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Hi everyone, hope Monday has been good to you. I've had a pretty good day for a Monday - I've been powering through my to do list at work!

Breakfast was a wonderful green monster with spinach, frozen banana, unsweetened soy milk, a heaped teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter, 2 tablespoons of oats and a teaspoon of maca powder all topped off with some grape nuts, flaked almonds and goji berries.


This is the first time I've tried soy milk. I saw it in the supermarket yesterday and decided to give it a try. I have no idea why I haven't tried it before now. I couldn't really taste it in the smoothie but it did the job!

Mid morning I had fromage frais with some of my orange roasted rhubard and a few flaked almonds.


Lunch was a luke warm bowl of Brocolli, Pea and Mint Soup (I couldn't be bothered to walk back down to the microwave to heat it up more!) and some strawberries.


I had a little home made fuel bar before heading to the gym after work.


I love these chewy fudgey little squares!

I did an hour of intervals on the cross trainer, step machine and bike and then 3 sets of my usual abs moves. I finished off with 10 mins on the bike reading a magazine to cool down seeing as I had time before picking the hubby up. I was shattered! I'm still managing to keep up on the higher resistance levels so I'm happy with that.

For dinner I decided to make a frittata. I used 4 egg whites and 2 eggs with a red onion, a red pepper, a baby courgette and a good bit of grated edam cheese. I had 2 slices with some mixed salad leaves, spinach, cucumber and grated carrot.


Delish!

I've been dying to try out some of my Spirutein protein powder so I decided that desert would be a protein smoothie made with a scoop of Nutty Berry Spirutein, soy milk and some frozen blueberries.


The soy milk is definitely growing on me, this was delicious and really creamy! I also had an apple.


I was very chuffed earlier when I bagged this lovely vintage white cotton blouse on ebay for just £5 including postage!
I'm hoping it will arrive before the end of the week so I can wear it when I go to Brighton. It will look lovely with some skinny jeans and I can wear it in the autumn under a little cardigan. Have you ever bought second hand / vintage clothing? A couple of years ago I had an ebay phase and got a few bits of second hand clothing but most of the items were a bit rubbish once you saw them in the 'flesh'. I hope this is ok when I receive it! I always admire women who can totally work the vintage look. I guess thats what I'm trying to emulate - it can certainly be a bit kinder on the pocket as well as being more environmentally friendly (I cringe when I think of the amount of clothes I've chucked or charity shopped this last year). Buying good second hand and vintage is something I really want to master!