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Hi girls!
For my latest diet challenge, it’s going to be a 2 week 1200 calorie challenge! I am going to email some guidelines and tips plus the official starting date tomorrow. If you’re already subscribed to my newsletter (you would have signed up in the sidebar), then you don’t need to do anything right now. If you AREN’T a subscriber, enter your email below and you will join the list and get all the juicy diet info when I send it out.
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You know how you’re constantly being told that you need to drink a lot of water?
Well I’ve gathered some intel (always wanted to say that) and here are some stats on water that will have you scrambling for a glass of the good stuff.
Drinking water keeps your skin looking young!
Water keeps your skin moisturised and hydrated which reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Dehydrated skin is easy to spot, it even looks thirsty! Water helps flush out toxins too! If you don’t drink enough, your body will try to retain the small amount of water that it’s getting and you’ll end up looking puffy and bloated. Not a good look!
Drinking water helps you lose weight!
Why waste your money on expensive appetite suppressants when you’ve got water! If you’re trying to lose weight, drink a full glass of water before your meal and wait for 20 minutes. I bet you’ll be surprised at how much less you end up eating. A lot of the time, when you think you’re hungry..you’re actually thirsty.
If all of that wasn’t enough, it also helps burn fat by detoxifying your body…
I am OBSESSED with mason jar smoothies and juice. They are so handy to keep in the fridge! Anybody with a high powered blender such as a vitamix or blendtech (froothie works too, cheaper Australian version) can whip up a huge batch of nutrient packed juice and pour it into jars to drink throughout the day.
Last night I had a ‘hankering’ (haha what a weird word!) for a mango boost smoothie. I attempted to recreate it and it turned out to be quite delicious.
Ingredients:
Ice
Fresh Mango
Banana
Passionfruit pulp (I used a tin)
Mango frozen yogurt
Skim milk
I am already a little nervous about all the sugar I will be having on Christmas day! This year I have decided to take some healthy desserts to my family Christmas in Brisbane.
For the international readers, I’ll just tell you a little bit about Christmas in Australia because you might be confused when I talk about salads and eating lunch as our main meal!
It’s summer at Christmas time in Australia so generally families get together for a bbq, beach picnic or a big lunch at home or a relative’s house. Most families I know have a Christmas lunch instead of a dinner. Everyone is different!
Seafood is very popular in Queensland on Christmas day and in the hotter months salads and lighter foods are also favoured.
This is a photo from Christmas Day last year with my family!
Back to my Healthy Eating on Christmas Day plan…
The best blog I have found for healthy recipes and major inspiration is http://undressedskeleton.tumblr.com/ (don’t be fooled by the name, it isn’t a proanorexia blog). The blogger Taralynn has lost an astounding amount of weight the healthy way and somehow manages to cook healthy versions of so many recipes!
Here is her Healthy Cherry Meringue Pie recipe that I’m thinking of making! [Recipe here]
Another thing that I am determined NOT to do is..wake up and eat chocolate for breakfast. Ever since I was a little kid I have done this on Christmas day and for some reason I still do it now. It just results in an incredibly lethargic start to the day which isn’t great when you’re going to be socialising with relatives all day!
Here is another recipe that I’ll have a practice at and take for Christmas day:
Healthy Red Velvet Cupcakes
Directions:
Now the dessert recipes are sorted out, here are some tips that I’ll be following for healthier eating on Christmas day..maybe you’ll find them helpful too!
Mel’s Healthy Eating Tips For Christmas Day!
I haven’t done a grocery shopping update in a while! I have been asked to do this quite a bit recently so here it is…a peek inside my fridge and pantry.
Tea and hot chocolate
Macro organic hot chocolate, Tetley Pick Me Up Tea in Forest Fruit (haven’t tried yet), Dilmah Green Tea with Lemongrass & Honey (haven’t tried yet), Nerada Organic Chai (so good! I have it with a tiny bit of organic soy and 1 stevia).
Inside fridge
The fridge is overdue for a clean out.
Top shelf: Peanut satay marinade, Moroccan marinade (I use these for marinating tofu), organic firm tofu, chicken breast (not mine!), strawberries
Second shelf: strawberry jam, soda water, broccoli, some kind of soft butter (boyfriend bought this, I would prefer real butter)
Third shelf: 2 butternut pumpkin halves, celery, spinach, organic heinz ketchup
Fourth shelf: 3 more packets of spinach
Drawer 1: Old cauliflower and beetroot + one carrot – these all need to go in the bin. Waiting until bin day!
Drawer 2: 2 onions and another packet of spinach
Fruit Bowl 1
Inside Pantry
Snacks
Inside Freezer
Vegetarian burgers, 3 tubs of ice cream. 1 is a mocha flavour that I accidentally bought thinking it was chocolate. It was in the wrong section. Not very nice so I’m never tempted to eat it. The other tubs of ice cream are vanilla and just used to hide pet medicine in.
Other items on different shelves in freezer include: frozen egg whites, frozen raspberries, frozen strawberries
Fruit Bowl 2
Separated the bananas and avocados in hopes that they ripen each other faster!
Window garden!
Woolworths were selling some plants for around $1 each as they were dying. My partner bought two tomato plants, one basil and one coriander. They are huge now and ready to go into the garden!
My favourite recent purchase – lemongrass essential oil. Reminds me of my trip to Thailand, smells so fresh and beautiful!
