Jane Cleary - The Midlife Movement

29/08/2026

Free masterclass - Beyond The
Prescription

Reminder - my free 1-on-1 personal consultation offer ends (tomorrow) Monday 31st August.
This is the perfect opportunity to get the foundations right - no more, ‘what the heck should I be doing?’

Watch it now - www.janecleary.com.au/bodywise-masterclass

28/08/2026

Well. This was supposed to be a quick chat.
Six minutes later, … and clearly I didn't realise that the sun was going down behind me. 😂

So yes, the lighting gets progressively more questionable.
But we're keeping it. I'm real - and real s**t does happen.
Because the reason I picked up the phone in the first place mattered more.

I’ve been reading the responses coming in from women watching Beyond the Prescription and there have been so many moments where I've wanted to reach through the screen, take someone's hand and say:
Come here. Let me help you navigate all of this.

Not throw another protein target at you.
Not tell you for the 847th time that you should be strength training.
Not give you another list of things you're apparently supposed to be doing perfectly.

Help you work out what all of this looks like for you.

And that’s why I’ve decided to add something extra for women joining The GLP-1 Bodywise Project this weekend.

If you're one of the first 10 women who join by Monday you'll also get 30-ish minutes privately with me.

You don't need to prepare anything impressive.
Bring the questions.
Bring the confusion.
Bring the I know I should be doing this but I have absolutely no idea where to start.

We'll sort through it together.

If you haven't watched my free masterclass yet, start there.
Comment MASTERCLASS below and I'll send it straight to your DMs. ❤️

And do enjoy watching me slowly disappear into darkness. Hahaha.

27/08/2026

How about we talk about the bit AFTER the weight loss for a minute?

Because I’m watching the GLP-1 world become increasingly obsessed with the same handful of things.

What dose are you on?
How much have you lost?
How quickly?
How little can you eat?

And lately I've found myself wanting to yell...
BUT WHAT'S THE PLAN??
(Seriously!!!!!!)

You lose 10kg.
Or 20kg.
Maybe considerably more.
Fabulous.
Then what?

Because I don't want the grand plan to be:
Take medication → lose weight → cross fingers → hope Future Me sorts the rest out.
Future Me has enough s**t to deal with.

And this is where I reckon we're missing a HUGE opportunity with GLP-1s.

Because while the medication is turning down the food noise and helping with appetite, you have this window where you can start changing some of the other stuff too.

How you eat.
How you exercise or train.
How you look after your muscle.
What you know about your own body.
And what you're going to take with you into whatever comes next.

THAT is what I've been banging on about in Beyond the Prescription, my new free masterclass.

It's not another GLP-1s explained presentation.
God knows the internet has enough of those.

It's the conversation I wish was happening after the prescription gets handed over.

If you're using a GLP-1 — or even contemplating one — come and watch it.

Comment MASTERCLASS and I'll send you the link. ❤️

27/08/2026

I don’t particularly care whether you can fit into the jeans you wore in 2003 if, twenty years from now, you can’t get yourself off the bloody floor.
There. I said it.

Because I keep looking at the conversation happening around GLP-1s right now and wondering when weight loss became the entire bloody assignment.

How many kilograms have you lost?
What dose are you on?
How quickly is it coming off?
What size are you now?

Meanwhile, I’m looking at the woman who is going to be living in that body in 10, 20 or 30 years.

Can she get herself off the floor?
Can she carry her own suitcase, climb a flight of stairs, lift something heavy and keep doing the things she loves without needing somebody else to do them for her?

Does she have enough muscle?
Are her bones getting the support they need?
Is she eating enough to nourish herself while the weight is coming off — or has appetite suppression somehow become a competition to see how little food we can get away with eating?

Because we now know that GLP-1s can be an extraordinary tool.
But the medication was never supposed to have all the jobs.
And THAT is the conversation I want more midlife women having.

Which is why I've created Beyond the Prescription, my brand-new free masterclass for women using — or considering — a GLP-1.

We're going beyond “take the medication and lose weight” and talking about what matters while that weight is coming off... and what you're building now for the woman you want to be twenty years from now.

Because I don't just want you lighter.
I want you bloody capable.

