The Rebuild · 20 places · Enrolment closes 11 October or when full

Donia Maria

For women over 40 who are eating less, trying harder, and still not seeing the results they want

I’m doing everything right.
So why isn’t anything working?

The Rebuild turns hormone science into simple, practical steps you can use from day one — so you finally understand why your body changed, know exactly what to do next, and start building a stronger, leaner, more energised body after 40.

Real food, real movement, and a foundation for how you eat, train, recover and live — not another plan built on fear, punishment, or removing everything you enjoy.

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What it is

A 12-week hormone program

How it runs

Lessons at your own pace
Six live calls with me

Who it's for

Women over 40 whose body stopped responding

Founding cohort

20 women · Closes 11 October

I don’t recognise the woman I’ve become.

You look in the mirror and you barely recognise the body looking back at you.

And if you’re completely honest with yourself, you don’t always recognise the person you’ve become either.

The clothes that stopped fitting. The weight that settles around your middle now. The 3 a.m. waking — hot, restless, or needing the bathroom — and the hour it takes to settle again. The tiredness sleep doesn’t fix. The short fuse you don’t recognise, with the people you love most. The libido that’s gone quiet.

So you do what intelligent, determined women have been taught to do.

You eat less. You try harder. You promise yourself that this Monday will be different.

Maybe you’ve tried fasting, another diet, or the supplements — maybe even HRT. And still don’t feel like yourself.

Maybe someone has finally said the word to you: perimenopause, menopause.
Maybe nobody has.

Either way, everybody keeps saying it’s your hormones.
And still, your body doesn’t respond the way it used to.

But nobody has shown you how to eat with those hormones, how to train with them, how to work with the body you have now — or what to do today.

You’re not failing. You’ve been trying to fix a changing body with rules that were written for the body you had at 25.

You do not need a stricter plan.
You need a stronger foundation.

You can’t build a strong body on constant hunger, low energy, fear of food, and a promise to try harder tomorrow.

That approach may survive a perfect week. But then real life happens — the first dinner out, a holiday, a family meal, an exhausted Tuesday — and it shows you what was missing underneath.

The Rebuild doesn’t start by asking what else you can remove. It starts by helping you understand:

01Why eating less stopped working.
02What to eat, and how to train, for the body you have now.
03How sleep and stress change what your body can do that day.
04What to do in the week it all falls apart.

Because a method that only works when life is perfect won’t last.

This is bigger than the kilos you came here wanting to lose. It’s about becoming the woman who understands what her body needs, makes confident choices, and follows through without starting over every Monday.

Become the woman whose best years are still ahead of her.

Not because she never has a difficult day. Because she knows how to return.

She can eat at a restaurant, travel, celebrate a birthday, enjoy Christmas, or have a difficult week without believing she’s ruined everything.

Picture getting dressed in the morning and reaching for what you want to wear — not what hides you. You still have energy at 4 p.m. At dinner, you order what you actually want and enjoy every bite.
Then you catch yourself in the mirror and think:
“There I am.”
Not the woman you were at 25. The best version of you yet.

You’re not trying to get your old body back. You’re building a new one — leaner, more energised, and yours.

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Your expert guide

Meet Donia

The clinician, and the woman who had to find her own answers.

I gave half of my wardrobe away because I genuinely believed I would never fit those clothes again.

I know the mirror moment because I lived it.

When my body changed, I did what so many intelligent women do: I blamed the carbs. I cut the fruit. I questioned the potatoes. I stopped eating rice.
I even gave up dates.
And if you know me, you know how much I love dates.

I kept removing more food. More rules. More cardio. All because I was convinced that if I could just be stricter, I would get my body back.

I did not.

My clothes stopped fitting. I went a full size up. I looked at them and thought: Is this part of my life really over? Is this what everybody’s talking about? Perimenopause.

I packed them into bags and gave them to charity. I still have the video of that moment.

I gave the clothes away. But I wasn’t ready to give up on myself.

And I wasn’t starting from nothing. For over ten years I’ve worked as a consultant trichologist, a hair-loss specialist, alongside doctors in clinic. I still do. So I asked. Dermatologists. Endocrinologists.

And again and again I saw the same gap: hormones, food, training, sleep and hair, each handled on its own, while the woman at the centre was left to work out how it all fits together.

Because your body doesn’t work in three separate rooms.

Nobody was guiding me. So I started studying: the science of female hormones, food and training, as one system.

The qualifications

My formal qualifications are in hair loss: two specialist qualifications, both completed with distinction, and an 87-week fellowship led by one of the world’s leading hair-loss doctors.

That meant studying the hair follicle at a cellular level, analysing clinical cases and examining how genetics, nutrition and hormones affect hair growth, including nutritional deficiencies, thyroid conditions and menopause.

This gave me a deeper understanding of how changes inside the body can become visible on the outside, and led me to investigate the questions women still needed answered: how to eat, train and look after themselves through those changes.

Before any of this, I was a lawyer, which is why I don’t accept an answer I can’t check.

I’m not a doctor. And I’ll always tell you when a question belongs with one.

