Erica Fit Love

Erica Fit Love Erica Lugo is known as USA’s Network Biggest Loser Trainer and women’s wellness expert. Hi! I'm Erica Lugo! Team Red Trainer!

Many may know me from USA Network's Biggest Loser in 2020. I have appeared on Women's Health Magazine and multiple National TV Talk Shows! I've personally lost 160 pounds, survived Stage 2 Papillary Thyroid Cancer, and help women around the world live optimally! After battling with multiple auto immune disorders, thyroid problems and hormonal imbalances it's my mission through my wellness app and functional health coaching company, T4E.

Same dose since 2019. Feeling worse every year. Labs “look great.”Cool cool cool.Your estrogen doesn’t just politely dec...
08/24/2026

Same dose since 2019.

Feeling worse every year.

Labs “look great.”

Cool cool cool.

Your estrogen doesn’t just politely decline, it spikes all over the place first. And when it spikes, your body makes more of the protein that hauls thyroid hormone around.

More of your dose gets held instead of used. Same pill, less of it doing anything.

Then there’s your ferritin, which I bring up constantly for a reason. You need iron to make thyroid hormone in the first place. And if you’re taking your iron anywhere near your thyroid pill, you’re canceling your own dose. Space them four hours, I’m begging.

Hashimoto’s also loves to get louder right about now, so your thyroid is putting out less than it was when somebody picked that number for you six years ago.
And a TSH only panel can’t tell you which of those it is. Which is how you end up “normal” and still crawling through your day.

Want the breakdown of what to actually do? Comment DOSE.

Brown spotting before your period. PMS that lasts three weeks. The same 5 lbs on repeat.Three different appointments, th...
08/21/2026

Brown spotting before your period.
PMS that lasts three weeks.
The same 5 lbs on repeat.

Three different appointments, three different answers, and usually a “your labs look normal.”

Here’s what’s actually happening.

Progesterone drops first in perimenopause, so your lining sheds slower and you see brown blood before your period even starts.

Estrogen is now running the show unopposed. And that extra estrogen has to leave your body somehow. That job belongs to your gut and your liver. If either one is backed up, it just keeps recirculating.

Add low ferritin slowing your thyroid down and the scale is never moving. No matter how clean you eat.

It’s one problem wearing three costumes.
Comment LABS and I’ll send you the exact panel to ask for. 🤍

Brown spotting before your period. PMS that lasts three weeks. The same 5 lbs on repeat.Three different appointments, th...
08/21/2026

Brown spotting before your period.

PMS that lasts three weeks.

The same 5 lbs on repeat.

Three different appointments, three different answers, and usually a “your labs look normal.”

Here’s what’s actually happening.
- Progesterone drops first in perimenopause, so your lining sheds slower and you see brown blood before your period even starts.

-Estrogen is now running the show unopposed. And that extra estrogen has to leave your body somehow. That job belongs to your gut and your liver. If either one is backed up, it just keeps recirculating.

-Add low ferritin slowing your thyroid down and the scale is never moving. No matter how clean you eat.

Comment LABS and I’ll send you the exact panel to ask for along by steps you should start taking.

Can we talk about what five years of dieting actually does to a body?Your body isn’t dumb. You eat less and less for yea...
08/20/2026

Can we talk about what five years of dieting actually does to a body?

Your body isn’t dumb. You eat less and less for years and it goes ok, food’s scarce, let’s cut spending. One of the first things it cuts is turning your thyroid hormone into the active form, because that conversion costs energy and your body doesn’t think it has any to spare.

Then cortisol climbs to cover the gap. Progesterone and testosterone drop right along with it.

So the harder she dieted, the more she was fighting the exact numbers nobody was even looking at.

Which is why feeding her wasn’t the reward at the end. It was step one.

Comment LABS and I’ll tell you what I’d look at on yours.

Ferritin is your stored iron. Hemoglobin is the iron out working in your blood. Your body will spend down storage for ye...
08/19/2026

Ferritin is your stored iron.
Hemoglobin is the iron out working in your blood.

Your body will spend down storage for years to keep the working supply looking normal, which is why hemoglobin is the last thing to move.

Most labs flag ferritin as low somewhere under 11 or 15. Symptoms usually start showing up under 50.
Hair and energy often need 70 or higher.

Perimenopause speeds the drain. Cycles shorten, bleeds get heavier, and you end up bleeding more days per year than you did at 30 while absorption often isn’t keeping up.

Inflammation raises ferritin. A “normal” 60 with a high CRP can be a depleted 20 underneath. That’s why you run CRP alongside it, not after.

Comment FERRITIN if you’re wondering what steps to take to get your numbers and your symptoms back in line.

If your period starts brown before the real thing shows up, that’s your progesterone dropping too early. And that same l...
08/17/2026

If your period starts brown before the real thing shows up, that’s your progesterone dropping too early. And that same low progesterone is quietly draining your ferritin every month.

Mine did this at 35. Labs came back normal because they drew it on the wrong day of my cycle.

Comment BROWN and I’ll show you where to start.

Not medical advice.

Bought this for the nostalgia. Stayed for the hormone spiral.The girls who bathed in this before school are 38 to 48 now...
08/15/2026

Bought this for the nostalgia. Stayed for the hormone spiral.
The girls who bathed in this before school are 38 to 48 now, and we walked into perimenopause with way more stacked against us than our moms had.
Comment FIRST and I’ll send you the labs I’d ask for.

You’ve been taking iron for months and that number still won’t move. 🤪 I know exactly how that feels.Your thyroid can’t ...
08/14/2026

You’ve been taking iron for months and that number still won’t move. 🤪

I know exactly how that feels.

Your thyroid can’t work without iron.
Perimenopause drains it every month.
And if there’s autoimmune in the picture, you might not be absorbing any of it.

Three things, one pile-up. And it can feel confusing as hell!
Comment FIRST and I’ll send you the labs I’d ask for.

08/13/2026

It’s not always ‘just perimenopause.’ 🦋
I’m almost 40, in perimenopause, and I had thyroid cancer, so I know how easy this is to miss.
If even 2 of these 8 signs felt a little too personal, comment THYROID and I’ll send you the exact process I’d take to get real answers

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