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Hi everyone, hope you are feeling fabulous! Its been one hell of a crazy week for me and I am so happy that I can now chill out a bit and start preparing for Christmas.

Over the last couple of days I’ve had two parties to attend. The first one on Wednesday evening was my workplaces Community and Voluntary Organisations Awards and Christmas Celebration. As the team manager I presented the Awards. It was a great evening. I dressed glam but professional:

Sheer polka dot blouse: River Island, black trousers: Zara, black skinny belt, Topshop, studded black shoes: Miss Selfridge, sparkly drop earrings: Accessorize.

We had some lovely hot food provided. I went with the vegetarian mince lasagne and lots of veg:

I had already snacked on dried apricots, an apple, 1 1/2 wholemeal pitta breads with hummus and sun dried tomatoes at my managers flat whilst getting ready so this left me stuffed. The evening went very well – I have a great job and work with some wonderful community groups and charities!

Thursday morning I did my usual DVD workout then had a black VIA coffee sweetened with agave syrup and a big bowl of Dorset Cereal Fruity Flakes with some frozen mixed chopped fruits and oat milk.

Lunch was a bowl of miso soup with ginger, carrot and cucumber, two clemintines and a braeburn apple:

Mid afternoon I snacked on two apples. We all went to my managers flat to get ready and were treated to cocktails and nibbles. I had two apple martinis and a cosmopolitan plus some delicious maple candied pecans and cashews.

We headed to a local restaurant called Fifty Three. I started with the soup:

This was really tasty – it was leek and potato but it also contained rosemary. I think I’m going to try and recreate this for a starter for Christmas lunch. I didn’t eat the bread on the side as I wanted to save room for this amazing giant margarita pizza:

I ate every bite, oh yes! I love a good proper thin crust Italian cheese and tomato pizza. Desert was a little vanilla panna cotta with berry compote.

I also drank copious amounts of red wine :-) I did have a bit of an uncomfortable night as my tummy was just so full but I was happy to wake up hangover free (I made sure I drank lots of water and took milk thistle tablets). After drinking or indulging I always get a serious craving for a green monster smoothie so that’s what I had for breakfast.

I blended some spring greens with 1/3 frozen banana, mixed frozen berries and fruits, oat milk, ice cubes, water, ground flax, maca powder, cinnamon, brown rice syrup, 1/2 scoop of fruit-ein powder and xanthan and guar gums. I topped it with some goji berries and flaked almonds, it was lovely but so huge. I struggled to finish it but I knew I wanted some good stuff in my body! I also had a detox tea.

Lunch was just another bowl of miso and ginger soup with carrot sticks and an orange and apple similar to yesterday. Mid afternoon I snacked on an apple pie nakd bar. I hit the gym after work for an awesome 1 hour HIIT workout on the treadmill, cross trainer, step machine and bike followed by some upper body free weights and core exercises on the stability ball.

Dinner was a tasty Sweet Ginger Sesame Tofu Stir Fry using a pre packed rainbow veggie mix:

Desert was some double chocolate protein ice cream flavoured with mint and topped with raw cacao nibs:

So, so good – the sun warrior protein powder really does make this special.

I’ve also been receiving lots of goodies over the last few days. I have a workout DVD to review – more on that to come. I was also contacted to see if I would like to try some Rachel’s Organic Yoghurts:

I tried the Greek yoghurt a few weeks ago as an alternative to my usual Total yoghurt brand as I’m trying to eat more organic dairy. I was very impressed, so I was chuffed when I was contacted about doing a review. I have some low fat tubs – strawberry and lime, rhubarb, mango, pineapple and passion fruit. I also have whole milk Greek style yoghurt in honey, coconut and cherry. I can’t wait to try these out!

I received my work Secret Santa:

A mug set and Christmas tea from  Whittards. I was laughing as its so similar to my blog Secret Santa gift – great minds think alike! The Christmas tea smells out of this world amazing.

My manager also gave us all a little bottle of her homemade plum gin:

I can’t wait to have this with a tonic over Christmas!

Are you all getting into the full swing of Christmas? Have you attended many parties so far? I’ve really enjoyed myself – especially that wonderful pizza, and no, I feel no guilt whatsoever for treating myself to that! I’m back at work next week but just for a couple of days – I have no meetings which makes things a lot more relaxed. This weekend I’m going to do a bit of grocery shopping, wrapping gifts and watching Christmas movies, perfect! Hope you’ve had a great week!