Coach Mel Joy Foley

Coach Mel Joy Foley We don't accept 'it's just aging' as an answer here.

Certified Wellness Coach helping women 35+ burn stubborn fat, ease perimenopause symptoms, and fall in love with the reflection in the mirror—using comfort food and soul-fueling workouts.

08/28/2026

Peri/menopausal women trying to lose weight have spent thousands on meal delivery, points programs, and AI coaching that all fall apart the second they ask one question…

I’ve had women come to me after paying for:
-meal delivery services
-vacuum-sealed fake food
-AI, impersonal canned response “coaching”
-meals logged and labeled with a vague rating of “green, yellow, red”
-cookie-cutter nutrition lessons
-points
….and every single one of them eventually had to answer the same question:

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
“But what am I supposed to eat when this ends?”

Those plans helped them lose weight…to start with.

But they didn’t love what they were eating.
They were miserable.

And, after working with me, that ‘s the question my clients never have to ask again.

This cake? It isn’t me “cheating” and I’m not worried about having it around the house.
It’s not a reward or a treat.
I’ll be eating a slice as a part of my lunch any day I’m craving it.

Because it’s a recipe I built to support my goals because I understand what ingredients do.

If we haven’t met yet…
👋🏼Hi, I’m Mel, the women’s fat loss & fitness coach who lost weight over 10 years ago and who has kept it off because I learned how to build meals around what I actually love. I teach women how to do the same so after 90 days they don’t need me, another coach, an expensive meal plan….just themselves to keep getting results.

If you’re going to invest in something,
I’d rather help you invest in skill and strategy
you’ll use every day for the rest of your life,
not another box of meals you’ll eventually stop ordering.
We know the second the boxes stop showing up, so will the results.

💬Comment or DM me “START” and I’ll send you everything you need to get started.

xx Coach Mel

🎁For a taste test comment “FREE” and I’ll get you started with my milkshake recipe!

08/27/2026

The difference between every plan my clients and I have tried before
and what I teach isn’t the pizza.

It finally understanding why the pizza works.

If we haen’t met, hi. 👋🏼
I’m Mel, 46 y/o who grew up on Little Debbie, never played sports, and kept the weight off for over a decade eating pizza and everything else the plans told me to give up. I coach women who are done being tied to expensive plans, ready to learn how to do the damn thing themselves…for free.

For anyone who’s curious…this entire half pizza is:
🍕 466 cals
🍕 77g protein

I don’t coach women into buying expensive pre-portioned meals.
I don’t coach women into buying food that doesn’t taste like real food.
I don’t coach women by giving them vague information like this meal is a green, yellow, or red meal.
Or vague points that don’t answer the real question about protein and fiber.
I don’t coach women into pretending they don’t love pizza.

I coach women to build meals using foods they’d actually choose whether they were trying to lose weight or not.

I don’t want you to be dependent on a box that shows up every Tuesday.
I don’t want going out to dinner to feel like eating in the wild.
I don’t want the unexpected to leave you without any choices you know will align with your goals.

If your weight loss only works because someone else portions your food,
what happens when the box stops showing up?

I’ll help you understand food so well, the options for what you eat are endless.
And you’ll be so damn confident that all the posts telling you this weird sh*t that you “should” do to lose weight will be noise you laugh at and walk the f away from.

Ready? Comment or DM me “START” and let’s go!
xx Mel

08/26/2026

I’m not trying to go hard on vacation, but I do want to come home feeling grounded in myself. And this setup is my sanity nook.

And exactly why I created the Somewhere to Land: Summer Strength Series for midlife women.

It’s movement designed for the unpredictability of summer.
It’s a stash of movements, strategy, and a couple of pieces of equipment that you can run with in a hotel room, by the lake, in the pool, at the campsite.

It’s a grounded place to land in the midst of whatever a summer day brings.

I paired the free Summer Strength Series with my Core4 Movement Decision Tool so you have a way to keep moving during summer chaos AND a way to decide WHAT kind of movement your body is up for day to day.

Comment or DM me “SUMMER” and I’ll send it to ya!

Still claiming a corner of the room this summer,
Coach Mel Joy xoxo

08/25/2026

The advice (we’ve all heard a million times in perimenopause 🙄): Start strength training.
They weren’t wrong, but they WERE wrong for Day 1 of MY story.

