Amanda has lifted weights since high school, played college basketball on scholarship, and served as a Naval Intelligence Officer briefing the teams who boarded pirate ships off the Horn of Africa. Today she’s a mom of two who trains seven days a week on her Tonal before her daughters wake up.
Her Navy career took her from Washington, D.C., to Bahrain, to a patrol squadron in Hawaii and Pacific Command at Pearl Harbor. All that activity left its mark: two knee surgeries and a shoulder surgery in college, plus a torn ACL at 28 on her squadron’s soccer team.
So when her body started changing at 44, she noticed fast: 2 a.m. wake-ups, slower recovery, and a monthly cycle that suddenly felt like someone else’s.
Step 1: Night Shred for better sleep
With that injury history, recovery matters. “I’ve definitely experienced some of those perimenopausal 2 a.m. wake-ups, and not being able to get back to sleep,” she says.
After adding Night Shred: “I saw an immediate difference. I was getting better rest. I could feel the impact after my workouts.”
She’s since recommended it to “everybody and their brother,” and friends who started taking it have seen similar results.
Step 2: GLP-1 Shred for that time of the month
Weight was never the goal. At 150 pounds, she felt strong. But in January 2026, her cycle changed: emotional lows two to three days before her period, and cramping up to 10 hours before. “I’ve never had that. And it was bad.”
Amanda had read that GLP-1 Shred might help with those symptoms. After years of results with Night Shred, she decided to give it a shot.
She started GLP-1 Shred that month and has taken it every morning since. “The deep, dark black hole I was disappearing into has eased significantly.”
For her, that was the real win: “The real impact for me was softening the effects of perimenopause.”
The bonus she didn’t expect
She’s upfront that she also cut her nightly glass of wine, and she’s eating less with a lower appetite.
She bought the smart scale to keep an eye on the changes. “I don’t want to go too far,” she says.
“For the first time in my life, I have a hard V in my abs. You can see my abs. I’ve been lifting since high school and never had that. I was not mad.”
Her legs, held back for years by knee injuries, finally caught up too. “Now I can actually take a picture the way bodybuilders do and see the muscles flex.”
Her advice
Ease in. A few friends felt jittery or had an upset stomach at first. “Just take one pill for up to two weeks. Ease into it, because it is doing a lot.”
Don’t gatekeep. “I’m not gatekeeping,” she says. “I’m taking a supplement that has GLP-1 in it. Here’s why.” She shares it most with friends her age going through the same changes.
Trust your 40s. “I genuinely think I’m better looking now than I was at 30. I figured a couple things out.”