When All the Rules Change… Here’s How Women Stay Healthy, Fit, and Vibrant in Mid-life
with Dr. Heather Hammerstedt
You’re not imagining it – we hit our 40s and all the rules changed. Worse yet, they change for each of us differently. I help you work with what the science is actually telling us about our changing bodies, moods, and lives in our midlife + menopause era.
3 Paths to Thriving in Midlife
Wholist RX™
Helping women thrive in mid-life, with a doctor who actually gets it. Whole-woman menopause and metabolic care through Dr. Heather’s virtual clinic WholistRx for those in ID, WA, OR, UT, or KS.
Weight Wellness™
Designed for the whole-woman in mid-life and beyond. Drop 8-10% body weight in 12 weeks*, and keep it off with SkillPower, not willpower. Real nourishment, not gimmicks. With your choice of coaching support from medically trained coaches.
Total Health Mastery™
Transform your health – body, mind, and relationships – based on real science and real nourishment. Live coaching, guest experts, and no-nonsense guidance and resources every month to live healthy, vibrant, and fully alive!
Support for Clinics & Practitioners
Our focus on deep science, biology, and mindset skills, attracts a lot of health providers to our programs. And they now provide it to their patients too! See how we can help you and your patients.
Provide Your Patients with Our Proven
Weight Wellness Program (Branded to You)
You do the medicine, we do the consistent, science-backed, lifestyle medicine coaching. A complete 12 week foundation of sustainable lifestyle and mindset skills. Offload the labor to us and get a healthier patient panel for it! Branded to your clinic.
Join a Physicians-Only Weight Wellness Group Program
Countless physicians have gone through this program and found a whole new way for long term weight loss and management, improved health, and consistently improved sleep and energy.
8 Week Lifestyle Medicine Training for Clinicians and Coaches
Learn all the evidence-based essentials to put Lifestyle Medicine right into practice, while getting your patients to more readily adopt your lifestyle recommendations for improved outcomes no matter your specialty.
Willpower served my purpose while I was younger, but it is SkillPower that will help me now.
Tammy D., Weight Wellness graduate
Willpower served my purpose while I was younger, but it is SkillPower that will help me now.
Tammy D., Weight Wellness graduate
Willpower served my purpose while I was younger, but it is SkillPower that will help me now.
Tammy D., Weight Wellness graduate
Real Humans. Not Prompts.
The person in your corner changes everything.
We don’t hand you a chatbot, a support agent with a script, or someone who got certified over a weekend. At Wholist, you’re coached on video chat by a real human with real medical experience* who knows the biology, has lived the midlife change herself, and has walked the exact program you’re about to.
*does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship or medical advice.
Every Wholist coach meets the WholeYou Coach Standard, every time.
A clinical background
Physicians, nurses, registered dietitians, and advanced health professionals – trained in how the body actually works, not certified over a weekend.
Lived experience
Every coach has personally moved through perimenopause, menopause, or midlife metabolic change. She has been in the body you’re in.
She runs the program
Every coach has completed Weight Wellness herself. Held the protocol in her own hands, in her own kitchen, in her own life.
Meet some of Our Expert Wholist Coaches…
No chatbots. No AI prompts. No offshore call centers. No scripts.
A real human who knows the science, has done the work, and can meet you exactly where you are.
Heather Hammerstedt, MD MPH
Founder of Wholist
An emergency physician and biochemist trained in integrative nutrition, she built Weight Wellness after untangling the same confusing, shame-soaked advice her friends were drowning in — and found her own strongest body at 40.
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Dr. Maneesha Ahluwalia
Health Coach
A former infectious-disease physician who lost 60 pounds through sustainable change and kept it off. She came through Weight Wellness as a member first, then became a coach — so she guides it from the inside out.
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Deanna Clauson
Health Coach
A Nationally Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) - the gold standard, held by just over 6,000 coaches worldwide - and a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. Her superpower: seeing the best in you before you can see it yourself.
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Jenny Gueguen, MA, CCHT
Mindset Coach
Stanford-trained, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and yoga instructor with a practice going back to 1992. She works the emotional roots of eating through guided, fully conscious mindset work — you stay awake and in control the whole way.
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Shola Ezeokoli, MD
Mindset Coach
A triple-licensed internal medicine physician, ICF-certified life coach, and #1 Amazon bestselling author. She helps you find and rewire the limiting mindsets standing between you and your healthiest self — on a schedule that fits a genuinely full life.
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Hop on a Strategy Call to Personalize the Best Options for You
Weight Wellness™ Resources to Get You Started:
Why Wholist Exists
We built the health coaching and education we wish we had been given as midlife women.
Wholist started with a frustration Dr. Heather Hammerstedt lived herself: bright, accomplished women – many with medical degrees and big careers – handed conflicting advice, a quiet dose of shame, and no real tools for follow-through (aside from endless subscriptions).
What worked in our twenties and thirties simply stops working in our forties and beyond. But almost no one was teaching women why. Or what to do about it.
So Dr. Heather built the alternative:
Wholist started with a frustration Dr. Heather Hammerstedt lived herself: bright, accomplished women – many with medical degrees and big careers – handed conflicting advice, a quiet dose of shame, and no real tools for follow-through (aside from endless subscriptions).
What worked in our twenties and thirties simply stops working in our forties and beyond. But almost no one was teaching women why. Or what to do about it.
No gimmicks. Giving you real science, real nourishment, and skills that are fully yours.
The SkillPower Shift
Willpower runs out. SkillPower sustains you no matter what challenges come your way.
I won’t BS you – change isn’t easy. And we all think we have no willpower, especially when it comes to food and lifestyle changes.
But willpower was never the tool for the job. Willpower is a battery: it drains by 2 p.m., and it drains faster in a midlife body, or when stress is high (and when is it not?).
SkillPower is a toolkit, and it compounds. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. Willpower is a losing game, but SkillPower sustains us, empowers us, shows us what we are actually capable of. It makes real change possible.
Which is why we focus on SkillPower, not willpower.
You’ve been running your midlife body on the operating system you built in your thirties, and the hardware changed. SkillPower is your new mid-life era operating system.
Ten Critical SkillPowers that Change Everything for Mid-Life Women
Five that put you back in sync with your biology.
Five that put you back in charge of your choices.
Your Biology
Get back in sync with your body
1. Fuel Switching
metabolic flexibility, restored
2. Hunger Reading
tell the three hungers apart
3. Hormonal Resilience
insulin, cortisol, and estrogen as a workable system
4. Rhythm Architecture
daily structure your nervous system can rely on
5. Craving Decoding
taking back our power from biological cravings
Your Mind
Get back in charge of your choices
6. Thought Catching
catch the thought before the kitchen
7. Desire Neutralization
stop wanting what used to run you
8. Protocol Authorship
craft the plan that fits your body and life
9. Plateau Mastery
plateaus are inevitable, but not the end of the story
10. Self-Coaching
become the one who can do this (without us)
Every midlife body is different. Every life is different. Wholist teaches you at a depth that empowers your choices and makes willpower obsolete.
Because no one else’s protocol will ever fit your body, your mind, your life.
Willpower served my purpose while I was younger, but it is SkillPower that will help me now.
Tammy D., Weight Wellness graduate
Take Your First Step Today
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