ROZ: How to look 10yrs younger with my Caribbean lifestyle
model roz laps up sun, sea and ‘slow’. lifestyle... and says it’s secret to youth
IRISH model Rozanna Purcell claims she has found the secret to looking 10 years younger – the slow Caribbean lifestyle. The 28-year-old from Clonmel, Co Tipperary, has been lapping up the sun and sea air in the tropical climate while on a health and fitness retreat.
She told her followers that she has found the secret to staying youthful on her travels.
The former Miss Universe Ireland wrote on her blog: “The elixir of youth... I think I found it in St Lucia. I couldn’t get over the youthfulness of some of the trainers here and locals. I mean they looked 10 years younger than what they really were.
“I quizzed them, of course, about what they ate and the style of training they undertook but the common denominator wasn’t a type of diet or fitness regime, it was as, they all said, the ‘slow Caribbean lifestyle’ and their no stress nature.
“Calm down, I know what you’re thinking – I’m screwed. My job doesn’t allow me to be slow paced and I’m stressed daily. Well, that’s why it’s important we find time for the things that help us be present and make time stand still or at least slow down.
“For me that’s recipe testing, putting my head- phones on in the gym and training or playing with my dog Willay. Our environment may be hustle and bustle but that doesn’t mean we can’t take a time out.
“As long as we find those things that help calm us and let go... we should age a little more gracefully right?
“PS. How pale are my feet right now? That’s what I get for wearing high socks.”
Despite the no-stress answer, the foodie has been posting daily updates from her time at The Body Holiday, keeping up her blogging habits while on the
It’s really important to find time for things that help us be present
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ST LUCIA
go and enlightening her followers about her new Caribbean diet. She wrote: “I’ve got to try so many sports I’ve never done before and the food here... Oh my God, the avocados are the size of my head and plantain is life. I think I found my favourite holiday destination ever.”
However, while the author of Natural Born Feeder is now well known for her wise health and nutrition tips, she didn’t always have the best relationship with her own diet.
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Roz, who spent months living in New York with other models when she was 18, has opened up about her lack of knowledge and unhealthy relationship with food in the past.
She told the Irish Independent: “I had no idea about nutrition. I would get up and go for a run in the morning and come back, and my idea of eating healthy was having a bowl of broccoli for breakfast.”
But 10 years on, the health and fitness fanatic posts her secret to happiness and success on social media daily – to her more than 232,000 followers on Instagram alone.