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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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✨Stop the Weight Gain👉🏻Give your body the right Nutrition to reclaim your health in Perimenopause
💪🏼Build Strength⬆️Energy, Balance Hormones Naturally

For the last 20+ years, you knew your body & how t For the last 20+ years, you knew your body & how to keep your health & weight in check

[For all of us who grew up in the 80s-90s, our “methods” may have been questionable, but we learned what worked to lose a few pounds if it started moving in the wrong direction]

But now? Nothing is working

Most women try to lose weight by adding more workouts, eating cleaner, more protein…

but the real solution is moving through the 3 Phases of The Perimenopause Diet 🌿

Why? Your body as it experiences shifts in hormones needs nutrition to be a SUPPORT for optimal function, not a list of rules to get weight off

✨ Phase 1: The Therapeutic Phase
 This is the healing phase most women skip, which is why you stay stuck in cravings, mood swings, stubborn fat, & low energy.
 
Here we:
🔹Lower insulin
🔹Lower inflammation
🔹Rebuild lean muscle
🔹Balance blood sugar
🔹Restore micronutrient status

This is where your body finally shifts OUT of fat storage & back into fat burning AND you feel better almost immediately

✨Phase 2: Early Maintenance
 Your energy is better, your muscle is increasing, & your body composition is changing.

Here we keep the same balanced meal patterning, but…
🔹Learn to incorporate the eating pattern in all situations
🔹You can tolerate more whole-food starches
🔹You’re losing inches all over your body

Your metabolism is becoming flexible again, which is the key to sustainable fat loss.

✨ Phase 3: Sustainable Maintenance
 You’ve reached a healthy weight, but your body keeps improving because…

🔹You continue strength training 3x/week & your lean mass is higher
🔹Balanced meals you don’t have to track
🔹Blood sugar is stable
🔹Lower stress & inflammation

This phase feels EASY because your metabolism & hormones are being supported; no more yo-yo dieting, weight fluctuations, or unpredictable symptoms.

This is the power of The Perimenopause Diet: it teaches you how to fuel your body through hormonal changes💛

✨ Ready to learn how to EAT & LIVE in Perimenopause so you can feel like yourself again? Comment RESET for my 7-Day Perimenopause Diet Reset to get started.

#perimenopausehealth #hormonehealth #perimenopausediet
If you’ve been eating clean, counting calories or If you’ve been eating clean, counting calories or macros and still not losing weight in perimenopause…

it’s because your nutrition needs change along with your hormones

But no one taught you what your body actually needs during this phase ❤️‍🔥

In perimenopause, hormonal fluctuations increase insulin, inflammation, nutrient needs, stress, and reduce lean muscle mass

Meaning calories, macros & food tracking only tell part of the story.

So you can be eating “perfectly” on paper… and still feel stuck, because your body is a beautiful system that’s begging for the right foundational support from your diet (not more restriction and being fed “numbers”)

Here’s what most women don’t realize:
✨ Calorie goals don’t tell you anything about how food affects insulin or nourishes your hormones or cells

And insulin is one of the biggest drivers of fat storage in perimenopause

✨ Macros don’t account for micronutrients or insulin balance
 
Your body can’t make hormones, energy, or muscle without the vitamins & minerals it needs.

✨Tracking can’t tell you if your meals are actually providing the right meal patterning & nutrient dense food choices

Unstable blood sugar = cravings, fatigue, mood swings, & stalled fat loss.

✨ And none of these things address inflammation.
 
Which is why you can be eating less… and losing nothing. 

Inflammation blocks your ability to build muscle & can increase hormonal related symptoms

This is why diet therapy becomes so powerful at this stage.

It’s not about restriction,  it’s about giving your body what it needs to function, not just what it needs to “fit the numbers.”

When you lower insulin, reduce inflammation, nourish your cells, support your gut & rebuild lean muscle…

Your body finally feels safe enough to burn fat again.

You’re not beyond hope.

