If you’re over 35 and have found yourself thinking,
“Why isn’t what used to work working anymore?” ...this episode is for you.

There was a time when tightening up your food, adding cardio, or extending a fast created quick results.

Now you can do the same things, sometimes even more consistently, and the scale barely moves or doesn’t move at all.

In this episode, we unpack why.

It’s not a discipline problem.
It’s not a motivation issue.
It’s physiology.

I walk you through the “beaker” analogy to explain how stress quietly accumulates over time including sleep disruption, emotional strain, training stress, responsibilities, and even growth and success.

When your system is already carrying more than it used to, adding more deficit, more fasting, or more cardio doesn’t accelerate fat loss.

It tells your body to conserve, not release.

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This episode closes out a five-part series we’ve been walking through together, beginning with the nervous system, moving through hormones and metabolism, then behavior and rhythm.

And today, we zoom out.

Because lasting results rarely come from pushing harder or doing more. They form when the body feels supported long enough to stop bracing.

In this episode, we talk about why fast change often doesn’t hold, why healing is cumulative rather than instant, and how real progress unfolds through steady, repeated support in the season you’re actually living.

Weight loss can happen quickly.
Symptom relief can show up in bursts.
But healing that lasts develops gradually through patterns the body can rely on.

You’ll hear why the body prioritizes stability before visible change, why progress doesn’t always happen in the order we would choose, and how rhythm over time allows the system to recalibrate instead of rebound.

This conversation is an invitation to zoom out, to notice what is already settling, and to trust the kind of healing that unfolds quietly, but holds when life gets full again.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The DNA Reset for Fat Loss Academy – Waitlist
  Inside this 12-week program, we use advanced DNA testing alongside comprehensive lab panels, including hormones, thyroid, metabolic markers, and stress physiology, and more, to understand how your body is responding beneath the surface. From there, we build a personalized roadmap that supports lasting change instead of temporary results.
  🔗 Click here for the waitlist

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Consistency is often treated like something you have to force.
More discipline. More pressure. More effort.

But for most women, consistency doesn’t fall apart because willpower is missing.
It fades when the rhythm underneath the day breaks down.

In this episode, we bring together the layers we’ve been building: the nervous system, hormones, metabolism, and behavior...and talk about why sustainable consistency grows from rhythm, not drive.

Rhythm isn’t a rigid schedule or a set of rules. It’s the order and predictability your body begins to recognize and rely on. When the day has a shape the body can anticipate, behavior stabilizes without being forced.

We explore why willpower works in short bursts but rarely carries change across seasons, how inconsistent rhythm shows up as reactive behavior, and what it looks like to build consistency by giving the body cues it can trust.

This conversation is about moving away from pressure and toward patterns the body can work with, so consistency becomes something that grows, not something you chase.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The DNA Reset for Fat Loss Academy – Waitlist
  Inside the Academy, we look at your DNA alongside comprehensive lab testing to understand your body and from there, we create a personalized roadmap so change is supported, not forced.
  🔗 Click here to join the waitlist

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Hunger, cravings, motivation, and consistency are often treated like character traits. In reality, they’re physiological signals.

In this episode, we continue following the chain we’ve been building together...from the nervous system, to hormones, to metabolism...and now into behavior.

For many women, frustration shows up at the level of follow-through long before it ever shows up on a lab report. Motivation feels unreliable. Consistency feels harder to sustain. Hunger and cravings feel louder than they used to.

Rather than starting with behavior, this conversation looks upstream.

Metabolism doesn’t just determine how your body uses energy. It influences how much energy your body feels safe spending, and when energy availability feels limited, behavior shifts automatically to conserve.

This episode explores why willpower becomes unreliable, why effort can feel heavier over time, and how behavior begins to make sense once you understand what the body has been responding to.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The DNA Reset for Fat Loss Academy
  Inside the Academy, we use comprehensive lab testing alongside genetic data to understand how your metabolism, hormones, and stress patterns are interacting, and then we build a personalized roadmap based on your physiology and season.
  🔗 Click here to add yourself to the waitlist

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If weight feels more stubborn than it used to…
If your energy is inconsistent…
If effort no longer produces the return it once did…

This episode is for you.

In this conversation, we follow the signal one step further downstream. Because once hormones shift, metabolism responds.

Metabolism doesn’t operate independently. It listens to hormonal signals that are shaped by the nervous system, stress load, and perceived safety. When hormones adapt to ongoing demand, metabolism adapts too.

