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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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đŸ„ŠNatural Hormone Balance & Metabolic Healing for women done with diets & ready to take control of their health
đŸ‘‡đŸ»Lose stubborn weight & get strong 35+

I wish every woman in perimenopause knew this abou I wish every woman in perimenopause knew this about working out


Just adding more isn’t the solution.

And the workouts many women are doing (YouTube body pump & flows, light resistance, high rep, Pilates, Peloton classes, Orange Theory, even adding strength, aren’t necessarily building muscle. Your body isn’t responding.

Because in perimenopause, fighting for lean muscle the right way is everything.

Here’s what almost no one is talking about:

You cannot build muscle on a body that’s inflamed, insulin resistant, and metabolically unsupported, no matter how many workouts you add.

Before your training can work, your nutrition has to create the internal environment that makes it possible.

→ Inflammation down: chronic inflammation blocks muscle protein synthesis and keeps your body in fat-storage mode

→ Insulin balanced: insulin resistance prevents your body from burning fat, disrupts sleep & tanks energy.

→ Hormonal Support: the right nutrients support what estrogen and progesterone can no longer do on their own

This is why women who are already working out come into my program and finally start seeing results. They first cultivated the right internal environment with a diet strategy that goes beyond “prioritizing protein and eating healthy”

Combined with a strategic training program that actually progressively challenges your muscles, your body responds. You build lean mass. You burn fat.

You get lean and strong in a way that just working out more never delivered.

It’s not about doing more. It’s about the right combination: nutrition first, plus a comprehensive training program that builds on it.

If you feel like you’re missing something
you are, but it’s not your fault. Everyone is telling you adding strength, supplements & eating protein is enough. But it’s more than that if you want to not only lose weight, but feel like yourself again.

It’s not about just trying harder, working out more & eating less. It’s doing it in a way that supports your body metabolically and hormonally where it is now.

Comment PROGRAM below & I’ll personally reach out. This is exactly what my 12-week program is built around

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đŸ‘‰đŸ»I buy a lot of items in bulk at Costco, but week đŸ‘‰đŸ»I buy a lot of items in bulk at Costco, but weekly I still do a “produce run” to stock up on fresher items that allow me to stay energized & consistent with my nutrition all week long.

And it’s nothing fancy. Nothing that takes hours to prep or complicated recipes. Just the right foundations that I can throw together into real meals for real life.

🍓Because here’s what I actually believe about nutrition:

It was never meant to be a manipulation of numbers for weight loss.
And almost everyone is overcomplicating it or not giving you the right info & framework to be successful.

So you feel like a failure.

đŸ”„But Nutrition is the foundation of how your body functions.

Your hormones, your energy, your metabolism, your mood, your gut: all of it runs on what you eat.

When you get the right plan for your body, weight loss isn’t something you’re forcing

It’s something that happens.

The women I work with are exhausted by unsustainable meal plans & just want to know what their body needs to THRIVE.

By tracking every bite, trying to be perfect Monday through Friday then falling apart on the weekend.

By following plans that work in theory but not in their actual life: with kids, with work, with everything else you’re managing, you’re not making progress.

What you need is a framework that supports what your body actually needs.

Because it’s more than just “healthy eating” & working out a ton.

More than a list of foods to eat & avoid. 

More than the perfect macro number to hit. 

It’s a way of thinking about food that makes eating well feel natural, repeatable & sustainable. In real life. 

đŸ™ŒđŸ»And aligns with the healthy person you want to be.

That’s what my 12-week Perimenopause Diet Metabolic Healing program is built around. A plan that addresses healthy weight, hormone balance AND real-life all in one. Not a diet relying on hunger & willpower.

A foundation you build your life on.

đŸ”„Comment PROGRAM below, I’ll personally reach out to help you get started!

