Hey guys! I hope you have all had a great weekend! My weekend has been pretty uneventful with work and quite a restful Sunday-more of why later!
Weekend outfits:
I look like a dork in this picture, but it was the best of the bunch!
Foodie highlights over the past few days have included some tasty apple and blackberry oats on a cold Friday morning:
This was a simple mix of 1/2 cup of oats, 2 tbsps of wheat germ, 1 tsp of ground flax, 1 cup of rice milk, 1 cup of water, a handful of blackberries, 1 chopped apple, 1 tsp of cinnamon and 1/2 tsp of ginger.
Saturday morning’s breakfast was a comforting bowl of banana and chocolate pudding which I made by mixing 1/2 cup of oat bran, 1 tbsp of chia seeds, 1 tbsp of wheat germ, 1 tsp of ground flax, 1 tsp of organic cocoa powder, 1 cup of vanilla rice milk and 1 cup of water. Toppings included raw cacao nibs, raw coconut and dried cranberries.
This morning breakfast was a bowl of my homemade muesli recipe with vanilla rice milk. This mix includes some of my favourite ingredients, all to be revealed later this week. 😀
Lunches have included lots of salad in many variations:
Friday’s salad beast was super green and made from mixed leaves, romaine lettuce, watercress, sprouting alfalfa seeds, edamame beans and my Creamy Avocado Dressing all enjoyed with some Clearspring sesame seed rice crackers.
Saturday’s salad mix included watercress, mixed leaves, basil tofu, red pepper, sprouting alfalfa seeds, cherry tomatoes and some crunchy bites.
Today’s lunch surprisingly was not a salad, as it was getting too close to dinner I made quick and simple yummy snack plate :
Oat cakes, Red Pepper Hummus, red pepper, avocado, olives, sundried tomatoes and white bait. Lots more hummus and fruit was consumed afterwards. 😀
As I got home late both Friday and Saturday I went for quick simple and light meals such as stuffed mushrooms with mixed leaves watercress, and basil tofu:
The mushrooms were stuffed with asparagus, olives, sundried tomatoes and a tomato sauce. This was so so tasty and required very little effort! 😀 Last night I got home even later so needed something even quicker to eat. Of course it had to be a green smoothie!!!
This smoothie consisted of romaine lettuce, vanilla rice milk, water, blackberries, ground flax, xanthan gum, mesquite and maca powder. All topped off with a delicious gingerbread muffin, goji berries, dried fruit and nuts and omega mixed seeds.
Dinner tonight was a stir fry made form purple sprouting broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, spring onions, garlic, ginger, courgettes and pineapple with fine noodles…
I made a simple sauce using sweet chilli sauce, rice vinegar, vegetable stock and soy sauce. I loved this stir fry! The pineapple caramelised and went super sweet. I will definitely be making this again as a quick meal and as alternative to the Chinese sweet and sour sauce that I find wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to sweet and tangy. Dessert tonight was a berry smoothie made from frozen mixed berries and Yeo Valley strawberry frozen yoghurt, topped with some choccy seeds.
On Friday I headed out for a short 3.0 miles run, completed in 30 minutes and 29 seconds (10.09 miles/min). I was really surprised at my time as I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to run. I could have probably pushed through more but I’m happy with my time overall. But, with every positive comes a negative. Since Friday’s run the tendons in the front of both knees have been sore and very tight. So tight that they are quite prominent when you run your hands over them. The boyfriend had a look at them this morning and said that he thinks they are inflamed due to over usage. He may be right. All the spinning, running, cycling and cross training sessions is quite repetitive on the knees.
Alas there was no long run today so instead I went on a mini shopping spree…
I picked up some bargain Calvin Klein underwear sets, water bottle and other house hold goodies from TK Maxx. And I’m probably one of the few people that goes out and buys Nike dri-fit vest and running shorts when they cannot actually run. Ha!!! 😀 I also bought dress from H & M that I may decide to wear to one of two weddings that I have coming up this summer, but I will show you that later this week.
I’m one of those annoying people who cannot rest for too long. I think my workouts this week will have to include lots and lots of yoga to stretch out my knees and some light cardio on the cross trainer and treadmill, but I will keep assessing my knees as the week goes on. Obviously if my knees are still sore I will have to stop any kind of cardio all together. Darn I hate being injured! How do you handle being injured and not being able to run? Do you change and adapt your workouts or just rest.