Do I lift heavy now? Yep!
But I didn’t start there.
Because I wasn’t comfortable.
I felt lost.
I didn’t know where to begin.
I had the fear of bulking up.
At first, I didn’t get the same rush and mental release from using weights as I did with cardio.

So I started with jogging and running.
Then I added rowing and spinning.
And, after 4 years, I added weight training.

For the last 6 years, I’ve done a mix of it all.

But I had to start with what I wanted to start with.
With what felt accessible.
With what felt worth it.

Or I would have bagged exercising a long time ago,
just like I used to quit the other “I’m going to get healthy” practices in the past.

As a coach, no guidance looks exactly the same from woman to woman. It’s because my guidance is based on:
-what feel accessible,
-what feels worth it,
-what feels doable, and…

‼️what you will actually still do 6 months and 6 years from now ‼️

If we haven’t met yet…
👋🏼Hi, I’m Mel, 46 y/o perimenopausal woman who grew up with Little Debie snacks instead of sports trophies. No athletic ability, zero experience in a gym, overweight and intimidated AF by exercise, I could never find something I was willing to start and stick to. Now I coach women who are ready to dive in with another woman who has no gym bro energy but knows her sh*t.

📲 Stick around for weight loss strategy built around what you will be doing years from now, not what the internet swears is the only right way.

💬Comment or DM me “START” and let’s build your movement lifestyle (not another plan) around what you will actually keep doing.

Here to support what you want to start with, not what everyone says you “should” do but’ll never stick to,
xx Coach Mel Joy

08/25/2026

…it’s probably because I was the little girl who ate her dinner just because that was the only way she could get dessert

…it’s also probably because dessert a reward for not only finishing my dinner plate, but also all my lunch
…and my breakfast of choice was Cinnamon Toast Crunch

So, yeah, the food noise that showed up for me as I got older was more about the relationship I had with food being a reward, and the underlying message that my sweet tooth couldn’t just exist without me doing something to “indulge” in it.

🎬Something you can do today if this sounds like you at all: Write down one food from your childhood that you still love but it’s a complicated relationship. No judgement, just acknowledging that that food has history and that’s not something that needs to be fixed.

Now, I’ve revamped so many of those foods that they are just the meal, not even the dessert… (yeah, I have dessert every single night too)

If we haven’t met yet…
👋🏼 Hi, I'm Mel. 46 y/o perimenopausal woman and certified fat loss and fitness coach who turned Cinnamon Toast Crunch nostalgia into a decade of keeping the weight off without giving up the foods that feel like home.

📲 Around here, you’ll find weight loss strategies that stick because you aren’t required to deny yourself from what you love, perimenopause-informed fitness, ways to quiet food noise, and tools to stay consistent….like forever.

💬Comment or DM me “RECIPE” and I’ll send you OptiPlate Recipe Club info, where I rebuild YOUR nostalgic foods so they work for your goals so you don’t have to give up what you love eating to crush them.

🎁Free gift before you go…Comment “FREE” and I’ll send you a taste test with my million goal-supporting milkshake recipes.

xx Mel Joy

08/24/2026

…who knew my perfectionism and empty sticker and stamp books would have more to say about why women in midlife can’t stick to a weight loss plan than any diet ever did?

If we haven’t met yet…
👋🏼Hi, I’m Mel, the little girl trapped in perfectionism now turned 46 y/o perimenopausal woman who has kept the weight off for over a decade….not because I did anything perfectly, but because I make imperfect decisions all the time. I make imperfect decisions quickly because I’ve learned this the hard way: not making a decision hurts a hell of a lot more, getting ZERO results, than making an imperfect one.

As a certified fat loss & fitness coach I help women trust themselves again by giving them clear strategy, enough information to make confident decisions, and permission to let go of finding the perfect one.

📝Try one today:
Pick ONE of the million things you’ve heard will help you on your weight loss and fitness journey. ONE thing. Not the full plan or the perfect starting point. Example: “I know I should be eating more protein.” DO NOT start with “but how much?” and “does it matter when I eat it?” or “does the protein source matter?” Just be intentional about adding something that has protein to your day today. Then, do it again tomorrow too.

If you’re ready to have someone in your corner who helps you make one imperfect decision and then stay in it long enough to see what it could become…
💬Comment or DM me START and lfg. 🚀

I’ll also take care of the “but how much?” and “when?” and “does it matter what the source is?” questions for ya.

