Your Body Isnβt Responding the Way It Used To, and You Donβt Feel Like Yourself Anymore.
You eat well. You stay active. You know a lot about nutrition and hormones, and you have tried keto, fasting, cutting calories, and supplements. Your labs may even come back βnormal.β But you do not feel normal.
I help women in perimenopause through post-menopause who are doing everything βrightβ but still stuck figure out what matters first for their body, and turn what they already know into the right action, in the right order, in their real life.
30 years as a Registered Nurse. 20 years in nutrition and lifestyle. 100% virtual.
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Does This Sound Like You?
Your body is no longer responding the way it used to. It looks different for every woman. You may recognize one of these, or a few.
Your Belly and Body Composition Changed
Your midsection and the way your clothes fit have changed, even though your habits did not.
Energy You Cannot Count On
Fatigue, unpredictable energy, and afternoons where you are running on empty.
Sleep, Hot Flashes or Night Sweats
Waking at 2 or 3 AM, or heat that interrupts your day, your work, and your nights.
Bloating That Keeps Coming Back
Bloated more days than not, and uncomfortable in your own body.
Not Feeling Like Yourself
Brain fog, libido changes, hair changes, or simply feeling like a stranger in your own body.
Normal Labs, But You Do Not Feel Normal
You have been told everything looks fine. It does not feel fine.
Some women use hormone therapy, some cannot, and some choose not to. If you do, it may have helped with things like sleep or hot flashes, while your belly, your energy, or the way you feel in your body still has not come back.
The Moment You Decide You Are Done Guessing
Many women live with these changes for months, even years. They adjust, push through, and tell themselves it will settle down.
Then something makes continuing the same way no longer feel acceptable. It is different for every woman. Maybe it is another sleepless night. A lab number moving in the wrong direction. Clothes that no longer fit. Another hot flash in the middle of your workday. Looking in the mirror and not recognizing yourself. Or realizing you are working harder than ever and getting less response.
It is rarely one symptom. It is the realization: βWhat Iβve been doing isnβt working anymore, and I donβt want to spend another six months guessing.β
When you reach that point, the natural instinct is to go looking for more information. Here is why that usually is not what is missing.
You Probably Do Not Need More Information
You have read the books, followed the specialists, and tried the programs. You can explain what protein, carbs, fiber, and sleep are supposed to do. You may even have spotted a trend in your own food log. And you are still stuck.
After 30 years in nursing and 20 in nutrition and lifestyle, here is what I see: many of the women I work with are not missing information. What they do not know yet is:
- What matters first for their body
- What actually applies to them, and what they can stop worrying about
- Where their dominant pattern is actually happening
- Which lever to change first
- How to make that change in their real meals and real days
- What response to watch for
- When the evidence says they are ready for the next step
So they keep changing five things at once, starting over, or adding another protocol, and cannot tell what is actually working.
Knowing the information is not the same as knowing what to do with it. When you say βI already know this,β that tells us where to look next. You understand the information. Have you mastered applying it consistently, in the right order, in your real life?
How I Help You Figure Out What Matters First
There is no single cause behind every womanβs symptoms, and your pattern can change as you change. So we do not start with a universal fix or another set of rules. I look at you: your patterns, nutrition, lifestyle, symptoms, and relevant data. I make you stop and look at what you are actually doing, and then we decide what deserves attention first.
See Your Current Pattern
We look at your real meals, days, sleep, energy, and symptoms to find your dominant pattern right now, and where it is actually happening.
Choose the First Lever
Two women with the same symptoms can need very different first changes. We choose the one that matters most for you right now.
Make It Hold in Real Life
You apply that one change in your real meals and real days, through busy weeks, restaurants, and travel, and practice it until it is consistent. If a meal goes sideways, you balance the next one instead of starting over.
Watch the Response, Then Decide
Sleep, energy, symptoms, photos, and labs become evidence. When the evidence supports it, we decide what comes next, instead of piling on more changes.
From Trying Harder to Knowing What to Do Next
The shift
- Knowing a lot, unsure what applies to youKnowing what matters first for you
- Changing everything at onceOne right change at a time
- Eat less, cut carbs, try harderChanges tested in your own body
- Guessing what caused a symptomReading your own pattern
- Starting over every MondayChanges that hold up in real life
What women tell me changes
- Knowing what matters first and what to do next
- Changes that hold up on busy days, trips, and hard weeks
- Steadier energy and clearer thinking
- Better sleep, and for some women, fewer hot flashes and night sweats
- Less bloating and more comfort in their body
- Their belly and body composition beginning to change
- Feeling like herself again
Every womanβs results are her own, and no specific result is promised. For many women, the scale is one of the last things to move.
