The biggest challenge of spending time in a new country is rebuilding the systems that make you feel like yourself again. We've now arrived in Hanoi! One of the first things we did was rearrange the furniture in our apartment so we could recreate the routines that matter to us. I've always been a person of routines. Meal times. Deep work. Sessions. Exercise. They all have a rhythm because these systems support the way I think, work and organise my family and profes

For years, my relationship with food moved in cycles. Moments of discipline. Moments of letting go. At some point, I knew I needed to redesign the whole system in order for it to work for me. I removed gluten. Shifted to two meals a day. And I changed the order of how I eat inspired by what I learned from Jessie Inchauspé, the Glucose Goddess. Starting with vegetables, continuing with protein and vegetables again, then carbohydrates, and finally sugar. In six months: bett