Midlife Weight Loss · The Hormone Map
Why weight loss gets harder after 45 — and what actually works
After menopause, 10 different hormones shift in ways no one explains. The eat-less-move-more advice quietly stops working. Here's the complete map your doctor isn't giving you — and the natural shifts that turn the signals back on.
30+
Years clinical experience
The 5 Hormone Pairs
Hormones don't work alone
They communicate all day. When one drops, it pushes 2 or 3 others off course. The fix is understanding the pairs — and the small shifts that bring them back into sync.
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Meet Dr. Manon Fielding
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Dr. Manon Fielding
30+ Years · Holistic Hormone Health · Women's Midlife
I've spent over 30 years helping women like you make sense of all the signals your body is sending — and get results without medications, holistically, without guessing.
It's all too common to be prescribed medications like GLP-1s for stubborn weight gain. What most of us aren't told is that we can often balance these hormones on our own — if we're given the right information, customized to our body.
Hormones don't work independently. They communicate all day long. When one drops, it pushes two or three others off course. The usual medical action — treating symptoms — just isn't effective anymore. What works is treating the root cause: the imbalance itself — customized to you holistically — then the weight will come off.
"After hitting a plateau, unable to lose any more weight, and feeling very frustrated because I had tried everything, my trainer suggested getting my hormones checked. That's when I approached Dr. Manon, got tested and started a customized program. Now I've lost 26 more pounds and starting to feel great in my body again! I highly recommend this program to any woman stuck like I was."
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3-Minute Hormone Quiz
Find your top 2 hormone imbalances
This quiz has 50 short questions — more than you're used to, and intentionally so. Most hormone quizzes ask 10 questions and give you a generic result. This one covers all 10 hormones individually so your top 2 results are actually accurate to you. Most people finish in under 3 minutes. Go with your first instinct — don't overthink any answer!
Your Guide
About Dr. Manon Fielding
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Dr. Manon Fielding
30+ Years · Holistic Hormone Health · Women's Midlife
For more than 30 years, I've worked with women navigating the hormonal complexity of midlife — the bloating that appeared out of nowhere, the belly fat that won't budge no matter what you do, the broken sleep, the anxiety, the brain fog. The story I hear most often is the same: "I'm doing everything I used to do. Why isn't it working anymore?"
The answer almost always comes back to hormones — and not the two everyone talks about. There are 10 different hormones involved in midlife weight loss, and most of them are never even tested. That's the gap I've spent my career closing.
My approach isn't anti-medication. In severe cases, HRT can be life-changing. But what I see far too often is women put on HRT before they've had the chance to look at their nutrition, sleep, stress, gut, and progesterone balance. Many of the symptoms — the anxiety, the broken sleep, the bloating, the weight gain — are driven by the loss of progesterone, not just the drop in estrogen. Address those naturally first, and many women find significant relief without medication. Or they find a much lower dose of HRT works perfectly.
If you've been working at this for years and the scale won't move, it's not you. It's a hormone signaling problem. And every single one of these 10 hormones can be supported naturally and holistically — when you know which ones are out of sync.