Hi, I'm Sigal Bar-Tal. Menopause Nutrition Coach.

I'm a certified menopause nutrition coach for women 35+, and I came to this the long way around. I taught elementary school for 20 years. Then my own body started doing things I couldn't explain - the afternoon crashes, the 3 AM wake-ups, the weight that would not move no matter what I cut. I did what most of us do. I tried harder. It didn't work. What finally helped was wearing a continuous glucose monitor and watching what my own blood sugar actually did after meals I'd been told were healthy. That's when it stopped being about discipline. Now I help women find that same steadiness without extremes. My approach is called the Calm Metabolism Method - plant-forward, built around real meals, and designed for the life you already have. Twenty years of teaching left me with one habit I can't shake: if I can't explain something clearly, I don't think it's useful. You'll never get a rule from me without the reason behind it. I live in California with my husband, and have three adult kids who still text me photos of their dinners, a senior cat, and a dog who thinks every walk is the best one yet.