Naomi Gottlieb-Miller, Author at Fit Bottomed Girls

How to Do Squats: Beginner-Friendly Variations to Build Lower Body Strength

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:58 +0000

Let’s talk about squats! Love them or hate them, squats are an essential exercise for building strength in your lower body. Why Squats Are a Powerful Lower Body Strength Exercise Squats are a compound strength exercise. This means that unlike isolation exercises, which target one muscle group, like biceps curls, squats engage multiple muscle groups and two or more joints simultaneously. What makes compound exercises so great is that they are incredibly efficient, both in terms of muscular engagement and use of time. Compound exercises allow for heavier lifting because you’re spreading the work across muscle groups and joints. This…

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The Truth About Menopause Belly Fat (What Science Actually Says)

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:49 +0000

If you ask the average woman going through perimenopause what she is most concerned about, you’ll probably find a few things near the top of the list: hot flashes, for sure. Vaginal dryness, definitely. Mood swings, irritability, and incandescent rage at the incompetence of men? Highly likely. You’ll even hear a lot about chin hairs and good grief, why are we afflicted with them, along with all of the other perimenopause nonsense. But the thing that tends to be at the very top of the list is actually none of these things. The thing many women in perimenopause are most…

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How Lifting Weights After 40 Changed My Relationship With Food and My Body

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:00:39 +0000

Note: The point below includes discussion of disordered eating and an unhealthy relationship with exercise. Please take care while reading if these topics are sensitive for you. When I was in my twenties, I worked out a lot. I ran several days a week, pushing myself to be a little faster every time. I not only took several high-intensity yoga classes each week, but my own home practices were much the same. Although I did belong to a gym when I was in my early twenties living in NYC, I mostly used the cardio equipment — the treadmill, the elliptical…

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From Marathons to Ironmans: The Women Over 50 Redefining Athletic Aging

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:00:31 +0000

In April 2025, I completed my first half marathon at age 44. It was a relatively small race, with just 91 finishers. While the racers skewed toward people in their 30s and 40s, there were nearly as many in their 50s and 60s. Distance running tends to suit older runners for a variety of reasons: more experience, greater consistency in training, stronger mental resilience for pacing, smarter injury-prevention strategies, and the ability to learn from past mistakes. In fact, the woman who finished just four minutes after me was 70 years old. The only two people in their 70s who…

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How to Create Habits That Actually Stick

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:00:47 +0000

Habits and behaviors are the actions that create the building blocks of our lives. Sometimes those habits and behaviors align with our desires and values, shaping healthy routines that make our lives more enjoyable. Other times, we have habits or behaviors that keep us stuck in cycles that don’t feel so good. Unfortunately, it can be really tricky to change a behavior or habit—especially if it’s deeply ingrained in the fabric of our lives. Ease and familiarity tend to win over things that are new and challenging. Plus, we tend to prefer change that is radical and immediate over change…

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Do You Really Need to Monitor Your Glucose Levels? A Guide to CGMs for Non-Diabetics

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:00:56 +0000

Monitoring glucose levels is having a big moment in the wellness world. While taking regular readings of blood sugar was once something only done by people with diabetes, the practice has spread to those seeking potential health benefits from continuously tracking their blood sugar. And instead of doing daily finger pricks to measure glucose in the blood, there’s now a simpler and less invasive way to take similar measurements. You’ve likely already seen someone wearing one without realizing what it was. It looks like a small plastic circle sitting on the skin—usually on the arm—sometimes covered by a piece of…

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Protein and Menopause: How Much Do Women Really Need?

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:00:51 +0000

Protein is everywhere lately. Whether it’s a fitness pro telling you to beef up your protein intake, a women’s health expert warning you about the dangers of muscle loss in perimenopause, or a perimenopausal influencer making a comedy reel about all the overwhelming recommendations for better health in middle age (more protein included), it feels as though protein is having a moment. Because menopause is becoming big business—and perimenopause along with it—those voices encouraging us to consume more protein as we go through the menopause transition are louder than ever. Before we get into whether women in perimenopause or post-menopause…

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What Is Healthism? The Hidden Politics of “Healthy Living”

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:00:05 +0000

It’s safe to say that most people want to be healthy. No one enjoys being sick, but it’s more than that—illness, whether acute or chronic, impacts quality of life. Defining Health Beyond the Absence of Illness Health, of course, is more than just the lack of illness. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health is defined as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This definition, established in 1946, remains relevant today. But our relationship to health has shifted. How Our Pursuit of Health Has Changed What was…

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Perimenopause Experts You Can Actually Trust (And Who to Avoid)

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:49 +0000

When it comes to perimenopause, there’s a lot of weird and sometimes confusing information online. This is partly because women’s health is underfunded and understudied scientifically, but it’s also because of misinformation and snake-oil salespeople who rise up to fill the void with products and practices that don’t actually help. It can be especially hard for women—who are so often gaslit by medical professionals—to know who to trust. That’s why so many women fall victim to grifters selling unregulated and untested products full of empty promises. So how do you sift through all of the competing information online to figure…

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The Politicization of Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Tyler Evans

Naomi Gottlieb-Miller — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:00:04 +0000

Trust in public health officials and the medical establishment is on shaky ground. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a rise in conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and medical misinformation—promoted by politicians and grifters alike—widened the rift between the American public and medical professionals. That divide has yet to be repaired. As a result, public health has become politicized in ways we haven’t seen before. And when something as essential to community well-being as public health is dismissed, the consequences are clear: people get sick. Even worse, when policymakers restrict access to services that support public health, the result can be disastrous. The people…

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