You just need a different strategy, one designed for this season of life.

✨Comment PERI for my free masterclass to learn exactly what your body needs to thrive in perimenopause 

#perimenopausediet #naturalhormonebalance #perimenopauseweightloss
You CAN lose weight & feel like yourself again…you You CAN lose weight & feel like yourself again…you’re just stuck in “healthy habits” that are no longer serving your body as you get into perimenopause❤️‍🩹

Stage 1: The workout pile-on 🏋️‍♀️🔥

You add MORE: classes, Pilates, bootcamps, steps, strength…
 
Because more workouts used to = weight loss.

But now?

Your body is changing… & the workout pile-on backfires. 

You’re not actually gaining lean muscle the right way.

You’re exhausted, inflamed, stressed, & not able to heal, repair or build lean mass.

Stage 2: The diet hoping 🥗

You try to be “more disciplined”

Fasting, cut calories, increase protein, go back to WW, keto, macros…

Just hoping something will stick.
But you can’t find the right combo to actually lose fat.

Stage 3: The short-lived win ⚖️

You lose a few pounds… after what feels like forever.

But it creeps right back.

Because you didn’t lose fat, you lost water, glycogen & muscle.

Stage 4: The supplement & lab rabbit hole 💊🧪

You add more supplements you saw online.

You get labs done to figure out what’s “wrong.”

You go see a functional medicine doctor & get more lab tests and yes…more supplements (not a real fix btw)

But nothing works long-term because the root cause of metabolic and dietary imbalance hasn’t been addressed.

Stage 5: The real fix 🌿

You start following The 
Perimenopause Diet & learn how the right diet strategy provides healing to your body, balance to your hormones, helps you lose weight & feel like yourself again:

Balanced meals
Blood sugar stability
Muscle-building strength
Lower stress
Hormone support

…and the results finally stick.

This is exactly what The Perimenopause Diet teaches. 💛

✨Want to know exactly how to fix this? Comment RESET to start The Perimenopause Diet 7-Day Reset, your first step to the right nutrition & exercise support for where your body is now.

#perimenopause #weightlossjourney
First, I want you to know you’re not alone in feel First, I want you to know you’re not alone in feeling like the scale isn’t moving…like your body is revolting against you…like you’re completely lost in how to care for yourself right now❤️‍🩹

SO many women are silently suffering: gaining weight, dealing with poor sleep, mood swings, increased anxiety, & exhaustion, even though nothing has changed.
But here’s what you need to know 👇

The reason you’re feeling this sudden shift is because your nutrition & exercise needs change as your hormones change…but no one told you.
And if you keep “doing what you’ve always done,” you’ll fall into all the stereotypical perimenopause symptoms & weight gain; not because you’re doing something wrong, but because your body now needs something different.

Hormone shifts change your body metabolically:
• Reduced insulin sensitivity
• Increased inflammation
• Loss of lean muscle
• MORE visceral fat
But that doesn’t mean you're doomed to gain weight or feel unlike yourself 💛

When your diet is optimized to SUPPORT your hormones & metabolic health, not deprive it, you start feeling better naturally.
When you eat & exercise to OFFSET these hormonal changes, you can burn fat, reduce inflammatory midsection weight, & regain your energy.

But when your insulin & blood sugar are unstable, you’ll feel more cravings, low energy, mood swings, anxiety, & stress.

And when your body isn’t properly fueled with the right proteins & micronutrients, healthy hormone & energy production struggles (and you feel it).

So if you’re gaining weight & not feeling like yourself… that’s a sign your diet hasn’t been optimized to support the changes happening in perimenopause.

There’s nothing “wrong” with you.
Your body is changing. And it has different needs now🌿

Perimenopause (and into menopause) is a whole new playbook.

✨ Comment PERI to get my FREE masterclass & learn exactly what to change in your nutrition & workouts to lose weight & feel better naturally.

#perimenopause #perimenopausediet #hormonehealth
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