I'm Danica.
I'm a nutrition coach, recipe developer, and the founder of The Well Fed Club. My grandparents were chefs, my mum's a really great home cook, my kitchen smells like garlic about 40% of the time, and I built this Club for women who are done with the diet industrial complex.
If you're here, there's a chance you already know what I mean. Read on if you want the long version.
How I learned to eat.
I grew up with a very European take on eating. My grandparents were chefs, my mum was a really great home cook, and food was never spoken about in a bad way. Nothing was off limits. Nothing was avoided. It was the way we connected, and it was the centre of every milestone and every event.
I never overthought what I was eating, or how much I was eating. I just simply ate, and I enjoyed it. And with that, my body sat at a healthy weight all the way through childhood without me ever thinking about it.
I want you to remember that. Long before tracking, long before the noise, this is what eating actually felt like. And honestly, I think most of us have a version of this somewhere in our childhood. Somewhere underneath all the rules.
When the noise got in.
It wasn't until after high school that things went south for me. My social circles expanded, social media got noisier, and my view on food started to change with them. I was going through a perfectly natural body shift, the one every girl goes through from teenager to woman, and the noise told me there was something wrong with me. I was a healthy weight the whole time. The noise didn't care.
I discovered macro tracking and I lost weight, and then the tracking became the obsession. Not “be healthy”, not “feel good”, just “keep shrinking myself”. I couldn't miss a day of exercise. I was doing 20 to 30 thousand steps a day. I had real anxiety around social eating. I genuinely believed that anything I hadn't tracked, anything that wasn't on the meal plan, would “ruin” my progress.
That isn't health. That's a job. A really lonely job that paid in stress.
What I learned.
One day I just decided enough was enough. I couldn't keep living that way. So I went back to learning, properly this time, the actual research on women's nutrition rather than the fitness-industry version of it.
The more I read outside of calorie counting, the more I realised that what I'd been taught wasn't best for my health at all. Body image and weight are not the same thing as actual health. Just because a body is smaller doesn't make it automatically healthier, and there are real risks of being underweight that nobody seems to warn young women about.
So I shifted. From how I looked, to how I felt. From working against my body, to working with it. I stopped tracking, I stopped pre-eating, I stopped doing the maths.
And nothing terrible happened. That's the punchline.
What I do now.
I've shifted back to my roots. I cook the way my mum cooked, the way my grandparents cooked, food filled with love and enjoyment rather than rules. I reduced my exercise to what actually feels good. I built a lifestyle that works for me, and my weight has sat stable through all of it.
My job now is to help real people take the pressure off and eat food they actually enjoy. The recipes are simple, weeknight, family-friendly, with straightforward ingredients you already have. Macros are calculated for the women who like to know, hidden from the women who don't. Both are valid.
I've worked in 1:1 nutrition coaching for the past six years and helped hundreds of women come out the other side of this. I write a newsletter. I have an ebook on the way (it's taken longer than I thought, the good ones always do). And I built this Club, which is the closest thing I could build to having you over for dinner.
I want to be the change my younger self needed.
I think about that twenty-something version of me a lot. The one doing thirty thousand steps a day, stepping out at every social dinner, scared of food I'd loved my whole childhood. I wanted her to have somewhere to go that wasn't another diet plan, another macro calculator, another weight-loss app dressed up in soft pastel colours. I wanted a place that was honest about food being good, and bodies being seasonal, and life being short.
That's what The Well Fed Club is. I hope you stay a while.
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