Meet Michelle Black, RN
Michelle Black, RN | Functional Nutrition + Lifestyle | Perimenopause through post-menopause
I have been a Registered Nurse for 30 years and have worked in nutrition and lifestyle for 20. Over and over, I have watched women do everything they were told: eat clean, work out, cut calories, cut carbs. Many of them know a lot. Their bodies stopped responding the way they used to, and they were told their labs were normal or that this is just part of getting older.
I do not believe one cause sits behind every womanβs symptoms. I look at the individual woman: her patterns, her nutrition, her lifestyle, her symptoms, and her data. I make my clients stop and look at what they are actually doing, and together we decide what to change first.
When you work with me, it is personalized coaching built around your individual pattern, not a template. It is not another information course, a diet, a meal plan, or a quick fix. Together we find what matters first for your body, make the right change hold in real life, and you learn to read how your body responds so you know when it is time for the next step. It works alongside your medical care and does not replace it.
- Built around your real life: work, family, travel, and restaurants
- For women who use hormone therapy or GLP-1 medications, and women who do not
- No unnecessary supplements or extreme workouts
- Adaptable for vegetarian and plant-based lifestyles
- 100% virtual, for women across the US
"I joined this program when I was at my wits end. I now know how to eat for my body. My energy is high all day, I sleep great, and the plantar fasciitis I thought was from weight gain? Just changed how I eat and it went away completely."
Joanne Thuman, Program Member
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Women who were doing everything right and still stuck, in their own words. Every womanβs results are her own.
My total cholesterol improved from 193 to 163 in one year. My bone density test that previously showed osteoporosis now shows osteopenia and my fracture risk dropped to 12%. My doctor told me to keep doing what I am doing. I learned to leave the diet mentality behind and finally understand how to nourish my body and burn fat efficiently. This is truly a lifestyle not a diet.
Jeri Missasi DennisonI lost 60 pounds, my energy improved, and my cravings decreased drastically. My blood sugars are stable and I feel it when I have an off day. I was post-menopausal with Type 2 diabetes and I tried everything. Then I found Michelle. Follow the program. It works. I am 69 and feel healthier than ever.
Karen LoveHot flashes are gone. Joint pain reduced so much I can now sleep on my side. Brain fog gone. I learned how to balance my meals and exercise correctly for my hormones. This program truly works.
Tonia GipsonI was on 3 prescriptions. The more I worked out and less I ate, the worse I felt. Within 3 months of joining I was off all prescriptions and lost 30 pounds and a bunch of inches. She gave me my freedom with food back.
Lisa WilkersonShe teaches you how to heal your body through food. Easy steps that work to reverse menopause symptoms including weight issues. I lost 15 pounds by just changing what I eat and when. NOT dieting. I still get ice cream when I want it but I crave it less.
Marybeth Roberts6 weeks in and I am finally sleeping. No more hot flashes and I am not craving like I used to. I feel like a 7 or 8 out of 10 and I was at zero when I started. This is not something you can Google. It takes the right support and the right plan.
Program Member, 6 Weeks InI was 219 pounds, hit a standstill at 183, and went back and forth to 187. I went through the teaching modules again and really put her knowledge into action. I have lost 4 more pounds in the last 2 weeks. Macronutrients finally make sense with Michelle Black.
Lisa FoleyI reduced the medications I am on and feel so much better. She is truly invested in the success of her clients. She answers questions in the community and offers weekly Zoom support calls. If you want a maintainable lifestyle she is your person.
Angela HodgesMy clothes fit better, my energy is high throughout the entire day, and I sleep great. The hormones alone were not doing the trick. This nutrition program gave me the emotional stability and energy I had been missing for years.
Joanne ThumanWhen I started working with Michelle, I was waking up two to three times a night, dealing with hot flashes, cold flashes, and struggling with body composition no matter what I tried. I had read the books. I had tried the programs. Nothing was working. Since working with Michelle, I cannot remember the last time I had a hot flash. The cold flashes stopped almost immediately. I now wake up once a night at most and go right back to sleep. My body fat dropped from 37.2% to 30.3%. I went from a size 16 to a 14 and my 16s literally fall off me now. My face has changed. My belly has changed. And I did all of it without counting a single calorie. What is different here is not just the information. It is the how. Michelle identifies the specific patterns in your nutrition and lifestyle that are working against you and we fix them together. I am not following a meal plan. I am learning how to eat for my body and my life and it is working in a way nothing else ever has. If you are a woman over 50 who has tried everything and thinks you already know what to do, you probably do not. I did not. This is different.
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Michelle Black, RN | Functional Nutrition + Lifestyle | Perimenopause through post-menopause. This information is educational and does not replace guidance from your doctor.