What I discovered changed how I ate, how I trained, and how I looked after myself. Then I began guiding women one-to-one through their own questions about hormones, food, training and the bodies they no longer understood.

Today, at 42, I feel better than I did at 20. And I look it. Not because I got lucky. Not because I got stricter. Because I finally understood what my body needed, and gave it that.

I eat the carbs I used to fear. Dates with nut butter. Full plates of potatoes. And I’m leaner than when I was starving myself. Stronger than I’ve ever been. I sleep through the night.

I walk into a room differently. I stopped asking anyone’s permission to take up space in my own life.

They told me this was it.
It was just the beginning.

None of this is magic. It’s what nobody in those rooms was putting together. It’s a skill, and I’m going to hand it to you.

I’m 42.
I’m not done.
I’m on fire.

The Rebuild is the program I needed when I stood in front of those clothes and thought I’d lost myself.

Twelve weeks. One foundation.

The 12-week Donia Maria Method

The Rebuild

Understand it. Build it. Live it.

This isn’t a course you sit and watch. I explain what’s happening in your body and show you what to do about it — in your kitchen, your training and your everyday life — so you start using it from the first week. Because what’s the point of another course if it doesn’t change what you do?

01 UNDERSTAND

Understand

Stop guessing what your body needs.

First, you understand what actually changed as your hormones shifted — why the same plate now gets stored more easily, why you lose muscle faster, why sleep breaks — and why eating less made all of it worse.

02 BUILD

Build

Real food. Real movement.

Meals you enjoy, that keep you full and are good for your skin, hair and gut. Carbs included. You know what strength training, incline walking, Pilates, stretching and everyday movement can do for you.

03 LIVE

Live

Take it into real life.

Restaurants. Birthdays. Christmas. The week that falls apart. You know how to return — without guilt, punishment, or waiting for another Monday.

Lessons at your own pace. Six live calls with me along the way.

Six things you’ll finally understand — and use.

Your hormones+

Oestrogen, insulin, cortisol — what changed, what each one does, and what HRT can and can’t do.

Food that works with you+

What actually happens when you eat. Which foods steady you, which don’t, and why. Carbs included.

Movement & muscle+

Strength, Pilates, the incline walk — each with a job to do. Why more isn’t better.

Sleep & stress+

Why sleep breaks after 40, the 3 a.m. waking, and how to calm a stressed body.

Supplements+

Creatine, berberine — what the science says, where studies disagree, what’s marketing.I explain. I do not prescribe.

Real life+

The dinner out. The holiday. The week that fell apart. What to do the next morning.

Understand it.Build it.Live it.

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When you join The Rebuild

Everything you receive.

The lessons, the tools and the live calls — so you’re using it in your own life from the first week.

6 live group calls with me — for this founding cohort only
Every call recorded. Three of them are my founding-cohort gift.
The complete 12-week Rebuild program
Clear, practical lessons, downloadable hormone guides and short self-check quizzes you work through in your own time. Hormones, HRT, food, training, sleep, stress, recovery and supplements — in one place.
Your 7-Day Foundation Menu and complete 28-Day Menu
Two downloadable menus, with recipes built around food you recognise and enjoy — carbs included, vegan options, calories shown for every dish.
Your complete 7-workout library — home, gym and Pilates
Six strength workouts: upper body, lower body and full body — each with a home and gym version. Plus my signature Pilates core session.
The Donia Maria Incline Walk
My signature workout, and the most fun you’ll have on a treadmill. A guided incline walk with music that makes you forget you’re working.
Your Real-Life Return Toolkit
A simple check-in for the moment you’re about to give up on the day — and the way back the next morning.
3 Beyond-the-Scale Progress Check-Ins
Weeks 1, 6 and 12: you check your waist, energy, sleep, strength, food confidence and symptoms — plus weight if you choose.

Plus ongoing access to the core lessons and tools.

I’m ready to start my Rebuild

Proof in the numbers

You’re not being handed theory. You’re being handed a decade of it.

10+

Years in clinic

Consultant trichologist, working alongside doctors. Still practising.

1,000+

Women guided

One-to-one, through hormones, food and training.

Week fellowship

Under one of the world’s leading hair-loss doctors. Two specialist qualifications, both with distinction.

Founding cohort stories land here the moment they’re written.

20 places. Closes Sunday 11 October.

Start my Rebuild — €697

Join The Rebuild · Founding cohort

Build the strongest version of you yet.

Twelve weeks, six live calls with me, one foundation you can keep returning to — at a price that won’t come back.

BeginsMonday 12 October

ClosesSunday 11 October, 23:59

Places20 women

Next opening€897

The complete Rebuild

The complete 12-week Rebuild program
Your 7-Day Foundation Menu and 28-Day Menu
Your complete 7-workout library
The Donia Maria Incline Walk
Your Real-Life Return Toolkit
3 Beyond-the-Scale Progress Check-Ins
Ongoing access to the core lessons and tools

First 20 · Closes 11 October

Founding cohort price

~~€897~~€697

or three monthly payments of €250 (€750 total). Next time The Rebuild opens: €897.

