Let me ask you a question. How alike are females compared to males? And for that matter how different are younger females (i.e. teens and twenties) from more mature females (i.e. Thirties and above)?

Think about it for a minute. Do men deal with a menstrual cycle? Do they know what it is like to have estrogen and progesterone levels change throughout the month?

Do younger women know what it is like to go through pregnancy? Or deal with the stress of a high powered career? Or what happens when you hit peri-menopause, menopause and post-menopause?

The answer to these questions is an obvious and resounding NO!!!

Then why do health and fitness programs treat men and women young and old exactly the same.

Consider this for a minute. You know first hand how different you are from men and how crazy it is to assume your metabolism is anything like that of a female in her teens and early twenties. Yet, every single diet and exercise program you have probably ever done takes none of that into account.

And that is why they fail again and again and again. It is time for a change and I am going to show you exactly what it required.

Who Am I?

My name is Dr. Jade Teta and what I’m about to share with you comes directly from my 25 year experience as a personal trainer, integrative physician and a guy who has been working with women trying to lose weight since I was fifteen years old.

My first “client” was a high school classmates mother who turned 40 and found her body no longer responded to diet and exercise the way it once did. Sound familiar? Then this article is for you.

As a personal trainer ninety percent of the people I worked with were women. And almost all of them were women in their thirties, forties and fifties dealing with metabolic changes caused by stress, pregnancy and menopause.

They were frustrated with lack of results, overwhelmed with busy lives and confused with all the contradictory information in the world of health and fitness.

In my personal experience, these women were hard workers and took their body change efforts seriously. They were willing to do whatever anyone asked, but they eventually became disillusioned by their lack of progress.

In the beginning I was like every other trainer out there. I was giving one-size-fits-all protocols that were really derived from male bodybuilding programs. If a woman did not get results on these programs, I just assumed she was not being compliant at home with her diet.

And the truth is, almost none of my clients got great results with these programs.

Later I started working with young female fitness competitors. Things for these girls were a little different than the male bodybuilders. They did a little more cardio and a little bit different weight training.

But again I found the women who were a little older or had kids or careers did not respond much better to these programs. It was either too much for them to fit in or just did not produce the same results that younger women could achieve.

Little did I know that the very things I was doing with these women were the exact things that were making it almost impossible for them to stick with any program.

Then something happened. Through a series of frustrating failures with several women and a couple of pretty memorable “ah ha” moments, I figured out exactly what these women needed.

If you are a student of health and fitness, you are likely going to be shocked at what I discovered.

My Three Most Important Clients

After living this schedule for nine months, and suffering the debilitating fatigue and unrelenting hunger and

All three of these women were amazing teachers to me and I am forever grateful to them and the lessons they taught. To make it is easy for youth follow this story I will give them each a descriptor. They were Ms. Executive, Ms. Mom and Ms. Retired.

Ms. Executive was in her early forties. Ms. Mom was about ten years younger. Ms. Retired was about ten years older.

I worked with these clients all around the same time when I was a personal trainer in Seattle. I got a very good understanding of their challenges compared to the young twenty something females I worked with.

While at the time I did not realize the lessons they taught, later the lessons I learned from them became the catalyst for developing a new way of working with women that made me one of the most successful female weight loss experts in the country.

Ms. Executive was a high powered serious business woman. She had no children and was not married. She traveled a lot. She worked late hours. She was under deadlines constantly. And she took her health and fitness seriously, yet remained overweight.

Ms. Mom was a single working mother. She was on the go all the time. She had a beautiful little girl she raised by herself. I am not sure how she even managed to fit exercise in, but it was important to her to remain fit and healthy.

Ms. Retired was married and had kids that were out of the house. She was well off and worked hard to be able to retire early. She had remained thin and fit into her late forties but then her fifties and menopause hit. When that happened, she said her metabolism changed completely. She gained weight and could not lose it.

All three of them had been struggling with weight and had tried everything. Between the three of them they had done Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Zone Diet, Atkin’s Diet, curves and several other popular programs and protocols. Nothing worked.

In the beginning the stuff I was doing with them did not help either. They just seemed to get “bulky” with weight training. Not bulky like you might think, but bulky as if you were putting a jacket on over a sweater.

They were growing some muscle, but not burning any fat. This made them look bigger and they would complain about their thighs and arms looking big.