Constantly Varied Nutrition

You don’t need less food.
You need better timing.

Perimenopause changes how your body handles stress, blood sugar, and recovery.

Which means the way you ate in your 20s won’t work the same now.

And let’s clear something up…

If you’re consistently eating under ~150g of carbs per day
and wondering why your energy, sleep, and fat loss feel off…

that’s probably part of the problem.

Carbs are your body’s preferred fuel source.

Too low for too long and your body adapts:
• cortisol goes up
• thyroid output slows
• recovery tanks
• cravings spike

Carbs aren’t the enemy.

But using them randomly or avoiding them altogether is definitely keeping you stuck.

If you want your metabolism to respond again, you have to support it.

Not starve it.

This is exactly the kind of shift we make inside my coaching programs...
taking women from guessing and under-eating…

to actually fueling their body in a way that works.

I’ll be opening up 10 spots for my next Balanced Life Method summer cohort starting May 4th.

If you’ve been feeling stuck and ready to do this differently…

keep an eye out this week.

Save this so you stop guessing.

And tell me...
are you a morning or evening lifter?

Most women don’t wake up one day in perimenopause and suddenly feel terrible.

It usually starts with things that are easy to brush off:

sleep getting lighter
more anxious for no reason
cycles changing a little
coffee suddenly hitting different
energy not lasting all day

So you push through it.
Because you still function.
Because labs look “normal.”
Because everyone else your age feels tired too.

Then a few years later…

weight gain that doesn’t respond
bloating you never had before
PMS back like you’re 14
histamine issues out of nowhere
mood swings you don’t recognize
hot flashes and night sweats

And now it feels like your body changed overnight.

It didn’t.

It was talking the whole time — just quietly.

The biggest difference I see working with women?

The earlier we support the system, the easier the shift.
But that doesn’t mean you missed your chance if symptoms are already loud.

I work with women across this entire timeline... from “something feels off” to “I literally don’t recognize myself anymore.”

You don’t have to wait until it becomes unbearable to deserve support.

If you’re somewhere on this timeline and starting to connect dots…
comment ME or PERIMENOPAUSE and I’ll reach out.

Or just tell me your age range below. I promise you won’t be the only one in it.

Last weekend I hosted a nutrition seminar to kick off the new year.

Want to know what we talked about most!?

It wasn't calorie deficits or how to perfectly track your macros or even the exact amount of fiber or protein you should eat in a day.
It was HOW TO ALIGN YOUR HABITS TO YOUR GOALS.

Having the body of your dreams (whatever dream that is) isn't about how strict you go for 30, 45 or even days only to fall off and go right back to how things used to be.

It's about choosing to do the things daily that allow you to ACT as the person who has your goal.

Want to lose weight this year... FINALLY!?

You have to wake up every day and make decisions and take actions like the person who has lost that weight!

Because you and I both know the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

So ask yourself these questions before you start (or continue) with your fitness and nutrition this year:
1️⃣ Is this something I can see myself still doing this time next year?
2️⃣ Does this make me feel overly restricted to the point where I hear nothing but cravings and food noise all day?
3️⃣ Is my only hope of success here having constant discipline and motivation?
4️⃣ Can I do this AND enjoy my life simultaneously?
5️⃣ Do the things I'm asking myself to do right now ACTUALLY fit into my life and my schedule without having to have all the stars line up perfectly?
6️⃣ Is this something I can easily and seemlessly fall right back into of life throws me a curve ball?

If you answered NO to ANY of those questions, you won't lose the weight this year or you'll lose it and itll come right back just like a boomerang.

Let me help you change the mindset patterns that keep you Yo-Yo dieting year after year while changing your health and your body at the same time.
I've opened up 1:1 spots for 3 women in the new year who are ready to look and feel like they did in their 20s!

Pop a 👋 in the comment for more information 😘

What’s the difference between “Nutrition Coaching” and “Functional Nutrition”?

I get this question all the time.

Here’s the short version:
Nutrition coaching teaches you what proteins, carbs, and fats are — and how to make better food choices.
Functional Nutrition goes deeper.

When I work with clients, we use lab testing, targeted nutrition therapy, and lifestyle strategy to uncover why your body feels off — and then build a plan that actually restores balance.

Let’s be honest: you already know broccoli is better than brownies.
You don’t need another “eat this, not that” list.

