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One of my favourite things about this time of year is the fashion – warm chunky knits, jewel colours, fair isle prints and sparkly accessories. I love that you can get away with a bit more bling in December. I recently raided my old jewellery boxes and thought I’d share some of my favourite sparkly pieces with you:

I have numerous brooches, necklaces and chandelier earrings which I love. A few of them are high street but most of them are vintage finds from charity shops and antique fairs. I love wearing a jewelled accessory with something more simple or casual like a plain tee. Do you embrace your sparkly side this time of year?

I’ve been off from work today for my annual Mother / Daughter Christmas shopping trip. Unfortunately my 8 month pregnant little sis wasn’t feeling very well so it was just me and my Mam. I had such a lovely time and picked up a couple of pressies plus a couple of things for me ;-)

I’ll post a few picks later in the week but I got some more knitware, some thermal base layers for running and the gym (yey!), extremely thick gloves and a couple of nail varnishes. Here’s a quick outfit of the day for you:

Jacket: H&M, crochet jumper dress: Tu at Sainsbury’s, skinny tan leather belt: Topshop, Black skinny trousers: Gap, Black boots: H&M, hat and scarf: Next.

I had a vest and tee on under that jumper dress it was freezing! I love nipping in jumper dresses with a skinny belt.

I got to the gym yesterday and enjoyed my workout so much I decided to repeat it tonight. I did 15 minutes on the treadmill starting with two minutes at a warm up pace then going into HIITs, 60 secs at 6.5mph then 30 secs at 8mph. This is the fastest I’ve ran on the treadmill! I then did my usual HIITs for 15 minutes on the step machine, bike and cross trainer for a total 1 hour HIIT session followed by abs and core exercises. Such a kick ass workout!

My eats have also been tasty, yesterdays post gym breakfast was a gorgeous green monster smoothie containing watercress, cavolo nero, 1/2 frozen banana, frozen mango, blueberries and strawberries, scoop of vanilla sun warrior, large tablespoon of peanut butter, ground flax and nut mix and soy milk topped with Rude Health granola and goji berries:

Just awesome, the peanut butter makes all the difference!

Today’s breakfast was a big bowl of Dorset Cereal tasty flakes with 2 chopped plums and vanilla rice milk plus a vanilla coffee.

Yesterday’s lunch was leftover Kabocha and Adzuki bean stew, today I’ve nibbled through the day. I had a granola bar and a delicious Crème Brulee Soy Latte at Costas:

I also had a berry medley juice while looking round the shops:

Lunch was my favourite salad from Marks and Spencer: The Whole Food Salad Shaker. I also had a little pot of melon, pineapple and grapes plus 3 unpictured satsumas:

Last nights dinner was another tasty raw salad containing spinach, carrot, cucumber, red cabbage, cauliflower and red onion with a spicy peri peri dressing and some spicy roasted chickpeas.

I also had two sliced apples and 2 squares of heavenly lindt dark chocolate with sea salt:

As I’d eaten a bit throughout today I just had a light dinner of Ryvita pumpkin and oat crackers with spicy lentil dip and carrot and cucumber sticks.

I also had a spiru-tein nutty berry shake topped with dried strawberries and flaked almonds:

I’ve also had a couple of unpictured pink lady apples.

Today while shopping I started thinking about how my body shape has changed since I’ve lost weight. I was never a typical pear or apple shape but I always used to shop based on my size. This used to be v neck tops, boot cut pants, single breasted jackets etc – everything your told is more flattering to a fuller figure. Since I’ve lost weight my body shape has completely changed and I no longer suit these shapes – a v neck top on me now would not look great – well, unless I was wearing a push up bra! If you’ve lost weight or are in the process of losing weight, have you changed the style of clothing you wear? Do you try out different cuts or silhouettes? I feel that I’m still in the process of discovering what works for me with this new shape. I had a bit of a moment today when I realised that I’d lost over a third of my body weight in just under 2 years!

Hope all of your Mondays have been good, we still have shed loads of snow but at least I can drive in it! Catch you later :-)