If we haven’t met yet, hi! I’m Elisa Kosonen. I transformed my relationship with food later in life, and trust me—you can too.
As a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Health Coach based in Vancouver 🇨🇦, I focus on getting to the root of symptoms, creating personalized strategies, and supporting metabolic and hormone health for women in midlife—all without punishing diets.
A bit about me:
I started out chasing dreams of sports medicine, but journalism and fashion stole my heart along the way. I moved from Vancouver to London, New York, and Toronto, living the editor life through fashion weeks and photoshoots.
On the outside, it was glamorous. Inside? I was surviving on Diet Coke, crash diets, and self-doubt.
Then life hit hard. I lost my mom at 27, followed by seven more close family members in just a few years. Grief and burnout pushed me to my breaking point.
That’s when I started asking the big questions:
⚡️Why am I always sick and exhausted?
⚡️How can I take control of my health without restrictive diets?
⚡️What does true health even look like for me?
At 30, I learned to cook. At 40, I went back to school for a natural nutrition diploma. Along the way, I swapped restriction for balance and punishment for nourishment. Today, in my 40s, I feel better than ever.
Now, I’m here to help you do the same. True health isn’t about rules—it’s about finding your joy, listening to your body, and creating sustainable habits that fit your life.
Ready to simplify nutrition for perimenopause and have a fabulous time doing it? Let’s work together to find a path that feels uniquely yours.
Learn more at fourteencarrots.com.
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Kiwi might be all over your feed right now. And I’m here for it.
For low energy and depletion, it’s one of those foods that can quietly do a lot at once.
Vitamin C to support iron absorption.
Fibre to support gut health and healthy bowel movements. And a great choice if you have been navigating IBS.
Antioxidants for cellular support.
Nutrients that can support sleep quality.
A simple, real-food addition that can touch multiple systems at the same time.
That is why I come back to it.
Not because kiwi is a silver bullet.
Because it’s strategic.
This is how I think about food inside a bigger energy plan.
Not “what food fixes fatigue?”
Not “what trend should I try next?”
But:
What support does my body actually need to restore reliable energy and which foods can do more than one useful job?
That distinction matters.
Because you don’t have time to waste.
And when your energy has been low for a long time, the answer is rarely one thing.
When you understand the pattern, you can stop stacking random tips and start choosing support with thoughtful precision.
Inside The Restored Energy Blueprint, this is exactly the kind of thinking we’ll build.
We’ll look at what your body has already been showing you, then turn those signals into your personalized plan built around smart, strategic supports that fit your actual life.
Are you a kiwi fan?
And comment BLUEPRINT if you want the next thing you try to actually make a difference.
For the woman who has tracked with wearables. Done the research.
The screenshots.
The saved posts.
The supplement notes.
The 3am searches.
The podcast episodes listened to between meetings, errands, emails, and everyone else’s needs.
You’re not short on information. You’re missing the plan that connects the dots.
The information is there, but it has not been translated into a plan that fits your body, your energy patterns, your stress load, your nourishment rhythm, and your actual life.
That is what we’re doing inside The Restored Energy Blueprint.
From May 26-29, I’ll guide you through the same first layer I use with every 1:1 client: mapping what your body has already been showing you and turning it into an actionable plan.
Comment BLUEPRINT and I’ll send you the link, or head to the link in bio to reserve your spot.
This is for the high-performing woman:
You are not standing in the supplement aisle because you’re uninformed.
You’re standing there because you are done feeling like this.
Done waking up tired.
Done crashing in the afternoon.
Done having normal labs while your body feels anything but normal.
Done buying the next thing that might help, then wondering why your energy still doesn’t feel reliable.
And yes, supplements can absolutely be supportive.
But your energy plan should not be built from isolated guesses.
It should be built from your patterns.
Your diet.
Your sleep.
Your stress load.
Your recovery.
Your symptoms.
Your daily rhythm.
Your actual life.
That’s what we’re doing inside The Restored Energy Blueprint.
From May 26–29, I’ll guide you through the first layer I use with my 1:1 clients so you can turn what your body has already been showing you into a custom plan.
Not another one-size-fits-all template.
Not another “maybe this will help.”
A plan before another stab in the dark.
Comment BLUEPRINT and I’ll send you the link.
For years, I thought burnout was only a problem with my circumstances.
The job.
The pace.
The pressure.
The lack of support.
