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Hi everyone, happy Wednesday! I want to start buy saying a huge thank you to everyone that commented on my Monday Musing post this week about my snackiness and general thoughts on what is healthy. I’m so glad that so many of you found it an interesting read. I loved all of the thoughtful comments you left!

For WIAW this week I’m doing my eats and happenings from yesterday! Thanks again to Jen for hosting the party!

I was still feeling pretty stiff from the Great North Run on Sunday when I got up so I did a quick yoga podcast to stretch out, it really helped my poor legs! For breakfast I had 3 chopped plums with some Alara Maca Muesli and vanilla rice milk:

It was a pretty chilly morning so I busted out my favourite mittens!

I love these stripy purple ones from Accessorize, especially as they have the fingerless option too, very useful for when you need to find your keys! You just flip over the mitten bit when you need to. I also wrapped up with my chunky scarf too :-)

Mid morning I snacked on a couple of chopped carrots, an apple, some of my delicious home made sun dried tomato and flax raw crackers and a mug of brown rice miso:

I’ve been making myself a mug of unpasteurised miso at work every few days. It makes a nice change from tea and does my tummy good :-)

For lunch I had a big salad containing cos lettuce, shredded savoy cabbage, courgette, cucumber, red pepper and radish with half a tin of mixed beans and a dressing made with hemp oil and blueberry balsamic vinegar. I also had two tangerines:

I love that blueberry balsamic, it goes so well with beans! Just a quick thought – I was reading this great post at Bonzai Aphrodite (one of my fave blogs) and she was saying how misleading photos can be in terms of portion sizes. My salads always contain at least a full head of cos lettuce and that bowl is the size of a serving bowl, a total salad beast!

Mid afternoon I ate one of my raw choc chip cookie dough bars:

I headed to the gym after work and did 30 minutes of intervals on the machines before my Body Pump class. We did the new release tonight, I quite enjoyed it and found it rather tough, although it could be because I’m still quite knackered from Sunday! I did drop my weights for the back track to give myself a break! Anyone else done Body Pump 79 (I think its that one)yet? What do you think?

For dinner I pan fried some Taifun Smoked Almond Sesame Tofu and had it with some spicy peanut sauce (peanut flour, lime juice, red chilli, shoyu), brown rice and broccoli and cauliflower roasted in coconut oil:

I usually just eat that tofu uncooked but I decided to try it fried and it was delicious. The roast cauliflower in particular was wonderful, the best I’ve ever tasted! For dessert I made a big bowl of protein ice cream with a scoop of chocolate sun warrior protein powder, some frozen blackberries, ice, water, stevia and xanthan and guar gums topped with cacao nibs:

I finished up with a lovely mug of Madre Labs CocoCardio with stevia:

I have to say I really am in love with this stuff, it has a lovely deep chocolately taste and a beautiful red brown colour from the beet powder and hibiscus! It kind of reminds me of the Options low calorie hot chocolate powders but without all the chemicals!

Before bed I was feeling a bit snacky so I just went with it. I ate a couple of plums, some frozen grapes, dried cherries, nut butter and 2 pieces of my fave Lindt 90% dark chocolate. I didn’t over stuff myself and went to bed with a happy tummy!

How are you this Wednesday? I’m glad we are over half way through the week already! Are you starting to feel the autumn chill where you are yet? I have to admit I’m more than happy to be wrapping up warm with my favourite woolies!

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