This Life Gets Good

Lauren Melton
  • 5.0 (12)
  • Nutrition

This Life Gets Good is the podcast for women over 40  who want to feel good in their bodies. In this community, we don’t just settle for “healthy”, we allow ourselves to feel good everywhere we go, work, home, and even while chauffeuring our kids around after school.  I'm your host, Lauren Melton, founder of This Life Uncluttered, and a single mom who realized life can get SO good over 40. Now I help other women lose weight, feel hot & healthy, and build confidence in all parts of their lives. From perimenopause to parenting, from dating to deadlines, we'll chat about all the things life throws at us with a little humor, honesty, and hard-earned lessons to help you build a body and a life that feel as good as they look. Because feeling good in your body makes everything else better.

  1. 18h ago

    The Basics vs Optimization — What Weight Loss Actually Requires

    If you have ever seen a reel from a PhD telling you to never put a banana in a smoothie with berries and found yourself questioning everything… this episode is for you. This week I am making the full argument for being a boring basic b*tch when it comes to your health. Not because the nuanced advice is always wrong and some of it genuinely matters and we get into all of it with my 1:1 clients. But because the nuanced stuff cannot help you if the foundation is not in place first. And right now a lot of women are chasing optimization while the basics are completely missing from their routine and wondering why nothing is moving. As mentioned in this episode… Here are some accounts I follow and recommend for evidence based information: Dr. Jessica Knurick Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple Alan Aragon Dr. Spencer Nadolsky Bill Campbell Menno Henselmans APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  2. Aug 12

    How Hot Moms Receive??

    The women losing weight and keeping it off after 40 are not more motivated or more disciplined than you. They’ve just built the right team. This episode is the behind the scenes look at exactly what that means. I share my own support system and a few client stories that showcase just how this works! The results you want live on the other side of finally allowing yourself support. APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  3. Aug 5

    The Case for Being The Inconvenience

    Your kids have no problem being the inconvenience approximately 1,000x per day… You are allowed to be the inconvenience once in a while too! This week I am diving into the flip side of a conversation I started back in episode 11 where I talked about how comfort keeps us stuck and how we have to allow ourselves some discomfort to actually change. This episode is about the other kind of inconvenience nobody talks about enough, the one where we sabotage our own weight loss and our own sense of feeling good because we do not want to be the inconvenience to the people we love. The workout we skip because dinner needs to happen. The meal we abandon because our husband sighs when we weigh the olive oil. The thing we know is good for us that we quietly stop doing because someone else was uncomfortable with it. In this episode we cover why this happens in the first place, the socialization that runs deeper than most of us realize the good girl conditioning the mommy martyr patterns and the very real dynamic of being the family manager for so long that stepping back feels like abandoning your post. We talk about what to actually do about it with six specific and practical steps including how to have the conversation with your partner in advance, how to start with something small enough that the friction is minimal and why reframing what you are modeling for your kids might be the most powerful mindset shift in the whole episode. APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  4. Jul 29

    Being Lazy Might Get You Better Results

    There is a version of a healthy habit that looks correct and a version that actually happens. And most of us have been so committed to the “correct” version that we have been accidentally choosing nothing at all. This episode is about the gap between those two things — and why closing it might be the single most important shift you make in your entire health journey.  Whether you have been skipping your morning walk because you do not want to deal with the hill or your workout because you do not have a full hour or your meal prep because Sunday is never what you think it is going to be…this episode is going to change how you think about every single one of those moments. The version of the habit you actually do consistently will always produce better results than the perfect version you never do.  TWO spots for 1:1 coaching in August! APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  5. Jul 22

    The Thing I’m Scared to Say on Social Media But Will Tell You Here About Weight Loss

