feel comfortable and confident in your body, Even In Menopause

It’s easy to feel fearful, helpless and confused in midlife when our hormones start to change. We have not been educated about the many symptoms of menopause and don’t know what is happening to our bodies. Many of us are gaslit by our doctors and find ourselves scouring the internet for information that explains why we feel so achy, exhausted, anxious and at war with our bodies. 

I can’t believe….”How much we have learned and it has literally changed our lives.” Mary

No one ever tells you what to expect when you hit perimenopause, many of us have never heard the word until we hit a wall of exhaustion, unexplained weight gain and random body symptoms in our forties. One minute we are spinning all of the plates in our busy schedule and families and the next we crash into feeling out of control of our bodies, sleep, mood and weight. There is a lot of fear mongering and misinformation out there, health care providers have not been trained in managing menopause, we live in a toxic food culture and the tricks we used in the past such as restricting foods and exercising more do not work for us in midlife hormonal change.

Have you reached this midlife season of transition and change—and worry your health has gotten completely beyond your control. Do you feel…?

💔 As if you are at war with your body

💔 Exhausted! Without caffeine you could not get out of bed in the morning and even though your energy slumps randomly in the day, you cannot sleep at night so wake feeling frazzled, stressed and drained

💔 Emotional. Your moods seem to spike and dip with little warning, and you’ve been feeling blue/enraged/snappy far more often than you’re used to. My God! Why is everyone suddenly so annoying!!!!!

💔 Since when did sitting down make your muscles ache? Getting out of a chair, you feel like an old woman and your shoulders are permanently tense. Is it ageing or menopause?

💔 Unbalanced. From night sweats to funky smells and hot flashes, you feel at least a little bit off kilter pretty much 24/7. From dry skin and nasal drip to gassy bloat and weight gain you can’t put your finger on exactly what’s wrong. You don’t feel like your old self anymore and nothing you used to do in the past is working.

💔 Low confidence. Your body and or weight has been changing, with inches appearing around your middle, seemingly overnight. None of the weight loss tricks that worked for you in the past will shift this weight gain. (I’ve been there!)

You have the power in your hands and on your plate to

Breathe! You are not broken or falling apart in midlife, Your body is talking to you all of the time and the language it uses is symptoms. The gift of perimenopause is the reminder that after years of caring for everyone around us, we need to come home to our bodies, pay attention to our symptoms and nourish ourselves deeply with dense nutrition so we can reduce our daily symptoms, manage our weight in hormonal change and build health in our bodies for a vibrant next chapter in life.

You’ve tried every “quick fix” you can think of.

❌ All the yoyo diets
❌ The doctor’s visits
❌ Keto
❌ Paleo
❌ Noom
❌ Even HRT, which may have helped you for a while and then didn’t…

...and the list goes on with cooling sheets, online supplements, diet books, layered dressing, anti-wrinkle creams and menopause tea!

Everywhere you turn, you seem to find the same intensely dissatisfying answer:
“You’re just getting older. This is what’s supposed to happen.” “You should expect to feel this way at your age!” “This is just part of being a woman.”

Or the worst advice you can give to a midlife woman: “You need to eat less and exercise more.”

Just a few short years ago, I really believed my vibrant and energized life as I knew it may be over; I felt achy, frumpy and exhausted. I couldn’t shake the feeling that my body was betraying me and falling apart— A strong voice inside me shouted NO! I did not believe this story that I should feel like shit in menopause. I wanted to know exactly what was happening inside my body…every scientific detail and I wanted to show up for myself, make positive change and feel better EVERY DAY!

That’s when I really started questioning what society says women should be feeling and experiencing at midlife—and instead started asking: 

WHAT IF?

“You have continued to emphasize throughout the course, this is not just a nutrition course but it is about self-care and the way we treat ourselves.”

From barely able to get off the couch—to living an active, joy-filled life on my own terms!

My holistic nutrition journey started at 46 when I hit a wall with my own health.

What was wrong with me? Blah!!!! I just felt exhausted all of the time, like my muscles were weak and low energy. I had tearful emotional dips (what the heck am I doing with my life?!?!?), weight gain all around my middle and a hump on my back, insomnia that looked like wide awake at 3am, and for several months… I also gaslit myself!

“All just a natural part of getting older” I reasoned. I can PUSH THROUGH!

But no matter how much coffee I guzzled… No matter how many catnaps I snuck at the weekend and on the sofa in the evening … I was losing my ability to keep up with my crazy busy life, my exercise and my evening taxi driving job for my kids. The worst part? The joy had been totally sucked out of my life and I felt overwhelmed and angry about the effort needed for things like weekends away and late night parties.

Too exhausted by my Zumba class, drained and depressed, I felt overwhelmed daily, lost confidence and loathed my body and began to wonder why my body had turned on me.

In your forties your to-do list is a mile long. You have all the plates spinning for your growing kids, your aging parents and your job. I volunteered, I was the chef, cleaner and family taxi driver and I put myself and my health at the bottom of my to do list.

I had no idea who to ask about my laundry list of aches, pains, and health complaints… But I knew I couldn’t just sit back and let my body fall apart. Like many other women, I took my wide-ranging list of random symptoms to the doctor.

