Maggie Topham

Her story

Maggie taught fitness classes from the age of 16, ran marathons and competed in triathlons. In 30 years in the fitness industry she lost and regained the same 50 to 60 pounds five times, each time cutting her calories lower, from 1,500 down to 800, and each time the weight came back faster.

When menopause arrived at 47, the old approach stopped working completely. She tells the full story in her interview with Nikkiey Stott on The WarriorBabe Show: no muscle, constant exhaustion, and eventually heartburn, gut trouble and blood sugar in the pre-diabetic range.

What changed it wasn't a new diet. She stopped chasing the scale, replaced processed food with whole food without restricting, roughly tripled her protein, quit cardio and started lifting. She lost 60 pounds in menopause and has kept it off, and she says she's leaner in her fifties than she's ever been. Her message to women over 40 is the one WarriorBabe is built on: education, not willpower, is what finally changes things.