The life that looked exciting from the outside but felt impossible to sustain underneath.
So I tried changing what was around me.
I left.
I paused.
I disappeared for a while.
I waited for the reset to finally reset me.
And sometimes, it helped.
But the exhaustion always found me again.
I had even turned inward.
Gut protocols.
Elimination diets.
Trying to “heal” by becoming more controlled, more careful, more perfect.
But I still had not found energy that felt like me.
I had found a quieter kind of escape.
One where avoiding the right things was supposed to make me feel better.
But no one taught me how to rebuild and actually expand from there.
The real shift was not a better job, a longer holiday, or a cleaner diet. (I got all of those things.)
It was learning to stop overriding my body and start listening to it.
Not in a vague, “just tune in” way. In a real, practical, informed and physiological way.
What is my energy telling me?
What is my sleep telling me?
What is my digestion telling me?
What is my stress response telling me?
What is my body actually asking for in this chapter of life?
That question changed everything.
It led me to understand energy not as something to squeeze out with caffeine and willpower, but as something to build.
Through deep, thoughtful nourishment.
Various forms of rest.
Stress awareness and recovery.
And the daily rhythms that teach the body it is safe to stop running on emergency mode.
It’s the change that continues to revive my energy whenever I need a little extra support. And it’s the change that led me to create the 14 Carrots Method.
Because sometimes the answer is not some kind of escape. Especially when you actually love the life you’re living!
The answer is to finally support the body carrying it.
And that’s how you find capacity and expansion for the energy that matches who you are.
If this feels familiar, save this. And drop a 🙋‍♀️ below if you want to know where I would start.
They told you to lift heavy in perimenopause.
Because, yes! Strength training is key for overall health and longevity and mobility.
But lifting heavy feels very different when you’re sneaking a nap behind your office door at 2 p.m.
You’ve tried the 5 a.m. workouts.
The supplements.
The clean eating phases that lasted two weeks before a work trip, a sick kid, or one brutal deadline took them down.
And still…
You’re exhausted before noon.
Your brain feels like it’s buffering.
You’re leading the meeting, but can’t find the word you need.
So some part of you decides you’re failing. Especially when you can’t remember the last time you made it to the gym two weeks in a row.
You’re not failing.
Your body is changing.
Your hormones are shifting.
Your stress response is carrying more than it can recover from.
And the advice that worked in your 30s may not be the starting point your body needs now.
Because energy is cellular.
Your mitochondria (the tiny engines inside your cells) influence your strength, endurance, recovery, and how you feel by 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.
So yes, build muscle. (That helps build these engines!)
Lift weights.
Move your body.
But don’t miss this question:
Does my body have the inputs it needs to support this?
Enough fuel.
Enough protein.
Enough minerals.
Enough recovery.
Enough sleep.
Stable enough blood sugar.
Generic advice says: lift heavier and watch your carbs.
Personalized energy and hormone-aware nutrition asks: what does your body need underneath the workout so consistency becomes possible again?
When we work together, we build a nutrition strategy around your hormones, mitochondrial health, schedule, and real life.
Not a generic plan you have to rearrange your entire life to follow.
So you’re not white-knuckling your way through afternoons anymore.
You’re sharper.
You’re steady.
You’re walking into rooms feeling like yourself again. The version of you who doesn’t need a nap to survive the day.
That woman isn’t gone. She’s just missing the support that allows her to expand into this next season.
Comment ENERGY if you’re ready for exactly that.
In 14 weeks, this client started sleeping more deeply, had less bloating, felt stronger in her body, and her cycle began regulating after getting a period about every two weeks, and her body released 9 pounds that had arrived recently.
But the deeper transformation was not the number.
It was capacity.
She is managing a household with three kids.
Meals. Drop-offs. Appointments. Groceries. Schedules. The emotional needs. The invisible list that never stops running.
She does not have the option of disappearing into depletion.
So when her body felt sluggish, bloated, irritable, and unpredictable, it affected everything.
Inside the 14 Carrots Method, food stopped being another thing to manage and became fuel to enjoy again.
She stopped trying to get her body under control and started giving it support it could respond to.
The words she uses now? Better. Stronger.
This is what hormone-aware personalized nutrition can open up.
More energy.
More capacity.
More of the woman you actually are underneath the depletion.
Drop a ✨ if you’re done pushing through.
