll walk right past. This episode helps you start seeing them, and points you toward the quickest way to find out which one is costing you the most right now. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why an entire city's smoking rate dropped sharply without anyone being told to quit, and what that has to do with your water and your walkThe three layers of your environment quietly deciding how hard your healthy habits feel, and which one women almost never look atWhy changing your social environment can feel like abandoning the people you love, and what to do with that fear instead of ignoring itThe reason what's in your fridge might be telling you a much older story than you thinkWhy you genuinely can't assess your own environment from the inside, and what actually helps you see it clearlyThe Listener Takeaway: Why This Episode Matters If you've spent years believing you're the reason your health keeps sliding, this episode offers something closer to relief than another plan. You are not missing some amount of grit that everyone else was handed. You've been trying to run your health inside a life that was quietly working against you, and no one ever told you that the setup was fair game to question. When you stop treating your follow-through as a character flaw and start treating it as a set of conditions you can actually see and change, the whole thing gets lighter. You get to keep the people you love and still take care of yourself. You get to change your surroundings instead of waging war on yourself every single day. And once you can see clearly which piece of your environment is costing you the most, you finally have somewhere useful to start. RESOURCES Free Quiz: Why Do Your Healthy Habits Keep Falling Apart? → https://elizabethsherman.com/quizEpisode 283: Your Diet History (companion episode in this series, referenced when we talk about what's stocked in your fridge) → [link to add once published]Episode 285: Your Capacity (companion episode in this series, referenced when we talk about the life built around everyone else) → [link to add once published]Episode 269: The 5 Things Quietly Wrecking Your Health Habits in Midlife → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/269-the-5-things-quietly-wrecking-your-health-habits/id1551184515 (this is where Elizabeth introduces the Total Health Systems Audit, the natural next step after this episode)Episode 267: Why Putting Yourself Last Is Making Your Health Worse → https://elizabethsherman.com/why-putting-yourself-last-is-making-your-health-worse/ (goes deeper on the structural layer, the life built around everyone else)Episode 265: "Just Do It" and Why We Don't → [confirm site slug] (the overview episode that introduces all five pillars, including environment)Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  4. Sep 1

    286: How Running on Empty Wrecks Your Ability to Stick to Your Health

    You finish the busy stretch. The launch, the deadline, the holidays, the season where everyone needed something from you. You held it all together. And then, the second you finally stop, you get sick. Or your back goes out reaching for a sock. If that pattern sounds familiar, this episode explains what your body has been doing to you for years, and why it keeps happening the moment you slow down. Here's the part almost no one connects: the reason you can't follow through on the healthy stuff you already know how to do might have nothing to do with willpower. You're running on empty. And a body running that low on reserves can't hold a good choice in place at six o'clock when you're wiped out. In this episode I walk you through the real cost of never actually stopping, using a client I call Chris whose evening probably looks a lot like yours. We get into why you don't rest even though you know you should, the family rule that taught you to earn it, and the quieter belief running underneath that says the need for rest applies to everyone except you. I talk about how you multitask your own downtime until it stops counting, and why sleep is the first thing you cut even though your body doesn't work on credit. By the end, you'll see the pattern clearly. And you'll understand why seeing it and changing it are two different things, which is exactly where most smart women get stuck. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why you get sick or hurt the moment a busy stretch ends, and what your body was doing the whole timeThe real reason knowing what to do hasn't turned into doing it, and why "try harder" was never going to workThe childhood rule about rest you're still living by, and the belief underneath it you've probably never said out loudWhy you can't bank sleep on the weekend, and where the bill for skipping it actually shows upRESOURCES Take the quiz: Why Do Your Healthy Habits Keep Falling Apart? → elizabethsherman.com/quiz8 Habits guide → elizabethsherman.com/habits265 - "Just Do It" and Why We Don't 260 - 8 Habits & Why They Don't Stick 257 - The Truth About Step Goals, Belly Fat, and Burnout Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  5. Aug 25

