Nutrition By Mel LLC

Less marketing. More mission. Less influence. More impact. It’s me and my work in a handful of words💗.

Xx Mama Mel

The amount of work a goal requires has to match the season of life you’re in.

Right now, I’m in a season where I can push.

I have reliable childcare. Tiberius is sleeping pretty well (Soli is still a little boobie barnacle some nights 😅), but overall I’m getting enough rest to recover. I have the resources to buy enough food to fuel breastfeeding, hard training, and my family. I have support. I have a home gym and time carved out to move my body.

That is a privilege, not a given.

A year ago, this would’ve looked completely different. And a year from now, it might again.

Recognizing your season isn’t making excuses. It’s being honest about the resources, capacity, and energy you actually have.

Some seasons are for rebuilding.

Some are for maintaining.

Some are simply about surviving.

And then there are seasons where everything aligns and it’s time to say, “Let’sss f**kinggg goooo.”

This is one of those seasons for me.

The mistake isn’t being in a slower season. The mistake is expecting yourself to train like someone in a completely different one.

If the amount of work your goal requires doesn’t fit your life right now, that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’ve failed. It means it’s time to adjust the timeline, the goal, or the expectations - not abandon them altogether.

The hard truth is that your goals don’t respond to good intentions.

They respond to consistent action.

But the right action looks different depending on the season you’re in.

Know your season.

Then commit fully to it.

Here for the love (even the tough love)❤️‍🩹,

Mama Mel

This isn’t just the work I do.

It’s the future I’m working toward.

For too long, we’ve asked women to carry the weight of motherhood while expecting them to quietly set aside every other part of who they are. The athlete. The entrepreneur. The professional. The partner. The daughter caring for aging parents. The woman navigating postpartum, and sometimes even the early transition into perimenopause, all while being told she’s supposed to “bounce back.”

I don’t believe women need to be more resilient.

I believe they deserve better systems.

Systems that recognize women as whole humans. Systems built on science, lived experience, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Not trends, algorithms, or whoever has the biggest following.

My mission has never been to help women fit into a broken system.

My mission is to help raise the standard for how we care for women in every season of life and to challenge the systems that have accepted “good enough” for far too long.

That means education over misinformation.
Research over assumptions.
Experts over influencers.
Collaboration over competition.
Long term health over quick fixes.

If you’re a brand, healthcare organization, university, nonprofit, research team, or company committed to advancing the conversation around women’s health, maternal health, performance, or longevity, I’d love to build something that creates real impact.

Not another affiliate code.

Let’s create education that changes practice.
Research that changes policy.
Conversations that change culture.

Because women don’t need to be fixed.

The standard of care does.

Xx Mama Mel

Why pick 5 when these 6 came to me so easily?😅

But seriously… WTF.

These are six of my biggest nutrition and women’s health horrors right now and unfortunately, I could have kept going.

What’s missing from the list?

Drop your biggest women’s health, sports nutrition, pregnancy, postpartum, or perimenopause “WHY ARE WE STILL DOING THIS?” In the comments.

Call them out and replace them with something better.

Because while venting can be therapeutic, change happens when we pair frustration with advocacy, better questions, and real solutions.

Xx Mama Mel

perimenopause

This morning, Soli helped me open our boxes as I start getting organized for some Mother’s Day events.

Tiberius woke up, took one look, and decided he was opening his own “Brodo shop.” Fully unprompted. Fully committed.

And honestly… that made it even better.

Brodo has been a staple in my life for years, so getting to build community around something I genuinely love has felt easy in the best way. But what’s been most special is seeing how much of these conversations get absorbed without me even realizing it.

Watching Tiberius connect to it, play with it, make it his own, it’s just really cool.

Can’t wait to take him to the real Brodo shop in the coming weeks.

Anyway… Brodo. It’s for everyone 🧡

Xx Mama Mel

The work isn’t dramatic. It’s repetitive, uncomfortable, and mostly invisible -> and it is here where everything shifts.

If this resonates, save it for the days it feels like nothing is working, share it with someone who needs the reminder, and let it be proof that the quiet work counts.

Here for you always🫶🏽
Xx Mama Mel

I miss fast.
Or maybe I miss what fast used to feel like.

Because this version?
She’s sprinting on broken sleep.
Fueling a human.
Training in the margins of a life that looks nothing like it used to.

And still… there’s this pull to find it again.
Not just for performance, but for identity. For connection. For feeling at home in my body.

This is the tension I hear from women every day:
the comparison,
the pressure to perform the same (or better),
on a timeline that doesn’t match real life.

Motherhood.
Aging.
Injury.
Life shifts the baseline.

It’s not about getting back.
It’s about building forward.

This week, choose effort over expectation.
Show up, move your body, and let it be enough.

Because coming home to your body doesn’t happen by forcing it,
it happens by meeting it where it is and staying there.

In it with you,
Xx Mama Mel