Jane Cleary - The Midlife Movement

29/05/2026

Who’s joining me?

27/05/2026

Little heads up, ladies...

There’s something landing in next Tuesday’s email newsletter that may or may not involve me giving away a bunch of spots to one of my popular workout programs.

I’m keeping it exclusive to my email crew because frankly they’re delightful and I want to reward the women who read my ramblings every week.

So if you’re already on the list (thank you), make sure you check your inbox Tuesday.

And if you’re not on the list yet (why???), you’ve still got time to fix that before the email goes out… otherwise next Wednesday you could be sitting there reading everyone’s comments thinking, “Well bugger.”

Sign up to my weekly email newsletter by heading to: https://www.janecleary.com.au/contact-page for your chance to be a winner!

25/05/2026

At last…
Another win for us.

25/05/2026

Honestly the supplement world has turned into the wild west lately.

Every second influencer is dry scooping something fluorescent while promising “hormone balance”, “fat burning”, “gut healing” and eternal youth. Meanwhile half the women in midlife are standing in Priceline staring at a wall of magnesiums wondering why there are seventeen different types and whether one of them will finally stop them waking at 3:12am with their leg twitching like a dog with fleas.

And the scary part is, people assume supplements are harmless because they’re “natural”. Meanwhile women around us are nearly overdosing on vitamin B because brands keep pushing mega doses like more automatically equals better.

So I have put together a free guide called "The Supplement Reality Check" that breaks all of this down properly — what supplements actually do, where risks show up, what changes in midlife, and how GLP-1 medications fit into the picture for those women trying to navigate both.

You can grab your copy here - .https://www.janecleary.com.au/supplement-reality-check-opt-in-page

22/05/2026

I just love the conversations over at the GLP-1 Bodywise Project for Midlife Women private Facebook group.
It is a safe space where women feel confident sharing, asking the (sometimes) difficult and personal questions.
And I especially love getting feedback like this...

Consider joining us!

22/05/2026

SKELETAL LONGEVITY vs. SKELETONISING WOMEN

We recognise anorexia. We recognise eating disorders. We know the long-term consequences of undereating — the bone loss, the muscle wasting, the hormonal collapse, the fragility. We've fought hard to name those things as dangerous.
So why are we here again, somehow glamorising the medication that lets us do exactly that?

GLP-1s and GIPs can be powerful tools. Used well, they can improve metabolic health, reduce inflammation, and change the trajectory of obesity and insulin resistance. I'm not here to demonise them.

But a medication is only as healthy as the culture around it.
And right now, our culture is rewarding extreme shrinking — without asking what's being lost in the process.

Women are losing not just fat, but muscle, bone density, strength, hormonal health, and resilience. The goal has shifted from getting healthy to getting smaller. More fragile. More diminished.

Frailty doesn't begin at 80. It begins the moment we stop valuing strength.
It begins when we praise women for looking breakable instead of powerful. When visible collarbones get more applause than visible capability. When exhaustion gets rebranded as discipline. When skeletal is mistaken for healthy.

There is a real difference between Skeletal Longevity and skeletonisation.
Skeletal Longevity means building a body that carries you powerfully through decades — muscle, bone density, balance, metabolic health, energy, and resilience. It means preserving the tissues that let you live independently, move confidently, and show up fully in your life.
Skeletonisation is the erosion of all of that in pursuit of appearance alone.

One leads to strength. The other leads to fractures, falls, dependence, and a body that can no longer do what you need it to do.

Women deserve better than diet culture repackaged as wellness.

If you're using a GLP-1 — please use it intelligently:
- Lift weights
- Eat enough protein
- Track body composition, not just the number on the scale
- Protect your muscle and your bone

Become unbreakable, ladies. Not smaller.

17/05/2026

The reaction to Demi Moore's red carpet appearance lately has been interesting to watch.
Because yes, conversations around Hollywood, body image and extreme thinness are valid. Hollywood has always pushed impossible standards for women, and when already-small bodies appear to get even smaller, people are naturally going to have opinions about that.

But I also think we need to be careful where the conversation goes from here.

GLP-1 medications didn’t create Hollywood’s obsession with thinness. That existed long before Ozempic headlines and red carpet speculation.

And while people may think they’re criticising celebrity culture, a lot of the judgement around these medications is spilling over onto everyday people using them for legitimate health reasons.

Obesity.
Type 2 diabetes.
Insulin resistance.
Cardiovascular risk.

Years of struggling with a body that feels like it’s working against them.

Not everyone using these medications is chasing Hollywood thin.
I speak to women all the time who almost feel like they need to apologise for using them because they’re worried people will assume they’re lazy, cheating, vain or taking the “easy way out”.
That’s the part that sits uncomfortably with me.

We should absolutely be able to talk about unrealistic beauty standards and the pressure placed on women to stay small forever. But I don’t think strangers’ bodies — celebrity or otherwise — should become public debate pieces every time someone loses weight.

Two things can be true at once:
Hollywood’s standards are unhealthy AND these medications are helping many people improve their health and quality of life.

What are your thoughts?

15/05/2026

The real win isn’t what you lift in the gym.
It’s how strong you feel outside of it.

Like… the way you carry shopping bags in one trip because you refuse to be defeated by Coles.
The way you haul yourself up out of a chair without doing that little “oof” sound you swore you’d never make.
The way you trust your body again instead of negotiating with it every morning.

Midlife strength isn’t about proving anything.

It’s about getting your own life back in your hands — literally and otherwise.
If you’re in it right now, keep going. It’s building more than muscle.

15/05/2026

14/05/2026

If you’re using a GLP-1 medication, you’ve probably seen this advice everywhere:

“Just eat 1200 calories.”
“Use a TDEE calculator and subtract 500 calories.”
“Eat as little as possible but make sure it's all protein.”

On the surface it sounds logical.

But for many women, that advice can actually lead to:
• stalled weight loss
• muscle loss
• low energy
• a slowing metabolism

Because when appetite drops dramatically, it’s surprisingly easy to start eating far less than your body actually needs.

At first the scale moves quickly. You celebrate the 'win'!
But after a while many women start noticing that progress slows… even though they’re barely eating.

This is something I see often in my work with midlife women using GLP-1 medications.
It’s called low energy availability, and it’s one of the biggest reasons fat loss can stall.

So I created a simple guide explaining:
• why eating too little can backfire
• why weight loss stalls happen
• how to fuel your body properly while still losing fat
• how to protect muscle and support your metabolism

If you’re navigating GLP-1 medications and wondering how much you should actually be eating, this will help make things much clearer.

You can download the guide here.
https://www.janecleary.com.au/running-on-empty-opt-in-page

10/05/2026

Protein has officially entered its loud AF era.
And I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to feel like you can’t so much as boil an egg without someone telling you it’s “not enough protein” unless it’s been triple-certified, lab-tested, and wrapped in a protein wrapper.

So I’ve pulled together a few of the biggest protein myths vs facts doing the rounds right now — especially for midlife women and anyone navigating GLP-1 medications where the noise around food has gotten very real, very fast.

Because…
It’s not that protein doesn’t matter. It absolutely does.
It’s that the conversation around it has become so extreme, most women don’t actually know what “enough” looks like anymore.
And that’s where we slow it down.

Just a bit of clarity on what actually matters… and what’s just marketing dressed up as nutrition advice.
Have a swipe through — and if you’ve been wondering whether you’re doing it “right”, you’re very much not alone in that.