This week I have been pretty frantic for me, it feels like I’m constantly saying that these days. I’ve got various personal projects on the go plus work and a home life; I think I’m juggling at least 10 different balls at the same time.
Of course something has had to give and this week that has been my workouts, not too much though I just had to add an extra rest day in Friday. I was on the road from 9.30 to 5 with various appointments in between and all of the driving left me frazzled. Taking the extra rest day was definitely the right thing to do.
Monday: Stretching and my own yoga flow
Tuesday: 20 minutes of HIITs on the treadmill and cross trainer, upper body workout, abs and stretching.
Wednesday: REST
Thursday: 15 minutes of HIITS on the cross trainer and treadmill, lower body workout and abs.
Friday: REST
Saturday: REST
Sunday: 3 mile run
I’ve really enjoyed adding some extra cardio to my routine. I felt like I needed to up my game a little bit in the gym so it felt great working up even more of a sweat than usual.
Last night I decided to let my hair down and me and Alfie went into town for cocktails and food at Las Iguanas.
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OOTD: flamingo t-shirt, Zara//skinny jeans, Forever 21// wedges, Sole Trader//bracelet, Lola Rose//Hamilton tote, Michael Kors.
It felt so nice to be out enjoying the sunshine and wearing summer wedges instead of boots.
I started the night with a very tasty Brazilian Bellini.
Food wise we shared a 3 starters of lamb meat balls, calamari, and duck wraps.
My main was a butternut squash chimichanga with all of the trimmings. I’m happy to say that I was satisfyingly stuffed after all of that.
I’ve been enjoying lots of breakfast smoothies outside in the garden. The beautiful sunshine really does wonders and I think I’ve had a spring in my step because of it all week.
The pretty pastel lilac colour comes from the fresh blackberries and it also includes apple, avocado and soya milk. Oh it was so rich and creamy!
Another day another smoothie…apple and frozen summer berries with coconut milk makes for a winning combination.
It’s not been all about smoothies for breakfast this week. In fact I fancied oats one morning made with just water. It was sunny outside so it felt a bit weird eating hot oats so I added some lemon curd yoghurt to cool it down and make it lighter. I also added mixed nuts and blueberry jam.
Yesterday for breakfast I fancied some fried eggs with avocado and so chilli ketchup. There was a peanut butter and banana smoothie using Maxitones banana protein powder too. Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, can you tell?!!? =)
My favourite lunch of the week is a salad I made for work on Tuesday I made this lovely salad for work. It included curly lettuce, a chopped pear, pecans, goat’s cheese, raw spicy seeds and beets.
After getting some form work on Wednesday I was starving so want something quick for dinner. I raided the fridge and grabbed some cherry tomatoes, kale peppers and courgettes to fry up with some eggs and plantain with a blob of tomato sauce. For a quick meal this was pretty good!
On a late night at work I tend to take my dinner with me as well as lunch. It means being organised but it means that I don’t have to eat late at night after work. On his weeks late night I made curried brown rice with raw almonds, garam masala, cumin, coriander, chickpeas and spring onions with steamed broccoli and chilli bean sauce.
Deserts this week have also been tasty…
I loved this raw chocolate bar from the Raw Chocolate Company.
Strawberries seem to be everywhere at the moment so I had some chopped up and topped it with a peanut butter, maple and chocolate avocado pudding which tasted heavenly!
I’m so glad that I managed to listen to my body and give it the extra rest day that it needed. Listening to your body not only means fueling your body the right way, but also means that you treat it the right way too. Things are a little bit hectic for me at the moment which means I need to prioritise, cutting down my to-do list and chill out more.
Are you good at listening to your body? Do you know when to slow down and take it easy?
That smoothie with avocado looks wonderful- I keep reading about them (I read that in Brazil they often have avocado as a sweet thing in smoothies etc) but have not got around to trying it yet- need to replace my old blender first as it broke.
Oh it really is fab. It makes them super rich and creamy!
Oh I love Las Iguanas! The food there is lush 🙂 I think I’m a lot better at taking it easy now, just as I was saying in my post on Friday, I would have usual worked out no matter what but feeling ill I completely backed off 🙂
Las Iguanas= great food+fab cocktails! 🙂
What a week of food! Everything looks amazing but I love the strawberries/PB pudding and smoothies in particular – great idea of putting blackberry and apple together. I don’t usually like blackberries but it’s a classic combination with apples, so methinks I must give it a try.
I can’t remember to take food pics any more…but you’re way busier than me so really I should (not that anything looks anywhere near as delicious as your meals!)
You look gorgeous in your outfit pic!
xxx
Thanks Jess. I am finding it more difficult to take pictures of food now and just tend to take pics of the more interesting meals.
I’m awful at listening to my body, but I’m trying to get better, I’ve found my workouts tough going this week so decided it was time for a week off the weights next week, I’ll still be running but hoping this should help! Love putting avocado in smoothies, so creamy!!
It’s great that you are giving your body the rest it needs. Yes the avocados in smoothies is legendary.
All the food looks lush ! I recently got a treadmill, can you give details of your HIIT routine please, i tried the fitness tab above but it took me to a blank page, thankyou !
I don’t think I have logged anything in the fitness section of the blog yet. I tend to mix up my HiTT work outs and do 1-2 minutes of steady state cardio with 30-45 seconds at a high speed and repeat. It just depends on how I feel on the day.
thankyou !
Your salad with the goats cheese looks fantastic! I never think to add nuts to my salad, I really need to start doing that.
It is hard to listen to your body at times. When my alarm goes off in the morning it’s hard to know if I’m tired because it’s early or my body’s tired from too much running. Luckily though I walk our dog beforehand so I can sort of judge then.
Nuts on a salad is pretty amazing – you should try it soon!
I love it when you have some really kick ass work outs at the gym – definitely makes you feel so much better and when you’re leaving sweaty and shattered it proves its been a great workout 🙂
I went to Las Iguanas for the first time a couple of weeks ago and loveeeedd it!! The food there is so nice 😀 Your oats look delicious too; it does feel a bit weird eating them when its warm outside but I love them so much that I couldnt forgo them haha.
Las Iguanas is so much fun. They make the best cocktails!
I’ve learned that pushing my body when it is telling me to slow down always ends badly – my body is far wiser than me and I have to give it a lot more credit than I have in the past. All of your meals look delicious 🙂
Thanks! Glad you are finally in tune with your body. It makes such a difference.
I definitely felt ‘frazzled’ this week so forced myself to take some much needed rest days (I’ll admit that normally I feel like I still need to push myself even if my body just needs to rest… something I’m working on). Am totally loving these lighter days, but at the same time reckon part of the problem is that suddenly I want to do everything I possibly can now that I’m no longer hibernating with the winter 😉 PS cute t shirt!
Ha! I get what you mean. The days feel longer so you feel like you can fit more in.
Awww. I hope you like it! x
Urgh, I know what you mean about being frazzled; it’s non stop from 6am Monday to about 8pm Friday and I never have time to think, let alone blog! It looks like you got some great healthy meals in though and it sounds like a lovely night out with Alfie 🙂