Mid Life Nutrition

Personal Nutrition

I’ve never been someone who follows a conventional path in life. Hence at age 50 I found myself adopting a 14 month old baby! The menopause and being a new mum at the same time was a challenge, although one that was very worth it.

Why am I telling you this? My mission is to let all you lovely middle aged women know that whilst getting older and hormonal flux is inevitable, symptoms are not, if your body is properly nourished. There is no doubt in my mind, that good nutrition has been the key to my resilience and has helped me adapt to the physical and emotional challenges that I was faced with. I believe it’s got me where I am today, thriving in middle age and (so I’m told!) looking younger than my years.

So, how did I get here....? My interest in food goes back a long way. As a child I loved being in the kitchen cooking various concoctions which contained way too much sugar including fudge and peppermint creams... “Home Economics” as it was known then, was my favourite subject at school because I enjoyed making recipes in the school kitchen. When I went to university I followed my head rather than my heart and did a degree in Classical Studies. We got a full grant back then and uni life was great!

After graduating, I was soon drawn into working in health and food places. My career started with icecream. It involved cycling around a theme park selling cornettos to be more precise.... Fruit picking followed and from there on the only way was up. I moved on to the pioneering vegetarian restaurant in London, Cranks, Holland and Barrett where I managed a shop for a while, a couple of high end health clubs where I worked as an aromatherapist and massage therapist and finally a vitamin company. By now it was 1994 and I began my training in nutritional therapy, a very niche career in those days. From that moment on something clicked into place, I knew that nutrition was the important missing part of the health puzzle for me and I was excited at the prospect of being able to use my knowledge to help others.

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