How to enjoy mama's good food without gaining weight!

Life is about choices.

If you want to have the cake and eat it, that is possible, but you WILL suffer the consequences.

I know, I know, life has so much yummy things to offer. Especially now when I'm temporarily living with my parents again, and get to enjoy my mom's lovely greasy, fattening, amazing cooking, I notice that breakfast, lunch AND dinner will take their toll. Quickly.

So starting from day one -two days ago- I deliberately CHOOSE to only drink the Herbalife shake as breakfast and lunch.

My breakfast looks like this:

2 cups of coffee while I enjoy the view of the harbor on the balcony. When I'm done talking to the pigeons and seagulls, I go inside, and I make my morning shake.

I take two generous table spoons of the shake, vanilla flavoured is my favorite, and mix it with milk. I go back to the balcony and I sip it slowly while I plan my day.

During the day I drink green tea or Chai, then around two pm I take the shake again.

That way I get to scoop up an extra piece of meat and enjoy that real gravy, without feeling guilty for one second. After all, I know that tomorrow, I will replace two meals with the shake again.

Life's good.

So remember: Make choices!! Don't fool yourself by just drinking the shake every now and then and think that you will lose weight.

to lose weight takes real DETERMINATION! And STUBBORNESS! Succes doesn't come easy you know.

My dad who is my newest customer, thinks that he can continue his fattening eating habits and lose weight if he just drinks a glass of the Herbalife shake a day.

Well I helped him out of that dream!

And now I can break that illusion for you too: please don't waste your own time with continue eating normally with just a little of the Herbalife shake every now and then.
I'd rather have you save that money and just continue your unhealthy habits. It won't change anything, besides your waist size in time.

Be compassionate to yourself!

One of the women I admire the most in the entire world is her: www.blondinbella.se

She started blogging when she was 14, started her first company when she was 16, now she has a fashion collection, published book, a brand new magazine, a web shop and a private investors company. And she is 20 years old.

Who said beauty and brains can't come together?


Just now she blogged "I will take a break from everything this weekend. Shut my cell phone off, don't check my e-mail, nothing".

And I figured that's something we all should do from time to time. To dare be unreachable for a while.

Do you remember in the good old days, when yo went on vacation, and nobody could reach you for three weeks?

Wasn't that wonderful in many ways? I love my laptop and smartphone but...I'm never offline. I'm never on a real break.

And nowadays if you don't respond to an e-mail within the hour, you get text messages and phone calls from that person, that is a bit insulted you didn't take time for them at that red hot minute.

Being online constantly leads to stress. And I think we are not aware of half of it. It is such a part of our daily lives, that we have forgotten what it was like to be completely disconnected and free from the rest of the world.

But I vaguely remember hot summer days as a child. I ran barefoot through the woods of the north of Sweden, without a care in the world.

When the sun got lower, and I got hungry, I ran home to eat. Nobody worried if I was a bit late. Parenting in the north of Sweden 15 years ago was a non-stop holiday compared to what I see here in the Netherlands now. Yikes.

A part of becoming more healthy is to learn to let go of the world. Shut the phone off. Leave the world be for a while.
Let go of the constant flow of news.

And just breathe in. And breathe out.