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So I'm back, after the Christmas and new years break and more eating than planned. I have realised I have completely fallen off the wagon. I am still trying to eat healthy and get my partner involved but find it hard to eat healthy the way I want, taking into consideration of his food preferences and apparent need for junk food. I have also found because he has been home from work for holidays I have not exercised once for fear of him seeing me. We also have a crawling teether who has decided to  sprout 4 teeth at once so moods are pretty gloomy. This is joined in by his terrible two's highly independent, strong minded and determined to push buttons sister. So at current being done physically for exercise is next to nothing. I am finding myself so mentally and emotionally drained just from the kids and house wife duties I tend to every day. Because I have not been eating as healthy as I was, and my 2-3L of water a day has dropped I feel quite down and unmotivated within my

Holy crap, the heatwave going through Queensland, Australia at the moment is ridiculous! I have never sweated so much doing so little. And of course we live in a old renovated house with no  air-conditioning. So the idea of standing in the kitchen cooking dinner tonight is more than undesirable. Instead I am trying out a new recipe that only takes 5 mins to prepare and means I don't have to literally sweat over a hot stove to get a healthy filling meal on the table tonight. So this is my crunchy ramen salad. With only 6 ingredients, 3 of which is in every kitchen at least. Ingredient's: 1 bag of coleslaw mix 2 packs ramen noodles ( any flavour as seasoning packet not used) 3-5 spring onions (scallions) sliced 3/4 cups vegetable oil 1/3 cup white vinegar 1/4 cup granulated sugar Steps: 1) mix together the white vinegar, vegetable oil and sugar in a bowl. 2) crush up the packets of ramen noodles. Add to coleslaw mix in a large bowl. 3)

So I'm sharing another new recipe I have tried, and although not the healthiest in terms of carbs it was a day where all I wanted was comfort food. So instead of my go to extra crispy wedges with melted cheese and gravy I decided to give this twice baked potato and spinach a try as a replacement. All in all it turned out well and curbed my unhealthy comfort food cravings I was having.  This is my Hubby's plate, I had 2 halves of a smaller potato. Ingredients: 3-4 medium to large potato's 1 cup of boiled/steamed broccoli 2 handfuls of spinach (I used frozen) Dash of milk  Sprinkle of low fat cheese on top Salt and pepper to taste Steps: 1) preheat oven to 230c or 450 f 2) wash potato's removing dirt but leaving the skin on, pierce each potato deeply with a fork (be carefull,  my hand now has fork dents in it) 3) bake potato's on a pan for 50-60 minutes. Once cooked remove from oven and slice then in half length ways.

So following along my healthy journey, I have another healthy-ish recipe to share with you all. I haven't done any updates lately because Christmas just came around and I'm to embarrassed to say how much food I consumed in the days leading up to and of Christmas.  So in my total lack of a strong mindset I have decided against measuring myself and being disappointed with the weight gain numbers. So instead I have focused on getting a meal plan together that the whole family can enjoy while I work my way towards being more healthy in my life choices. Once I am a few days into eating healthier and drinking my 2-3L a day as well as not feeling the Christmas food baby bloat. I will again pick up on my every 3 day measurement updates. Now for the fun part. The recipe!!! So this is a meatless spaghetti bolognese, I got the main idea for the recipe from a YouTube channel "AnarhistKitchen" I will link the video below if you want to check it out. I did change the recipe sl

So I have what I would consider a healthy option in my attempt to meal prep to ensure I eat regularly and healthier. These tasted so good and I have realised I can use them in so many ways that it keeps it interesting.  So what I used for these mini veggie chicken meatballs was; 2 small grated carrots 1 medium grated potato 1/2 a small sweet potato grated a handful of broccoli florets chopped finely 500g lean chicken mince 1 egg 1 teaspoon of garlic powder Now its pretty much mix roll and bake with these meatballs, you could cook them in a fry pan, cook them on a tray in the oven like I did or another method I use for family sized meal of meatballs is cook them in a casserole dish with 2 cans of tomato soup for about 45 mins at 200 Celsius, and serve over pasta of choice. Because these were going to be used as finger foods and snacks I baked them on a tray in the oven instead of in a fry pan to not use any extra oil, and because my fry pan is small and I

Welcome back if you are following my weight loss and healthier/happier me journey. If this is the first blog you are reading check out my previous blogs where I share my starting measurements and my updates every three days. But I did it! I managed to eat breakfast and for once it was more than a mouthful of my children's leftover food. After a bad day of eating yesterday and already an inch back on my hips I am more determined to get that inch plus more off and starting today, food is going to be my main focus for a while over exercise. I will still do workouts but I'm finding because my eating is poor/irregular and not enough to fuel me I'm not putting in the effort I want to when it comes to my workouts. So what did I have for breakfast? Well its not pretty, and rather very basic. But it was filling and actually tasted pretty good! So the scrambled eggs are obvious, 4 eggs scrambled with a dash of milk and no salt or seasonings. And no I didn't