03/11/2026
The meals that kept you lean at 30 arenβt doing the same job at 45.
Your body hasnβt stopped working. Itβs playing by new rules. From your late 30s you lose muscle more easily, and as oestrogen falls your body handles carbs less smoothly. So the same toast-and-coffee breakfast and pasta dinner now leave you hungry by 10am, flat by 3pm and holding more around your middle.
The fix is how you build the plate:
Protein first. A palm and a half, roughly 30g.
Half the plate veg. 2 or 3 colours.
A cupped hand of slow carbs. More on training days.
A thumb or two of healthy fat.
Bonus: eat your veg and protein before your carbs. Small studies show it can soften the blood sugar spike.
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