Long Bones

Okay, this sounds incredibly hippy dippy trippy (yes, I watch What Not to Wear), but I’m serious. One of the best ways to stick with this weight loss journey is to find an aspect of it that you love. Because this is a lifestyle change and not a diet and I can’t reasonably advocate you to do something that you hate, (almost) every day, forever. Because there will be parts of it that you hate you have to find the thing that balences them. I was going to say you could try to find a really good work around, but you can’t work around exercise, or eating vegetables.

So finding the thing you love can’t be that difficult, right? Yeah, maybe, not so much. It takes a lot of trying different things. You can think something is your passion one week and then grow bored with it the next. We are fickle creatures, human beings.

For Nelly it’s exercise, going to the gym isn’t a chore for her – in fact it’s one of the sweetest parts of her day. Aulika reports sex, reading on the bike and dancing. For me it’s cooking excellent healthy foods. Ten years ago I had to call Nelly to ask her how to make spaghetti. As in “boil water, add pasta, wait, drain, pour on sauce” make spaghetti. These days the transformation from ingredients to food comes naturally and I love how under my hand a simple blend of mushrooms, leeks, a touch of butter, salt and a splash of wine can become something transcendental.