My doctor gave me the worst advice you can give an exhausted midlife woman):
Eat Less and Exercise More.

I trusted the man in the white coat and I was willing to give that a shot—but I already traded breakfast for a Venti skinny Latte and ate salad for lunch!  I’d spent most of my adult life hopping on and off the fad dieting hamster wheel and each time I gained more weight! In a desperate attempt to figure out what the heck was going on with my body, my hormones, and my energy, I took matters into my own hands and enrolled in nutrition school.

Nutrition school absolutely blew my mind. Everything I thought I knew about “eating healthy” was completely and utterly wrong!

Mind Blown, I learned my diet and restriction tricks were making me gain weight! That women’s bodies need good protein, healthy FAT and nutritional support at midlife to reduce stress, manage midlife hormones and release weight.

In your hormonal change EVERYTHING changes. Menopause Is a metabolic event for our bodies that effects our heart, brain, bone and metabolic health and diet and restriction just do not work. If I wanted to start feeling more energetic, maintain my ideal weight and ditch the hot flashes for good…

...I would need to go far beyond just counting calories and working out. 

I started to listen to my body, symptoms are information from the body and I started to learn what my symptoms were telling me about my health. I had to start thinking of food and nutrition and support for my body as I passed through menopause and I needed to CHANGE my food choices to adjust for the metabolic changes that come with hormonal change. Weight gain at midlife was not inevitable and I had the power in my hands and on my plate to manage my health in menopause.

After spending years taking care of my family, I began to put me first, to eat , exercise and rest to nourish my midlife body. It was finally Mamas time!
Within weeks I felt like a completely different person.

✨ My energy bounced back! I could get through my busy days feeling vibrant and energized and I got back into working out.

✨ My Body started to change shape and I had a waistline!

✨ I slept like a baby through the night for the first time in years and woke RESTED!!!!

✨ My hot flashes subsided, and I was aware of my triggers … (for me it was sugar and caffeine)

✨ My I lost my brain fog, felt more balanced and my confidence returned.

For the first time in years, I felt like ME again—not the tired, depressed and overwhelmed me who I realized dragged her way through life since turning 40…

But the stronger, clear thinking, younger me who laughed more easily and said YES! more often.

The fact is that food and nutrition have power.
We are what we eat! Perimenopause is a reminder to take care of our health, we have the choice to lean into the natural change and reclaim our lives after focusing on others for decades or prioritizing our thinness over our strength!

Many of us enter our forties with baggage and shame around our bodies, a big fear of ageing in a patriarchal and ageist society and nutritional deficiencies from the Standard American Diet, all of which worsen our symptoms of menopause and exacerbate emerging health issues.
When we learn how to love our bodies, support healthy hormones (even in hormonal change) and deeply nourish our bodies with dense nutrition, we begin building health in the body and actively start to improve our health and vibrancy ready for the next chapter in life.

Now, I’m on a mission to help other women over 40 learn what it really takes to understand their bodies and changing hormones, to feed themselves nutritionally dense food and to begin to build vibrant health ready for the next chapter in life.

You have the intelligence and you deserve the information you need to understand what is happening to your body and the power to feed yourself right…you just need guidance, support and science-based information.

No matter where you’re starting with your personal health, YOU deserve to look and feel your best throughout your 40s, 50s, 60s, and well beyond! This is not you against your body at midlife, but you supporting your body through hormonal change.

Your body is waiting! Ready to get started? Let’s dig in!

Midlife Shouldn’t Feel Like Your Body Is
Raging A Battle Against You.

Introducing…

“My stress levels used to be ‘off the charts’ and at some point (in the course) I kind of took (my power back) and thought, I can’t control everything and let my stress go. I don’t feel like ( my stress) is risking my health like it was before” Rachel

Learn How To Holistically Support Your Body Through Hormonal Change So You Can...

What's Inside Menopause U?

An Online Community of Like-minded Women Offering Intensive Support In Nutrition and Lifestyle Changes To Help Midlife Women Understand & Manage Their Health and Hormones, Through Holistic, Nutrition-Based Strategies

You will not be alone. This is a safe and private online space, and we will all learn together…

Fun Fact: The more positive you feel towards the process menopause in general, the easier it will be on your body because your body hears everything your minds says

Menopause U will provide you with Menopause Mastermind, a video explaining clearly and in detail the exact hormonal changes occurring in perimenopause and the symptoms you will feel associated with those changes. This information is gold, and you will understand completely what happens to your body in menopause as is your right as a woman.

Menopause U will explain in detail and clear understandable language exactly what is happening to the health of your body at midlife. You will understand the impact of hormonal change on your metabolic, heart, brain and bone health.

Menopause U will explain how you can build health using food and nutrition in each system of the body so you can identify what foods you need in your diet from symptoms you feel daily and learn what to eat to age with vitality and grace.

You will have access to your own personal nutritionist available 24/7 by email. I’ll be happy to answer your personal questions within 48 hours and there will be a Weekly Q&A call via Zoom.

