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My name is Laura and I am a Registered and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist in Westerville, Ohio. I am passionate about using holistic practices to help people lose weight and heal chronic disorders with food. My services include customized nutrition counseling, meal plans, online nutrition counseling and lots of recipes! Contact me to schedule a consultation!

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🔥For women 35+ who gained 10-25lbs & can’t lose belly fat
🥦Lose fat, ditch bloat, brain fog & anxiety Naturally
💪🏻Metabolic healing & hormone balance

💚This is “L’s” story, and like most of the women I

💚This is “L’s” story, and like most of the women I work with, it is not just about weight loss.

She came to me exhausted, bloated, GI completely off, no energy and feeling like a version of herself she didn’t recognize.

She had been through the kind of grief that changes you at a cellular level & her body was showing every bit of it.

Now perimenopause was taking its toll on her too.

She did what smart women do: She went looking for answers.

Sought out a hormone specialist, got the labs done, got put on HRT. And waited for it to work.

It didn’t. Not the way she hoped. Her hormonal symptoms improved slightly but the weight didn’t move. The bloating was still there. The energy was still gone.

She still didn’t feel like herself.

👉🏻Here’s why.

HRT addresses hormones.

It does not address the metabolic environment that hormones are responding to.

When estrogen shifts, insulin resistance increases, lean muscle declines and chronic inflammation rises.

Those three things drive the weight, the bloating, the fatigue and the symptoms, and no amount of hormone replacement changes them if the nutrition foundation isn’t there to support it.

She’d tried the diets & workouts but nothing was making a difference.

She wasn’t missing a prescription. She was missing the piece nobody had given her:

a nutrition strategy built specifically to address what perimenopause and chronic stress do to your metabolism.
The right framework for where her body actually was.

🔥Over 12 weeks she lost 25.5 pounds.

💪🏻But more than that she got her energy back, her digestion settled, and she felt like herself again for the first time in years.

That’s what happens when you stop treating symptoms and start rebuilding the foundation🙌🏻

🥳Women are finding a freedom they never thought possible in perimenopause.

💚This is exactly what my 12-week Perimenopause Diet Metabolic Healing Program is built to do.

🔥Comment PROGRAM and I’ll personally reach out.

#perimenopauseweightloss #perimenopausenutrition #hormonehealth

😵‍💫The amount of information overload & conflictin

😵‍💫The amount of information overload & conflicting advice women in perimenopause are trying to manage all at once is genuinely exhausting.

And none of it is actually working for you.

👉🏻Here’s why.

Every piece of advice is disconnected & doesn’t hit why your body is stuck gaining weight or why you feel like 💩

Recipes, Tips & tricks don’t target your body as system. Isolated shifts rarely move the needle.

Eat less. Move more. Add protein. Supplements. 10K steps. Reduce stress. The list is endless and the instructions contradict each other constantly.

And meanwhile your body keeps changing, you keep gaining weight & feeling at a loss with how to help your body.

🌿What nobody is telling you is that in perimenopause, none of those individual pieces moves the needle on their own.

Not because they’re wrong.
Because they’re incomplete.

Your body is dealing with something specific right now.

Insulin resistance is increasing. Chronic inflammation is rising.

Lean muscle is declining. And every one of those things is directly driven by how your hormones are shifting, not by how hard you’re trying or how many things you’re tracking

The solution isn’t adding more to the list. It’s having one cohesive plan that addresses ALL of it at the same time, built specifically for where your body is right now

That’s what most women have never had. Not a longer checklist. A strategy that works with where your body is now.

When you have the right framework, you stop guessing. You stop stacking supplements & hoping.

You stop adding workouts & changing your plan hoping it’s the ‘magical’ solution.

You stop trying to out-discipline a body that needs a different approach entirely. The noise quiets down because you finally know exactly what to do and why it works💪🏻

🔥Comment PROGRAM if you’re done guess, done with the noise & ready to fit in your clothes again. I’ll personally reach out

My 12-week Perimenopause Diet Metabolic Healing Program replaces the information overload with a clear, strategic plan built for your hormonal environment, so you can stop managing a list & start actually seeing results.

#perimenopausenutrition #perimenopausediet #weightlossforwomen

😩Women come to me completely at a loss. Eating cl

😩Women come to me completely at a loss.

Eating clean, consistent with workouts, trying HRT, doing everything right, and still can’t lose weight in perimenopause. When I ask what they’re doing, I hear the same thing every time:

“I eat really clean. I feel like I’m doing everything right. I just don’t know what else there is to change.”

I believe you that you’re doing the things.
But I want to show you the gap.

Clean eating is not a nutrition plan. More workouts are not the solution. And in perimenopause, that distinction is everything.

You can eat organic, whole foods, no processed junk, prioritize protein, and still be gaining weight, accumulating belly fat and feeling like your body is working against you.

Not because you’re doing something wrong. Because clean eating was never designed to address what’s actually happening in your body right now.

And as hormones change, so do your nutrition needs.

🌿Here’s what perimenopause does that clean eating can’t fix:

⭐️Insulin resistance increases as estrogen declines, meaning your body stores fat more aggressively regardless of how clean your diet is.

The type, combination and timing of your food has to specifically target this or the fat stays put.

⭐️Inflammation rises, blocking fat loss, disrupting hormone production and driving the bloating, joint pain and exhaustion that feel like they came out of nowhere.

⭐️Lean muscle declines, slowing your metabolism in a way that no amount of clean eating reverses without a strategic nutrition framework built to support muscle rebuilding simultaneously.

Clean eating addresses food quality. More protein is a small slice of the strategy. It does not address the changes happening in your body.

And a new nutrition strategy is what your body needs in this phase.

If you’ve tried everything and you’re still stuck.
You just haven’t done this yet.

🔥Comment PROGRAM and I’ll personally reach out.
My 12-week Perimenopause Diet Metabolic Healing Program is built specifically to address the hormonal shifts keeping you stuck gaining weight, feeling low energy, bloated, and not like yourself

#perimenopauseweightloss #perimenopa

🌿Heading to a dinner with friends & shopping in my

🌿Heading to a dinner with friends & shopping in my garden for something to take!

I always bring a vegetable side dish to dinner parties, because I want options I feel good about no matter what else is on the table (& I love sharing healthy dishes with others)!

This one came straight from the garden, took about 30 minutes and was gone before anything else on the table.

Spaghetti squash with fresh garden pesto, cherry tomatoes and basil. Gluten free, dairy free, no cheese required.

🥗Just real, simple, seasonal ingredients that taste incredible together.

⭐️Fun fact: spaghetti squash is a non-starchy vegetable with minimal impact on your insulin system. Don’t overcook it and the texture holds up like al dente pasta.

🌿GARDEN PESTO SPAGHETTI SQUASH

1 medium spaghetti squash, halved and seeded
1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
1 large tomato
1 large garlic clove
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp Himalayan salt, to taste
Dash of pepper
1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved

Roast squash face down in a glass dish at 400F for 30 min until it flakes with a fork. While roasting, blend basil, tomato, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper in a mini food processor. Scrape squash and let cool 10 min. Toss with pesto, stir in cherry tomatoes and top with fresh basil. Serve warm or cold.

This is what eating well in real life actually looks like.

Not restrictive, not tracking everything, not complicated, just intentional. You can show up to any gathering with something beautiful and delicious that also supports your goals.

🙌🏻This is also amazing leftover with chicken added to make a complete meal!

Save this for your next dinner party when you don’t know what to bring. It travels well, feeds a crowd and will be the dish everyone asks about. 🍅🌿

#weightlossforwomenover40 #dairyfree #perimenopausenutrition

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