Protect your edge!
Simply Midlife Dietitian
Midlife nutrition strategy, grounded in systems-understanding.
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Midlife is different, and so are you
I have seen this first-hand and I have lived it. Women who are capable, organised, calm under pressure and trusted with responsibility. Maybe your friends praise your diligence, capability and confidence.
And yet, midlife has knocked you sideways!
Your energy crashes
Stress is through the roof
Sleep is unreliable
Brain fog absolutely knocks your confidence
Cognitive bandwidth shrinks
Food and nutrition are inconsistent - what you once ate no longer seems to be working for you
Sound familiar?
What’s happening in midlife?
For many women, midlife is an inflection point: a time of hormonal shifts, cognitive load, work demands, family responsibilities, sleep disruption and changing health risks all colliding at the same time.
Some women try to solve this with more discipline - stricter diets, more supplements, more optimisation. Other women desperately try to find answers - online, through health professionals or friends.
The reality is, midlife is more than one symptom, one concern or one issue - it’s the confluence of a variety factors, each impacting on the other.
So if you want to feel like you again, generic advice won’t cut it. You need strategies that are designed around you and supportive of your entire health ecosystem.
That’s exactly what the Midlife Systems Approach gives you.
What is the Midlife Systems Approach?
The Midlife Systems Approach goes beyond generic assessment and reviews your entire health ecosystem to identify a list of meaningful health improvements. Want to know what this looks like? Take my mini-assessment.
The systems around you
Work demands, culture, cognitive load, stress, sleep disruption, family responsibilities and your broader environment
The systems within you
Your physiology, hormones, muscle mass, bone health, nutrient intake, metabolic health and genetic risk
The systems you build
Your routines, food environment, meal structures, activity patterns and behavioural systems
Why a systems model?
Concerns in midlife do not occur in isolation - they stem from and impact your entire health ecosystem, one symptom impacting on the other.
For example:
Sleep challenges may be caused by hormonal fluctuations, but made worse by work demands and stress and can lead to food cravings and energy dips.
Joint aches and pains can reduce your ability to exercise.
Midlife weight changes may be facilitated by changing hormones but can exacerbate other risk factors.
Gut changes may be made worse by changing hormones, but can be mistaken for other symptoms.
All of these situations impact your overall health and cannot be managed in isolation. Your nutrition strategies need to be designed with all-of-you in mind.
In our strategy sessions, we build strategies that are designed around you, grounded in systems-understanding.
What does the Midlife Systems Approach offer you?
This is not a one-size fits all approach. The Midlife Systems Approach allows us to step back and see the bigger picture.
Your journey starts here:
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The Midlife Systems Audit is the cornerstone of the Midlife Systems Approach. This structured assessment is designed to understand the full picture of your health, lifestyle and responsibilities across five domains:
Nutrition Foundations
Muscle & Movement
Lifestyle, Stress and Support Systems
Hormonal Transition
All About You
The Audit allows us to identify protective factors and areas where targeted changes could meaningfully improve your energy, resilience and long-term health.
This is what allows our consultations to be highly personalised and strategically focused.
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The Midlife Systems Snapshot - your audit results - you receive in your first consultation.
We use your Snapshot to guide our planning and identify a list of priorities- the targeted areas which may deliver meaningful health improvements - to protect your edge!
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Your strategy sessions are the one-on-one consultations with Simply Midlife Dietitian, to help you plan and implement changes.
You can choose from:
the Midlife Systems Intensive
the Protect Your Edge Program
or a bespoke option, that we tailor to your needs
Choose your path
If you are ready for a clearer, more strategic approach to nutrition in midlife, choose the option that works best for you.
Midlife Systems Intensive
What it is: A one-time consultation to review your midlife Systems Snapshot (Audit results) and develop a personalised plan.
Includes:
Midlife Systems Audit
Midlife Systems Snapshot
1 hour consultation
Personalised strategy, priority focus areas and practical recommendations you can implement immediately
Length: 1 hour
Cost: $220
Next steps: Click the button below to select your preferred package option and then you will be directed to the calendar where you can select your preferred appointment time.
Protect Your Edge Program
What it is: Our most comprehensive, 12- week program.
Includes:
Midlife Systems Audit
Midlife Systems Snapshot
3.5 hours of one-on-one consultation time across 12 weeks
Personalised strategy, priority focus areas and practical recommendations
Ongoing guidance to support you to implement changes
Length: 1-hour initial consultation plus 2.5 hours of consultation time across 12 weeks
Cost: $650
Next steps: Click the button below to select your preferred package option and then you will be directed to the calendar where you can select your preferred appointment time.
Bespoke Program
What it is: A program designed around your needs. We will work together to create a package that works for you.
Includes:
Midlife Systems Audit
Midlife Systems Snapshot
Personalised strategy
A free, 15-minute intro chat to determine your exact package
Length: 60-minute initial consultation plus ongoing support.
Next steps: Book in for a free, 15 minute intro chat or contact us to discuss your needs and design a bespoke program, just for you. The intro chat is not a consultation and is designed to determine the best package option for you.
Medicare rebate: As an Accredited Practising Dietitian with a Medicare Provider Number, services may be eligible for a Medicare rebate if you meet the eligibility requirements for a GP Chronic Condition Management Plan (previously a GP Management Plan and Team Care Arrangements) and have a referral from your GP. It is best to discuss your needs and requirements with your GP to determine eligibility.
Private health cover: Services may be eligible for a health fund rebate, depending on your level and type of private health fund cover. Check with your health fund to determine eligibility.
Meet Kate, founder of Simply Midlife Dietitian
As a passionate dietitian, diabetes educator and health coach with over 18 years of experience, I have seen first-hand the power of building better systems. I have designed and implemented health programs, delivered at scale across Australia, across the state of NSW and within small communities in Sydney.
What have I learned? Successful programs always have effective systems planning and design. I apply this same systems-understanding to my approach to midlife nutrition strategy.
When I hit midlife, I realised I had something that could truly help women with this phase of their lives.
As a dietitian and nutrition scientist with close to two decades of experience, I am able to interpret and translate the science of midlife into personalised nutrition and health action plans for women.
As someone who has designed and built health programs, I have the skills to build a unique approach, customised for women in midlife and grounded in evidence and better systems understanding.
As an experienced health coach, I am able to support women to identify what is important to them, what changes they are ready, willing and able to implement and then providing the support to make those changes.
I also have strong opinions about the flaws in our current system, and how we can and should be doing better for women, and especially women in midlife.