Perimenopause and menopause
The hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause change how your body responds and where it stores fat. The plan moves with you, not against you.
Nutrition coaching
Nutrition coaching built around your goals. And your real life.
A personalised food plan, weekly feedback and practical support for fat-loss, strength and energy goals. Led by Dr Matt Walley, PhD, with adjustments shaped by your progress and the life you need the plan to fit.
Nutrition from NZ$69/week · billed weekly · 18-week minimum
1,470+ clients coached · PhD led · Adjusted weekly · Scan and bloods read by Matt
What your coaching includes
Start with your week
Discuss your goals, food preferences, routine and available measurements.
Build a workable plan
Agree meals and practical adjustments that fit your life.
Review together
Use weekly feedback to decide what to keep, change or simplify.
Progress is individual. Your feedback and measurements guide the next adjustment, not a preset result.
Built around your life
For the changes you are navigating.
Most people do not arrive with a clean slate. They arrive mid-life, mid-change, often having tried plenty already. Coaching is built to read where your body is now and move with it.
Cardiovascular and metabolic health
Body composition and the nutrition factors that influence your cardiometabolic markers, read alongside your GP's care. Educational, not a substitute for treatment.
Cognitive clarity and focus
We review meal patterns alongside the energy, concentration and mood changes you report. Persistent or unexplained symptoms are a reason to speak with your GP, not assume nutrition is the only cause.
Strength, mobility and independence
Lean mass alone does not tell us how strong or mobile you are. Physical function matters too, so the goal is more than a change on the scale.
After weight-reduction surgery
We work within the nutrition parameters your surgical team has set, focused on protein adequacy, lean mass and body composition as your body changes. Alongside your medical team, never in place of it.
On a GLP-1 medication
Support for eating well, maintaining strength and monitoring progress during treatment. Coaching works alongside your prescribing team; medication choices and dose changes remain with them.
Here to help you
Not another meal plan. A programme your body responds to.
Find what works for your body
No generic template. We learn how your body actually responds, then build the plan around it.
Work towards fat loss while supporting strength
Work towards your body composition goals with a plan that fits your eating habits, activity and day-to-day commitments.
Make day-to-day energy part of the review
Use your check-ins to discuss energy, hunger, sleep and recovery, not just your weight.
How it works
Read weekly. Adjusted weekly. Built to move with you.
We combine food diaries, training notes and available measurements with your goals and preferences. Weekly reviews keep the plan responsive to your progress.
Body composition scanning
BIA estimates body composition from electrical impedance. It does not directly measure muscle or visceral fat. We interpret its estimates alongside other information.
Optional educational bloodwork review
Available on any tier. You arrange tests through your GP or a private provider. Matt discusses their nutrition context; diagnosis, further testing and treatment decisions remain with your medical team.
Weekly check-ins, live adjustments
Your plan gets adjusted on the numbers your body is actually producing, on a schedule. Not a plan you receive once and decode alone.
From your week to your next step
A clear process connects what you share with the choices in your plan. The model supports your coach, rather than replacing the conversation.
- Your contextGoals, food preferences, routine and available measurements.
- Coach reviewThe model organises the information. Your coach interprets it with you.
- Your practical planMeals and portions to work with, then feedback to guide the next review.
Direct access to the coaching team, with practical feedback you can use.
Why the scale cannot tell you what changed: watch Matt explain it on the methodology page.
What we track
See what informs your plan.
Food-model scores help organise the discussion alongside your goals and feedback. They are separate from measurements of your health.
See how everyday meals compare.
Explore ingredients, portion estimates and practical alternatives. The examples explain food choices, not your personal glucose, inflammation or hormone response.
Compare meal examplesModelled, not measured
Meal examples are educational, not validated personal forecasts. BIA estimates body composition, while laboratory tests measure specific markers. These are different inputs, interpreted alongside your feedback.
THE MODEL, APPLIED
Eight factors. One plan built for you.
Inflammation
Review dietary patterns, with food scores kept separate from inflammatory blood markers.
Glycaemic load
Review carbohydrate amounts, food choices and meal patterns that fit your day.
Stress and sleep
Eating patterns that work with your stress and sleep, not against them.
Midlife nutrition
Food choices adapted to your symptoms, appetite, preferences and medical advice.
Visceral fat
Consider waist and body composition estimates alongside your wider health goals.
Trajectory modelling
Twelve-week projections are estimates, not guarantees. We compare them with your progress and review the plan as needed.
Lean mass preservation
Plan protein and appropriate training, then review strength alongside composition trends.
Gut support
A gut that tolerates the plan is a plan you can keep.
Built on a 2,846-food dataset.
Coaching programmes
Find the programme built around where you actually are.
Whether you are starting fresh, starting again, or working around something deeper, there is a path built on your data, not a one-size plan.
Nutrition
The Nutrition Programme
NZ$69 / week
Billed weekly · 18-week minimum
Under $10 a day.
Minimum programme cost: NZ$1,242 over 18 weeks, billed weekly. Includes the listed baseline scan, weekly adjustments, monthly rescans and a final rescan to compare progress.
