The #TIMP blog launches a new section to meet influential fitness and wellness professionals.
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24 August 2020
The #TIMP blog starts a new section to give voice to those fitness and wellness professionals who have become relevant for their particular way of transmitting what they do and what they are passionate about.
To start this new season we are fortunate to have Nuria Garrido.
Nuria, better known on social media as @nuriagaro, is an advocate of healthy living and a great running enthusiast.
She defines herself as “a normal person, with her work and family, who tries to share her reality, her way of life”.
Our guest today is characterized by being a person who always tries to see the positive side of life and takes social networks as a tool to have energy on a daily basis.
Do you want to know more about her?
Find out everything she told us while we have a #cafeconespumita!
Let’s get started!
What is a day in the life of Nuria Garrido like?
Now I am in a special moment, since less than a month ago I had surgery for a herniated disc that has me now on leave, but a normal day of Nuria begins at 06:00 in the morning, starts the day with a #cafeconespumita, a little exercise (strength) to activate me and usual working day.
In the afternoons running training 3 or 4 times a week and the rest of the time I try to combine it with my second job in social networks without ever leaving aside family and friends.
How and when did you become aware that you had to lead a healthy lifestyle?
The healthy lifestyle came to me a little bit by force, when I started to feel very bad stomach pain in college.
At first I thought it was stress but it was actually that I had HelicobacterPiroly.
Then I started to take more care of my diet since I had chronic gastritis due to the treatments.
So I started to see that by eating healthier, without obsessions, I felt more energy, more mental clarity and in general, I felt much better!
What is your favorite dish or food?
My father’s peppers stuffed with rice.
My whole family is from Alicante and I think rice is in my DNA!
Although in general, I really enjoy food and I don’t say no to a good pasta dish, a stew or a cocido madrileño.
Do you plan your meals? How do you design the different menus?
I plan them but I also leave room for improvisation.
Every day there is fruit and vegetables at every meal, eggs almost every day, fish at least one day a week, and legumes two or three times.
We also try to cook at the weekend to have food ready for the whole week since we have less time during the week.
Also, with good planning you save a lot on the shopping list and less food is wasted, which is very important.
What do you think are the difficulties of getting used to eating healthy?
Can you give us some advice?
I think the difficulty is the belief that eating healthy is boring and that it is also too elaborate…when the opposite is true!
Some advice?
If you’re just starting out, don’t try to change everything all at once because it usually fails.
Try to start by having lighter and earlier dinners so that you can digest before going to sleep, for example.
Once you get into the habit, set small, simple goals -substitute breakfast pastries for a porridge or homemade pancakes, for example- and little by little, seeing how good you feel, it will become part of you.
Why did you start running?
Is it out of necessity?
Running came to me as an escape route.
I was going through a complicated personal situation and running helped me to focus, to not think beyond the here and now.
I think it was one of the best decisions I made and it has helped me to know my limits and to overcome many that I had imposed on myself.
What goals would you like to achieve in the future?
Before the confinement I was preparing for my first triathlon and I have been left with a thorn in my side.
As soon as I recover I want to take it up again.
What content do you like to find on social networks?
Above all, I like to find realities.
Perfect bodies, perfect lives…not everything is real and you have to know how to differentiate it.
We have to teach that not everything is always good.
You have to understand that there are bad days and that, in spite of those days, we keep going forward looking for our dreams and goals.
What do you think you can bring to the people who follow you?
Well, precisely that, realities: that I am a person who likes to eat healthy and play sports, but I also like to enjoy some scrambled eggs with ham and a beer with friends because it feeds the soul.
Life is a constant balance that must be maintained and that’s what I want to convey: that I’m always looking for that balance and that there are days when you find it and others when you don’t, but that’s okay.
You have to keep trying.
Anything else you would like to say before we say goodbye?
Yes, always look for what makes YOU happy.
Forget about fashions, references or “it should be this way”.
Let yourself be.
Don't fall behind!
We want to be the push you need to take your business to the next level. Are you in?
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