I have 3 spots open for 1:1 support in the 14 Carrots Method right now. Not everyone will be a fit, but the ones who are will know. DM ENERGY and let’s explore it.
You were told to watch your cycle in your 20s.
Track your fertility in your 30s.
And now in your 40s (when your sleep is broken, your energy is gone by 2pm, your brain is foggy in important meetings, and your body feels like a stranger) you’re told that everything is normal?
Cool.
This is the gap that the perimenopause conversation is finally starting to expose: women’s reproductive health has always been taken seriously. The rest of what’s happening in your body in relation to your sex hormones? Is finally beginning to matter.
And if you’re a high-performing woman in your 40s, you know exactly what I mean, because you’ve probably been pushing through it for longer than you’d like to admit.
The exhaustion that a full night’s sleep doesn’t fix.
The mood that shifts faster than it used to.
The weight that’s changing even though nothing else has.
The brain that buffers when you need to be sharp.
These aren’t personality flaws. They’re not stress you need to manage better. They’re signals.
And hormones are part of the picture, but not the whole thing. Low ferritin, blood sugar instability, gut changes, chronic under-recovery... these all layer in. And your body is genuinely not responding the way it used to, which means it needs a different kind of support than it did before.
This isn’t about rejecting your doctor or going it alone.
My 14 Carrots Method is designed to work alongside your care team because nutrition and lifestyle aren’t the whole picture, but they are a non-negotiable part of feeling like yourself again.
You don’t need to be in crisis to deserve support.
Your symptoms don’t need to be extreme to matter.
And you don’t need to wait until you’ve completely hit a wall before you ask better questions.
If you’re in this season and something just feels off, comment ENERGY and I’ll send you the link to book an Energy Restoration Consult. We’ll talk through what’s been shifting and figure out what kind of support your body actually needs right now.
I’m still forming the clearest language for this, but here’s the truth I keep coming back to:
We have normalized women being exhausted.
Especially in midlife.
And yes, life is full. Work is demanding. Families need us. The world is a lot.
It is perfectly acceptable and understandable to be really tired.
But “everyone’s tired” has become a way to dismiss what is often a real physiological signal. And even deeper than that, a systemic issue in our culture.
So it’s equally okay to expect more.
Fatigue after 35 (whether you call that perimenopause or not) is not random.
Hormones are shifting.
Stress tolerance changes.
Sleep can become less restorative.
Blood sugar can feel less stable.
Recovery takes more support.
The body may not be responding to the same routines and discipline the way it used to.
So when I hear that the majority of women in perimenopause are struggling with exhaustion and fatigue, I don’t hear “normal.”
I hear: we are under-supporting women in one of the most powerful seasons of their lives.
And I have no interest in a world where only a small percentage of these women feel energized enough to lead, create, build, care, speak, work, and make the impact they’re here to make.
That’s why I do this work.
Not so women can become better at pushing through.
So their bodies can actually support the life they’re here to live.
If this is the conversation your body has been waiting for, welcome. We talk about energy differently here.
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This is for the woman who’s doing everything “right”
and still running on empty.
Eating well. Showing up. Taking the supplements. Getting to bed on time. And wondering why her energy still isn’t coming back.
That’s not “normal.”
It’s just common.
And common isn’t a standard you have to accept. (I know you usually don’t.)
You are not failing. Your body isn’t failing you. It’s simply trying to get your attention. 💛
Not everyone is dealing with all of these, but persistent fatigue doesn’t just happen. There are real physiological reasons this happens in midlife, and so many of them never get checked.
These are the 14 patterns I see stealing women’s energy in my practice. And it’s more than one 99% of the time.
Most of us just haven’t been taught how to respond. To use food to fuel our energy and our power.
Let’s fix that.
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Hey there! I’m Elisa, a perimenopause nutritionist obsessed with helping women dealing with persistent fatigue reclaim steady energy and find their shine.
Comment 🌝 FATIGUE 🌝 and I’ll send you the masterclass that helps you uncover your hidden energy drains and shows you exactly where to start.
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That afternoon slump, the sudden drop in energy, where you either drag through the day or grab coffee or sweets to keep going? Disappeared. Not just softened. Gone.
Link in bio to get on the waitlist for your chance to participate.
3 spots available for my 1:1 program right now. Comment ENERGY if you want this in 2 days and an energized version of you in weeks and full mastery (that lasts a lifetime) in 6 months.
