I am Natassa, i am almost forty years old and i live in a farm in Corinth. My official studies are Food Technology, Banking-Financing and Aromatherapy, unrelated ones…but that’t me, an inquiring mind and I have more still to come! Ever since i have almost started my studies, i bought my first book regarding healthy eating and i have never stopped getting informed about this issue, until now, at least in theory…
My story is a very known and a very common for many greeks…I have been overweight almost in my entire life and i was trying to lose weight for looking better, every given periods…I had a sedentary job for 8 or even 12 hours a joy and i was smoking like a maniac….gym??? what’s that?? My exercising decades had been only the first two….then I got a job and everything paused!
When i mentioned myself as an overweight person above, i mean all stages of over- weight, including obese and morbidly obese and naturally as an ordinary woman, i had tried ANYTHING for losing weight, even the ultimate one…
(Here i present a list of 14 different things i tried, no need to translate but the last one i write is…a beautiful bariatric surgery…)
What is the result? nothing, i mean nothing helped me reach 77 kgrs I am now (from 122 kgrs i started), except RAW FOODS!!
The short story is this: At the spring of 2012 i needed almost 10 minutes to raise from bed…my back was in an awful situation, i had to warm it in order to stand upright…i remember having paid 250 euros in non efficient physiotherapies!! My ankles needed “warming up” as well. I live in a two storey house and my worst nightmare was when i had to rush down the stairs during my waking up time…My body had started to become stiff and rigid at the age of only 38…and not only that!
Hands swollen like soft bread, not out of body fat, but of water retention, eyes puffed like eggs every morning, back and ankles hard as rocks, endless sleeping hours (they were never enough), midday siesta for at least 2 hours after lunch, constipation, heavy mentruals, zero energy and zero social life, clothes only in specific stores and only high priced and until now i have not even mentioned about annual blood test results and medical procedures…cholesterol above 220, glucose at the limit of diabetes, fatty liver, swollen thyroid gland, gall bladder removal and the list goes on…
Although i first met raw food early in 2007, my “journey” started on May 7th of 2012 from nearly 115 kgrs, however, at the weight i am now, 77 kgrs, i am still considered overweight, according to the official BMI charts…I will be normal under 73 kgrs! I don’t need to mention that my effort is not over yet…i have many months to go for reaching my goal…what is this? to become half the person i was!
I intend to share my story through this site, my story up until now and also my future experiences, but above all i want to share every knowledge i acquired during the last seven years and contributed to what i am now and what i am going to do in the future…
Lots of love, Natassa
