About my programs
With my guidance, my clients build real, lasting strength and energy — without burnout, guilt, or giving up the things they love. My work is built for busy parents and professionals who want to feel great in their bodies and show up fully for their families.
Here's what I know to be absolutely true: healthy living has to be sustainable, or it isn't actually healthy. For too long, the industry has handed people like us advice built for someone with unlimited time, no kids, and no real job — extreme diets, punishing workouts, all-or-nothing programs — and then made us feel guilty when it didn't stick. I do something different.
I bring together four areas of expertise — Pilates, strength training, nutrition, and behavior change — and build them around what actually fits a real, packed week: work schedules, school pickups, sports and activities, and dinner that still needs to happen. Almost nobody has that stack, and almost nobody has spent 23 years inside the industry seeing exactly where it fails real people. Instead of stitching together strength here, Pilates there, nutrition somewhere else, and behavior change almost nowhere, you get one coherent plan where all four fit together by design — and that holds up on your busiest day, not just your easiest one.
Everything I do runs through three principles:
Sustainable. No "shred," "blast," or "no excuses." We build habits and routines that hold up when the week gets hectic — not ones that fall apart the first time work runs late or a kid gets sick. Because if it doesn't last, it was never really healthy.
Grounded. No fad diets, no extreme restrictions, no hustle-harder messaging. Just simple, evidence-based shifts around movement, food, and daily routines that work on your busiest day — whether that's a 20-minute session before the kids wake up or working out alongside your toddler on the living room floor.
Doable. This isn't about being perfect. It's about a plan built around your actual life, kids, and commitments, and all — where "enough" actually moves the needle, and small, consistent choices add up to big changes over time.
And because real, lasting change is hard when you're also raising a family, you get more than a plan — you get someone in your corner. I'm not here as an authority barking orders. I'm a fellow parent who's lived it (and still is). As your advocate, I'll help you celebrate the wins (even the small ones), navigate setbacks, and build momentum that carries your whole family forward — even on the days when dinner was cereal and the workout didn't happen.
We'll form a true partnership. You bring the commitment; I'll bring the expertise, accountability, and a whole lot of encouragement.
This isn't about being perfect. It's about building a life that survives the chaos — one your whole family feels good in.

About Margreta
I spent over a decade inside the fitness industry watching it sell "healthy living" in a way that was anything but — extreme diets, punishing workouts, all-or-nothing programs built for someone with unlimited time, no kids, and no real job. It didn't work for the people delivering it, and it didn't work for the people buying it. So in 2015, I left to build something different.
That's why Healthy Living by Margreta exists, and it runs on one conviction: healthy living has to be sustainable, or it isn't actually healthy.
Over the past decade, I've worked with clients navigating everything from chronic health challenges to the everyday chaos of raising a family, and I've seen firsthand what works.
Spoiler: it's not extreme diets or punishing workout routines. It's building habits that hold up when the week gets hectic — and keep going anyway.
Today, I help individuals and families build lasting healthy habits by bringing together four things most coaches treat separately: Pilates, strength training, nutrition, and behavior change. One coherent approach, built around your real life — not the life some program assumes you have.
And I'm not coaching from a pedestal. I'm a working parent, figuring out the same things you are, with 23 years of experience to back it up.
Whether you're a parent trying to model healthy habits for your kids, someone ready to get stronger and more energized, or a family looking for practical, whole-life wellness that actually fits your schedule, you've found your place.



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