    285: How Being the Capable One Is Costing You Your Health

    You said you'd make dinner. Then you got home, opened the freezer, saw the chicken still frozen solid, and thought: I cannot do this. So you grabbed the rotisserie chicken from the deli case, put it on plates, and sat there feeling like a fraud for not cooking it yourself. Sound familiar? If you're a capable woman who runs a department, a household, or both, and can handle almost anything, except being reliable with your own health, this episode is going to hit close to home. You've probably decided you're lazy, or that you haven't found the right plan yet, or that something is wrong with you specifically. None of that is true, and this episode explains what's actually happening. Here's the sentence at the center of it: "I just need one more hour in the day." You've said it in the car, to your sister, to yourself at 11pm. Elizabeth makes the case that it's a lie, not one you're telling on purpose, but one you need to be true because the real answer is harder. She walks through exactly where that hour would go if someone handed it to you tomorrow, and why your health keeps getting cut while everything else on your list survives. This is the episode for the woman who is loved, needed, and running on empty, and who's starting to suspect that her follow-through problem was never about time or discipline at all. It won't hand you a system to fix it in five easy steps. It will show you the pattern so clearly you won't be able to unsee it. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why your health is the first thing to get cut from your day, and what it has in common with every other thing you drop when you're overloadedThe hidden second half of "I just need one more hour" that you never say out loud, and what it reveals about where your time actually goesWhy saying no fills you with guilt and requires a "good enough" excuse, when the men around you can decline without explaining themselves at allThe Listener Takeaway: Why This Episode Matters If you've spent years quietly ashamed that you can hold together a career, a household, and everyone else's needs but can't stay consistent with a walk or a real dinner, this episode will lift an enormous weight off you. You are not lazy and you are not broken. You are full. And the relief of finally understanding that is real. You get one body and one life, and nobody is coming to hand back the hours you've been giving away. That's a hard thing to hear, and this episode says it with love, not a lecture. You'll walk away seeing your own pattern with a clarity you've never had, and understanding that recognizing it is the first honest step toward actually changing it. RESOURCES Take the free quiz: Why Do Your Healthy Habits Keep Falling Apart? → https://elizabethsherman.com/quizEpisode 243: High Functioning Co-Dependency with Sara Fisk → https://elizabethsherman.com/243Episode 224: When We Ignore Our Own Boundaries → https://elizabethsherman.com/224Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  6. Aug 18

    284: How Ignoring Your Body Signals Impacts Your Health After 40

    Years ago, Elizabeth stood in a kitchen at a party complaining about brownies, and a woman she barely knew looked over and said, "I guess I just listen to my body," and walked out. Elizabeth thought she was insufferable. She also had no idea what the woman was talking about. She'd been in the fitness world for years. She knew macros and training programs and the protein content of just about anything. And she could not have told you the first thing about what her body was actually saying to her. If you know exactly what you should be doing for your health and still can't get yourself to do it, this episode is going to feel familiar. Because the reason usually isn't a lack of information, and it isn't about trying harder. Somewhere along the way you learned to override what your body tells you, and you got so good at it that you don't even hear it anymore. In this episode, Elizabeth walks through what that override looks like in a real day. Wanting pasta, eating the chicken and salad the plan allows, then standing over the counter eating almonds out of the bag and never feeling satisfied. Resisting the cookies all week and then eating seven of them on a Thursday night. Sitting exhausted on the couch at 8pm and deciding it's "too early" for bed. Biting your tongue for weeks and then coming unglued over a glass left on the counter. Every one of those is your body asking for something, and every one of those is a moment you talked yourself out of hearing it. And here's the part that makes midlife women feel like they're losing it: this used to work. At 30, you could ignore your body and recover fine. Now one bad night of sleep costs you three days, and the strategy you built decades ago has quietly stopped working. Elizabeth explains why that happens in perimenopause and menopause, and what it means for whether you can actually follow through on the things you already know how to do. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why "listen to your body" has probably never meant anything real to you, and what the phrase is actually pointing atThe everyday moments you override your body without noticing, across food, movement, sleep, and unspoken stressWhy pushing through worked at 30 and quietly stopped working in your mid-40sWhat your cravings, 3am wake-ups, and afternoon crashes have been trying to tell you the whole timeThe Listener Takeaway: Why This Episode Matters If you've been calling yourself lazy or broken because you know what to do and still don't do it, this episode hands you a more accurate explanation. Your body has been talking to you the whole time. The brain fog, the cravings, the exhaustion, the mood that turns on a dime, none of it means something is wrong with you. Your body is communicating, and you were trained to tune it out, and in midlife that costs you more than it used to. The relief here is that this is learnable. Elizabeth didn't know how to hear her body either, and she does now, and that changed whether she could actually stick with the things she already knew. You are not a different kind of person than the women who seem to do this easily. You just haven't been taught the one thing that makes following through stop feeling like a fight with yourself. RESOURCES Free quiz: Why Do Your Healthy Habits Keep Falling Apart? (elizabethsherman.com/quiz)Episode 254: How to Trust Yourself Around Food Again in Perimenopause (https://elizabethsherman.com/254)Episode 256: Fearing Hunger: How Dieting Trained You to Overeat (https://elizabethsherman.com/256)Episode 252: Nighttime Cravings in Midlife: It's Not a Willpower Problem (https://elizabethsherman.com/252)Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  7. Aug 11

