I've watched thousands of women board my cruise ship and gain weight in a week. The Greek and Italian women ate double and walked off looking better.
It drove me crazy for years, until one of them told me the truth at the late seating.
Boarding, March
Six months later
Leah, 31, cruise ship attendant.* *Composite story told by a narrator, based on customer experiences; names changed; images are illustrations. Results vary.
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On a seven-day cruise, everybody gains. I mean everybody.
Unlimited pasta, bread, wine, cheese and dessert, 24 hours a day. The buffet never closes and room service runs past midnight. By day seven you can see it on their faces: the puffiness, the bloating, the "I'll deal with it when I get home."
I see it every sailing, because I'm the one watching them walk on and walk off.
Except one group I could never figure out. The Greek and Italian women, usually in their fifties, sometimes their sixties. They travel in groups, they laugh louder than anyone on the ship, and they eat more than anyone on the ship.
Breakfast, they're loading their plates. Dinner, it's the full pasta course, the bread basket, the wine and their own dessert. They don't share. Seven nights in a row.
Then they walk down the gangway looking better than when they boarded. Flat stomachs, glowing skin, small waists. Meanwhile everyone else is bloated and stuffing the stretchy pants they bought at port into their suitcases.
Most people think it's genetics. I did too, for years.
Mediterranean genes. Luck. That's what I said to feel better while I hid my belly behind my staff blazer.
It made me crazy. I'd watch them eat twice what I ate, and I was the one feeling heavy and bloated after a crew salad. I tried everything I could fit around 12-hour shifts:
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Crew salads, a midnight gym, a bigger blazer: none of it touched the bloating. What finally helped cost about $1 a day, and I found it while clearing a table at the late seating.
Then one night at the late seating
I was clearing tables. A woman, maybe 57 or 58 and gorgeous, was finishing an enormous dinner with her girlfriends. Plates everywhere. Three empty bottles of wine.
She opened her purse, took out a small bag and popped two little softgels. One of her friends did the same. Then the third. Three women, same bag, same softgels, right there at the table like it was the most normal thing in the world.
I couldn't help it. I walked over. "I'm so sorry, I have to ask. What did you just take?"
She looked up with a big smile and grabbed my hand.
Her friend pulled out a chair. These women are not shy. Then she looked at my stomach, the way your aunt looks at you when she knows something you don't, and asked how long it had been like that.
"That's not fat, my love"
Her friend jumped in: "That's why we eat whatever we want. We keep our gut in balance, so our food goes where it's supposed to go."
Some of that was village wisdom. The part that checks out: trillions of gut microbes help break down your food, and researchers have linked a less balanced gut to more gas, bloating and that heavy, full feeling after meals.
She held up the bag. Two oils.
"Oregano and black seed. And not the cheap oregano they sell everywhere. This is our oregano, sweetheart. It grows on our hills. Our grandmothers used it, our mothers used it, and every woman in my village uses it."
"This one keeps the gut in balance, so your food goes where it should," she said, tapping the oregano. "This one keeps you steady. Our mothers took both."
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The oregano oil mistake most people make
Then she tapped the label. Most oregano softgels never tell you how much carvacrol, the compound wild oregano is prized for, is inside. Hers printed it.
I wrote the name on a cocktail napkin
The whole table watched me write it down. One of them leaned over and said, "We've been trying to tell you people for years. You just won't listen."
I ordered Resilia at the next port and started taking two softgels every morning before my shift.
My first month at sea, week by week
Nothing dramatic
Some gurgling. Easy to swallow, best with breakfast.
Crew meals felt different
The heavy, bloated feeling after meals eased up. My uniform sat easier at the waist after dinner, and I kept thinking it had stretched in the wash.
The head chef stopped me
A big Greek guy who's watched crew come and go for ten years: "What happened to you?" I shrugged. He walked off shaking his head.
My roommate saw me getting dressed
"Okay, you need to tell me what you're doing." She ordered before her next shift.
Week two, in the galley. Illustrations of a composite experience. Results vary.
"What did they do to you on that ship?"
End of the month, home port. My mom was waiting at the dock like she always does. She saw me coming down the gangway and her face changed.
I laughed and told her I'd made some changes at sea. She didn't get it yet. She will, because I ordered her a bag too.
Those women had a daily habit their grandmothers taught them, and they kept it right there at the dinner table while the rest of us blamed the bread.
Six months later I still take two every morning before my shift. On my last cruise a passenger asked whether I was a guest. I'm 31, and I'm crew.
Leah also changed how she ate and moved. Resilia supports gut health and digestion; it is not a weight-loss product. Results vary.
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Resilia is a daily gut-support supplement, not a weight-loss product. It's made to support healthy digestion, gut balance and comfort from occasional bloating. Leah's story is a composite, and she also changed how she ate and moved. Results vary.
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Story disclosure: Leah's story is a composite based on customer experiences, told in the first person by a narrator. Names, details and images are illustrative and do not depict a specific person. Her changes came with changes to diet and activity and are not a typical or expected result of using Resilia. Individual results vary.
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