I spent my whole life wanting to be thin. Until my body showed me what it was actually worth.

I was never satisfied with my body. I started doing sport early — a lot of sport — and still, for years, I only saw one thing: legs that were too big. Not legs that carried me through every training session. Not legs that performed in ways I could have been proud of. Just too big. I measured my body by how it looked, never by what it could do.

Then came the accident that changed everything.

From one day to the next, my body could do nothing. And in the months of recovery, I understood for the first time what movement and nutrition actually mean for a body — not as theory, but in my own flesh. Daily endurance and strength training brought me back, physically and mentally. My body regained its capacity faster than my mind did. And I felt the connection directly: in the phases when frustration had me eating too much sugar, the migraines came back. What I ate decided how I thought, felt and functioned. Every single day.

At the same time, I was walking alongside my mother through her cancer.

Nutrition doesn't cure cancer. But I saw with my own eyes what a nourished, moving body is capable of: at the start of her chemotherapy, my mother was still walking six to ten kilometres every single day. She paid attention to what she ate, she stayed in motion — and she had quality of life long beyond what we had dared to hope for. I also saw how fast a body can decline when its strength goes.

Together, those two experiences changed how I see the body forever.

A healthy, strong body is worth infinitely more than a thin one. The legs I spent years finding too big are the same legs that carried me through recovery. The strength I could never appreciate turned out to be the most valuable thing I had.

Today I work as a certified nutrition, fitness and mental coach with women standing where I stood for so long: at war with their own body. My goal is not for you to become less. My goal is for you to be capable of more — with nutrition that follows your body instead of punishing it.

This is The Meridian Method.