Top 3 Social Media Weight Loss Gimmicks You Need to Scroll Right On Past

Hello ladies, I’m Hannah Freese, a Registered Dietitian, and Certified Specialist in Weight Management. I help women over 40 repair their damaged midlife metabolisms so that they can lose weight, achieve glowing health, and never stress about their weight again.

Today I’m sharing the Top Social Media Weight Loss Gimmicks You Need to Scroll Right Past.

In the Freese Method, we do not use or sell any supplements, powders, special foods, prepackaged foods, or shakes.

I want to show you that you can lose weight and keep it off forever without depending on a brand or a monthly minimum subscription.

January is full of quick fix promises and here are the top quick fixes you will not fall for.

Promise?

Quick Fix You Won’t Fall For #1: Menopause Supplements  

These supplements range all over the place promising to rebalance your estrogen, help you lose weight, clear up brain fog, sleep better, stop the bloat, wash your car, do your taxes, and shovel your snow.  

There is nothing these little babies can’t do.

Except for one big thing. 

They can’t balance your estrogen and they can’t burn fat.

This is the big lie I want you to look for. If it tells you it will rebalance estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone, put the bottle down and walk away.

If you are post-menopausal and are not ovulating, supplements cannot provide you with bioavailable supplemental estrogen.  Not from yams, soy, nothing.  And increasing your estrogen will not result in weight loss.

Usually, these supplements are a crazy big mixture of a multi-vitamin plus unregulated and unproven herbs with maybe some probiotics thrown in for “weight management.” 

Again, that’s not how that works.

Probiotics don’t help you lose weight. That is a complete misunderstanding of the connection between gut health and weight control.

A popular brand, MenofitⓇ has 28 ingredients. It really just throws the kitchen sink at you, with probiotics as the foundation for its weight loss promise. It’s not going to work for sustainable weight loss and is a quick fix you are not going to fall for.

Quick Fix You Won’t Fall For #2: Protein Powders

Consuming protein powder to lose weight is one of the biggest thorns in my side.  The premise is that protein will build muscle and not be stored as fat. Therefore you will have a higher metabolic rate and less body fat storage.

This is not true across the board and certainly not true for women over 40 with excess body fat from hormonal imbalances.

Protein powder for women over 40 will build you up without an appreciable raise in metabolic rate and yes, yes, you will store that excess energy as fat, because protein powder has the same hormonal effect as sugar in your body.

So protein powder, no matter how vegan, how new, how sexy, or how hip, is a weight loss gimmick that you will not fall for.

Quick Fix You Won’t Fall For #3: Metabolic Booster Powders

Good lord have mercy. This is why people hate wellness.

Sakara LifeⓇ, KaChavaⓇ, Goop WellnessⓇ, Your Super.comⓇ. These types of products are like the other supplements we’ve discussed completely unregulated and unproven.  And at $80-$120 bucks a month, they are an expensive multivitamin.  

Sexy statements like, “supports lipid metabolism” or promises to “transform your coffee into a metabolism-revving, bloat-easing elixir,” is all marketing with no backbone.

Here is a bonus tip: want a metabolically awesome cup of coffee? Drink it black. We have science to back that up. [1]

Seriously. Black coffee.

Again, you can’t boost your metabolic rate with supplements, that is not how it works.  Adding “stuff” to your diet, no matter how fancy,  usually only makes problems worse by overstimulating the wrong hormones at the wrong time.

Metabolic powders are a very expensive gimmick that won’t help you lose weight and you won’t fall for that.

In the wellness world, you can throw your money at a million things.

These supplements reach in and play on our fear of missing out and our desperation for a solution. But they distract us from actually making changes that would have been the real solution.  

What if you could just use your normal grocery budget and grocery store to get you the health and weight control you want?

What if you could skip through all the noise and flashing lights and just be so healthy from the inside out that those supplements weren’t ever even necessary?

That’s what I want for myself. That is what I want for you. 

If you are ready to stop throwing money at bottles and powders and create real health with real food, it’s time you joined the Freese Method.

I’ll teach you what real food to eat, what food to not eat when to eat it, and how to know the difference between marketing and nutrition.

No minimum order is needed.

Remember, you have what it takes to lose weight, achieve glowing health, and never stress about your weight again, we just need to fix your metabolism with normal food from the grocery store first.