    One spot left for 1:1 coaching in July! APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! I have been sitting on this episode for a while because it’s one of those topics where the internet comes for you from both directions. But I finally decided the conversation is too important to keep avoiding, so this week I am saying the thing I have been too scared to say on social media about food quality and why the typical American diet is making weight loss so much harder than it needs to be. This episode is for the woman who thinks she is eating pretty well and cannot figure out why the scale will not move and why she still feels kind of terrible. We talk about the specific foods most commonly showing up in my clients diets that carry a massive health halo and why they might be working against you more than you realize. We get into why this is not a willpower problem but a food engineering problem and what the research actually says about why ultra processed food is specifically designed to make you eat more of it. And we talk about what eating well actually looks like in practice, not the fear based version and not the pretend everything is equal version but the honest practical middle ground that actually produces results. This one is worth the listen even if you think you already know this stuff. Because knowing it and actually understanding how it applies to your specific body and your specific diet are two completely different things and that gap is exactly where most women get stuck. HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  6. Jul 15

    Why Staying The Course is Sometimes The Worst Thing You Can Do

    I scrapped an entirely different episode this week. Wrote it, then realized it wasn't great, so I started over from scratch. And somewhere in that process, I realized the whole experience was one of the most relatable parallels to what I see women go through on their weight-loss journeys every single day. So that is what this episode is about. The moments when we know something is not working and keep doing it anyway. The sunk cost that keeps us stuck long past the point when we should have pivoted. The shame around starting over that we have to learn to separate from good judgment. And the honest feedback that changes everything when it comes from the right person at the right time. If the honest answer to "is this working" is no, or even if you are not sure, apply for 1:1 coaching today. I have a few spots open, and I would love to help you figure out what actually needs to change.  APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  7. Jul 8

    My Experience Being a Hot Mom

    You are allowed to want to feel hot. Not just healthy for your age or for a “mom”. Just genuinely hot in your body, and this episode is your permission slip to admit that out loud. This week I am sharing the unexpected things that have happened since I started feeling like the hot mom...the things nobody warned me about and the things that have seriously changed the quality of my entire life at 46. Some of it will make you laugh, some of it might make you emotional, and all of it will make you want this for yourself if you do not already. Think this is what you want too? I still have a few 1:1 spots open, and summer is one of the best times to start. APPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

  8. Jul 1

    How To Be In Control Of What You Eat When You're Not The One Holding The Spatula

    Most weight loss programs assume you are the one standing at the stove every single night with full control over every ingredient that goes into your food. For a lot of the women I work with that is simply not reality. This episode is for the woman whose partner does most of the cooking, the woman who lives out of hotel rooms and airport food courts half the week, and the woman who has been convinced that her situation is just too complicated for any plan to actually work. It is not too complicated. It just requires a different set of skills and this episode walks you through exactly what those are. In this episode: Why the partner cooking situation is more emotionally complicated than most coaches acknowledge and how to have the conversation in a way that feels like a request instead of a criticismThe specific things you can ask your partner to change that make a real difference without overhauling how they cook or starting a fight about olive oilWhat to do when dinner is completely out of your control and you have zero say in what goes on the plateHow to use the Build Your Bowl method as a mental ordering tool at any restaurant hotel or airport food courtWhy the travel days are almost never the real problem and what is actually getting in the way for women who travel constantlyThe one non-negotiable rule for travel that beats trying to maintain every habit at onceHow my client went from road warrior with zero systems to dropping 5 lbs in 3 months and going from zero to four pull ups without being told to just track her macrosAPPLY FOR 1:1 Coaching here! Download my Build Your Bowl Method  HOW TO CONNECT WITH ME: Send me a DM on Instagram @thislifeuncluttered or on LinkedIn @laurenlynnmelton I’d love to hear from you!

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This Life Gets Good is the podcast for women over 40  who want to feel good in their bodies. In this community, we don’t just settle for “healthy”, we allow ourselves to feel good everywhere we go, work, home, and even while chauffeuring our kids around after school.  I'm your host, Lauren Melton, founder of This Life Uncluttered, and a single mom who realized life can get SO good over 40. Now I help other women lose weight, feel hot & healthy, and build confidence in all parts of their lives. From perimenopause to parenting, from dating to deadlines, we'll chat about all the things life throws at us with a little humor, honesty, and hard-earned lessons to help you build a body and a life that feel as good as they look. Because feeling good in your body makes everything else better.

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  • Creator
    Lauren Melton
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 This Life Gets Good
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