Plant-forward Nutrition

  • I've always been a runner, and I’ve always been in to sport. But for years, my relationship with food worked against that. In my teens, diet culture had me convinced that smaller was always better, and I cycled through restriction, exhaustion, overeating and guilt, over and over. My weight fluctuated, my running suffered, and motivation waned. I thought it came down to a lack of discipline, and I felt like I was the only one struggling with food and body image in this way.

    At university I watched a vegan documentary, and I was fascinated by this radical new perspective. It was the opposite of how I normally ate - a diet high in meat and low in carbs, and it stayed with me, drawn in by the health side, the impact on animals, and reducing the destruction of wild places I loved to run and adventure in.

    I went plant-based for a month, expecting it to feel impossible and restrictive, and found the complete opposite was true. My plates got fuller, with more colour, more carbs and more variety than I'd ever eaten, and I found myself eating more often and more consistently, with enough energy to keep training properly. Somehow, without feeling like I was dieting, I lost the 10kg I’d slowly gained in the previous few years.

    For the first time, I felt properly fuelled. My energy came back, I could run further, and my gut settled in a way it never had before. Slowly, my body stopped being something to fight against, and became something to use.

    I haven't dieted since. I've stayed plant-based for plenty of reasons, ethics being a big one, and because I genuinely feel fantastic living this way. Since then I've gone on to run marathons and ultras, things I never thought I'd be capable of.

    I went on to study a Level 5 in Advanced Nutrition Science, so I could turn what I'd learned into something that helps other women get there too.

    I don’t believe everyone needs to be fully plant based - but I do believe the evidence shows that a plant rich way of living will provide a host of benefits. And fuelling yourself better with carbs, is just one.

  • I love food, and cooking is a huge part of the way I want to help people improve their nutrition.

    Over the past decade, I've spent extended time in Asia, including Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and India. In many of these places, plant-rich diets have been part of daily life for generations. Ingredients like tofu, soy, herbs, vegetables, grains and legumes form the foundation of countless traditional meals. Vietnam has long been known for some of the lowest obesity rates in the world, and Japan for having some of the highest life expectancy, alongside notably low rates of certain cancers, both closely tied to traditional, plant-rich ways of eating.

    I've learned from chefs, home cooks and communities where plant-forward eating is simply normal, cultures that have long understood how to build meals that are nourishing, flavourful and satisfying without relying heavily on animal products. There's an incredible amount we can learn from these traditions.

  • Girls are told early on that sport isn’t really for them. For many of us, what we look like starts to become more important than what we can do, and we start believing that our bodies should take up less space.

    We’re told to shrink. Eat less, earn your food and be smaller. But under-fuelling costs us. It can stop our periods, weaken the bones we’re building for life, and leave us tired, injured and stuck.

    Then we’re dropped into a food environment that makes the best choice the hardest one. In the UK, healthier food costs more than twice as much per calorie as less healthy food, and one in four food outlets is a fast food shop.

    None of that is a willpower problem. It’s the world we grew up in.

    For years, it made my life smaller. Food took up so much of my head: planning, restricting, feeling guilty. It cost me injuries, energy, and a lot of joy.

    Now I eat more than I ever have. I fuel the life I actually want: the long runs, the big adventures, with plates full of colour.

    I have a huge appetite, for food and for life. And I want that for you too.

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