Find out what’s really behind your midlife symptoms, and get your energy, your waistband and your sanity back.
For the woman who’s bloody exhausted, fed up with playing Whac-A-Mole with her changing body and ready to feel like herself again.
We remove the guesswork, ditch the sad salads and take a deep dive into what’s going on under the hood. No more being fobbed off with “your results are normal” when you feel anything but.
Sound familiar?
This is for you if…
- Your default setting is “knackered”, and by 3pm you’d sell a kidney for a nap (or a tin of biscuits) just to get through the afternoon.
- The weight has crept on and won’t budge, despite eating less, trying every diet going and wondering what the hell else you’re supposed to do.
- You’re wide awake at 3am, wired and staring at the ceiling, already knowing tomorrow’s going to be another day of dragging yourself through on caffeine.
- By the evening you’re undoing the top button of your jeans, and you’ve started wondering whether you’re intolerant to everything in your fridge.
- You’ve been to the doctor, your results came back “normal”, and you still feel a million miles from normal.
“Normal” doesn’t mean fine.
Usually it just means nobody’s looked properly at what’s going on under the hood. That’s exactly what we do inside Root and Restore: look at the whole picture, from your blood sugar, thyroid and stress hormones to your sleep and digestion, so you can stop guessing and finally eat for the body you’ve got now.
Picture it
Imagine this instead…
- You’re sleeping through to your alarm, and your morning coffee is a treat, not life support, so you can actually look forward to your day instead of dreading how exhausted you’re going to feel.
- You stroll home from the coffee shop at your own pace, with a calm gut and nothing to hide, no longer planning your outings around the nearest toilet or worrying about what you can eat in public.
- Your favourite jeans are back in rotation (and you’re wondering whether to buy back the pair you sold on Vinted), feeling excited to get dressed again instead of dreading what will or won’t fit.
- You’re buzzing when you finish, rather than feeling like you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards, and you’re finally enjoying what your body can DO instead of seeing exercise as another punishment for what you’ve eaten.
- You understand what’s contributing to your exhaustion, stubborn weight, 3am wake-ups and bloating, know what questions to ask about your test results and have a personalised plan you feel confident following, so you’re no longer feeling completely lost about how to look after yourself.
Introducing
Root and Restore
12 weeks of 1:1 nutrition coaching for women who are done accepting chaotic midlife symptoms as the “new normal”.
Instead of another diet, another supplement or another 3am Google of “why am I gaining weight when I’m barely eating?”, we go deep. Your symptom questionnaire, food diary and any test results you’ve been told are “fine” show me what’s going on across every system in your body.
We’ll look at:
- Blood sugar and insulin resistance
- Thyroid
- Stress and sleep
- Gut health and digestion
- Liver and detox
- Your hormones
- Heart health
- Immunity
- The nutrients midlife women so often run low on
Then we join the dots between all of it and YOUR symptoms, and build a personalised nutrition and lifestyle plan around YOUR body, YOUR routine and the life you actually want to live, so that the weight shifts, the symptoms settle and you’ve got a plan that works for good, not just for 12 weeks.
From our first call, you’ll start making changes you can feel: steadier energy, calmer cravings, deeper sleep and clothes that start to fit again.
And by the end, you won’t just feel like your old self again. You’ll feel better than you ever did before midlife hit, and you’ll be done with dieting for good.
Consider it your midlife glow up, without tracking every bloody crumb you eat.
What makes the difference
This isn’t just a generic meal plan handed to you each week
Hormones working with you, not against you
We look beyond oestrogen and progesterone at the hormones that rarely get a look-in: insulin (your blood sugar boss), thyroid (your metabolism’s thermostat) and cortisol (your stress and wake-up hormone). When these are out of balance, they can make everything you’re already feeling louder: the weight gain, the wired-but-tired evenings and the brain fog you’ve been putting down to ‘hormones’.
You sleep through to your alarm and wake up with energy that actually lasts, the 3pm crash and the hidden chocolate stash lose their grip, and your mood stops swinging from fine to furious before lunch. You’re running your body again, instead of your hormones running you.
A kick-ass metabolism
Midlife weight gain has nothing to do with trying harder. We find out what’s really affecting your energy, appetite and weight, from insulin resistance and an inflamed gut to a sluggish thyroid and a body in fight or flight. Then we build a way of eating that gets your metabolism firing again. We’ll look at when you’re eating, not just what, and how your sleep and stress are feeding the cravings and that 3pm raid on the biscuit tin.
The weight around your middle finally starts to shift, your energy holds steady through the afternoon and the cravings quieten down. And you’re eating meals that properly satisfy you, without living on measly salads to get there.
A gut that doesn’t run your life
We get to the bottom (sorry) of the bloating, the unpredictable digestion and the growing list of foods you’ve convinced yourself you can’t eat, without cutting half the supermarket out of your diet. We work out what’s really triggering it, from stress and blood sugar swings to what (and how) you’re eating, and use a targeted gut protocol if you need one.
Lunch with friends without planning your escape route, getting to the evening without the food-baby bloat, and wearing what you actually WANT to wear instead of whatever hides it.
A body that finally makes sense
We connect the dots nobody else has: the brain fog, aching joints, thinning hair and rubbish sleep, plus any test results you’ve been told are “fine”. Then we work out how it all fits together, so instead of a list of random symptoms you’re trying to fix one by one, you get one plan that makes sense for your body and the stage of life you’re in.
You go from feeling like your body’s working against you to feeling back in the driving seat, with more energy, a clearer head and the confidence that comes from finally knowing what’s going on. No more Googling symptoms at 3am or wasting money on supplements you might not even need.
