A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber discussing the experience many women have of a "health roller coaster": alternating periods of strong motivation and lapses into cravings or defeat. The speaker links these fluctuations to hormone shifts during perimenopause but emphasizes behavior and lifestyle choices also affect hormones, creating a vicious cycle.
Do you ever feel like your health is on a roller coaster? One day you're crushing it and making all the right choices, and then the next day, literally, you. You're giving into the cravings. You feel defeated, and you're just like, why bother? Almost every day, some woman explains this roller coaster. To me. It's like it's magnified during perimenopause because our hormones are shifting so much, they give us drive to do stuff, or they make us feel depressed and anxious when we don't have them. So a lot of these changes are happening because of your hormone shifts. Unfortunately, a lot of what you're doing is affecting your hormones. And so we can't always blame our hormones. A lot of it is our choices. So it's this vicious cycle, and it just feels like this health roller coaster.