Menopause U will offer science based tools and strategies to help you manage your uncomfortable hormonal symptoms so that within weeks you will begin to feel more focussed, energized and comfortable in your body. These lifestyle strategies will help you to prevent chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes and build health at any age.

Menopause U will offer mindset practices that help you bust stress, build self-love and confidence, identify the health you want for future you. We will actively take a swipe at body shame, anxiety and depression using food and mindset work, every module so you can build the midlife mindset and habits that work for you.

Menopause U will give you 5 nutrient-dense recipes per module to boost midlife health and reduce hormonal symptoms so you can easily make quick and delicious recipes that build health, rather than tearing your health down. All recipes are simple and designed to fit into a busy schedule. The more you cook, the better you’ll feel.

12-Module Menopause U Curriculum

Demystify your health, one module at a time. Together, we’ll talk through each major system of the body and each major component of health at midlife, so you can understand exactly what’s going with all those crazy menopausal symptoms—and start eating strategically to feel your best throughout your 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond.

ALSO INCLUDED:

Menopause u Workbook

Your curriculum comes with 13 downloadable booklets, packed with science-based information, nutrition tips and encouragement so you understand the biology of exactly what is happening inside your body in hormonal change and how you can best eat, move and think to support your body. Each module covers a different body system so you learn how your hormones are connected to every area of your health and can take a holistic approach to building energy, and long term health in your body. Each module contains 3 suggested action steps to work on so you rapidly start to feel more like your old vibrant self again.

Symptoms Shopping List

Each Module contains a symptoms shopping list. This list of symptoms helps you to fully understand your midlife body and ‘learn’ the language your body is speaking to you all of the time. By looking at the list and identifying what you feel daily in your body you are able to know where you need to place your focus with your diet and nutrition. The symptoms shopping list is a guide for you to ‘return’ fully back into your body at midlife, to ‘listen in’ and to view your symptoms as the information you need to care for yourself with nutrition and lifestyle. By attuning to your body with self-compassion, you can end the ‘war’ you are in with your body.

Menopause U Coaching Materials

Each module comes with a downloadable booklet, packed with mindset and coaching materials to help you to unpack diet culture and patriarchy and to form a new healthy relationship with food so you can deeply nourish your body back to health and heal your self-image and confidence.

Menopause u Workbook

You will receive a recipe packet with each module . Each recipe packet contains 5 delicious, easy and carefully developed recipes to support your health in the area explained in the module. These recipes are the key to making dramatic changes to your health. You can literally eat yourself back to full vibrant health and eat yourself out of health risks such as cardiovascular disease, poor sleep and inflammation! You will be eating to protect your longterm future health. You will always see the prompt to make a recipe in the action steps for each module as eating dense nutrition is the backbone and root to full wellbeing running through this course.

Bi-Weekly Coaching Calls on Zoom(60 Minutes)

During the calls, we’ll…

• Chat about the body system highlighted in the curriculum & answer any questions that come up

• Work through a coaching exercise to overcome limiting beliefs, deprogram socialized beliefs around aging, work through mindset blocks, and more.

• Talk recipes! and learn how you can easily support your body with delicious, nutritious meals.
  

Private Community Access

You’ll be invited to join the private Menopause U Facebook community—an exclusive virtual group for women over 40 who’ve committed to getting serious about their health. This community is a profound source of support, accountability, and wisdom. Connect with other women from similar walks of life, support your peers on their health journeys, and rest assured that our whole community is cheering you on every step of the way!

In peri-menopause and menopause, you deserve to…

...Be fully educated and understand the impact of the changes going on in your body.

…Have the tools and information you need to understand your symptoms so you can end the war with your body.

…Get the nutritional advice you need to know how to feed your body in midlife and beyond.

…Transform from feeling helpless and broken to feeling empowered by the positive impact you can make on your health using just the food you eat daily.

...Feel fully supported, connected and seen in a community of women who get it. Whenever women meet in community, it positively impacts our health! Find your coven!

…learn easy to implement, science based strategies to care for your body and lose feelings of powerlessness, hopelessness and of being in a battle with your body.

...Embrace midlife with confidence knowing that you know your body best and you have the ability to fully nourish and support your body back to health.

… Live your life with abundant joy, peace, enthusiasm, & health!

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We can’t stop time & we can’t stave off menopause forever.

But we CAN support our bodies, learn what our body is going through, and take action to feel as good as possible through perimenopause, menopause, & beyond.

Join Menopause U & get a natural, sustainable approach to mitigating menopause symptoms, releasing excess weight, & restoring your energy…

...So you can stop ‘getting through the day’ and start living your life with renewed joy and vivacity!

ENROLL TODAY…

• 12-Module Menopause U Course Curriculum with explanatory videos

• 12-Modules of Coaching Material Workbooks with explanatory video to support you in making change

• Menopause Mastermind training - The information you need to understand what is happening to your body in hormonal change

• 12 Recipe packets with delicious and easy to prepare dishes that support midliufe womens health

• Symptoms Shopping Lists for each module so you can understand the language your body is speaking and why

• Weekly Call where you can get your questions answered and can get additional advice and coaching when you need it

• Private Menopause U  Community
  24/7 email support

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