When Doing Everything Right Still Doesn’t Feel Right
Lilia Mc Naught works with women who are exhausted from trying to “fix” their bodies.
Based in Ontario, she is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and fitness coach who supports women, especially in midlife: who feel inflamed, depleted, stuck with weight changes, or dismissed despite doing everything they’ve been told is “healthy.”
Most of the women she works with aren’t looking for another diet.
They’re looking for answers.
They’ve followed the rules, eaten well, exercised consistently and still feel confused by symptoms that don’t seem to add up.
Lilia’s work begins where frustration usually sets in: helping women understand why their body is responding the way it is, instead of blaming themselves for it.
Through a root-cause approach that combines nutrition, strength training, lifestyle patterns, stress, digestion, hormones, and bloodwork insights, she helps women reconnect the dots between their symptoms and their physiology.
Her goal isn’t control.
It’s clarity.
Trust.
And strength that comes from understanding, not restriction.
From Systems Engineering to Healing Systems
Lilia didn’t come to this work through wellness trends.
She came to it through systems.
Before entering health and nutrition, she worked as a civil and military engineer, trained to think structurally, logically, and holistically about complex problems.
Everything shifted when her daughter was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
She saw firsthand how limited the medical conversation was beyond symptom management, and how few answers existed for families searching for deeper support.
So she went back to school, studying holistic and functional nutrition, not just to help her daughter, but to understand what was missing in the way we support long-term health.
What she discovered was familiar.
Women, especially in midlife, were experiencing persistent symptoms, being told their labs were “normal,” and leaving appointments without explanations or direction.
Lilia recognized the pattern.
And she built her work around solving it.
She blends clinical nutrition, strength training, and education with the same systems-based thinking she used in engineering: identify what’s driving the issue, don’t just manage the fallout.
Building a Method Through Listening, Not Trends
One of the most challenging parts of Lilia’s journey was building a business while still learning what women truly needed.
She wasn’t trained as an entrepreneur.
In the early years, she wore every hat—coach, educator, administrator, marketer—often all at once.
At the same time, she was listening closely.
Watching patterns emerge.
Seeing that quick fixes weren’t the answer.
Women needed education.
Personalisation.
And a process that actually worked with their changing bodies.
That learning curve wasn’t fast.
But it was foundational.
Over time, her experience evolved into The Midlife Rebuild Method™, a structured, root-cause framework designed specifically for women navigating midlife health changes.
What began as trial and error became a clear, repeatable system built from lived experience, not theory.
Scaling Without Losing Integrity
Lilia’s mission is simple: to educate and support as many women as possible.
The challenge is time.
As a one-person business, her impact has long been tied directly to her availability.
And while her work is deeply hands-on: careful, thoughtful, responsive that level of presence also has limits.
Her current focus is finding ways to scale education without losing integrity.
Through speaking, teaching and accessible platforms that reflect her values, she’s working toward reaching more women without burning herself out or diluting the quality of her work.
Because for Lilia, helping more women doesn’t mean working more hours.
It means building smarter systems.
The same way she’s always done.
Rebuilding Health Without Fear or Punishment
At the heart of Lilia’s work is a quiet but radical shift.
Moving women from confusion to understanding.
From self-blame to self-trust.
From fighting their bodies to finally working with them.
She helps women see that their symptoms aren’t failures.
They’re signals.
And when those signals are understood, real change becomes possible without fear, punishment, or diet culture narratives.
At Reignelle, we honour women like Lilia, those who bring depth, clarity, and systems-level thinking to wellness and who help others rebuild health in a way that feels intelligent, humane, and sustainable.