Feeling down and cheering up

I started the day off in a terrible mood. I felt really down about things – particularly feeling very disconnected from people. I’m lucky in that I’m usually a pretty cheerful person (at least I hope I am!) but when I get down I usually get quite low (there were tears involved) but then I pull myself round and feel better.

I’m putting today down to the dreaded PMT but to help me get back to my normal self I just tried to think about all of the things that I’m really grateful for: My husband, my health, my job and even being able to share my passions and interests through this blog!

I have noticed that I’m becoming more content to spend time alone doing the things that I enjoy that others in my life aren’t as fussed with, i.e. exercising and cooking. In many ways my blog is my outlet for all of the things that I love that I don’t hold in common with others in my life. Can anyone else relate to this?

Anyway, I’m feeling much more my usual self now, as is so often the way with hormonal mood swings. On to today's eats! For breakfast I sliced and chopped a jazz apple and micro waved it for a minute then topped with some pumpkin yoghurt and a crumbled banana walnut muffin.

It was heavenly, such a great combo!

Mid morning I snacked on some hummus with cauliflower and carrot for dipping. Lunch was some soup that I’d made up at the weekend. It wasn’t anything special so I didn’t bother to blog the recipe but it was basically a mix of leeks, cabbage and haricot beans. I also had two yummy pears.

Before heading off to the gym I enjoyed a slice of pumpkin spice cake with a cup of green tea.

This pumpkin spice cake is so good, it has gone even stickier and sweeter as its been left, delicious! At the gym I took it a little easier, still doing half mile speed intervals but not pushing myself quite so hard after my rough day. I also did 10 minutes of intervals on the step machine and some abs exercises.

For dinner I defrosted a couple of my lentil and feta muffins and crumbled them into some tomato pasta sauce along with some shredded cabbage. I served this with two slices of olive and feta bread toasted and made into croutons and some fresh basil.

This was so tasty, just another reason why I’m not missing meat a single bit. Desert was two frozen chocolate peanut butter avocado cups with a couple of small sliced apples.

Oh my god these were amazing! After I eaten the apple I softened them in the microwave for a few seconds and they were like chocolate peanut butter puddings, just delicious!

Today I also got some goodies:

Jacc’s flavoured coffee:

I bought a decaffeinated Butterscotch flavour and a regular Gingerbread flavour. Huge thanks to Stella who blogged about Jacc’s. I can’t wait to try these out!

On my lunch break I had a scout around some charity shops and I found this stoneware casserole dish for £2 and in a kitchen store some round plastic tubs for less than £2:

Bargain! I thought the small tub would be good for taking yoghurt to work in, and the large tub for storing cooked grains like rice in the fridge. For some reason I prefer round containers instead of square, weird!

I also received my books from Amazon:

I joined The Kind Life website today and actually got a response from Alicia herself! I’m also looking forward to relaxing for the rest of the evening while flicking through La Dolce Vegan.

Hope your all having a good week, I hope you don’t mind my little ramble at the start of the post, just keeping it real! Have a great evening :-)