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Coming back to work after the long Jubilee weekend is tough! I can’t believe it is Wednesday, I think I’m going to spend most of this week unsure of what day it is! At least I have a 3 day week, the weekend will come round much quicker!

These are my eats from yesterday. As I wanted to be able to enjoy a few drinks on Monday at our Jubilee party we decided it would be easier to just stay over at my parents house. It was really nice to be somewhere different for a change, especially their huge house rather than our tiny flat! I was quite surprised and pleased to wake up hang over free. I had the usual mug of warm water and lemon juice (yep I’m the person that takes lemons with me wherever I go) before getting in a cheeky workout.

I had thought about waiting to hit the gym later on but the weather was good and I prefer working out first thing when I can. I decided to make up a little circuit style workout just enough to work up a bit of a sweat and set me up for the day. I had wanted to use some of my Dad’s big weights in the garage but my god they were very heavy, I couldn’t even lift them up! I didn’t want to faff on with them so just added a couple of loose discs to a spare bar and made do. I set up a little station in the back yard:

Laura’s back garden workout:

• Run: 2 loops around the street (about 1/4 mile distance)
• 20 tricep dips on the patio chair with feet raised on the step
• 20 squats holding the weight
• 15 shoulder presses with weight
• 10 forward lunges with a twist holding weight
• 10 back ward lunges holding weight
• 20 plank jacks

Repeat x 3 then finished with another 2 loops of the street run and a 1 minute plank (which I did in the kitchen, not on the gravel!)

The pint glass of water is totally needed the morning after a few drinks, hang over or not! This took me just under 30 minutes. I did get a couple of odd looks from the neighbours as I ran round the street several times but hey ho ;-)

After that I got showered and had breakfast. I’d been organised enough to bring some stuff for overnight oats – 1/2 cup of oats, 1 tbsp of chia seeds and a scoop of vanilla sun warrior just mixed up dry in a jar so you can add water to them and leave in the fridge. I had that with some pineapple and strawberries I’d saved from the party and a mug of green tea:

We tidied up and came home, by which time I was starting to feel rather tired and dehydrated so I made a cherry vanilla and sea salt coconut water slushie:

I blended some ice, frozen cherries, a small container of plain coconut water, vanilla stevia and a pinch of sea salt. That hit the spot and made me feel so much better. I also made a big pot of loose leaf green tea:

For lunch I had a salad with romaine, spinach, cucumber, red and yellow pepper, half a large avocado and balsamic vinegar along with some baked tofu leftover from the weekend:

That tofu is just the best ever! Its so easy to make and really does taste fab, I must blog how to make it some time soon.

After my salad I had a mug of ginger tea with a little stevia:

I’d been drinking a lot of sugary ginger beer at the party so this gave me a much healthier sweet ginger hit for my craving.

Mid afternoon I got my juice on:

This was sorely needed and contained celery, cucumber, ginger and lemon. I added a little bit of ice to make it more refreshing.

I was still feeling a bit hungry after that so I whipped up a quick chocolate mint protein shake with chocolate sun warrior protein powder, water, ice, stevia and mint extract:

For dinner I had a few veggies to use up so I decided to make a simple stir fry:

This included broccoli, courgette, carrot and red and yellow pepper with soya beans and a sauce made with peanut flour, lime juice and soy sauce. I love a good stir fry for something quick and healthy!

For dessert I made a bowl of chocolate almond raspberry soft serve:

To make this I blended frozen raspberries, ice, water, 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, a pinch of xanthan gum, stevia and some almond extract then topped it with flaked almonds, so delicious!

I was pretty happy with that day of eats, in the past after a day of indulgence I would really restrict. I now realise that all that did was make me want more food and usually end up overeating to compensate. Yesterday I did eat ‘cleaner’ because that’s what I felt that my body needed, but I made sure that I ate plenty when I was hungry – just plenty of the right things. No processed sugar or overly processed food in general and lots of fruit and vegetables :-)

On the new WIAW snacking theme – I think that’s something I do pretty well anyway! I’m a huge snacker and usually eat 3 main meals and at least 3 snacks a day to hold me over. I do think its a good theme as in the past I did struggle with thinking up healthy snack ideas that I could take to work so I’m looking forward to getting ideas from everyone else’s WIAW posts!

How do you approach eating after a lot of indulgence?