Why You Always Feel Hungry When You're Over 40 (Here's the Fix!)

If you've ever struggled with cravings, emotional eating, or feeling like your appetite is out of control, especially over 40, you're not alone. Today we're diving into why appetite changes as we age and how to naturally regain control. And the best appetite support product designed specifically for women in midlife. By the way, my name is Dr. Tabitha, your Christian physician. I'm a triple board certified physician and I am here to support you through all these midlife changes. So I. So let's get into it. Why do women over 40 suddenly feel hungrier and struggle with cravings? Two things going on. Your hormones are shifting and your gut microbiome is shifting. As you're going into your 40s, you're not consistently ovulating and your progesterone level is declining. That leaves you in a state of estrogen dominance. Estrogen is a growth hormone. It makes you hungry. You might notice that before your period, you're ravenous, you're extra hungry, those hormones want to be fed. And then you go into period and you're not so hungry. The same thing happens in your 40s with that hormone imbalance. You just have a stronger appetite. Then you add on top of it cortisol, your stress hormone, which really amps up in our 40s. And the problem is it's this accumulation over time. Everything that you did in your 20s and 30s is now showing up as a result in your 40s. So your adrenal glands have been handling all your stressors, getting through college, over exercising, creating your families. But it reaches a boiling point where it no longer wants to do that. It says timeout, we're done. And it can start to down regulate your thyroid and everything else. So your 40s is like an accumulation or the culmination of everything that you've done over the past couple decades. Your poor diet starts to show up as gut issues. Your over busy life starts to show up as adrenal dysfunction. That all starts to affect your thyroid. These things make your appetite out of control. And part of it is leptin and ghrelin. These are our hunger hormones and our appetite control hormones. They get dysregulated. Our insulin also gets dysregulated because we're inflamed because our body is out of control. In just a minute, I'm going to teach you some actionable tips to control your appetite. But before I get into that, if you're ready to finally regain control over your appetite and cravings, I'm going to recommend trying my fasting to Faith supplement metabolift and if you really want some weight loss, we want to support the liver with slim lift. I put these two together as the drop it duo because they are the game changers for getting rid of that extra appetite and helping your liver metabolize sugar properly so you can release that weight. Click the link in the description to learn more and get yours today. Here's some actionable steps to get your appetite under control. Number one, Eat more healthy fats. Fat is necessary to make you feel full and satisfied and it has more energy per calorie than carbohydrates. Number two, increase your protein and fiber intake. When you eat carbohydrates that have fiber in it, your blood sugar doesn't do the roller coaster of really high and really low. So fiber is essential and protein helps you build muscle. You're not going to bulk up, I promise. Muscle is your blood sugar regulating organs so it will help you maintain your weight as well. Get that healthy fat, get the protein, get the fiber in, manage your stress to get that cortisol production under control. What that looks like is getting yourself out of fight or flight and getting into rest and digest and repair. The easiest way to do that? Laugh more, meditate, walk out in nature, talk to God. Those are going to stop all that excess cortisol production and weight gain. Hydrate properly. You probably are not drinking enough water. I promise that. We're just not drinking enough water. We're too busy drinking other drinks. Coffee is dehydrating, so if you have one cup of coffee, you have to have two cups of water to make up for it. Same thing with alcohol. Your sugar drinks all those things and you want to get sea salt in there. You want to get sea salt in every single day. I recommend two dashes of sea salt at least with each meal. And in addition doing something like electrolyte lift that gives you electrolytes that you need to maintain your hydration. Incorporate mindful eating and a faith based discipline. We're actually supposed to eat to nourish our body and honor our body and take care of it. But a lot of times we eat to fill an emotional void. And really what's happening is our soul wants to be nourished, our soul wants to be fed. So if we could really start to see the difference between why we're picking up that food, is it because we're hungry or is it because we're bored or lonely or stressed out? If we start to have more mindful eating and decisions around our food, we can start to control our appetite. If you're reaching for that because you're stressed or lonely or bored, reach for the Bible, read a scripture, listen to worship music, get up and dance to worship music that is going to satisfy your appetite way more than that muffin that you were going to reach for. And lastly, this is near and dear to my heart. I worked very hard on helping create an herbal supplement that works as well as those weight loss injections without the dangerous side effects. So Metabolift is a beautiful herb that suppresses your appetite naturally so that you eat less food. So Metabolift is fabulous. You can take it every day. There's an average of 8 to 10 pound weight loss over two months. And then the coolest part is I added another product called Slim Lift. Slim Lift works on supporting your liver and your liver is essential for a healthy metabolism. That is where you process your sugars and either store it as fat or get rid of it. Slim Lift supports all of that detoxification pathways in your liver. So if you do both of them together, I call the drop it duo, you will have appetite suppression and you will support any liver congestion or liver issues in your detox pathways. That is the quickest way to sustainable weight loss. Now that you understand how to support your appetite naturally, let's talk about another major factor in weight loss over 40 resetting your metabolism. Click here to watch my next video and take the next step in your transformation.