That’s when fat loss slows, energy dips, motivation feels unreliable, and progress starts to feel harder to maintain.

In this episode, we talk about why metabolism often becomes the place women feel most frustrated, and how those changes make sense when you understand what the body has been responding to upstream.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why metabolism responds to hormones rather than leading the process
• How hormonal shifts change energy availability and fat loss signals
• Why effort can start producing less return over time
• The difference between conservation mode and investment mode
• How stress, recovery, and hormonal tone shape metabolic pace

Mentioned in this episode:

• The DNA Reset for Fat Loss Academy – Waitlist
  Inside the Academy, we use comprehensive lab testing, genetic data, and metabolic markers to understand how your body is responding — and then build a personalized roadmap based on your physiology and season.
  🔗 Click here to add yourself to the waitlist for more info

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Hormonal imbalance is rarely the starting point. It’s almost always the response.

In this episode, we step upstream and widen the lens.

Many women are told their symptoms come down to estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, or thyroid function. While those hormones matter, that explanation often stops short.

Hormones don’t operate independently. They respond to signals and the system coordinating those signals is the nervous system.

When the nervous system perceives ongoing demand without adequate recovery, hormone signaling shifts into protection mode, progesterone downshifts, thyroid conversion slows, blood sugar becomes more reactive, and fat loss becomes harder, all because the body is responding intelligently to load.

In this conversation, we explore why hormone-focused approaches often don’t stick, how nervous system load shows up as inconsistent symptoms, and what it actually looks like to support the system your hormones are listening to.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why hormones are messengers, not decision-makers
• How the nervous system sets the hormonal tone
• Why progress can feel temporary when the system underneath hasn’t shifted
• What creates an internal environment your body can trust

Mentioned in this episode:

• Luminette 3 Light Therapy Glasses
  I wake up before the sun comes up and use these for about 20 minutes each morning to support circadian rhythm and nervous system signaling.
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• The DNA Reset for Fat Loss Academy – Waitlist
  Enrollment opens at the end of February. Inside the Academy, we use functional lab testing, genetic data, and metabolic markers to understand how your body is responding, and then build a personalized roadmap based on your physiology and season.
  🔗 Click here to add yourself to the waitlist

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If you’ve been told your thyroid is “sluggish,” “normal,” or “just part of aging,” yet you still feel exhausted, inflamed, and stuck…this episode is for you.

In today’s conversation, Tanya breaks down a truth most women are never taught:

The thyroid doesn’t lead...it responds.

More often than not, thyroid symptoms aren’t caused by a failing gland, but by the signal it’s receiving from the nervous system, stress response, and cortisol rhythm.

This episode reframes thyroid health through a functional, faith-rooted lens and explains why medication alone doesn’t always resolve symptoms.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why the thyroid is rarely the root cause of symptoms
• How stress, cortisol, and the nervous system control thyroid output
• Why both high and low cortisol can block thyroid hormone conversion
• What it means when medication helps “a little, but not enough”
• Common lab patterns that point to a missing signal (low T3, high reverse T3, fluctuating symptoms)
• Why your body may be slowing things down to protect you
• How to support thyroid healing by restoring safety, rhythm, and nourishment
• When medication can be helpful as part of the healing process — not a failure

Practical support discussed in this episode:

Tanya also shares two tools she personally uses and recommends as adjunct support for nervous system regulation and circadian rhythm...both of which play a role in thyroid signaling.

• LumeBox (Near-Infrared Light Therapy)
  Used as a targeted, supportive tool to help reduce inflammation and support cellular signaling.
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• Luminette 3 Light Therapy Glasses
  A simple way to support morning light exposure, circadian rhythm, and cortisol timing...especially helpful during darker winter months.
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Most women don’t struggle with resolutions because they’re unmotivated...they struggle because traditional resolutions work against how the brain and nervous system were designed to change.

In this episode, we talk about:

• why big overhauls trigger the nervous system
• the dopamine drop that shows up around day 5–14
• the identity shifts that make habits stick
• how to build goals your brain can actually support
• the role of repetition, reward, and predictability
• why starting small (and starting now) creates real momentum

You’ll learn a gentler, more effective way to approach change this year...one rooted in biology, compassion, and faith.

And if you want deeper clarity on your body, your hormones, and your metabolism, make sure you’re on the waitlist for 🔗 The DNA Reset for Fat Loss Academy, where we use advanced DNA testing and comprehensive labs to personalize your health journey.

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