Lose your stubborn menopause belly-fat and you’ll reduce your hot flushes too. Women on the MyMTℱ 12 week Transform Me programme call it ‘life-changing’ – as I did too.

Wendy Sweet Transformation

If you are as frustrated by your mid-life belly fat and continual hot flushes as I was, then do you know that the two are related? The more overweight you are, the more hot flushes you get.It’s all because the extra oestrogen that is stored in fat cells (especially around your breast and belly) cause […]

VIDEO: Meet Wendy Sweet from MyMT & discover why menopause is the time for lifestyle change, not endless supplements and medications.

Most women joining me on the MyMT programmes are as frustrated as I felt too – sick of spending huge amounts of money on various supplements, hormone creams, weight loss diets, Dr’s visits, blood tests, Personal Trainers, HRT, other Health Specialists and whatever else we can think of. All because menopause symptoms are ruining how […]

Discover my 6 ‘foodie’ tips that will help reduce your HOT FLUSHES, keep your BLOOD PRESSURE low & help you STAY CALM this Christmas!

Turkey or Ham? Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes? Broccoli or Cauliflower? Spinach or Kale? Beetroot or Parsnip? Steamed pudding or pavlova? Of all the hundreds of coaching posts that I’ve written for women who join me in the private MyMT communities for my three different 12 week programmes – [Circuit Breaker, Transform Me & my new […]

Learning that I was storing too much oestrogen in my fat cells during menopause changed my health & my hot flushes.

It was an interesting day yesterday – I was interviewed on New Zealand’s National Radio about my PhD – what a wonderful opportunity to raise the flag for women’s healthy ageing! If you would like to listen to what I said, then I’ve put the link at the bottom of this article which you can […]

Need some calming strategies in your life? Why I’m at New Zealand’s Hauora Yoga Conference!

November is ‘exercise month’ and that’s why I’m here at New Zealand’s first conference for Yoga Instructors 
 where re-connecting with Jason was insightful! How do you cope with stress and your feelings of anxiety with your busy life? Do you eat more? Do you get frustrated, impatient? Maybe you turn to lots of exercise […]

Are you there yet? Take the MyMTℱ Menopause Symptoms Quiz.

Would you like to know if you are in peri-menopause? I still remember when I began to have hot flushes – reaching menopause was the last thing I thought about. I had no idea what was going on and when I couldn’t sleep night after night, and then kept getting cramps in my legs and […]

“Menopause is the time to turn around our health and change what we eat.” [Sandra Dubs, Australia]

Sandra Dubs, Australia

It’s the connections that make conferences worthwhile 
 let me tell you about Sandra Dubs, Wholefood Community Pioneer & Author of the Whole-food Community Cookbook … Some of you lovely Australian women might have already come across Sandra Dubs. We were chatting together in the trade area of the conference as I finally had time […]

Why you need more than just 30 minute workouts during your Menopause transition.

I remember the fitness messages in the 1990’s. This was the time when ‘lack of time’ became the new mantra for the fitness industry.  Motivated by the very new scientific domain of exercise psychology, one of the messages coming out of the emerging research, was that most people lack time to exercise. Alongside these messages, was […]

Making sense of your weight gain in menopause [and why you shouldn’t follow weight loss strategies from the ‘Biggest Loser’ reality TV shows!]

Have you put on belly fat with peri-menopause? Is belly-fat hard to shift no matter the exercise you might be doing? If any of these symptoms sound familiar, you need to understand why controlling surges of insulin through optimal blood sugar regulation as well as managing your sleep quality and quantity and understanding the hormonal influences on your weight gain are critical aspects to weight management during your menopause years.