Who am I?

Hi. I'm a 24 year old Swiss fitness and health fanatic who loves geeking out on everything related to that. I have a my Bachelor in food technology with specialization on health and nutrition, my Master in Food and Beverage Innovation and a diploma as Nutritionist.

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My Story

It all started about 6 years ago, when I realised something had to change. I didn't feel comfortable anymore in my body. I never wore jeans above knee height and never went out of the house without a scarf (to hide my double chin), not even in summer... and of course, not one boy was even looking at me. My self esteem was somewhere below sea level as well as my confidence.

So I finally made my decision. I downloaded fitness apps and followed youtube video tutorials on how to warm up and just move. I even bought pink 1.5kg dumbbells ;D So I ended up working out for 3 hours every day! Crazy!!! BUT like this I lost quite some pounds.

Later, I realized that these sugared cereals I ate a ton of every day and the pasta and the butter bread might not be that helpful for losing fat. So I started googeling fitness tips and "how to lose belly fat" and "these foods are making you fat" and all the other shit out there popped up. Then I discovered supplements, fat burners, whey protein, protein bars, just protein protein protein!!! Cut out fat, it makes you fat! Cut out carbs, they make you fat too! But protein is your friend, protein does'nt make you fat. I've tried everything. (And I spent sooooooo much money on supplements I really did not need and that simply were not effective.) A HUUUUGE bowle of fruits in the morning, low carb, low fat, both at the same time, spending 2 hours in the gym everyday (1 hour strength training, 1 hour cardio), never ever skipped a workout, never touched any cake or cookie. My skin got worse, I started getting stomach issues, bloating... BUT my fat slowly but surely said goodbye.

But you know what? I felt fucking horrible! Always pushing myself so hard broke me down from the inside. I never really recovered and gave my body what it really needed. But I didn't want to admit that to myself.

Fortunately, my self image and my disordered behavior changed thanks to my boyfriend who showed me what is really important (self love and being loved for who you are) and that a cookie here and there is not as bad as I had thought.

I now workout because I love it (I'm literally adicted to it), I eat for feeling great and I DON'T FUCKING CARE WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT ME.

Every day, I acquire something new about fitness, health or well being, mainly through listening to podcatsts, and it helps me leveling up my life a little bit every day.

And that's why I started having trust issues with certain institutions like the American Heart Association and other federal institutions related to health and well being. 

I started to educate myself and to think for myself and to question. Critically. And I now have my own set of believes regarding health recommendations.

That's it. That's how I became a health diva.

My Motivation

Look around you. More people are fat and overweight than starving!

Even though we have never ever had so much technical possibilities and knowledge about health, wellness, how the body works and how food impacts us, disease and sickness are skyrocketing.

Also, we would have enough food for everyone. But the distribution and, more importantly, the mindset around food and its availabilty is totally fucked up.

"This banana is not beautiful enough anymore, it won't appeal to the consumer. Throw it away."

"I bought more food than I can eat before it spoils... I guess I have to throw it away."

"Well, actually I don't like the taste of that thing I piled on my plate on the all you can eat buffet... I'll throw it away and get something new."

"It's winter but I wanna have a pineapple now! And strawberries! And an avocado!"

"But there are supplements that make you burn fat and protein bars and artificial sweeterns instead of sugars and low fat cookies and I can go and get my fat sucked out of my body when I'm feeling to fat, right?"

Are you fucking kidding me? How stupid and blind and self centric have we become?

Meanwhile, people in Africa can not even afford clean water anymore because Nestlé is about to occupy every drop of water out there.

(I also ask myself sometimes when we will have to pay for the air we breathe.... and if organic air will be more expensive than regular air and if there will be vegan air as well... 

Seriousely. Let's just make sure we don't fuck up the air in the first place.)

Food is there to nourish us. To make us thrive. To energize us without a crash later in the day (yes, that's possible^^).

But very intelligent people (who understand human physiology and reward mechanisms) engineer food to make us addicted to it. To make us want more. To literally crave it. To buy more of it.

NOT to make us healthy.

Because making us healthy does not generate money.

The food industry ,as well as the government., do not care about our health.

So if they don't, we have to do it ourselves.

My Mission

I wanna provide valuable information. But not just any information like you can read on every other health and fitness blog out there. 

I don't wanna copy everyone, there is no point in doing that anyway. But I wanna share information that is NOT being told you out there!  

I want to educate you, to provide you with the knowledge you need to be able to think by yourself! I want you to think critically about what is dogmatically told by the government's health institutions, the food and the fitness industry.

Most diet recommendations are very heavily influenced by the food industry.

And the fitness industry tells you everything you wanna hear, just that you finally buy that fucking supplement you really don't even need!

Why do they do that? Why do they not tell us the truth, but false or incomplete information which could harm us eventually?

Because they all want the same: Money.

You don't have to buy fucking diet books and fat burners and protein bars and waist trainers! YOU DON'T NEED TO! And you don't have to believe and trust everything that is being told you out there.

I strongly hope you will use the information on my blog for your health and fitness and longevity.

Start thinking.

Start questioning.

Start implementing.

BUT you can do whatever you want with the information I provide here.

Believe it. Don't believe it. Remember, it's your choice.

Become a health diva!