#perimenopausenutrition #healthygroceries #perimenopausenutrition
đŸ‘‰đŸ»Before HRT, more supplements, more workouts or c đŸ‘‰đŸ»Before HRT, more supplements, more workouts or cleaner eating, your body needs this first.

Most women in perimenopause are adding things, trying to figure out what they’re missing: 

More protein & fiber
More supplements
More workouts
Cleaner eating
HRT

And they’re still not getting better or shedding fat.

Here’s why: you can’t layer solutions onto a metabolic foundation that’s been destabilized.

You have to rebuild it first.

đŸ‘‰đŸ»When estrogen & progesterone begin to shift, they take a lot with them.
Your gut barrier weakens. Inflammation increases. Insulin resistance worsens.
Lean muscle starts to decline.
Your body loses the hormonal protection it relied on for decades, & every system feels it.

Perimenopause isn’t one problem. It’s a cascade. And why “one thing” whether that’s HRT, a supplement, more workouts, more protein, or a cleaner diet can’t fix it alone.

What your body needs is a therapeutic approach that sequences it all correctly:

Phase 1: Therapeutic: reduce insulin resistance, lower inflammation, correct nutrient deficiencies & begin rebuilding lean muscle. This is the non-negotiable foundation. Nothing works well without it.

This is the phase the restabilizes your body & teaches you how, when & what to eat to work with your body’s hormonal changes.

Phase 2: Early maintenance: stabilize the metabolic shifts, support body composition changes & lock in the habits that keep your hormones supported long term.

Phase 3: Lifelong maintenance: you now have a body that works with your hormones & builds back confidence in how to care for your body. No more guessing. This dietary pattern feels good, not one you maintain by willpower.

The reason fat loss stalls even when women are doing ‘everything right’ is that you cannot lose fat & build lean muscle on a body that is inflamed, insulin resistant & nutrient depleted.
You have to rebuild the systems that make it possible.

This is what my CORE Nutrition Method is built around & it’s the essential step that comes before anything else you’ve read about online.

đŸ”„Comment PROGRAM below, I’ll personally reach out. This is the roadmap your body has been wai
đŸ‘‰đŸ»Women seek out functional medicine because their đŸ‘‰đŸ»Women seek out functional medicine because their doctor dismissed them. Labs came back “normal.” 
Hormones look fine on paper

But they feel terrible: gaining weight, exhausted, bloated, anxious, foggy. So they pay out of pocket hoping someone will finally find what’s wrong & give them a natural solution 

What they usually get: tons of labs to find out what’s “wrong”, a supplement protocol, a cleanse, and unsustainable nutrition advice.

What they almost never get: an explanation of WHY things are out of balance, specific plan to fix it or how to adjust body composition with the right diet+exercise (

As someone trained in functional medicine dietetics with a master’s in human nutrition & over 12 years of counseling experience:

There is nothing wrong with you.
You just haven’t been taught what your body needs in this phase.

As estrogen & progesterone shift, your gut barrier function changes, inflammation increases, insulin resistance worsens, sleep suffers, brain fog sets in. 

These are real. They are also metabolic & they are diet, exercise & lifestyle responsive.

Your hormones aren’t the root problem
They’re responding to systems in your body that haven’t been given the right support.

This is why women go on HRT & don’t lose weight & often don’t get rid of all their symptoms.

Instead when those systems get what they need: the right therapeutic nutrition strategy, the right training approach, hormones stabilize. Symptoms resolve. Weight starts moving.

When we lose fat, gain muscle & optimize nutrient status your body starts working for you again
& you FEEL BETTER

Not because of a supplement stack.
Because you gave your body the inputs it was asking for all along to SUPPORT & rebuild your body metabolically

The right nutrition and exercise strategy, built specifically for this phase, does more than either.

Before you spend thousands looking for what’s “wrong”, You first the right playbook for this phase of life. 

đŸ”„Comment PROGRAM below & I’ll reach out
My 12-week program is built around exactly this: the therapeutic nutrition and training strategy your body needs right now.

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