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Since I’ve come back from my holiday slightly more rotund than I envisioned Lili 2015™ to be, I’ve decided to look after my body a bit better this year.
To be perfectly honest, I kind of went on holiday slightly more rotund than I envisioned the Lili 2014™ model, but what’s the point in looking back, I ask you?
Either way, I am embracing a healthier lifestyle.
And if I believe the headlines I am joining every other woman in the free world on this quest. I swear, it sounds as if there’s not a single person alive who is not detoxing, juicing, dieting or cutting out carbs or fat, or both.
All around me people are doggedly chomping on salads and nursing bitter cups of green tea while debating the health benefits of heated Ashtanga yoga vs. two-hour Zumba dancing.
The rebel in me is seriously rolling my eyes. Everyone is just so damn BORING in January, don’t you think?
Thing is, and I have this on very good authority, getting sick and dying slowly is much more boring.
What I didn’t realise though, is how passionate people are about diets these days.
You’ve got the one half who see red and practically start steaming from the ears when they hear the words ‘cauliflower mash’ or ‘courgette noodles’, and then you have the other half who’d eat newborn kittens and drink their own pee if Tim Noakes told them to.
I am not going to pick a side, because I don’t want anyone to send me hate mail about this. Instead I have decided to follow a regime that makes sense to me.
Replacing refined carbohydrates like bread and pasta with fresh, green, cancer-fighting vegetables, simply said, can’t be a bad idea. Eating reasonable amounts of protein and fat is surely sensible when you want to build muscle. Cutting out the extra sugar and preservatives and hydrogenated fat that you find in processed and junk food can only make you look and feel better. Am I right?
I’m going to draw the line at cutting out alcohol, because I like wine.
And I won’t be drinking three liters of water a day unless I run a marathon. And I don’t care how revolutionary it is, I will not be putting butter in my bloody coffee!
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To be perfectly honest, I kind of went on holiday slightly more rotund than I envisioned the Lili 2014™ model, but what’s the point in looking back, I ask you?
Either way, I am embracing a healthier lifestyle.
And if I believe the headlines I am joining every other woman in the free world on this quest. I swear, it sounds as if there’s not a single person alive who is not detoxing, juicing, dieting or cutting out carbs or fat, or both.
All around me people are doggedly chomping on salads and nursing bitter cups of green tea while debating the health benefits of heated Ashtanga yoga vs. two-hour Zumba dancing.
The rebel in me is seriously rolling my eyes. Everyone is just so damn BORING in January, don’t you think?
Thing is, and I have this on very good authority, getting sick and dying slowly is much more boring.
What I didn’t realise though, is how passionate people are about diets these days.
You’ve got the one half who see red and practically start steaming from the ears when they hear the words ‘cauliflower mash’ or ‘courgette noodles’, and then you have the other half who’d eat newborn kittens and drink their own pee if Tim Noakes told them to.
I am not going to pick a side, because I don’t want anyone to send me hate mail about this. Instead I have decided to follow a regime that makes sense to me.
Replacing refined carbohydrates like bread and pasta with fresh, green, cancer-fighting vegetables, simply said, can’t be a bad idea. Eating reasonable amounts of protein and fat is surely sensible when you want to build muscle. Cutting out the extra sugar and preservatives and hydrogenated fat that you find in processed and junk food can only make you look and feel better. Am I right?
I’m going to draw the line at cutting out alcohol, because I like wine.
And I won’t be drinking three liters of water a day unless I run a marathon. And I don’t care how revolutionary it is, I will not be putting butter in my bloody coffee!
Follow Lili on Twitter.
