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Me and My Site

Hi! My name is Eva and I have created this website to inspire you to see weight loss as more than a matter of finding the best diet or the most fat-burning exercise.

I eat healthily (most of the time) and I am a pretty active person (most of the time).

I follow new discoveries on nutrition and exercise.

What annoys me though, is that when it comes to weight loss, it’s still "Eat Less, Exercise More".

The only thing that has changed over time is what you are supposed to eat, and how you should exercise.

As most women I put on weight during my pregnancies, most of it came off.

During some periods of my life, it has been easy to maintain my weight, but during other periods I have put on weight and really had to struggle to get it off.

(It’s during those periods I’ve tried some of the craziest diets, wishing for instant results.)

If you have every felt that big hole in your stomach that doesn’t seem to fill up no matter how much you eat, you know that losing weight is about so much more than “Eat Less, Exercise More”.

It is also so much about why you eat too much or exercise too little.

I was born in Sweden, but in 1989 I moved to the beautiful island of Corfu in Greece, where I still live with my two wonderful teenage children (well, my daughter is in her first year at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece).

I’ve always been pretty slim, but life as a single mother in Greece is very different from the life I had as a student living on my own in Sweden.

During my years in Greece I have been working a lot with personal development, both as part of my network marketing business I had when my children where small and later as a co-planner and creator of personal development seminars.

As I struggled to lose and maintain my weight, I decided to apply my knowledge on how to reach goals, and overcome obstacles on weight loss. I first tried it out on myself, and it turned out well.

I had realized with my network marketing business that I was quite good at inspiring and supporting other people. That was the part I liked. (I’m terrible at sales.) The idea to combine that knowledge and experience with my interest in healthy living went through my head and I started a weight coaching practice.

My Life as a Weight Coach

When I started my coaching practice I didn’t expect what I would come in contact with:

I met beautiful women putting their lives on hold just because they weren’t slim enough. Everything was supposed to happen after they lost that extra weight. They were beating themselves up, and denying themselves joy just because they didn’t like what they saw in the mirror.

Some of my clients had severe health issues and still something stopped them from dealing with the problem.

The “Eat Less, Exercise More” approach did them no good.

What Made Me Start a Website?

All of my weight coaching clients had failed with the “Eat Less, Exercise More” approach, but still that was what they expected me to give them. They were confused when I introduced them to something new. It was difficult for them to see that they had to do things differently and that they didn’t need to follow a strict regime to lose weight.

I needed a way to put my ideas out there and creating a website seemed like a good idea. (I even got an invitation to participate in an EU Study on weight loss thanks to my site.)

I’m not a webmaster and I couldn’t afford to pay someone to do the website for me so at first it seemed impossible for a simple person as myself to have a personal website.

(But as you see, I have a website, this made it possible.)

How Starting a Website Became Life Changing

My weight coaching practice started and was slowly growing but was interrupted in the summer of 2008 when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. After passing an awful winter I just want you to know that now I’m much better.

(Click here to read on how I now handle my fibromyalgia. It may help you if you or someone dear to you suffers from this disease. There are a lot you can do beside from taking the doctor's medication.)

When I started creating this website, I saw it mainly as a compliment to my coaching practice. My fibromyalgia had me see things differently. As I stopped seeing clients, I had to look for other means of income and I realized that the actual website could be a source of income without me having a product or service to sell. (I may sell my coaching services on this website in the future, but for now my help and support are still Free.)

So here I am now, not totally recovered from my fibromyalgia, but much better and I have a growing e-business, a business that allows me to decide my own hours and that I can do wherever I may be in the world.

I sometimes wish that I had gotten this opportunity when my kids where small, so that I could have been a work-at-home-mom when they needed me the most. But I’m really grateful that the opportunity came now, when I need it.

As long as I have my computer I can still run my business!
What an incredible freedom!

I hope you find my site encouraging and informative. You don’t have to be on a diet to lose weight, nor do you have to spend hours at the gym. And of course, you are more than welcome to contact me with questions or just share your ideas and thought.

With you on the weigh,
Eva Makris

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