My story
Still a work in progress
I'm Meli, I'm 36. I was born in the smallest country in Latin America, El Salvador, and I've been living in France since 2009. Today I'm the mum of a little boy and a little girl, and I work from home after years in hospitality with irregular hours.
In 2019, I decided to change the way I lived. I threw myself into exercise, and not just doing it: I wanted to learn. How to breathe, how to position my body, which postures to use so every exercise does good instead of harm.
I made that change in my everyday life too. I tried diets, and I realised they don't work: what you need is to learn to eat differently. Because a life without little pleasures isn't a life fully lived.
After my first pregnancy I had a lot of physical problems: injections in my wrists, joint pain. I learned to take care of my body while exercising. After my second pregnancy, in September 2025, it was a different story: wonderful breastfeeding, but a lot of tiredness, and an emergency C-section that turned my habits upside down. I had to get my body used to things again and learn a new way, and that's when supplements became part of my routine.
I don't exercise as much as I did before becoming a mum, but 30 minutes is enough for me: to move, to have a moment to myself, and to watch my body grow stronger.
I don't have a before/after photo to show you, and that's on purpose. I haven't "arrived": I'm moving forward, one day at a time.
Every body is different, every metabolism and every daily life too. Don't compare yourself to others, learn to love who you are. Take care of your body, and of yourself.
What I want is to help anyone who got a little lost along the way find themselves again. No miracle promises, just moving forward together.