WIAW – Chilling Out

Happy Wednesday everyone! I’m having a lovely week off just spending a lot of time pottering around the flat getting caught up on the million things that have been adding to my to do list these last few months! These are my eats and goings on from yesterday (I haven’t started my healthy feast yet, that’s tomorrow), enjoy!

My Tuesday started with a lovely lie in – isn’t it great to wake up naturally without an alarm sometimes?  I did a quick Yoga for Runners podcast before making breakfast. I started with my usual mug of warm water with lemon juice before making a big smoothie:

This contained spinach, beet greens, frozen banana, cup of home made almond milk, hemp protein powder, mesquite, spirulina, midori greens powder, vanilla stevia, xanthan and guar gums, water and ice. I topped it with some pomegranate seeds, Alara in the garden muesli and a small spoonful of sunflower seed butter. I also had a gorgeous vanilla coffee with stevia and almond milk.

I drank green and rooibos tea all morning, then for lunch I made an amazing salad inspired by the lovely Ragnhild! She had left a comment on Sunday’s post with this amazing combo, and my word I have eaten some good salads recently but this was wonderful! This contained romaine lettuce, raw kale massaged with lemon juice and hemp oil, raw beetroot, a large chopped fresh fig, walnuts rolled in honey and sea salt plus more honey and sea salt on top:

I’m a huge fan of any sweet and salty combos and this was amazing! I’ll be enjoying honey and sea salt together a lot in future! I also had a very large sliced honey crunch apple:

As we were having a chill out day I thought I’d make some cookies! I made some Super Charge Me Cookies. I used some raisins, chocolate chips and crunchy peanut butter with flax in the recipe and subbed the maple syrup for brown rice syrup and a touch of water:

I made a few without raisins for James as he doesn’t like them, and a few bigger ones too. I ate one of the big ones as gym fuel along with a mug of Teapigs Popcorn tea and it was absolutely amazing, crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside!

I hit the gym and did 40 minutes of cardio on the gym machines followed by my Body Pump class. Unfortunately the instructor forgot her CD so we ended up doing the last release again but it was still a great class.

For dinner I had a really gorgeous plate of roasted sweet potato, brussels sprouts and broccoli with baked marinated tempeh and almond butter sauce:

This was just so delicious! I marinated the tempeh in mirin, shoyu, toasted sesame oil and ume vinegar then baked in the oven. These were my first brussel sprouts of the season and they were perfect roasted in the coconut oil. The almond butter sauce was just almond butter mixed with hot water and a splash of shoyu. Nom!

For dessert I had a big bowl of protein ice cream made with cookies and cream spiru-tein, a small handful of frozen strawberries, stevia, water, ice and xanthan and guar gums topped with cacao nibs and freeze dried berries:

One of the things I’ve been doing to try and curb the late night snackies is to eat dessert a bit later in the evening. I enjoyed this on the sofa while we watched the film Hanna, which was very good!

I actually had a pretty snack free day yesterday, Monday was a completely different story! I do think I’m finding a better balance at the moment than I have done recently, I really feel like I’ve turned a huge corner this last week. I’ve got loads to say around this but I’m saving it for yet another wordy post!

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Well I am off to do more baking this afternoon! What’s your favourite chill out activity? As well as baking and cooking we’ve been watching loads of movies and enjoying this Indian summer we are experiencing!

Have a great Wednesday and enjoy the rest of your week!