A new week has begun…

It’s a new week and I’m ready to get back on the healthy eating wagon. Started the day with a lovely walk by the lake and a green smoothie.

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Then it was on with cleaning the house and a yummy falafel salad for lunch.

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Afternoon tea was some tiny teddies I found while cleaning out the kitchen :-(.

Dinner was a burritos made with TVP, cheese and tomato. And don’t you just love how bright tonights photo is? Kevin got me a new camera – isn’t he a sweetie! I can’t believe how much better it is.

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And supper…the last of the ice cream (no more until we’re back from the UK) and a choc strawberry bought yesterday.

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I’m all geared up and ready to get back on track with the Red Carpet Ready program. Which means no cakes, cookies, lollies, ice cream and only the occasional dark chocolate until we leave for the UK in 5.5 weeks. It’s crunch time!

Home made dressing delight

Had a lovely morning walk with the dogs followed by the upper body part of my workout. Then came a green smoothie – using freshly ground flaxseeds cortesy of my new grinder.

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After dropping the girls at school I had a cup of tea and a slice of grainy bread with hummus.

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Spent the morning doing random jobs around the house. Lunch was a salad with egg…and homemade dressing. I finally got around to making a honey mustard dressing with equal parts (1 tbsp) dijon mustard, honey, olive oil and lemon juice from Kath Eats Real Food.I fully expected not to like it – after all I do like a creamy dressing – but this was REALLY good.

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Afternoon tea – a cup of tea and a chocolate muffin (homemade this morning and on the healthy side).

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This afternoons snack was pita bread with cheese, hummus, carrot and sprouts. Yum!!

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Served with tea, of course.

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Tonights dinner was a lentil bake. I’ve made it before and I love it. But unfortunately I’m the only one who does…

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You can find the recipe at Attic 24. If you like lentils you’ll love it. I even forgot the peanuts and it still tasted great. Real comfort food.

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And lastly…

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Monday-itis

I had a great start to the morning. I’ve been really enjoying my early morning walks with the dogs and my heal spurs have been behaving so I’m going to try walking every day and see how things go. In order to still fit my Red Carpet Ready workouts in I’m going to split them up – doing upper body one day and lower body the next. Today was lower body. This will give me more cardio while not missing out on the strength training. Felt great when I was finished. Of course, that meant it was green smoothie time. Sorry Bailey – no leftovers for you today.

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Didn’t really like finding my kitchen like this….but at least it was all clean…

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Both the girls weren’t feeling the best this morning so I ended up driving them to school. When I got back I had a couple of cruskits with spreadable cheese and a cup of tea, then got on with cleaning the house.

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With cooler night forecast later in the week I decided it would be a good day to put the loungeroom into Winter mode and drag out the gas heater.

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I was feeling a bit flat today and continually couldn’t decide what I wanted to eat. Unfortunately I spotted the box of chocolate dipped tiny teddies. It started with a handful for morning tea….

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we won’t talk about how many more handfuls were consumed throughout the day.

Couldn’t decide what I really wanted to for lunch so just made a salad – todays featured some leftover marinated tofu, pinenuts and squirt of mayonnaise.

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Followed a bit later by tea and chocolate. It is that time of month so maybe that’s why I was a bit more munchy today.

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After picking up the girls from school I made some pikelets. Trying to do something right I had a couple of corn thins with hummus…

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before having some pikelets with jam and cream :-).

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Dinner tonight was lentil patties with cauliflower and corn. Delicious!

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Plans gone astray

It was  a beautiful Sunday here – definitely more Summer than Autumn. I started the day with what else but a cup of tea and a piece of banana cake :-). Everyone played on their computer until Amy decided she would make us breakfast. How lucky am I? It’s not even Mothers Day till next Sunday.

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She made us scrambled eggs, tinned spaghetti and toast. Served on our special plates :-).

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We had planned to go on a bike ride and have lunch out but at about 11am I started feeling icky in the stomach and a bit light-headed. I had some cruskits with cottage cheese to see if that helped.

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It didn’t – so I tried some chocolate – thinking maybe some sugar might do the trick. It didn’t work either so we decided to stay in for the day.

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I didn’t really feel like eating but made myself have a salad (featuring falafel and homemade hummus) around 2pm.

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I did start to feel better which was good. I was able to enjoy some afternoon tea.

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We put on Avatar to watch and the girls decided they wanted popcorn. I wasn’t go to have any (since I’d already had the above) but it smelled good so I had a little bowl.

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Drizzled with a bit of melted butter…

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We ended up having a late dinner. It was new recipe tonight – tofu & noodle stir-fry – which was a bit too fiddly for a Sunday night. Amy didn’t like it. I thought it was okay. Kevin really enjoyed it.

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Made a cup of tea to have in bed with an orange chocolate bar.

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