About
I'm Lizzie Garside
Nutrition Practitioner
I support active women through perimenopause by translating hormonal changes into practical nutrition strategies that improve energy, recovery, strength, and training consistency.
Perimenopause can feel like waking up in a body you no longer recognise.
You're exhausted, despite doing all the right things. Recovery takes longer. Injuries linger. Weight gain seems to happen overnight, particularly around your middle. Brain fog, poor sleep and unpredictable energy leave you feeling frustrated and wondering where the old you has gone.
You don't feel like yourself anymore.
The hardest part is that you've always known how to look after your health. You've exercised, eaten well and built good habits. But suddenly the things that used to work don't seem to be working anymore. And it feels like you're failing.
At the same time, life isn't getting any quieter. Work, family and everyone else's needs continue to demand your attention, well above attending to your own needs, while your own energy reserves feel lower than ever.
The hormonal changes of perimenopause can affect your energy, recovery, appetite, sleep and body composition. Your nutritional needs change, and the strategies that served you well in the past may no longer give you the same results.
What you need now is an approach that works with your changing body, helping you regain your energy, feel stronger, and start feeling like yourself again.
It's easy to think you need more willpower, more discipline or another diet.
But perimenopause isn't asking you to try harder.
It's asking you to do things differently.
I've always felt passionately about women supporting and uplifting other women; whether through building community links, sharing experience and information, or providing a service.
A Masters degree in Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine now qualifies and enables me to focus on supporting women through a time of life that can be challenging and destabilising.
Midlife and perimenopause is a time of significant change, and whilst some find they can weather that change and emerge on the other side relatively unscathed, for others, it can be deeply challenging and, at times, almost unbearable.
My mission is to provide support to women in midlife through accessible, personalised and supportive nutrition and lifestyle strategies.
By understanding the changes that perimenopause brings and what they mean for our bodies, I help women tune into their body's needs, supporting perimenopausal symptoms and overall outlook.
Being active is a fundamental for me and I am passionate about the power of movement and its accessibility for all. Using the latest research, I combine findings from menopausal experience studies and sports nutrition advice to support active women navigate perimenopause, enabling them to continue the sports and activities that matter to them.
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