What is inside my Graze box today?

I have a weekly graze box delivered with 4 punnets of healthy snacks.... In today's box I have
Banoffe pie- almond slices, pecan nuts, banana coins and mini fudge pieces. Yum
Tomato dipinetti- tomato chutney with rosemary grissinetti.
Swallows and amazons- mango, jumbo rasins, cherries and brazil nuts.
Honeycomb crunch- sultanas, almonds and dark cocoa honey pieces. Yummy!

Click on the above link to get a free box if you would like to try... You can click on your likes and dislikes and make the box as healthy as you like! I ve been having a weekly delivery for almost a year now, and always have different punnets. I love them!

Here is a photo of today's box. Enjoy

Weekly weigh in and measurements!

This week has been very hard, I ve only made it to the gym once! Really bad, I know! I have managed to do lots of walking with the pram 2 days. My excuse is that my back and my ovaries have been extremly painful...........so I thought there would b no loss!
I lost! -1lb measurements not much difference only like -0.1 in most places.

I wondered how could this be, when I had not been able to hardly exercise....I did still carry on eating healthy and following the rules I had set, but normally that is not enough alone. It must be the fact that I was not allowing myself to get hungry and grazing more this week! (body body was not storing as much fat!) Some days I know I dont eat enough, but this week I really made sure I did, but eating the right fatburning foods!

The graze packs I really enjoy and look forward to having them delivered. I dont have one every day, and snack on stuff I have in the cupboards- its not quite the same though! I am glad I came accross their offer!



The best Fat burning Foods

Avocado
Tomatoes
Sweet potato
Turkey
Salmon
Eggs
Prawns
Broccoli
Spinach
Whey Protein
Grapefruit
Melon
Blueberries
Aduki beans
Wholemeal bread

Combine them in the same meal and you have yourself a super fat burning meal!

This week I hope to be able to workout much more, and I am going to eat more grapefruit! I remembered from a previous diet I tried that eating grapefruit as a starter to your meals burns even more fat! Lets see if that works..... :)





Love, light and energy!

Healthy snack idea's for grazing and beating your cravings

Do you get cravings?

Most women do when they are pregnant, due their period and those

who suffer from PCOS. You should light snack in between meals to keep up your energy levels and keep hunger pangs at bay. I tend to crave when I am hungry and bored...sometimes it is a savoury craving, sometimes sweet.

We crave sugar when our blood sugar levels are out of balance, mine certainly are due to my PCOS. It is best to not let your body get too hungry where you are likey to grab a quick processed unhealthy snack, plan your snacks ahead. Get snackwise! Here are some tasty things I love, which you could try:

Savoury snacks

The Mexicana

Chopped avocado

Chopped tomatoes

Chopped pepper

2 table spoons of salsa

1 tea spoon of dijon mustard

cracked black pepper

Mix together in a bowl, if you have fresh coriander you can add to taste.

This is yummy! I make a bigger potion for a lunch sometimes and add aduki beans and lots lettuce.

Nutty seeds

Try different combos

Pecans, almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, pine nuts, pasastios, punkin seeds, sunflower seeds, linseeds.......... there are so many

I like pecans with almonds and punkin seeds mix. Pour them in a small container ready to snack in the day.

Sweet craving

Chocolate fruit bar!

mix dried fruits like apricots, prunes, rasins, cherries etc. in a bowl

add chopped nuts

coat them in dark coco powder

drizzle over a little honey add a few drops of water and mix

lay mixture onto baking paper and cut into bitesize pieces. Leave in the fridge for an hour to set or eat from the bowl! It is very yummy, I make them in batches so they are ready when I crave chocolate.

Dark Chocolate drops of heaven!

mix dried cherries, rasins, peanuts and a sprinkle of dark choc chips in a mini container. What a great healthy treat :)

I hope you enjoy trying these, or they inspire you to try snacking and grazing on new healthier foods.

Be who you want to be

Day 1-5 New Diet and Fitness plan PCOS

Hot Lemon water every morning before breakfast

Me 30 weeks Pregnant

Postnatal weight and inch loss......................Need to loose 1 stone now!









Day one Monday 28th Feb



Woke up early, little man still asleep I made myself a cup of boiled lemon water (freshly sqeezed lemon in hot water) i had melon for a light breakfast...........then to the gym while my husband looked after our baby. I did Treadmill powerwalk, cross trainer with arms, bike, upper body weights and abs.....I felt hard but good. Enjoyed it. Lunch- Hummous and red pepper and tomato wholemeal pitta, dinner- baked garlic and chilli salmon, brocolli, carrotts and brown rice. snacked on dried apricots and nuts I felt like i had so much energy till 10pm when i fell asleep on the sofa ooooppps! So far so good!

Day two

Busy busy busy day
food: plums, banana, chicken light cesar salad, turkey grilled cajun steak, sweet potato wedges with peas sweetcorn.
Exercise: long walk with pram and baby play group
Feelings: very hungry and dehydrated- need to drink more water need to snack more!

Day three
Tired no energy!
I hardly ate in the day, naughty naughty was too busy so grabbed fruit here and there and had an eve meal chicken wraps with peppers onions chilli spices, avacado and salad yum yum!
Exercise: same gym plan as monday

Day four
Feeling good :)
I didnt get to exercise :( my husband was out so no one to look after baby.
Food: plums- hullomi cheese grilled in a pitta with salad yum- peri peri hot chicken breast, rice and mixed vegs. Grazing snack pack!

Day five
So far a good day, I ve been out to a baby massage class and had a walk about.
Food: blueberries- prawn and avocado sushi (really loved it!) and for dinner I will have a weight watchers meal with extra veg. Grazing pack to snack on

Sunday will be the weekly weigh in and body measurements....keep posted
I will also share some fat burning reciepes with you


Something to keep you snacking healthy which i enjoy and keeps you feeling full through out the day and eve>>>







Live your life to the full

Promax crisp bars are awesome!

So do you snack in between meals? .....Well you should to keep your metabolism up. The part I find hard is what do I snack on when I am at work or out an about. I am too busy to prepare anything, so I end up sometimes being bad and grabbing a bag or Quavers or a milky way!

I used to think that Quavers and Milky Way bars were a good choice of 'bad snack' as they are low calories. I have now learnt that 50% of those calories are 'Fat Calories' which the body stores and does not use! They raise your sugar levels, but are quickly followed by a low, which is a pointless snack.

To loose weight and tone up, you need to snack on light protein like cottage cheese, boiled egg, soya yogurt. It's hard to carry these around with you, so I am now so pleased that I have Promax Crisp bars to pop in my bag. They are only 84 calories and high in light protein.









I ordered mine online by the bulk after I tried one of my friends. Buy 3 boxes get the 4th free is the offer on at the moment, me and my friend went halves and got 2 boxes each. I find them quite yummy, and it seems to keep me full till my next meal.

You don't need to be following the Promax diet to have these snack bars, but I do for fast results. I ve now lost another 5lb this week and I look slimmer and toned around my middle. I am going to measure myself this weekend to see how much inch loss I now have!




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