Nutrition - Debbie Harbec Coaching

June 26, 2023

Unlock your path to a fitter midlife belly: Take the quiz!

So, midlife belly fat happens.

It’s real.

In short, you’ve got hormones, they’re changing, and the result is that any fat you gain tends to be attracted to your mid-section.

June 17, 2023June 17, 2023

5 refreshing (and non-boozy) drinks to enjoy guilt-free this summer

Summer is pretty much here, and those fruity cocktails are calling!

But, if alcohol is making sleep more challenging or your migraines or hot flashes flare up, you may want to be considering alternatives for your favorite sangrias, rosées, and long island iced teas.

So, I’m sharing a few fun options here, and bonus is they’re also no-sugar-added, which is also great news for your belly.

Happy sipping!

June 12, 2023June 12, 2023

How to eat to stay energized in midlife

Are you feeling less than energetic these days?

Maybe you notice you’re more tired, or lethargic, or even exhausted?

It’s not just because you’re getting older, I promise.

Aside from all the things you’re juggling, what you’re eating may be the culprit.

When you’re in perimenopause and menopause, your hormones are changing, and like it or not, that takes up a good amount of your energy.

So, if you want to increase your energy up and make this hormone shift smoother, consider the foods your’re choosing

Choose foods that give you energy rather than zap your energy.

To help you out, here are some energizing food tips that are known to keep you energized in midlife:

April 13, 2023April 13, 2023

Your relationship with time and how to manage it

You have a relationship with time.

You can feel like you’ve got enough or plenty of it, or you can feel like it’s running out or against you.

And right now, at 50, time means more now to me than ever.

It’s become very precious.

And so now, what I do in the time I have matters even more.

As a coach, it’s no surprise that clients regularly come to me with issues around time-management.

They’re struggling to fit everything in, and find it challenging to actually do the things they want to get done.

They want to have better time-management.

But time-management isn’t possible.

March 25, 2023March 25, 2023

How to become happier in midlife

I think of perimenopause as a time of awakening.

It kind of takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

And if you’ve been in a busy-ness trance, like many of us, it may cause you to look around and wonder how you got here.

You start to re-examine everything in your life.

Like the time and effort you spend on your work.

And the quality of relationships you have with your partner or kids or parents or friends.

And of course, the shape and health of your body.

You may find yourself in a place, emotionally or physically, they don’t really want to be, but it’s what you’ve become used to.

It’s a dull kind of normal… It’s not terrible, but it’s not great.

You know you’re not as happy as you could be.

As you want to be.

“But what can you do? This is just life, right?”

March 9, 2023

How to stay stuck where you are

Maybe we could all write the book on this one.

So many of us are masters of staying stuck.

And we wish we weren’t.

Personally, I’ve been stuck in jobs, relationships, feeling guilty, feeling shame,…

It’s always a journey getting unstuck… and it’s where I’ve done most of my growing.

But, if you’d like to continue staying exactly where you are, just keep doing one or all of the following…

February 23, 2023February 24, 2023

Letting go of the fear of being judged

Years ago, I was taking a yoga class at work.

Every Monday and Wednesday, I’d bring my yoga mat to the office and at lunchtime I’d go down to the gym and take the 50-minute class.

It felt so good.

At the time, my kids were in elementary school, and I was divorced, so this was MY time.

One lunch hour, as I was walking down to the gym, a colleague stopped me.

He asked where I was going.

I said I was going to a yoga class.

And then he made a comment that really affected me.

He said, “I wish I had that kind of time.”

When he said it, I started to feel shame rise up in me.

February 9, 2023

Perimenopause is more than just hot flashes

Before hitting perimenopause, around 45, the only things I really knew about menopause were hot flashes…

And not having a period anymore.

Honestly, both these things sounded pretty good to me.

First because I was freezing most of the time.

And no period? Where do I sign up???

However, with five years of peri under my belt (literally) and learning a lot more about perimenopause and others’ experiences, I know that it’s much more than this.

January 26, 2023