What does it take to help you eat healthily?
A health expert who can list out healthy options for you? Or perhaps a personal chef who can prepare a proportionate meal? Or maybe a place from where you can procure fresh produce?
Sounds like a tedious process, doesn’t it and one that can burn a hole through your pockets?
Hyderabad-based ‘Greens and More’, a healthy one-stop shop destination fulfils all those requirements, provides a meal tailored to your body needs and all at an affordable rate.
After giving birth to two daughters, Preeti had gained nearly 20 kilos of pregnancy weight and even developed Sciatica, a painful condition that affects the sciatic nerve in the lower back. Along the way, it got worse as she started suffering from breathlessness and fatigue on a daily basis.
Speaking to The Better India (TBI), Preeti says,
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After returning to India from the United States in December 2013, Preeti joined aerobics classes where the importance of eating healthy and nutritious food was stressed upon. Though Preeti had several food options at her disposal, there was always a thing or two missing from the wholesome food.
“Meals kept on shelves are either not fresh or not wholesome. For instance, if there are sprouts in the salad, then the leafy vegetables would be less, or sometimes the fruit intake gets affected. A healthy meal will contain a mix all vitamins, proteins, carbs and fats like nuts, almonds, walnuts and proteins like legumes, pulses, dairy, and meat,” she says.
Concerned about her health, Preeti started researching on the modern food pyramid,
With help from a few nutritionists and health experts, the 37-year-old prepared a salad that comprised green vegetables, fruit and sprouts. She followed the diet for a few months, received desired results and lost nearly 15 kilos.
Nothing whispered to Preeti that this was the beginning of her new venture to provide a healthy lifestyle to the people of Hyderabad.
As for the funding, Preeti invested merely Rs 2,000 to supply her first order in the city. The bootstrapped startup generates revenue from selling their meals through subscriptions, website and WhatsApp. Preeti is a part of seven WhatsApp groups where people order their meals.
Like for Dr Shailaja who has endema, the meal provided by Greens and More helped her reduce the swelling on her legs, “I have an autoimmune disease, and after I started having the salads, the swelling and puffiness on my legs and hands have reduced significantly.”
Finally, with her family standing behind her in support of her initiative, she officially registered “Green’s and More” in 2017.
Another aficionado of Preeti’s “Greens and More” meals is Urvashi whose visceral fat has come down to 4.5 per cent from 7 per cent with an overall decrease in fat and increase in muscle mass, “Of course I have been working out religiously but as they say eating right makes a lot of difference.”
Reversing Lifestyle Disorders With Right Food
The many food experiments that Preeti conducted made her understand the ratio of food to exercise should ideally be 80:20, “Many women in my class religiously attended every class but ended up eating unhealthy food thus defeating the entire purpose of living a healthy lifestyle.”
