POULET BASQUAISE - French Basque Country - Slow-cooked chicken with tomatoes, peppers, onions and piment d'Espelette, served with crispy rosemary potatoes.

In my ongoing quest for better health lately, I have come to the conclusion that food has an important place. Or rather, that food plays a much bigger role than I wanted to accept. First of all, it feels like a stupid statement coming from a doctor, because it is something so obvious that any ten-year-old should know it, and yet we adults choose to ignore these simple lessons until we are forced to learn them all over again. For the last two weeks, I haven't been to Penny, Li

How many of you have seen The Hunger Games? How many of you have ever wondered what it would feel like to experience a hunger that never ends? Over the past week, I have gone through quite a few metabolic changes, mainly as a result of the physical activity I have been doing. Regular exercise seems to have an incredible ability to correct some of the bad habits our bodies have developed — even when that body happens to belong to a whale. One of the biggest changes I have noti

How is it we all know better what health means or what taking care of ourselves means, but in reality we fail? Do you remember a few weeks ago when I started moving and exercising? Somehow under the strain of the physical effort combined with the calorie deficit, I almost ended up in the hospital. My blood sugar played a trick on me and reminded me why you have to take care of yourself. As it seems, there is nothing serious, nothing that cannot be fixed, but the idea of “I’m

Today I woke up and took two showers. I tried to wash the fat off, but it didn’t work. After that, I went for a run. Okay… I went for a walk. Okay! I went for a crawl. Considering that the streets of Salou, Spain, are on an incline, it probably would have been more efficient just to roll downhill. After fifteen minutes, I asked AI how many calories I had burned. It responded with approximately 80 calories, about 30 of which I would have burned anyway just by continuing to bre

Hi everyone. Today, I decided to start a miniseries called Fatboy. In this series, I’m going to explore different topics related to obesity. For me, this is meant to be a hands-on, pragmatic project that can actually offer a way to lose weight. After many years of failed attempts at losing weight and trying different diets, I’ve realized that I need to take a different approach. It’s not enough to simply follow a diet or exercise for a certain period of time. What is needed i