The Nutrition & Wellness Coach

The Nutrition & Wellness Coach Welcome! I’m Susie, a Nutrition & Wellness Coach, helping women in midlife to feel their very best.

Today is World Menopause Day 💛This year, the focus is on how lifestyle medicine can ease menopausal symptoms, reduce chr...
18/10/2025

Today is World Menopause Day 💛

This year, the focus is on how lifestyle medicine can ease menopausal symptoms, reduce chronic-disease risk & support women’s long-term health.

As a Nutrition & Wellness Coach, I have always worked holistically with midlife women & observe first hand how small tweaks to all 4 pillars of health
including nutrition, sleep, movement & stress management can positively support menopause symptoms.

Here’s a few of my top lifestyle strategies that we can make to ease our hormone transition. Mainly, by ADDING IN!

🥦Nutrition - add in lots of fibre & a variety of different plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, wholegrains, nuts & seeds. Increase your intake of omega 3 through oily fish such as salmon, mackerel & sardines. 

🛌Sleep - add in sleep protocols such as a consistent bedtime, resetting your circadian rhythm by getting out into the morning light & reducing blue light by switching off screens a little earlier. 

🏋️‍♀️Movement - add in movement what you enjoy! It doesn’t have to be hours at the gym but can be pockets of movement through the day such as walking, dancing, pilates or strength training. 

🧘🏻‍♀️Stress - add in a stress management toolkit that can support you when stress levels start to rise such as getting into nature, breathwork, yoga & meditation. 

If you’d like support with adding in any of these strategies, please get in touch!

All the about the porridge bowls! Perimenopause & menopause studies have shown that we don’t process glucose as well as ...
03/10/2025

All the about the porridge bowls!

Perimenopause & menopause studies have shown that we don’t process glucose as well as we used to. This is a great reason to ADD IN!

🌰Extra protein - nuts, seeds, nut butter, Greek yoghurt, kefir

🫐Extra fibre - berries, frozen fruit, kiwi, banana, coconut are some of my favourite toppers as well as nuts & seeds

Here’s a few different ways I’ve styled my porridge this week:

Chia, Almond & Berry
Mixed Seed, Walnut & Kefir
Flax, Nut Butter & Pomegranate
Cherry, Cacao & Coconut Yoghurt
Cinnamon, Apple & Walnut

What are your favourite combinations?

A week of welcoming in all the warming foods as autumn arrives. 🍁Slowly transitioning back to creamy porridge, chunky so...
26/09/2025

A week of welcoming in all the warming foods as autumn arrives. 🍁

Slowly transitioning back to creamy porridge, chunky soups and one pot meals. 🥣

What are your autumn faves?

A little pause for a few solo days in the Mediterranean sunshine before welcoming lovely friends for delicious meals out...
19/09/2025

A little pause for a few solo days in the Mediterranean sunshine before welcoming lovely friends for delicious meals out, cocktails on the beach & cathartic chats 💛

🏖️Beach walks
☀️Breakfasts in the morning light
📚Getting lost in a good story
👙Evening swims
🥗All the plants
🐠Delicious fresh fish
🇪🇸Mooching in Marbs
🍸Cocktails by the sea

Refreshed & reset for lots of Autumn nourishment 🍂

Holiday Nourishment! ☀️We’re currently in Spain enjoying lots of Mediterranean delights! Here’s my top supermarket picks...
12/08/2025

Holiday Nourishment! ☀️

We’re currently in Spain enjoying lots of Mediterranean delights! Here’s my top supermarket picks on a self catering holiday. We’ve got a lovely Aldi opposite us full of different ways to support our gut health, hormones & energy whilst away:

🦠Probiotics - gut health can get a bit out of sync with travel. Kefir & kombucha are really great probiotics to help add in some extra friendly bacteria.

🍑Fruit - I’ve taken the opportunity to try lots of different varieties as each will have different levels of prebiotic fibre to feed our microbes. I’ve got locally grown figs, nectarines, apricots & different types of peaches.

🍅Salad veggies - I’ve found some different varieties of cucumber & tomatoes here. This is a prickly pepino along with a tomate rosa, negro & mar azul. Particularly delicious with some evoo & Himalayan salt. I’ve also found an aubergine rayada - we ate these raw in Japan with a miso dip so going to try to recreate!

🥬Tinned veggies - another great addition to meals abroad when fibre intake might be lower than usual. We’ve enjoyed white asparagus, artichokes & sauerkraut.

🐟Tinned fish - a cheap way to get great protein & omega 3s in. Sardines, mackerel & melva. My husband has been making a mix with some sour cream & it tastes fabulous!

Have you found any good nice additions while away?

Nutrition & Wellness Tips from Japan! 🇯🇵 It was so interesting immersing ourselves in a different culture and making a f...
05/08/2025

Nutrition & Wellness Tips from Japan! 🇯🇵

It was so interesting immersing ourselves in a different culture and making a few observations that I intend to take on board with my own nutrition and wellness strategies!

🍣Start the day savoury - sushi tastes just as great at breakfast!

🍽️Take your time to eat - we noticed everyone eats really slowly which is great for digestion.

🪑Stop to eat - eating on the move or on the subway is seen as impolite. Sitting down to eat or at a standing table was the norm instead of on the go.

🍜A side of miso noodles is an elite addition to any meal! Miso is fermented so a wonderful probiotic to support our gut health.

🥝Puddings were mostly a handful of fruit alongside a Matcha - since perimenopause I’ve craved more sweet foods but a few cherries & slices of kiwi were just enough to satisfy that sweet craving after a meal.

🥢Hara hachi bu - a mantra the Japanese live by to eat until you’re 80% full. Tricky when you’re on holiday & wanting to taste lots of different flavours but a really mindful way of eating to take forward.

🍺Enjoy a whisky highball - there wasn’t much red wine to choose from but I discovered whisky & soda is a great combination!

Have you adopted any tips from your travels this summer?

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