Feel Better. Live Free. | Healthy Weight Loss & Wellness for Midlife Women
Feel Better. Live Free. with Lisa Joy Thompson is the revolutionary health & wellness podcast brought to you by Thinlicious®. It's a show dedicated to helping midlife women find lasting health and sustainable weight loss by healing our bodies from the inside out, while questioning the outdated mainstream narratives surrounding health and weight loss that haven't worked.
Our mission is to help you find the freedom to look and feel your best. The freedom to NOT be controlled by food addictions ever again. And the freedom to confidently pursue all your big goals and dreams because your health and weight issues are no longer holding you back.
Each week we'll discuss what it means to live your best life as a woman in your 40s, 50s, and beyond, talking openly and honestly about the highs and lows of weight loss, wellness, cultivating a healthy mindset, and pretty much everything in between. We'll also speak with leading health experts on everything from thyroid and cortisol health to hormonal balance and menopause to healing your gut.
It's a place where you'll discover actionable strategies for losing weight and getting healthy, unconventional health breakthroughs that no one else is talking about, and the powerful mindset shifts you'll need to find lifelong wellness and true happiness, with a whole lot of tough love along the way.
Basically, this is the podcast to listen to if you're looking for answers to these questions:
- Why is it so hard for women over 40 to lose weight?
- How can I improve my mindset and get healthy for life?
- What supplements should I be taking?
- How can I improve my immune system?
- How do I overcome resistance and finally get motivated?
- Why am I so tired all the time?
- What's the healthiest way to lose weight?
- Should I go on Ozempic?
- What does it mean to be metabolically flexible?
- How does stress affect weight loss?
- What is gut health, and why does it matter?
- Could I have a thyroid issue?
- What can you eat to reduce inflammation?
- What are the biggest health mistakes to avoid?
- How can you lose weight without dieting?
Feel Better. Live Free. | Healthy Weight Loss & Wellness for Midlife Women
Why Your Autoimmune Disease Might Be Making It Almost Impossible to Lose Weight
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If you've been told that the weight gain, the exhaustion, the brain fog, and the joint pain are just "part of having an autoimmune disease" — this episode is for you.
For decades, that's exactly what I was told. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's, Raynaud's, and lupus in my teens and twenties, and I spent most of my adult life feeling sick, exhausted, and in pain. I hit 288 pounds. I tried every diet. I lost weight, gained it back, and blamed myself every single time. And every time I went to the doctor, the script was the same: "I'm not sure exactly what's going on. It's probably autoimmune related. Also — it would probably help if you lost some weight."
Like that was a treatment plan.
In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on the real reason it's so much harder for women with autoimmune conditions to lose weight — and it has nothing to do with willpower. There's actually a clear hormonal cascade going on inside your body, and once you understand it, the whole picture changes.
We're covering:
- Why autoimmune disease creates the chronic inflammation that drives insulin resistance
- How insulin resistance literally locks fat in your cells (and why "eating less" can't fix it)
- The thyroid piece your doctor probably isn't testing for — even with Hashimoto's
- The role medications like steroids play in weight gain and bone density
- Why a doctor's casual "you should lose weight" advice isn't a plan — it's a brush-off
- Three specific things you can do this week to start healing
I'm sharing my own story, too — including the moment my chronic migraines and cluster headaches almost completely disappeared after years of suffering. That was the moment I knew this wasn't a diet. This was healing.
I want to be clear: I'm not telling you that food cured my autoimmune diseases. I still have Hashimoto's, Raynaud's, and lupus. But my body finally got what it needed — and the difference was profound. Eight years later, I've maintained over 100 pounds of weight loss, my energy is steady, and I'm finally living the life I thought I'd lost.
If you've been working harder than anyone you know and getting nowhere — please, listen to this one.
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