Marelova Field Notes is an independent editorial publication focused on everyday nutrition practices and weight awareness. The publication is not affiliated with any commercial, governmental, or institutional body.
Eleanor Whitfield
Eleanor Whitfield spent the better part of a decade working as a qualified nutrition professional before she began keeping the records that eventually became this publication. The habit started modestly: a spiral-bound notebook, a table near the kitchen window, notes on what she ate across a week and how her energy shifted with the seasons.
What surprised her was the patience the practice demanded. A record kept over months reveals patterns that a single day’s entry never could — the way the body’s response to food changes with temperature, with activity levels, with the gradual shift from root vegetables in January to the lighter greens that arrive in April. These rhythms, she found, were not widely written about in a register that was both rigorous and readable.
Marelova Field Notes grew from that observation. It is, in its original intent, an attempt to document the ordinary arithmetic of daily nutrition: not to prescribe, not to rank foods by virtue, but to observe and record with the same careful attention a naturalist might bring to a changing landscape.
Eleanor writes the majority of articles herself, drawing on published nutritional research and her own sustained record-keeping. She is joined occasionally by Tobias Marsden, a writer with a long interest in sport, movement, and the relationship between an active life and everyday food choices.
