Healthy Bites

Hey guys hope everyone has been having a great week! Mines been quite busy with a combination of my final uni assessment and taking my workout routine up a level, I did a combo of yoga and HIIT this morning and I feel great!

Monday nights goodie! Greek yogurt, chia seeds, banana, berries, roasted hazelnuts and honey.
How good does that sound! The roasted hazelnuts made this and the combo of honey with the greek yogurt was so good.

Been going a bit chia seed crazy this week. Their amazing and everyone should buy them!

Another craving I've had this week is cereal. Dan started me off when he bought Cheerios and then last night on a late night shop I came across new whole wheat rice crispy cereal and bam! I was sold it's so good!

Like I said today I did yoga as well as a HIIT workout and after I was so worn out I knew I wanted to make a smoothie to kick start me again. So here it is my Banana Peanut Butter and Chia seed smoothie!

Nice to know that there are ready meals out there that still are good for you as well as filling! This was my dinner tonight and it was great, It's Birds Eye Thai Prawn stir fry.

So here's what I did with my Zero Noodles. Me and Dan love seafood marinara so that's what I decided to make and it actually tasted alot like the real thing! So buying this stuff again!

As I write I'm nibbling away at raspberries, watching Master Chief in the background and surfing the yummy world of Foodgawker!

Raw food

A few years ago when ever I would hear the term Raw Food two things came to mind, hippies crunching away at carrots and that Sex and The City episode where they go to that hip new raw food restaurant ewwwwww!  Yet here I am today loving the ideals of it, crazy how things can change so much!

Lately I've been obsessed with vegan/raw food recipes and to be more specific sweet goodies. But before I get onto that heres a few facts.

Benefits of a Raw Food cleanse;

• Increased energy.
• Get rid of nasty toxins.
• Weight loss!
• No more naughty cravings.
• More pillow time.

Wow all that just from a little tweak in your lifestyle, ok well maybe a big tweak but as a cleanse or detox I think anyone can do it! Now onto a few pinterest recipes I'm eager to make once I obtain a blenderrrrrrr!

Vegan and raw ice cream!




Samoas raw pie! This is my absolute favourite cookie EVER!

 

Raw chocolate and raspberry cake mmmm!

Blueberry Lemon Cheese cake drool!

Ahhhhhhh think I just died and went to Raw food heaven.







Links to Raw heaven:

1)  http://www.veggie-wedgie.com/?p=1505
2) http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2013/03/08/samoas-girl-scout-cookie-pie/
3) http://chickypea.com/?p=785
4)http://rx4foodies.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/raw-blueberry-lemon-cheesecake/

Yoga for beginners

So today I woke up and felt absolutely horrible, I really wanted to workout but my motivation was rock bottom. After a few hours of avoiding my sneakers I came across something I had been wanting to try for ages, yoga! It's actually another Jillian Micheal's workout video, and I was so excited to do something different and give it a try!

It's true what they say that yoga's a way of life or that it's a practise. The video lasted for 30 minutes and man was it great! I thought it would be easy but it actually pushed me harder then I thought, I was sweating just as much as I do in my other fitness video. So without a doubt I'm adding yoga to my workout, I'm also gonna try it out on my Sundays off as well as days when I'm not felling too great.

 

OMG HOW CUTE! hehe

 

Ha! 

 



So keep watching this space, I'm sure you'll be seeing much more on my new found love YOGA!


So to my friends out there any of you every tried yoga before? 
Favourite positions?
Have you ever tried Aerial Yoga??

Namaste!              

Chia seed pudding

So yesterday I walked around the whole food store and picked up a few bits and pieces, those things being some chia seeds and a packet of Zero Noodles! Both things I have never used before and am excited to try them out this week. I'm gonna do another post on Zero Noodles later in the week but today I give you my first ever chia pudding!

Recipe-

• 1 Tbsp of chia seeds
• 1/2 cup of almond milk
• 1 Tbsp of PB2
• sprinkle of chocolate chips!

Simply combined everything in a serving glass making sure everything is well mixed and put in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Then presto you have a healthy filling dessert to nibble on!

Chia seed pancakes

This is a great easy recipe and once you know the basics you can add what ever you want!

Basic recipe-

• 1 egg
• half a banana

My extra bits and pieces-

• tsp of chia seeds
• pinch of cinnamon

Mash up bananas and mix in the egg, this is the basic batter. Now add what you like or follow my recipe. Once the rest of the ingredients are mixed in add the batter to the pan and cook like you would a normal pancake. Once cooked add some strawberries, greek yogurt and honey ( Honey goes great with the bananas!). Then sit back and enjoy your guilt free pancakes!

So whats your favourite mix in? I'm always looking for new ways to make the most out of my pancake addiction!

Cheat meals yay or nay?

I've always had a weakness for naughty sweet treats. My nights use to be filled with whole packets of chips and bars of chocolate. I use to think eating these treats were ok because I use to have a habit (which I now know is so bad!) of skipping breakfast and having a small sad little lunch. I've learnt so much this year and feel so much happier and healthy because of it!

So now that you have an idea of my past eating habits you can imagine how hard it's been cutting out and changing my lifestyle. I've done well so far but like any normal human I still crave my goodies! That's when I came across the idea of a Cheat Meal. Basically the idea is by having one cheat meal a week it stops your body from plateauing by confusing your metabolism.

Like changing you workout every 4 weeks the same can be said for your food. If your body starts to get use to the food your eating that's when weight loss becomes harder. So by having something different you shock your body and your body continues to burn baby burn! Even though it is a cheat meal there are some guide lines it's best to stick too.

• If your willpower is weak then think about having a cheat snack instead, mini bag of chocolate etc.

• It's a Cheat Meal not a Cheat Day!

• Just because its a treat doesn't mean you have to eat enough for the whole day.

• The day after get back into the swing of things with a sweaty workout and a yummy healthy breaky.

With this awesome news I've already picked my Cheat Meal for this Saturday wanna know what it is?? Drum roll please brummmmmmm brummmmmmmmm

In England this stuff is hard to find! But I found it and it was only 1 pound! woohoooo!

Healthy Bites

So this week I'm proud to say I'm officially a twitter bird! Got the Twitter icon up there in the corner and everything! Still getting the hang of all the hash tags and other bit and pieces but one step at a time I guess.

So now onto my Healthy Bites!

So Dan really wanted to try Old El Paso one pan rice dish and though I didn't quite like the idea of a carb filled rice meal I decided to give it a try, my way of course! I merely added heaps of salad and instead of mindlessly adding the rice to a bowl I measured a cup full. See you can have your cake and eat it too!

Was so excited to try this breaky combo today! You probably saw a snippet of it in my healthy shopping post, it's The Food Doctors cocoa and tangerine granola. I had it with a cup of greek non fat yogurt and a Tbsp of PB2. YUM YUM YUM! Felt full for ages really great post workout meal.

 

Tonight I decided to go vegetarian. I made some yummy sweet potato wedges with sweet chill sauce and greek yogurt so good! Always use to have wedges with sweet chill and sour cream when I was younger and it's so nice to know I can make all these changes and still eat the things I love!