Well what an exciting week this has been. There was my big news and update, my lovely birthday celebrations and there was even a delicious grain free chocolate muffin recipe. All in all it has been a pretty amazing week. This weekend has been awesome too as I have been spending quality time with my family, which is one of my favourite things to do, love them all so much!
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This week I have been getting stuck in to my gym workouts and really enjoying them. I thought I would start logging my workouts on the blog again so you can see what I have been up to and a way for me to track my fitness throughout my pregnancy.
Monday – Rest
Tuesday – Birthday shopping trip – 3 hours of walking
Wednesday – 30 minutes of gentle cardio (10 minutes each on the treadmill (walking), cross trainer and bike), strength routine
Thursday – 15 minutes of my own yoga flow
Friday – 20 minutes of gentle cardio (10 minutes each the cross trainer and bike), strength routine and stretching
Saturday – Rest
Sunday – swim and short gym workout
I’ve slowly discovered that I can’t keep up in my spinning class any more and do struggle with it. Since realising this I’ve now alternated my weekend class each week to see how I get on. Essentially I’m just doing what I can when I can.
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Banana chai spiced oats cooked on the hob was a great start to the day. I do love my porridge in the mornings and these really hit the spot, especially when topped with dried fruit and cashew butter, yum!
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My appetite for my regular eats is slowly returning and I’ve been really liking salads like this, just full of good stuff. This included mixed salad leaves, red pepper, edamame beans, tomatoes, chickpeas, cucumber and a mango dressing.
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I love my curry’s and this homemade lamb madras curry packed full of veggies was a great Friday night dinner. I served it with steamed kale and half peshwari naan bread topped with butter.
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For a quick week day meal I cooked a load of peppers, asparagus and pak choi in a sweet chilli sauce with a salmon fishcake and spring onions.
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My favourite treat of the week would have to be this Raw Chocolate Pie – I love these things, well any raw chocolate really. I can only ever eat half a bar at one time as they are very rich.
To top off a fantastic week my lovely Mum and I are off to get pampered in a spa today for Mother’s Day. I cannot wait, it’s much needed for the both of us.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you beautiful mums and mum’s-to-be out there. Hope you have a nice day. =)
What is the tastiest thing that you have eaten this week? Do you have any nice plans for Mother’s Day?
Fab post, thank you for sharing your workouts. I think I could really learn a lot from you about exercise – I’m terrible for thinking I must exercise every day, which constitutes working up a real sweat, regardless of how I feel, and feel horrendously guilty and a failure if I don’t exercise (but who cares, other than me, anyway?!), plus I never count walking – just sounds stupid when I write it down! You are beautiful, so positive and have a wonderful figure, and your exercise routine actually sounds lovely, unlike mine! I think there’s so much out there saying ‘you MUST eat this/avoid that/exercise this way/exercise this much’ to be healthy, but, like everything, I need to learn to not take it as gospel, rather read it, take out the bits that I find useful and ultimately do what works for me and not define my value based on exercise and eating! There’s life out there 🙂
Your mothers day pampering sounds wonderful, me and my sister are popping over to my mum to cook her lunch and will hopefully get out for a lovely sunshiney walk x
Glad you enjoyed it Sian! 🙂 I used to be exactly the same as you and workout out at least 6 times a week, now I just can’t manage it, let alone fit it in. You sound like you have a great mindset towards exercise though and I’m sure that will come through soon in your workouts if you decide to change and adapt them. You are definitely worth more than what you decide to eat or how much you decide to exercise. 🙂 x
That salad looks so good! Enjoy your Mother’s Day – I’m going to Ikea with mine so not quite so blissful! x
Ahh I love Ikea – hope you had a nice day!
Oh my goodness, I have been so self-absorbed recently I missed your amazing news!!!
CONGRATULATIONS xx
Thank you Lara 🙂 x
Ahh, raw choc pie are good value too as half is quite substantial, agreed! They do a nice ginger & nutty one(20% nuts:) too(if you order direct & spent £15 postage is free.
Preganancy really suits you, Jemma!
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I think I’ve tried the ginger one before and loved it! Thank you, I’m loving pregnancy so far. 🙂 x
Your meals look lovely! I’ve got a fishcake for lunch today- cod and prawn 🙂
Hope your Mum enjoyed the spa day!
I have a bit of a thing for fishcakes. Your prawn one sounds lovely. 🙂
You glow in your photo 🙂
Hope you had a love time at the spa – what a nice way to spend Mother’s day 🙂
Thanks Anna, we had an amazing day! 🙂
Hope you had a nice pampering session! Your oats and salad look scrummy.
It was lovely, thanks Lauren. 🙂
I’ve not tried those Raw Chocolate Pie bars before but keep seeing them pop up everywhere at the moment. Will have to test them out!
They are really gorgeous. I think that you would like them.
I didn’t see your post about your pregnancy announcement. Congrats 🙂
Thank you! 🙂