The masterclass is free, it's around 40 minutes, and it's ready to watch now.
Comment MASTERCLASS below and I'll send you the link. ❤️

25/08/2026

25/08/2026

A little sneaky peek at what’s coming inside my Bodywise Project program for September...

Every single month, Bodywise members receive a brand new digital Mealbook with 15 delicious recipes (beautifully photographed) — giving you fresh ideas for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks and smoothies.

You see, one of the things I hear all the time is:
“I know I need to eat more protein... I’m just running out of ideas.”
And I get it. There are only so many times you can look at another chicken breast and summon enthusiasm. 😂

So each month, I do some of the legwork for you.

September’s Recipe Ideas mealbook includes everything from Overnight Blueberry Chia Oats and Spinach & Feta Stuffed Chicken to Salmon Bites with Maple Tahini Dressing, a very good-looking steak salad and a Peanut Butter Coffee Protein Smoothie - for when you're on the go, or not feeling like a full meal but still want to hit those targets.

You’ll also find nutrition information (including the macro breakdown to make tracking easy peasy), handy ingredient swaps and a shopping list to make putting it all into practice an absolute dream (come true 🙂.

It’s just one of the resources I keep adding to The GLP-1 Bodywise Project to help women build a way of eating that supports their protein, muscle and health while taking a GLP-1 — without making mealtime stressful.

Members receive their Mealbook digitally, so you can keep it on your phone or tablet, or print your own copy if you’re a paper-and-highlighter woman like me.

September’s edition lands for Bodywise members next week. ❤️

Interested in becoming a Bodywise member? Check out my free Masterclass by heading to www.janecleary.com.au/bodywise-masterclass for all the details or drop me a DM for a little chat. Doors are now open and I'd love to welcome you inside.
x J

24/08/2026

Midlife is a funny old time.

We’re told our metabolism is slowing down, our bodies are changing, muscle becomes harder to maintain, bone density starts heading in the wrong direction…
…and somehow the advice to women is STILL to eat less and make our workouts easier. 🤦‍♀️
Nope.

If there’s one thing I wish more women knew heading into their 40s, 50s and beyond, it’s this:
Muscle is one of the best investments you can make in your future body.
And it's not because we need (or even want) to look a certain way.

But because muscle supports your metabolism. It helps with glucose regulation. It supports your bones. It keeps you strong and independent as you get older - this is what is so important to me (and the women I train every day).

And maintaining it requires more than moving a light weight around for 20 reps without breaking a sweat.

Your muscles need a reason to adapt.
That means resistance. Challenge. Progressively asking them to do a little more.
Those last few reps should feel like a real challenge - but doable.

So if you’ve been strength training for a while but wondering why you’re not really getting stronger or seeing much change, have a look at the weights you’re using.
You may not need another exercise.
You may just need a heavier dumbbell.

Strong is a very good way to head into the second half of life.
Do you agree?

22/08/2026

I thought the information would be the most valuable part of my GLP-1 Bodywise Project program. I’m not sure it is anymore.

When I first put Bodywise together, I spent an enormous amount of time on the lessons.
Nutrition. Protein. Strength training. Side effects. Plateaus. Maintenance. All the practical bits women kept telling me they were struggling to make sense of.
And obviously all of that matters.

But then I watched something else happen.

The women started talking to each other.
Someone would ask a question she was almost embarrassed to ask, only to discover two other women had been wondering exactly the same thing.
Someone would have a crappy week and say so, rather than disappearing because she felt as though she’d somehow failed.

They started sharing what they were eating, what they were struggling with, what had finally clicked, what they were doing in the gym... and occasionally having a good old laugh about the whole ridiculous business of being a midlife woman trying to look after herself.

And somewhere along the way, Bodywise became more than the lessons I’d spent all those months creating.
It became a group of women who knew each other’s stories.

I reckon that matters more than we sometimes give it credit for.

