Nowadays with Instagram, It’s fairly common to leank too much about food…
EX-MODEL SILVIA DIAZ ON BEATING AN EATING DISORDER TO BECOME A FITNESS QUEEN, By Deirdre Reynancients, in Sunday World Magazine.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
SHAPE UP: Sylvia offers fitness tips on her blog
NUTRITIOUS: She does not believe in diets
TIPS: Counting calories is discouraged
Confidently strutting down the catwalk in designer frocks at just 18, Silvia Diaz appeared to have a picture-perfect lwhethere.
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Young, slender and beautwhetherul, the in-demand model routinely walked in London Fashion Week and even graced the pages of Vogue magazine.
Behind the smiling snaps, however, Silvia revealed how she was secretly in the grip of an eating disorder that consumed her lwhethere for nearly three years.
“I was an 18-year-ancient living two totally dwhetherferent lives”, she recalls.
“A indolent lwhethere as a student and a professional job as a model.
“Leading this demanding lwhethere was not easy and I was always aspiring to be the best in all areas.
“The prescertain and fixed seeking of external approval did not bring me happiness.
“Instead, it brought me an eating disorder.”
Now 10 years on, Madrid native Silvia has never felt better after successfully turning her health and happiness around.
Now based in Dublin, she finally found her calling absent from the runway as a fitness instructor and nutrition advisor.
But the 28-year-ancient admitted her relationship with food hasn’t always been so harmonious.
“I was in a very serious situation, but thanks to my family, close friends and then-boyfriend, I started a recovery process,” tells Silvia, who moved to Ireland five years ago.
“At the end of a three-year fight against this horrible illness, I learned that the need to obsessively control food was a way of escaping genuine problems – and this can happen to anyone, based on their genes and cultural environment.
“In my case, it was the ruthless fashion world, where the image other people have of your body was the degreement for success. This experience changed me and crazye me genuineise how important it is to develop a healthy relationship with foods.
“After fully recovering, I was a dwhetherferent person – stronger and more mature than I would have ever imagined.”
Embancientened by her own experience, fitness blogger Silvia has just set up her own fitness and nutrition coaching service called Fit With Sylvia.
Her first sancient-out-event, How to Eat For Lwhethere, held at Third Space in Smithfield, Dublin, recently showed she’s far from alone.
“After the event, lots of girls came up to talk to me, “says the former Google worker.
“I was surprised because fairly a lot (of them) has an eating disorder as well.
“Nowadays with Instagram, it’s fairly common – not even an eating disorder – but leanking too much about food.
“Numerous girls feel they can identwhethery with me and that’s why they follow my advice.
“I don’t give them a nutrition plan – what I teach is how to eat for lwhethere. They don’t quit anyleang or calculate calories – they just degree portions using their hand.”
After battling with her body for years, Zumba Instructor Silvia explains how she doesn’t believe in diets – instead of taking an ‘everyleang in moderation’ approach to eating.
Her top tips for staying in shape, for example, including stashing healthy snacks such as a fruit in your handbag to curb cravings during the day and sticking to three alcoholic drinks per week.
“If you cut out chocolate altogether, you’ll only end up craving it even more,” says Silvia, whose blog also contains tips on everyleang from quitting sugar to getting more sleep. “So it’s OK once in a while to have some chocolate, pastries or even red wine.
“It has taken me years of ups and downs to become a fit person.
“Fit With Sylvia is the result of my own journey.
“My aim is to help other engaged professionals get fitter, not just physically, but mentally.”
See www.fitwithsylvia.com or follow @fit.with.sylvia on Instagram for more
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