How to lose weight: Move to NYC

You will have to walk everywhere. Like allllll the way to the corner:

You will eat delicious healthy fruit (i.e. mango) that you buy from street vendors at parades:

Stroller + Baby combo must be carried up and down subway stairs (usually 2+ flights)

Yep, that stroller. Imagine the muscles we are forming . . .

(note: we love taking walks with this heavy-duty stroller that our friends are so nice to let us borrow, but we have since purchased a lighter stroller  for subway or bus-intensive travel. . .)

When you go to the grocery store, bringing a wiggly baby and a small cart reduces the amount of food you end up buying. 

Equals you probably eat less. 

Joshua is pictured here working out in the NY subway with sleeping-baby-weight on his back. 

Joshua's other trick is to stay really late at work so you just skip meals entirely. 

Does wonders for the waistline.

(just kidding, mom, we pack him extra food...) 

Charles always looks out for us - makes sure we don't eat too much of those sugary cereals.

Charles makes sure to stay fit even when it is too cold to go out to the park and climb up and down the slides:

Another weight-loss-NYC-style tip is to take your kid and a stroller and a few bags to the zoo, where you will end up pushing the bag in your stroller and chasing the kid (plus some of his buddies) around the lily pond. Really gets your heart rate going good. 

These are our secrets. Come spend a week with us in NYC and you, too, will lose weight. 

And just increase your all-around cool-ness.