Everything that’s included
What you get
- Finally see how your symptoms connect
Your whole-body symptom deep dive (the Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire) covers everything from energy and sleep to digestion and mood. You’ll wonder why I’m asking some of the questions (most women do), but by our first call it’ll all make sense.
So you stop treating the bloating, the brain fog and the 4am wake-ups as three separate problems, and start fixing the one thing that’s driving all of them.
- Food that works with your body, not against it
I analyse your food diary to see what, when and how much you’re eating. Then you get your personalised plan: what to keep, what to change and why, a guide to building balanced meals, and specific protocols where you need them (like gut or autoimmune support).
So you stop overthinking every meal and start eating food you actually enjoy, feeling full and energised while your jeans start getting looser.
- Real answers, even when you’ve been told you’re “normal”
I look at your results alongside your symptoms and explain them in plain English. I’ll also guide you on the tests that often get missed, and write to your doctor for anything you can get through your healthcare provider or health insurance.
So you finally feel heard, and stop spending money on tests you don’t need. Plus, no more leaving the doctor’s surgery with a printout of ‘normal’ results and the same exhaustion you walked in with.
- A plan that keeps up with your body
Three 60-minute 1:1 Zoom calls (one a month) to go through what’s changed, what still needs work and what we’re tackling next. In between, you’ve got weekly check-ins in my app, where I look at how your week’s gone and tweak your plan, plus messaging Monday to Friday for those “is this normal?” moments, so you’re never left guessing.
So the wins keep stacking up: first you stop waking at 3am, then your rings slide on easily again, then someone asks what you’ve been doing differently.
- Your new normal
We look back at where you started, then decide together what support you need next, if any.
By week 12, the jeans at the back of the wardrobe zip up again, you’ve still got energy left at 8pm, and eating well is just what you do, not a diet you’re white-knuckling through.
Step by step
How it works
Week 1
Get the full picture
You fill in the questionnaire and a food diary and send me any recent test results. You’ll leave with your first changes to make straight away.
From week 1
Join the dots
We link your symptoms, habits and results, and only add testing where it’ll change what we do.
All 12 weeks
Build it into real life
Weekly check-ins and monthly calls, so your plan grows with you.
Week 12
See how far you’ve come
Your final assessment, then we decide together what support you need next, if any.
Your nutritional therapist
Hey, I’m Harri
I’m a nutritional therapist, coach and former nurse, and I’ve spent over two decades working in health. The thing I hear most from women in midlife? “My doctor says everything’s normal, but I feel anything but.”
I get it, because I’ve been there. I’m in the chaos of perimenopause myself, and long before that, years of calorie restriction and training myself into the ground left me with missed periods, bloating, thinning hair, constipation and a list of food intolerances. I had to unlearn a lot. The answer was never more restriction.
My job isn’t to make you better at dieting. I’m far less interested in your calorie intake and far more interested in what’s going on under the hood, joining the dots between your symptoms so your body finally feels like it’s on your side again.
500+ women coached · 7 years as a nutritional therapist · 22 years working in health
- Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTA)
- Honours Diploma in Naturopathic Nutrition
- BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing
- Level 3 Personal Trainer
- Level 3 Mat Pilates Teacher
Straight from my clients
Don’t just take my word for it
Your investment
12 weeks to finally find out what’s going on under the hood
For 3 months.
Includes your whole-body symptom deep dive and food diary analysis, results review, testing guidance and doctor’s letter if applicable, 3 x monthly 60-minute 1:1 Zoom calls, your personalised plan, weekly check-ins and messaging in my app, and your final assessment.
Length: 12 weeks. Spaces are limited, so I’ll confirm your start date when you apply.
Testing: any tests are paid for separately, and I’ll only ever recommend what’s worth it.
This isn’t a diagnosis and doesn’t replace your doctor.
Good to know
Questions you might have
Do I need to have tests done already?
No. You can send me any recent results you have and I’ll review them alongside your symptoms. If further testing would help, I’ll tell you which tests are worth considering and write to your doctor where they’re available through your healthcare provider or insurance.
Are tests included in the price?
No, test costs are separate. Testing varies from woman to woman, and we don’t splash out for the sake of it.
Will you diagnose me or prescribe HRT?
No. I don’t diagnose and I don’t prescribe HRT. I look at your results nutritionally and in the context of your symptoms, and help you work alongside your doctor to get any treatment or further investigations you might need. A one-off blood test for oestrogen or progesterone in perimenopause is like looking for a needle in a haystack, because levels change so much day to day. Where it’s useful, I may suggest at-home hormone tracking across your cycle instead.
Will I have to take loads of supplements?
No. I take a food-first approach and only recommend supplements if you actually need them.
Do I have to count calories?
Never. I’m interested in what, when and how you’re eating, not whether you tracked your dressing or not.
Does it include a training plan?
No, Root and Restore focuses on nutrition and lifestyle. If you want nutrition and strength coaching together and don’t need a deep dive or testing, Beyond Diets Blueprint is the better fit.
What happens after the 12 weeks?
We finish with a final assessment to see how far you’ve come, then decide together what support you need next, if any. That could be my nutrition accountability programme, or going it alone with your plan.
You’ve spent long enough being told everything’s “normal”.
Imagine getting through the afternoon without crashing, putting your favourite jeans on without holding your breath and enjoying food again without bracing for the bloat, because you finally know what your body needs.
Let’s make that your new normal.
Fill in a short application and I’ll read it myself. If you’d rather chat first, you can request a discovery call on the form. Either way, I’ll come back to you personally with my honest take on whether this is the right fit for you.
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