Three years after passing through Survivorsand after the new edition has been released, Raquel Arias recalled her experience in Honduras and has revealed how the consequences that the program left him have affected him.
The television company has assured that the experience in Survivors It is “something you remember every day” and, although for her it was “the hardest thing” she has ever experienced, she also considers that it has been one of the best adventures of your life.
“I had never been so hungry and, like a good glutton, it was difficult for me to manage it mentally. But thanks to that experience I have discovered the ability of the mind to withstand extreme situations and I apply that in my daily life,” Arias commented in an interview for the magazine Week.
Survivors leaves a mark, and for Raquel Arias it was not going to be any less. The television station has assured that You will never forget your first night. in Honduras “surrounded by bugs, huge cockroaches, sleeping in the sand without knowing what was going to happen the next day.
But Arias is clear about what surprised him the most: hunger. “Going to the limit of eating anything I could chew. “I even ate toothpaste whenever I could and they didn’t see me,” he said.
As happens to most of those who go to SurvivorsRaquel Arias has assured that suffered “many” consequences. “It took me a year to recover and I still have digestive problems with certain foods. I have been a whole year without menstruation and I had to take medication for hormonal insufficiency. In addition, I suffered fluid retention and a lot of anxiety with food,” he explained.
The television he gained 13 kilos and even “went out into the street with food in her bag” or “woke up at dawn to eat.” “It was a huge mental conflict. And if that were not enough, people on networks can be cruel. But I already knew that I had gained weight, I had a mirror in my house. Little by little I regained my weight without obsessing. In February 2024, just one year later, “I had menstruation again and felt like myself again,” He has opened up to the magazine.
