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Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a great week! I’m exceptionally pleased its Friday, I have a pretty much empty weekend ahead to fill as I wish and I can’t wait!

As I blogged about at the weekend I’ve recently been finding that I’ve been eating way more than usual, particularly on an evening. The snack monster has been out in full force and what was once the occasional snack fest has recently turned in to almost nightly occurrences. The main things I’m going for is anything sugary, chocolate and nut butters. This wouldn’t be a problem, however it is happening all of the time now and quite frankly I am sick of going to bed with a food baby, waking up with heart burn and feeling knackered because my body is having to work over time to digest it all. What has been worrying is that I lack the will to control it, which is what has resulted in me eating even when I am very physically full. I do feel that some of this behaviour is as a result of feeling rather stressed recently.

Yes, I adore these but I’m going to have to have a break from them for a while!

Last night I decided enough was enough! I have moved the sugary nut butters (PB&Co) and sugary chocolates into a box at the top of one of my cupboards hoping that out of site will mean out of mind. I also did a bit of a kitchen clear out, I had loads of random stuff that was out of date and items that I haven’t touched in months which I decided to just chuck. My cupboards are so much more spacious now!

So starting today I am giving myself a fresh start! I’m not going to go down the route of restriction or detox right now as I know my head isn’t in the right place and what my body really needs is care and kindness. So I’m opting for lots of my favourite green smoothies, salads and Buddha bowls – lots of simple but tasty and nourishing foods with plenty of herbal and green teas and water. I am going to lay off the nut butters and anything with refined sugars in them for a couple of days too.

I kicked off Fresh Start Friday with a workout at the gym doing my amended NRoL workout (with warm up on cross trainer and 3 sets instead of 2 on each move) then came home and made a very cleansing green smoothie:

This contained spinach, spring greens, cucumber, frozen banana, kiwi, pomegranate and acai coconut water, spirulina, maca, msm, hemp protein, ice, xanthan and guar gums and topped with freeze dried berries and hemp seeds.

Today we had our AGM at work and due to a mix up with our office and the caterer there was zero vegan options available. Luckily I was still feeling pretty full from the smoothie and had an apple and peach in my bag to keep me going but by the time it finished at 4pm I was a hungry beast! I popped to our closest shop – Aldi - and ended up buying a tub of hummus, bag of carrots, blueberries and apples:

A bit of a random mix but it was just what I was craving and it kept me going for a while longer! I have to say I was very surprised by how delicious the hummus was, and only 65p a tub!

For dinner tonight I made a big salad with cos lettuce, pea shoots, mixed leaves, red pepper, carrot, cucumber, mange tout and some gorgeous Tahini Miso dressing (1 tbsp of tahini, 1/2 – 1 tbsp of sweet white miso, water to desired consistency):

I really do love that simple dressing, so delicious! Again, this was pretty light but was just what I fancied!

So all I have planned so far this weekend is a quick trip into town and an attempted run (wish me luck!) which is lovely for a change. I’m hoping to be able to get caught up with all sorts of stuff as well as being able to enjoy some relaxation which is much needed at the moment. What do you have planned for the weekend?

I’m feel slightly weird asking this as I don’t really think of myself as being that interesting(!), but recently I’ve received a few emails from readers with various questions which made me think it might be helpful to do an Ask Me Anything post? So if you have anything you’d like to ask me about just leave a comment below, I don’t mind anonymous comments if you’d prefer as long as they are respectful, or you can email me laura@keepinghealthygettingstylish.com :-)

Oh and don’t forget – my GOOD Hemp giveaway is ending tonight – check it out!