Start my Rebuild — €697 Join with 3 payments of €250

Closes Sunday 11 October 2026 at 23:59, Europe/Madrid — or as soon as all 20 places are taken. When enrolment closes, checkout closes.

My gift to the first 20

3 extra live calls with me.

An hour with me privately costs €500. In this cohort, you get six live hours with me in the group — included.

Three live calls are built into the program. For this cohort — and only this one — I’m adding three more. Every call is recorded.

Future cohorts get the recordings. You get me live.

The founding cohort

It’s never too late to rebuild yourself.

The Rebuild is complete on its own. The founding cohort is the only time you receive these 3 extra live calls.

20 places · Closes Sunday 11 October, 23:59Start my Rebuild — €697 Join with 3 payments of €250

Let me answer the questions already in your head.

Is The Rebuild right for me?

Yes — if you’re eating less, trying harder, and wondering why your body no longer responds the way it used to, you’re the woman I created The Rebuild for.

You don’t need to be fit, disciplined, or “good with food.” You only need to be ready to stop starting over every Monday and understand what your body needs now.

It’s not right for you if you want five kilos off by Friday, another strict plan that collapses when life happens, or someone to do it for you.

I’m not sure whether I’m in perimenopause, menopause, or past menopause. I just know I can’t lose weight. Is The Rebuild for me too?

Yes. You don’t need to know exactly which stage you’re in to start. If you’re doing everything that used to work and your body is no longer responding in the same way, something has changed — and that’s exactly where The Rebuild begins.

Whether you’re in perimenopause, menopause, years past it, or have no idea which, The Rebuild helps you understand what your body is doing now — and what to do next.

My body doesn’t respond to anything anymore. Is there any point in trying this?

If you’ve put in the effort and nothing changed, I understand why you’re sceptical. I’m not going to tell you to try harder.

What’s usually missing isn’t effort — it’s that food, training, sleep and hormones were handled in separate rooms, and nobody showed you how they work together.

If you have a thyroid condition, PCOS or insulin resistance, you’ll still need your own medical care alongside it — The Rebuild works with that, not instead of it.

Is this another diet — and will I have to fast or give up carbs?

No. It’s not another diet plan, not a detox, and not a quick fix.

The moment a food becomes “not allowed,” it often becomes the food you can’t stop thinking about. That’s why The Rebuild doesn’t hand you a list of forbidden foods.

You won’t be asked to skip meals, remove carbs, or survive on food you don’t enjoy.

I don’t have much time. How much does The Rebuild actually take each week?

I know your days are already full. Making a change does take some time, especially at the beginning. But as the meals, movement and routines become familiar, they become part of your day.

Training: 3–4 sessions a week. Thirty minutes goes a long way.
Lessons: at your own pace, with short quizzes and downloadable guides. Interactive, not boring. Everything is something you can use from day one.
Live calls: six times, 60 minutes each, all recorded.

I don’t have a gym, and I’m not fit. Can I still start?

Yes. You don’t need a gym, and you don’t need to get fit before you begin.

Your upper-body, lower-body and full-body workouts each come in a home version and a gym version. You also get my Pilates core session. No treadmill? Take a brisk walk outside with some hills.

How soon will I notice a difference — and why 12 weeks?

Honestly, it depends. Some women notice changes quickly; others need longer.

The first 30 days are about understanding what changed. By around 60 days, you’re building your foundation. By the end of 12 weeks, you’re living it — and trusting yourself to keep going.

Is this medical treatment?

No. The Rebuild helps you understand food, movement, recovery and your changing body — so you can make informed decisions. It doesn’t diagnose, prescribe, or replace your doctor.

What if I use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — or I’m thinking about it?

Whether you’re on it, thinking about it, or have only heard the letters — this is exactly what I explain inside The Rebuild: what it is, who it’s for, and why.

The Rebuild won’t tell you to start, stop, or change your treatment — that stays between you and your doctor.

Will I be doing this on my own — is it you, or a team?

It’s me. For this founding cohort, you get six live group calls with me personally. Every call is recorded.

One-to-one coaching and WhatsApp support aren’t included; if you’d like private support, ask me about VIP.

I’m vegetarian, dairy-free or gluten-free. Will the menus work for me?

Yes. All my menus are built around real food you already recognise, with vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free options. Every breakfast has a meal swap. If you have a specific food allergy, ask me before you join.

What if I travel, miss a live call or fall behind?

Then you come back — that’s the method, not a failure of it. Every call is recorded, the lessons wait for you, and the Real-Life Return Toolkit is built for exactly this.

You don’t need to start over. You return.

What happens after I pay — and is the payment plan a subscription?

You get your login details and 7-Day Foundation Menu straight away. We start together on Monday 12 October.

No subscription: €250 when you join, then €250 monthly for two more months. €750 in total. No automatic renewal.

Read the complete purchase and withdrawal terms

Your life is not over.
This could be the beginning of your strongest chapter.

You are not here to become twenty again.

You are here to become the woman who understands her body, trusts her decisions, keeps the promises she makes to herself, and knows how to return when life becomes life.

Your best years are not behind you.