Womens midlife health expert
Nutritional coaching for menopause
Redefining peri menopause + aging
Louise Carr is a Victoria based Holistic Nutrition Consultant who is passionate about Midlife Womens Health, and the food and nutrition that nourishes 40+ women to support them through peri-menopause and build vibrant health for the next chapter.
12/06/2025
>>Feeling scattered, exhausted, or like you’re disappearing under the weight of… everything?
That’s your midlife hormones asking you to come back home to yourself — to your energy, your boundaries, and your health.
✨Here’s the truth no one tells women:
Nutrition is one of the fastest, most powerful ways to slash uncomfortable menopause symptoms.
➡️Daily food choices can calm your nervous system, boost your energy, support your brain + bones, and help you feel in control again.💃🏼💪🏼💥
Tiny steps → massive change.
✨ Start today.
Download my FREE Menopause Recipe Book (link in bio) and discover how good you can feel when your food finally supports your midlife body.
12/06/2025
Women carry the invisible workload of Christmas — and it’s quietly burning us out.
We orchestrate the gifts, the food, the planning, the logistics, the emotional temperature of the entire season.
And for midlife women navigating perimenopause or menopause, the combination of stress + fluctuating hormones can leave us starting the new year exhausted, bloated, anxious, and running on fumes.
Here’s the truth we need to talk about:
You don’t need to be Superwoman this holiday season.
You don’t need to say yes out of guilt.
You don’t need to hold the entire experience together at the cost of your own wellbeing.
If saying “no” feels uncomfortable, there’s usually a reason:
• Fear of disappointing others
• People-pleasing
• Old social conditioning about being “the good girl”
• FOMO
• Or the desire to avoid conflict altogether
But saying “yes” to everything always means saying “no” to something else — and often that “something” is your own rest, health, and sanity.
This year, choose differently.
Start with one task you can remove from your plate.
Communicate your “no” clearly and early.
Stay open to letting others step up.
Healthy midlife living isn’t only about nutrition or exercise.
It’s equally about boundaries, emotional energy, and protecting your nervous system from chronic overload.
If you want support creating a healthier, more resilient foundation for 2026, I’d love to help.
My online course Menopause U teaches midlife women how to use nutrition to reduce symptoms, improve energy, and protect long-term health — paired with essential mindset tools to prevent burnout.
If this resonates, drop a 🎄in the comments 👇🏼
12/05/2025
Feeling like Christmas would fall apart without you? 🎄😵💫
Because… it probably would. And that’s exactly why you need this reminder:
You do not have to be Superwoman this holiday season.🦸♀️
The hidden, unpaid mental load of Christmas hits midlife women the hardest—especially in perimenopause and menopause—and the increased stress wrecks your energy, hormones, mood, gut, and sleep.
✨This year, choose YOU.
Pick one task to take off your plate and practice saying “No” early, clearly, and without apology.
Your health matters just as much as everyone else’s joy.💃🏼💪🏼💥
🚨>>If you’re ready to make 2026 the year you go deep to prioritise your mental and physical wellbeing, join me inside Menopause U—my holistic nutrition course for midlife women. Click the link in my bio to chat with me about your goals. 💛
12/04/2025
🚨>>There are 134 symptoms of menopause, touching every part of our health. In our 40s, perimenopause can feel like being at war with our own bodies — overwhelming, chaotic, even frightening.😫
➡️Many “meno doctor influencers” call this hormonal chaos and blame everything on estrogen. But that can’t be the whole story — we all pass through the same hormonal transition, yet only some of us suffer.🧐
Science shows your symptoms are information: about your health, your nutrition, and your nervous system.
➡️>>One powerful example?
Women with intense or frequent hot flashes at the start of perimenopause or in menopause have a higher risk of a cardiac event within 10 years. This isn’t “just hormones” — it’s data. And the good news is: you can use nutrition to improve cardiovascular health and lower that risk.
Whether you take HRT or not, your body is communicating with you.
Learn what your symptoms mean. Learn the nutrition that supports this transition and protects your long-term health.
✨ For science-led, empowering menopause education, follow this account.
12/03/2025
✨You have the power in your hands and with the food on your plate to transform the way you feel in perimenopause💃🏼💪🏼💥
>>Things get challenging when your hormones start fluctuating in your 40’s and it is easy to feel like you are ‘out of control’ or ‘at war’ with your body.😫
🚨But, your symptoms are not ‘hormonal chaos’ or ‘your body turning on you’ they are your body telling you that it needs your support. Your body needs you to get onside and take the very best care of yourself after decades of keeping all the plates spinning and taking care of others.🤗
>>Nutrition is one of the tools you can use to support your liver to break down and clear excess estrogen from your body so you can dramatically slash your uncomfortable symptoms.💃🏼💪🏼💥
👇🏼Follow this account for more easy to understand nutritional advice for perimenopause, menopause and beyond and 👆🏼click the link in my bio to download my FREE training video: The Power of Nutrition in Menopause.
12/02/2025
You’ve spent years being who everyone else needed. This is your permission slip to become who you need, in your body, your health, and your next chapter.
For so many women in their 40s and 50s, life has been about holding everything together: kids, parents, work, relationships. You get very good at coping and very bad at listening to yourself.
Then perimenopause shows up, and your body starts sending louder messages: hot flashes, broken sleep, mood swings, and weight that will not budge. It can feel like you’re falling apart, or like you missed the memo on how to do midlife “properly”.
