Laila Ali: Why I Stopped Trying to Outwork My Hormones
About this episode
Laila Ali discusses her journey with perimenopause and how fasting transformed her relationship with food and health.
Laila Ali spent years training to win. As an undefeated professional boxer, her body was her career. She knew exactly how to train harder, eat less, and make weight when she needed to. Then perimenopause changed the rules. In this episode of Live Like a Girl , Laila joins Dr. Mindy for an honest conversation about what happened when her old strategies stopped working, why she eventually stopped trying to outwork her hormones, and how fasting helped her build a completely different relationship with her body. They talk about long fasts, exercising while fasting, food noise, refeeding, sugar cravings, body image, the scale, stress, and what it means to train for health instead of performance. Laila also shares how she talks to her teenage daughter about fasting, why she refuses to make healthy eating feel like punishment, and the lesson she learned from becoming a boxer against Muhammad Ali’s wishes: sometimes the most important thing you can do is listen to the spark inside you. In this episode, you'll learn: Why Laila stopped trying to outwork her hormones How fasting changed her relationship with food and control What she learned from doing longer fasts How she exercises during…
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