Menopause Coach and Certified Nutritionist
EATING "HEALTHY" IS NOT THE SAME AS
EATING FOR MENOPAUSE
Midlife nutrition for women over 40
that finally makes sense...
Your body doesn't want fewer calories, it needs the right ones.
100+ high protein recipes, weekly live coaching, and straight answers from someone who actually understands what's happening to your body right now
$15/month | Free 7 day trial | Cancel any time
For many women, midlife feels like a turning point
no one prepared them for.
Meals that once “worked” no longer keep you full.
Eating less only seems to make everything worse.
Cravings feel stronger and less predictable.
Weight gain feels easier than ever.
You’re trying to make sense of it all, and you’re not doing anything wrong.
it’s peri/menopause
Why nutrition suddenly Feels Harder After 40
In your 30s, you could skip breakfast. Hunger was manageable. Energy recovered. Sleep wasn’t so fragile.
Now, those same habits leave you:
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Thinking about food far earlier in the day
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Feeling "wired but exhausted"
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Waking in the night with racing thoughts
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Craving sugar or snacks the moment the sun goes down
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Trying to hold down a demanding job while your brain feels like it's in a fog
Your body is becoming more sensitive to how, when, and what you eat. When meals are too low in protein or too far apart, your body lets you know. Loudly.
Once you understand that these symptoms are signals, everything changes. The goal stops being "eat less" and becomes learning how to support the body you’re living in now.
$15/month | Free 7 day trial | Cancel any time
Your symptoms are information
THE THING NO-ONE REALLY EXPLAINS
ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE
Habits that once felt "controlled" now affect your mood, sleep, and energy in ways you don't recognise.
Cutting carbs doesn’t make you lighter; it just leaves you irritable and fixated on your next meal.
Trying to hold down a demanding job while your brain is in a fog isn't "just part of getting older."
You aren't doing anything wrong.
Your body is simply letting you know that the old way of eating no longer supports you.
Symptoms are information. Clues. A starting point.
In the 40+ Kitchen, we use those clues to build a way of eating that actually makes sense for the body you're living in now.
WHY I CREATED THE
40+ KITCHEN
To provide a trusted community for women who know their bodies have changed and want to understand why.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
01
WEEKLY COACHING
Bring your real questions and get straight answers from Vivienne every week, live. No topic is off limits.
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THE COMMUNITY
Women who get it. No explaining yourself. No diet talk. Just real support from women at the same stage.
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RECIPE COLLECTION
100+ high-protein, high-fibre recipes built for midlife metabolism. New ones added every month.
$15/month | Free 7 day trial | Cancel any time
Meet Vivienne
A certified menopause coach & nutritionist, recipe developer, and former nurse and midwife, with over 30 years of experience working in women’s health.
I’ve supported women through pregnancy, postpartum, and now midlife, and I know how confusing this phase can feel when your body changes and no one really explains why.
For many women, perimenopause and menopause are framed as something to “get through” or “put up with.” Symptoms are brushed off, normalised, or reduced to a single word, without helping women understand what’s actually happening inside their bodies. My work is about changing that.
I believe symptoms aren’t random or something to fight. They’re information. They reflect real hormonal and physiological shifts, and when you understand those shifts, you can make changes that actually help.
That belief comes from both my professional background and my own experience. I started 40+ Kitchen because I wanted a space that felt different from social media. Quieter, thoughtful, and about understanding our bodies rather than supplements, cleanses, diets, or quick fixes.
Everything inside 40+ Kitchen has been developed specifically for women in perimenopause and menopause. My approach is evidence-based, practical, and designed to fit real life, not an idealised version of it.
Why The 40+ Kitchen Exists
40+ Kitchen was created as a place where women don’t have to over-explain themselves.
A space where you’re heard and taken seriously, without having to justify why you feel tired, hungry, flat, foggy, irritable, or simply not like yourself.
I built this because I went through it too.
Even with a background in nursing and nutrition, I found myself anxious, exhausted, second-guessing my food choices, and wondering why what had always “worked” suddenly didn’t.
No one was properly explaining what was happening inside my body, and it was just, “This is perimenopause. Wait until menopause, it just gets worse.”
That terrified me. So I built something I wish had existed when I needed it.
It’s somewhere you learn what’s actually changing, how to interpret what your body is telling you, and how to respond in a way that supports you rather than pushes you harder.
If you’re tired of trying to figure this out on your own, this is where things will start to make sense.
$15/month | Free 7 day trial | Cancel any time