There’s certainly no shortage of GLP-1 information available now. You can Google practically anything, watch another video or disappear into a Facebook group and emerge three hours later with 47 different answers to the question you originally asked. 😂

What’s much harder to find is somewhere you can say, this is what’s happening with me, and have people around you who understand the context.
Some weeks you’ll be the woman asking the question.
Other weeks you’ll be the one saying, Yep, I went through that too.
And sometimes you’ll simply read along and realise you’re not the only person still figuring bits of this out.

That’s the part of Bodywise I don’t think I could ever properly recreate in a lesson.
The information gives you somewhere to start. The conversations help you keep going.

I talk about the Bodywise community in my free Beyond the Prescription masterclass too, and you’ll hear from some of the women who joined the original Foundation group back in May.

If you haven’t watched it yet, you can find it here:
https://www.janecleary.com.au/bodywise-masterclass

If you had a room full of midlife women using GLP-1s sitting around the table with you, what would you want to ask them? ❤️

22/08/2026

One of the strangest problems I see women run into on GLP-1s is something they never expected to have to worry about.
They’re not eating enough.

After years — sometimes decades — of being told to eat less, cut calories, watch portions and generally make themselves smaller, suddenly they’re taking a medication that can make eating feel like a chore.

And at first, eating very little can almost feel like confirmation that the medication is working.
You’re not hungry. You’re eating less. The scales are moving.
Happy days... right?

Well, not necessarily.

Because your appetite may have changed, but your body hasn’t suddenly stopped needing nutrition.
It still needs protein to help maintain muscle.
It still needs carbohydrates to fuel you.
It still needs fats, fibre, vitamins and minerals.
It still needs enough energy for you to train, work, concentrate, recover, sleep and generally get through your day without feeling like someone has unplugged you at the wall.

And this is where I’d love us to change the conversation a little.

Rather than celebrating how little you can eat, start paying attention to how well you can nourish yourself with the appetite you have.

That might mean smaller meals.
It might mean eating your protein first when you know you fill up quickly.
It might mean having a few reliable meals or snacks you can manage on the days when food isn't particularly appealing.
And sometimes it means recognising that surviving on a protein shake and half a piece of toast until dinner isn't a nutritional strategy just because you weren't hungry.

You don't need to force enormous meals down when your body is telling you it's full.
But we also don't want appetite suppression turning into accidental under-fuelling week after week while the scales happily disguise what might be happening underneath.

The goal isn't to see how little food you can get away with.
It's to make the food you are eating count.

That's one of the conversations I spend quite a bit of time on in my free Beyond the Prescription masterclass, because knowing how to eat when hunger isn't giving you the usual prompts can take a little getting used to.

If you haven't watched it yet, you can find it here:
https://www.janecleary.com.au/bodywise-masterclass

And I'm curious — has eating enough been more difficult than you expected since starting your GLP-1? ❤️

21/08/2026

Eating plenty of protein?
Fabulous. But your muscles would quite like you to make sure USE them too.

I talk about protein a lot around here, and for good reason.

As we move through midlife, getting enough high-quality protein becomes increasingly important for maintaining the muscle we already have.
But protein is only half of a pretty important conversation.
Your muscles also need a reason to stick around.
And that reason is resistance training.

You can hit your protein target beautifully every day (aiming for around 30g per meal), but if you're not regularly asking your muscles to work against resistance, you're missing one of the strongest signals we can give the body to maintain — and hopefully build — muscle.
And this matters whether you're trying to lose weight or not.

From midlife onwards, we're already dealing with age-related muscle loss, and the hormonal changes around menopause aren't exactly rushing in to do us any favours either.

This is where protein and strength training make such a fabulous team.

Protein gives your body the amino acids it needs for muscle repair and growth — including leucine, which plays an important role in switching on muscle protein synthesis.

Strength training provides the stimulus that says, Oi... we need this muscle.
You don't need to spend all week in the gym. You don't need to train like you're auditioning for the next series of Gladiators.
But you do need to challenge your muscles.

A couple of well-structured full-body strength sessions each week is a bloody good place to start.
And if you're already doing that?
Don't be afraid to progress. Push that little bit further (safely).

The same weights, same reps and same workout you've been doing for years (or even months) may be very comfortable...
Your muscles have probably noticed. 😂
Feed them. Challenge them. Keep them.
Future you will be rather pleased you did. ❤️