If you're a woman over 40 years old, if you feel like your body is completely foreign to you and you've lost all control of your expanding waistline despite your nutrition and exercise efforts, you are in perimenopause with or without symptoms, you are fed up thinking about food or what to cook, you've tried fasting or cutting carbs and it made you feel worse, then this is exactly what you need! 

Absolutely! We recognise that Mum's are often the family chef or food provider for the family. All the recipes in the peri-menu plan are whole-food and extremely nutritious, in fact they will probably be the envy of most family members or work colleagues when you start to cook like this! 

Because the portions are designed with you in mind, they may need to adjust depending on their appetite and needs. Remember also that the 4 week plan is designed to be executed to save you time, food wastage and money so I would suggest to double the recipes if others want to join in and eat the same meals with you! 

Absolutely! You do not need to be doing ANY exercise to follow the peri-menu plan. It is a fabulous foundational eating guide for day to day health for any woman over 40. That said, it's encouraged to move in whatever form you can manage at this stage, and as such the more you train, the more you can upscale your snacks to accomodate for extra hunger. The training nutrition guide is kept separate for this reason, where you don't train simply omit the training nutrition aspect. 

Without a formal dietetic assessment and body composition analysis, as a nutrition professional I cannot guarantee weight loss. It is also the reason why I refuse to portray before and after pictures or advertise a certain amount of weightloss  per month as this is incredibly misleading and offers false promise but is also not grounded in scientific evidence. Everyone is unique and individual and this is not the primary goal of the peri-menu plan. That said, I have worked with the macronutrients to ensure the lowest possible energy intake without compromising your nutrition or muscle mass, and as such the majority of women that follow this plan to the letter do experience fat loss or waist circumference decline as a byproduct.  What I can guarantee is you improve  across many different measures of success such as mood, bloating, symptoms, sleep, strength, energy and performance. And if you don't FEEL better after 1 month of doing this, I will REFUND you your money back. It is also incredibly important you realise that sustainable fat loss requires consistency and patience and this is why it is impossible to make specific weightloss promises as a nutrition professional. 

I know how busy midlife can get, so I have tried my very best to keep the recipes simple with a few ingredients can easily be found in major grocery stores and supermarkets. The grocery lists are designed to streamline your shopping experience and you will notice each week has ingredients from the previous week that carry over so you end up with minimal waste. Each recipe is designed to use all the ingredients (with a few left over non-perishable pantry staples for future use). I have designed a few bigger bulk cooking batches also so you can freezer save these and bring them out over the coming weeks to reduce flavour fatigue also. I'm not going to pretend that this is as easy as Uber Eats or drive through, I want you to fall in love with your kitchen and this requires you to use it! I have tried hard to make your dinners as easy lunch leftovers and still hit the desired variety of nutrients over the week. If you aren't cooking for yourself already, then it may require more time from you but if you are already handy in the kitchen, this should SAVE you time! At the very least, the investment will reduce your cognitive load of wasting time thinking about what you feel like eating or second guessing if this is how you should be eating. You don't have any anxiety of logging or recording in calorie trackers and it's my personal guarantee these meals will be delicious! 

Absolutely. In fact, it's even MORE important for you to already be eating like this! Perimenopause is the most opportune time for lifestyle intervention to prevent the impact of hormonal decline that is seen severely in the 2-4 years preceding menopause. I recognise there are many ways for a women to enter premature menopause so this is entirely applicable for any woman in this phase of her life (however you have arrived there) and it's never too late to begin eating like this.

The peri-menu plans are seasonally designed with being mindful of food accessibility, nutrient quality and to save money! Often foods that are in season are cheaper and more nutritious, and consequently for international birdies our seasons might be in opposite times of the year so the last thing you want is to be eating fresh cold salads in winter! As the year goes forward, there will be a peri-menu plan for every season so you can eat like this all year and reap the rewards!