Gah sorry to hear about this!! I take the next day TOTALLY off to ice and chill, and assess how it feels. Then see how it is from there! Sometimes it just needs a day or two off and it goes back to normal, so fingers crossed! 😀
And retail therapy is the BEST way to handle injury woes of course!! 😛
Fingers crossed indeed!!! I think it’s just over worked so some light stretching may just be the trick…hopefully!:)
Oh I’m sorry you’re injured 🙁
I’m just coming out of mine – I had to stop running and did non-running cardio to keep fitness up. I think you just have to rest asap from whatever it is that’s caused the injury. It sucks, but better to heal quick 🙂
I think resting is the key! Hopefully it won’t take too long to sort itself out! 😀
Aw I’m sorry you’re injured sweetie! I have learnt the hard way from experience that the only way the injury gets fully better and doesn’t return is to fully rest it with lots of ice. I found this incredibly hard and exercised whilst injured which made it worse, made it last double the time and made me really upset and frustrated! One time I rested for a bit and exercised whilst still a little injured and it flared up again so I really really recommend just resting it until you know it is actually fully better. I would hate for you to be injured longer than you have to be…it is seriously worth taking a few days off rather than having weeks even months of injury I promise!
Retail therapy was always my way of cheering myself up in injury too! I also just took the time to do things that I wouldn’t normally like get my hair done, do my nails..just stuff to pamper myself!
Your eats look as delicious as always, you always inspire me with your creativity and I love your stir-fries as I’m a huge fan of them! 🙂
You are so right! I hate being injured and must learn when to say no and rest. I think the yoga will help a lot though and lots of stretching. I need to do something for my own sanity. 😀
ah sorry about the injury!! i hate hate hate them but its important to cathc them fast!… try deep stretching and ICE!! i find jillians dvds great workouts when ur injured!
Thanks Carrie! I think I will be using my new yoga dvd alot and yoga for runners to stretch out my knees. Bah! I hate being injured!
I hate being injured, it was about this time last year I injured my knee and was out for a month. I didnt cope well! The best thing to do is be sensible as rest – I used a great icing spray that really helped. Did you get properly fitted for your running shoes? If not it could be that you over or under pronate and thats adding strain to your knees. Hope they repair themselves soon so you can get back out there!
No I haven’t been fitted yet. I think I need to go in the next few weeks though as not having the correct trainers is probably adding to the stress on my knees.
sorry about the injury! I’m dealing with a low back injury that’s kept me completely out of running. I’ve definitely had to adapt my workouts. I’ve been power-walking on the treadmill and using the elliptical! but it’s about all I can do. It really sucks and I completely understand what you’re going through.
I hate it. I love my cardio and running. I’m sorry to hear about your back injury- must be really painful. 🙁
Sorry to hear that- I normally take it easy and do gentle walking and resting, as I think then I need to take a shorter break.
I’m going to rest but do lots of stretching I think and toning work. I hope it doesn’t take too long to put right.
I have missed your wonderful pictures in the last week. They often help me decide what I want for dinner! 🙂 Great outfits! LOVE the red trousers!
😀 I hope you had a wonderful holiday!
Eek sorry about the injury, I’ve been noticing that a lot of bloggers seem to be injured too. Just gotta give yourself time to heal. Best of luck 🙂
Thank you! Hopefully it won’t take too long!
LOVE your outfits girl!
I cant wait to hear about your homemade museli– its my fav 🙂
Thanks! 😀
LOVE all your eats! And injuries are no fun… I was training for a half last year and got a stress fracture and was DEVASTATED. It just takes lotss of patience to get through it!
I hate being injured. I just want to get ou there and run, but I guess being healthy and fit to run is more important 😀
The last time I was injured, I went to spinning every day. It really kept my fitness level up! I haven’t really run in two weeks, but I’ve been on the elliptical a lot. I love it, but it’s not as good as spinning!
I think I will be using cross trainer, spining and yoya all this week and just let my knees rest fot a while. Spining is way better than the eliptical- it’s so much fun!!
Love love love your outfits!! and your food! and your new purchases! reminds me, I seriously need some new workout clothes! 🙂
sorry about your injury 🙁 hope you reconver sooon!!
Thanks chica! I hope so too! 😀
I absolutely HATE it when I am injured and can’t do anything. It sucks! I’ve been there, but remember you need to rest in order to recover!
Get well soon, Jemma! 😀
Thanks sweetie! 😀
Oh my gosh, that salad looks amazing. It’s getting on for lunchtme now and I’m starving!
I’m sorry you’re injured – it sucks 🙁 Hopefully you will have a speedy recovery. I didn’t deal well when I first got diagnosed with my foot and leg injury. I got over it eventually and got on with swimming, yoga, weights and lots of time on the cross-trainer.
I’m the worst for resting when injured but these days I have to force myself. I can’t be a personal trainer and be injured! I have trouble with my knees after hitting the pavements to much a few years ago and yoga is exactly what helps. Since doing Bikram my pains are disappearing which is amazing but I do force myself to just take some time off too its tough but better than staying injured! Hope ya knees feel better x x