    283: How Old Diet Rules Sabotage Your Health Today

    You know what to do. You could probably teach it. You know to eat more vegetables, get to bed earlier, and move your body most days. And you still end up standing in your kitchen at nine o'clock at night, arguing with yourself about whether you're allowed to have the chocolate. If that scene feels a little too familiar, this episode is for you. Here's the part nobody tells you. The reason you can't do the thing you already know how to do has nothing to do with how much willpower or discipline you have. It's that you're carrying a long list of food rules you never actually chose. Somebody handed them to you when you were young, before you had any way to question them, and they've been running quietly in the background ever since. In this first episode of the pillar series, Elizabeth walks through where that second voice in the kitchen came from, why decades of dieting taught you to treat your own hunger as the enemy, and why knowing everything about nutrition has never once been enough to change what you do at night. She makes a claim that gets a little bit of pushback: if you're eating for any reason other than hunger, that's emotional eating, and there is nothing wrong with it. She also names the way exercise quietly turned into the thing you do to pay off what you ate. This one leaves you seeing your own pattern clearly, maybe for the first time. Because once you understand whose voice is doing the arguing at nine o'clock, the whole thing looks different. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM MIDLIFE WOMEN FACE HERE The biggest reason midlife women can't follow through on their health has nothing to do with missing information or a shortage of willpower. It's that decades of diet history installed a set of food rules, absorbed young from a mother, a sister, a boyfriend, or a magazine, that taught them their own body could not be trusted. Hunger got labeled a problem. Cravings got labeled a weakness. Wanting a specific food got treated as proof that something was broken in them. So every food decision turns into an argument between a rule and a body signal, and the woman has already been taught to side against her own body. That is why she can know exactly what to do and still not do it. The information was never the missing piece. The unexamined rules are what's running the show. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why a woman who actually trusted her own body wouldn't be standing in the kitchen arguing with herself in the first placeWhere your food rules really came from, and why so many of them contradict each other yet still feel mandatoryThe reason knowing everything about nutrition never turns into doing it, and why more information won't fix itHow exercise quietly became a debt you pay off after eating, and what that does to your sleep, your cravings, and your moodRESOURCES Take the quiz: Why Do Your Healthy Habits Keep Falling Apart? In about three minutes it shows you your specific pattern, the real reason your follow-through keeps breaking down, and what to look at first. Results go straight to your inbox.Episode 233: How to Eat Without Rules Episode 254: How to Trust Yourself Around Food Again in PerimenopauseEpisode 256: Fearing Hunger: How Dieting Trained You to OvereatHey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

  8. Aug 4

    282: Why You Resent Your Health Routine Even When You're Showing Up

    You're showing up. You're doing the workouts, sending the emails, reaching out to friends, eating the way you're supposed to eat. And yet something feels off. The results aren't coming. The friendships aren't deepening. The business isn't growing. And underneath all of it is a quiet, low-grade resentment you can't quite name. This episode is about what's actually driving that feeling. Not a lack of effort. Not bad luck. A belief most of us have been carrying since childhood that doing the right things automatically earns us what we want. And the way that belief quietly runs your health, your relationships, and your life without you realizing it. Elizabeth shares a personal story from a recent night in Mexico that stopped her cold: catching herself judging her husband, then recognizing the exact same pattern in herself. What followed was an honest look at where this expectation comes from, what it costs midlife women specifically, and what it actually takes to start getting the results you want. This one will make you uncomfortable in the best possible way. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why doing everything "right" can still leave you stuck, and what's actually missingWhere the belief that effort automatically earns results comes from, and why midlife is when it stops workingWhat self-pity actually looks like from the inside (hint: it doesn't feel like self-pity at all)The real reason women in midlife struggle to build friendships, grow their businesses, and make their health habits stickWhy seeing a pattern in yourself is not the same as being able to move through it aloneThe Listener Takeaway: Why This Episode Matters If you've been doing the things and still not getting the results, this episode will give you a completely different explanation for why. Not a discipline problem. Not a willpower problem. A conditioned belief that was installed in you long before you had any say in it, and that has been quietly running in the background ever since. Understanding that is the first step toward something actually changing. Most women who listen to this episode will recognize themselves in it immediately. The waiting. The quiet resentment. The sense that something is unfair but you can't quite put your finger on what. This episode names that clearly and honestly, and points you toward the one shift that makes everything else possible: recognizing that the life you want is not going to arrive on its own. You are the one who has to build it. And that is not a punishment. It's just how it works. RESOURCES Take the free quiz to find out what's really getting in your way: https://elizabethsherman.com/quiz Episode 245: Self-Pity, Sabotage & Self-Soothing: https://elizabethsherman.com/self-pity-sabotage-self-soothingEpisode 159: Fault vs Responsibility: https://elizabethsherman.com/fault-vs-responsibilityEpisode 160: Ex-Good Girl with Sara Fisk: https://elizabethsherman.com/sara-fisk Hey! I love hearing from you. Send me a text. Let me know what resonated with you. Free Diagnostic Session If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan. Tap Here to Book Your Session If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast. After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too. To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving. Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

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You’ve tried the diets. You’ve done the research. You know what you’re supposed to do. And you’re still stuck. Done with Dieting: Total Health for Women 40+ is for women who are exhausted by the start-over cycle and ready to understand why nothing has stuck, and what to actually do about it. Host Elizabeth Sherman is a Master Certified Life and Health Coach with 20 years of experience working with women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. Each episode gets into the real reasons health habits break down in this stage of life, including hormonal shifts, depleted capacity, years of diet history, and a nervous system that never fully gets to rest. This isn’t another wellness show telling you to eat less and move more. It’s a show that helps you understand what’s actually going on in your body and your life, so you can start making changes that hold. New episodes weekly. Start with the 8 Basic Habits guide at elizabethsherman.com/habits.

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