Then perimenopause shows up, and your body starts sending louder messages: hot flashes, broken sleep, mood swings, and weight that will not budge. It can feel like you’re falling apart, or like you missed the memo on how to do midlife “properly”..
Becoming who you need might look like:
-Eating for steady energy instead of surviving on caffeine and crumbs
-Prioritising sleep even if the laundry isn’t done
-Saying “no” without a 5-paragraph explanation
-Asking for help instead of pushing through on empty
This season can be the moment you decide your health is no longer at the bottom of the list.
I work with midlife women to use food, daily habits and nervous system support so they can feel calmer, clearer and more at home in their bodies again.
What’s one small way you could start becoming who you need today?
11/26/2025
Your cape doesn’t arrive at 50, but your power does.
This is the season you stop fighting your body and start teaming up with it, using food, rest, and boundaries as your secret weapons. You’re not “putting up with” symptoms anymore, you’re learning the language of your body and responding with real support.
If you’re in your 40s or 50s thinking, “Surely it’s not meant to feel this hard,” you’re my kind of woman. Stick around and I’ll show you how to eat, live, and care for yourself so this phase feels less like a crisis and more like your origin story.
11/19/2025
Menopause isn’t you fading out; it is you levelling up!
If your body feels unfamiliar right now, with hot flashes, 3 am wakeups, anxiety or brain fog, it isn’t failing you. It is asking for new support, new boundaries, new nourishment that fits this stage of life.
This season is your invitation to:
-stop fighting your body
-feed it in a way that supports your hormones, brain and heart
-choose energy, strength and comfort over shrinking and “pushing through”
You’re allowed to want more from this chapter than just coping. You get to build it.
Tell me in one word what you want this “new life” in midlife to feel like: calmer, stronger, clearer, freer… something else?
11/16/2025
✨ It’s Your Menopause Journey: You Can Effectively Protect Your Health and Take Back Control with Simple Food and Lifestyle Changes✨
🤷🏼♀️Whether you’re taking HRT or not, your body needs your attention and support in midlife.
>> Let’s Keep It Real: As hormones shift, we become more prone to insulin resistance, heart disease, bone loss, and cognitive decline. These changes are not inevitable — they are deeply influenced by the food you eat every day.
➡️If you can’t or don’t want to take HRT, nutrition is the most powerful way to ease your symptoms, protect your long-term health, and feel back in control of your body.
And if you do take HRT, nutrition is still essential — because while hormones can mask your symptoms, they don’t nourish your heart, brain, or bones for vibrant health.
You are what you eat and your body still needs the right fuel to thrive.💃🏼💪🏼💥
➡️In Menopause U, my online nutrition course for midlife women, I’ll show you exactly how to eat to:
💥 Reduce hot flashes, anxiety, and fatigue
💥 Support metabolism and insulin balance
💥 Protect your heart, brain, and bones
💥 Feel strong, clear, and energized again
It’s time to understand what’s happening in your body and take back your power through nutrition.
👇🏼👇🏼Type READYin the comments below to learn more about Menopause U
— so you can start feeling on the same side as your body again. 💃🏼💪🏼💥
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What does a woman do when she hits her late 40’s and feels 75 on the daily?
Let me tell you...you have a choice of aging from where you are today or you pull up your big girl panties and take a long hard look at your life and your health and start making changes.
For me this included returning to school and training in nutrition.
I arrived at my desk with:
A sluggish thyroid, which slowed my metabolism to a snails pace and left me feeling bloated, fat and unhappy.
Adrenal fatigue which left me feeling tired all the time...even on waking!!
Blood sugar spikes and crashes which left me craving carbs all of the time and crashing with zero energy in the afternoon...cue more carbs!
Aching joints, 30lb to lose, sleep disrupting anxiety, a bloated and gassy belly and varicose veins.
I felt deeply unhappy in my life and in my body...I was old before my time, overwhelmed by even fun family events and I was missing out on the enjoyment of life and on loving myself.
Funny story...after repeated visits to my doctor I was told that this was normal for my age and I should EXPECT to feel achy and tired at my age.
For the first time in my life I took a stand for my health and my happiness. I found teachers that could show me the way and I began to question everything I had been doing to get my body back.
Turns out, the diets, restriction and hours of cardio that worked for us in our twenties and thirties do not work for the peri-menopausal woman.
In midlife our hormones are changing and our bodies respond to deep nutrition, tender self-care and intuitive eating. Our midlife bodies are our biography and midlife is a time when we can get to know our bodies again, learn what foods support thriving midlife health and ‘listen’ to emerging health issues to discover the dense nutrition our bodies need.
I ate to support my adrenal and thyroid glands, ate to balance blood sugar levels and support my very best brain health. I ate for heart health and to reduce anxiety and promote sleep. The weight began to melt away.
What is this miracle diet? It is real whole foods and an abundance of delicious plant based recipes that supports me to feel comfortable in my body, happy on the daily, sleeping like a baby at night and bursting with day long energy when I wake in the morning.
I am now passionate about helping other women to take time in their middle years to address ongoing health issues or even to embark on a full midlife health makeover so that they can reclaim their energy and find the joy in everyday.
Midlife is the perfect time in life for a woman to return to herself, to offer herself deep nutrition and loving self care, to change lifelong self-sabotaging habits, to lean into eating MORE of the foods that support your optimal health and to begin to practise self-love....sometimes for the first time.
Aging is chronological but it does not have to be biological.
Together we can find a step by step pathway made up of science based nutrition, delicious recipes and practical self-care that will support you to enjoy the best health of your life during midlife.