What you do need is someone who can help you connect the dots between your symptoms, your hormones, your gut, and your lifestyle — so you finally understand what your body’s been trying to tell you.

That’s the heart of Functional Nutrition. It’s not a diet. It’s a deep dive into how your body works, why it’s struggling, and what it needs to thrive again.

After 13 years of coaching, 15 years of education, and walking through my own seasons of hormone chaos, adrenal dysfunction, gut issues, and disordered eating — I’ve seen this approach change lives.

And right now, I’m opening space for 3 women who are tired of:
💥 feeling like trash no matter what they eat
💥 being told “everything looks fine” when it doesn’t
💥 wondering if this exhaustion, bloat, or brain fog is “just aging”

If you’re ready to understand your body, feel like yourself again, and head into the new year with actual energy — not just motivation — drop a 👋 below and I’ll reach out with details.

Because you don’t need another diet.
You need a roadmap back to balance.

Just leaving these here for you to take what you need from.

But what I'll also say is that the biggest objection I hear from women who reach out to me about changing their health is "I need to talk to my husband first."

Totally Fair.

But if I can also provide a reframe for you...

Your health is your family's health. Your energy, moods, and sanity affect everyone around you at the same time you're the one doing most of the shopping, prepping, cooking, shuttling the kids and more.

As women, we're often taught to 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 to care for ourselves.

I want you to know - you're allowed.

You're allowed to invest. You're allowed to want to feel better. You're allowed to want more for your body.

This doesn't need to be a 'someday' thing either. The Balanced Life Method is here when you're ready to say yes to yourself.

Estrogen dominance is a pattern... not a permanent sentence.

Your body’s not broken—it’s compensating.

That’s why one-size-fits-all doesn’t work.

In The Balanced Life Method, when clients work 1:1 with me, we use in depth testing via DUTCH and BiomeFX to uncover YOUR root causes.

With real time answers, simple & doable nutrition and lifestyle changes, herbal and natural supplements (sometimes) and ongoing step by step support your body is capable of true healing.

The right strategy doesn’t suppress symptoms—it helps your body stop overcompensating and rebalance naturally

💛

Want to find your healing potential? DM me or comment 'ESTROGEN'

These symptoms are super common for women in Perimenopause, but they’re most definitely not normal.

As we age the accumulation of life events that negatively impact the quality and function of our microbiome are abundant…
Antibiotics used throughout life
Standard American Diet full of processed foods
Sodas sweetened with aspartame and splenda
Chronic stress
Eating on the run
Toxic cleaning and beauty products
…have all been shown in research to negatively impact the diversity, quality and function of the microbial species in our digestive tract.

Coupled with natural die off as we age, especially as we transition into Menopause, our Short Chain Fatty Acid producers die off leaving our cells lacking energy sources, our GABA producers die off leaving us ruminating all night long instead of sleep and other keystone species start losing the fight against pathogens that we naturally come in contact with daily.

Your symptoms all have causes… but those causes aren’t what the mainstream are telling you… or at least in my practice they’re not the causes you think they are!

You deserve answers — and someone who’s going to tell it to you straight, educate you with actual science backed facts, and help you fix it.

Drop a 🔥 if this hits…

And stick around if you want to learn more.

👋 HEY! 👋

There are a lot of new faces here recently, so I thought I'd take a second and reintroduce myself!

I’m Dana — I'm a 45 year old wife to my amazing husband of 20 years and mom to our daughters, Riley and Donavan as well as our menagerie of chickens and our Great Dane Odin (who you will likely see interrupting a video of mine soon) 🤣

And if you're a woman in Perimenopause feeling like your body’s no longer your own and is suddenly working against you... you're not alone. Like you, I've gone through my own health journey... coming back from severe hormonal imbalance and adrenal insufficiency at 37 to gut dysbiosis at 42.

I help real women every single day find real solutions for hormonal imbalance symptoms, gut dysfunction, fatigue, autoimmunity and inflammation—WITHOUT extreme diets or complicated plans and endless potions. This isn't where you'll find some cookie- cutter program that's all the same things you've done before.

Because you deserve to feel like yourself again!

This space is where I’ll be sharing tips, tools, real- life doable habits, and programs that work WITH your body, not against it.

💛 Welcome!

Hit follow if you’re ready to ditch the bloat, mood swings & confusion—because we’re doing this together!