If you’re fat, depressed, and feel like everything is hopeless, Dr. Deville’s prescription is to get the hell out of your doctor’s office and get into your kitchen.
If you hate the way you look, you’re going to get a lot more bang for your buck in your kitchen then you will at any spa or plastic surgeon’s office. The fact is you can’t sit around on your butt gobbling cocktails of OTC’s and prescription drugs, drinking gallons of coffee and Diet Coke, eating factory food, and smoking cigarettes and then expect even the most talented plastic surgeon to fix the resulting disaster.
If you want to look your best, you have to start in the kitchen. Oh but I haaaattttteeee cooking. So what? Maybe if you learned to cook you wouldn’t hate it so much.
The first thing you need to do is to make your kitchen a happy place to spend time in, then you may not find that thought as unappealing. When I’m cooking, I like to listen to CNN or classical music or NPR so I have a TV and a sound system in my kitchen. I put in a file cabinet so when I read the food section in the New York Times, I can rip out recipes and file them away for future use. I keep an old laptop in the kitchen to look up recipes online.
I’ve made it a priority to have the supplies I need in my kitchen so that cooking isn’t a challenge. But I’ve learned that (for me), less is more. I keep only the utensils and equipment that I use regularly—except for one cupboard that has more esoteric things like fondue pots that I use once in a great while.
Whatever you do, don’t pay bills in the kitchen and don’t have discussions about finances there. The kitchen is strictly an enjoyable place to create yummy meals and to eat casually if you have the room.
The kitchen should also not be a staging area or a repository for all the garbage you don’t want in other rooms. Clean it out and make it comfortable to cook and eat in.
And you knew I was gonna say this: Purge all factory produced food products and fill your cupboards and refrigerator with real food. Real food is perishable, so eating real food requires that you shop regularly. This is a good thing if you tend to hoard rotting containers in your refrigerator. There is nothing less appetizing than seeing a fridge loaded with months old garbage.
If your placemats are clogged with grease and grime, get rid of them. Buy fresh flowers. Put some herbs in your kitchen window.
I would love to hear any ideas you may have about livening up your kitchen. In the meantime, peace, love in the kitchen.
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YOUR KITCHEN INSTEAD OF PLASTIC SURGERY (OR IN ADDITION TO, HA!)
If you hate the way you look, you’re going to get a lot more bang for your buck in your kitchen then you will at any spa or plastic surgeon’s office. The fact is you can’t sit around on your butt gobbling cocktails of OTC’s and prescription drugs, drinking gallons of coffee and Diet Coke, eating factory food, and smoking cigarettes and then expect even the most talented plastic surgeon to fix the resulting disaster.
If you want to look your best, you have to start in the kitchen. Oh but I haaaattttteeee cooking. So what? Maybe if you learned to cook you wouldn’t hate it so much.
The first thing you need to do is to make your kitchen a happy place to spend time in, then you may not find that thought as unappealing. When I’m cooking, I like to listen to CNN or classical music or NPR so I have a TV and a sound system in my kitchen. I put in a file cabinet so when I read the food section in the New York Times, I can rip out recipes and file them away for future use. I keep an old laptop in the kitchen to look up recipes online.
I’ve made it a priority to have the supplies I need in my kitchen so that cooking isn’t a challenge. But I’ve learned that (for me), less is more. I keep only the utensils and equipment that I use regularly—except for one cupboard that has more esoteric things like fondue pots that I use once in a great while.
Whatever you do, don’t pay bills in the kitchen and don’t have discussions about finances there. The kitchen is strictly an enjoyable place to create yummy meals and to eat casually if you have the room.
The kitchen should also not be a staging area or a repository for all the garbage you don’t want in other rooms. Clean it out and make it comfortable to cook and eat in.
And you knew I was gonna say this: Purge all factory produced food products and fill your cupboards and refrigerator with real food. Real food is perishable, so eating real food requires that you shop regularly. This is a good thing if you tend to hoard rotting containers in your refrigerator. There is nothing less appetizing than seeing a fridge loaded with months old garbage.
If your placemats are clogged with grease and grime, get rid of them. Buy fresh flowers. Put some herbs in your kitchen window.
I would love to hear any ideas you may have about livening up your kitchen. In the meantime, peace, love in the kitchen.