For adults who want measurable body composition change, better energy and better recovery, with a plan that adapts as they progress.
- Initial body composition scan and assessment
- Optional bloodwork analysis, read by Matt
- Personalised meal plan built on your data
- Macronutrient and micronutrient guidance, with supplement recommendations where appropriate
- Weekly check-ins and live adjustments
- Monthly rescan and re-plan
- Direct access to the coaching team
Nutrition + training
The Combined Programme
NZ$99 / week
Billed weekly · 18-week minimum
About $14 a day.
Minimum programme cost: NZ$1,782 over 18 weeks, billed weekly. Includes everything in Nutrition plus periodised training, reviewed together weekly.
Nutrition and training, integrated. Choose Combined if you want a periodised training programme alongside nutrition coaching, with both reviewed together.
- Everything in the Nutrition Programme
- A periodised training programme, integrated weekly
- One review across nutrition and training
- Direct access to the coaching team
The week-six standard
By week six, we review your progress and what needs to change.
We review your rescan alongside food diaries, training and feedback, then adjust the plan where needed. Plan adjustments do not change the 18-week minimum commitment.
Prefer to talk it through first? Leave your details and the coaching team will call you within one working day.
Why the 18-week minimum
In Matt's words
Why the minimum is 18 weeks.
The 18-week minimum provides time for assessment, weekly adjustments and progress reviews. Matt explains how the programme uses that period.
- A baseline scan to record starting estimates
- Weekly adjustments built on your data
- Monthly rescans to review estimated body composition
- A final rescan to compare with your starting assessment
- Direct access to the coaching team throughout
Not sure which fits? Take the free metabolic audit and explore which programme may fit your goals.
The outcomes that make this worth it
Real transformations.
Individual experiences from the coaching practice, not predictions of your result. Scan-derived figures are body composition estimates.
Tara S.
Came in after years of on-again diets, promising herself she would trust a process for once.
The goalProve quickly that a plan built on her data fits real life, with fat moving from the first rescan.
Body fat
-5.82 kg
Time
5 weeks
In her words“Yes I promised myself I would trust the process. I am extremely happy with those results.”
Grace W.
Gen X professional, forty-plus, holding a demanding job and a demanding stretch of life at the same time.
The goalA nutrition plan that fits a demanding period of life and supports her body composition goals.
Body fat
-7.5 kg
Time
20 weeks
Dean Z.
Martial artist training hard, wanted weight moving without giving back any power on the mats.
The goalWork towards a training weight goal while monitoring body composition and performance.
Weight
-7.3 kg
Lean mass
Held
Time
4 weeks
In his words“I'm very happy with the results and very happy with the strength gain.”
Anonymised client outcomes from Inception's coaching practice. Individual results vary with adherence and circumstances. See more real outcomes →
Real people.
Their own experiences.
From first-timers to people who had tried everything. Real New Zealanders, real numbers, real stories.
Built by Dr Matt Walley
Built on 22 years of practice and a PhD in the research behind it.
“Someone else’s results are not evidence for your body. A plan that lasts is built around your own response.”
Matt holds a PhD specialising in advanced research methods and has spent more than 22 years coaching nutrition. His approach brings your measurements, preferences and weekly feedback into one practical plan.
PhD
Advanced research methods
22+
Years practice
1,470+
Clients coached
NZ
Christchurch & remote
Common questions
Nutrition includes a personalised food plan, nutrient and supplement guidance, weekly check-ins and monthly rescans. Combined adds periodised training, with nutrition and training reviewed together.Read the full methodology
Yes. Both programmes are billed weekly with an 18-week minimum. Nutrition is NZ$69/week, minimum NZ$1,242. Combined is NZ$99/week, minimum NZ$1,782.
No. Coaching is available remotely, with direct access to the team. Discuss the measurements and scan access you have before joining. Wearable information is not a substitute for a body composition scan.
Yes, alongside your medical or surgical team and within their nutrition guidance. Coaching focuses on nutrition and monitoring. We do not advise on medication or surgery.
You send photo food diaries, training notes and available weight, sleep or scan information. Matt reviews these and replies with the next week's plan and any nutrition adjustments.How glucose response shapes the plan
Yes. You can start with food diaries, weight and simple measurements. Discuss scan options with the team. Home-scale body composition estimates need cautious interpretation.What we read from the scan
Your report includes 6, 12 and 18-week projections, not guarantees. Progress is reviewed weekly and at rescans. Timing and results vary; an end-of-programme scan cannot establish long-term maintenance.Inflammation and the long hold
When the goal changes
See the Longevity ProgrammeA deeper tier, when you are ready for it
For longer-term goals, explore a twelve-month programme with broader nutrition, lifestyle and health-data reviews. Compare the inclusions and medical-care boundaries before applying.
Application only, from NZ$250 per week across twelve months.
Find the right coaching for you.
The free metabolic audit uses your answers to suggest coaching priorities. No commitment, and no medical diagnosis. Explore the programmes when you are ready.