🎉To finally putting something in the book,
Mel Joy xo

08/21/2026

…after 36 years living with eardrum breaking food noise, I finally got real strategy to turn it the f down. This one strategy, tho…

Let me reintroduce you to Barb.

That’s what I named my food noise. She’s a pearl-clutching, teeth-sucking, judgemental and shrill voice in the back of my brain who has an opinion about everything I eat. She butts her nose in without invitation.

“You already had enough”
“Are you really going for seconds?”
“You know you’re going to regret that later”

Food noise doesn’t just magically disappear because I gave that b*tch a name.
But because it’s in our heads, it can feel like it’s OUR OWN voice. And it’s just not.
But when we believe it is our voice, it’s almost impossible to question it and put it in its place.

Barb, tho? She’s not you or me. She’s uninvited and planted in our brains from decades of diet culture.

Naming her creates distance between you and the thought.

📝The next time that shrill, critical voice shows up:
1. Acknowledge her. “Oh, there’s Barb.” (borrow my name or make it personal)
2. Name what she’s doing. “Barb is stuck in the 90s Snackwell era again.”
3. Dismiss her. “Not now, Barb.”

Then move on. And, repeat when she shows up again.
You’ll hear her again, but she’ll get quieter and quieter the more you practice.

The practice is worth it, because food noise isn’t just exhausting, it’s one of the biggest things standing between you and results that last.

If we haven't met yet…
👋🏼 Hi, I’m Mel, a 46 y/o perimenopausal woman and certified fat loss + fitness coach who named her food noise Barb for personal reasons and has been keeping her much quieter for over a decade now.

📲 Around here, you’ll find weight loss strategies that stick because you aren’t required to deny yourself from what you love, perimenopause-informed fitness, ways to quiet food noise, and tools to stay consistent….like forever.

💬 If Barb has been loud for wayyyyyy too long, comment or DM me “NOISE” and let’s start using alllll the strategies to put that b*tch in her place and lose the weight you’ve been trying to lose.

xx Mel

08/20/2026

…but my campground neighbors definitely think I’m hiding a body 🙊🙈

🤷🏼‍♀️Just the lengths I’ll go to so I don’t become “I’ll start again in September” girl

Because if we haven’t met…
👋🏼Hi, I’m Mel, a certified women’s health & fitness coach who has been consistent for over a decade now, after COUNTLESS failed attempts to lose weight and exercise regularly.
I specialize in helping women lose weight, get strong, and quiet food noise without requiring them to become a totally different person.

📲Around here you’ll find sustainable weight loss strategies, perimenopause-friendly fitness, comfort food that supports your goals, and tools for sticking with it all even when sh*t hits the fan.

🎁So if summer has a habit of turning into 3 months of “I’ll get back to it in September,” grab my FREE Somewhere to Land: Summer Strength Series ☀️ It’s for pools, lakes, beaches, hotel rooms, or campsites and I’ve linked my fave travel-friendly equipment too.

Comment FREE and I’ll send it your way.

If you feel like you’ve tried “all the things” on your own and nothing sticks, you’re exactly who I help inside the Start & Stay Started Academy.
👉🏽 DM me START for all the info!

xox Mel

08/19/2026

I was you. That’s how I know you belong here. 🤍

👋🏼I’m Mel, a 46-year-old perimenopausal woman who loves food and no longer tries to hide it or change it to lose weight. As a certified health & fitness coach, I show other women how to lose weight WHILE they keep loving food. I lived through allllll the diet culture eras and I refuse to put another woman through any of it again.

📲Around here you’ll find weight loss strategies that stick because you aren’t required to deny yourself from what you love, perimenopause-informed fitness, ways to quiet food noise, and tools to stay consistent….like forever (it’s been over a decade for this chronic quitter 🙋🏼‍♀️).

08/18/2026

I’m not trying to go hard on vacation, but I do want to come home feeling grounded in myself.

In case we haven’t met…
👋🏼 Hi, I’m Mel. Women’s health & fitness coach, recovering all-or-nothing thinker, and creator of the Summer Strength Series for women who want simple workouts that slide into a vacation day.

If you want to keep getting stronger this summer without making fitness the center of every vacation, lake day, camping trip, or family gathering…
🎁Comment FREE and I’ll send it over to ya!

Cheers to making memories AND muscles,
Coach Mel Joy xoxo

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