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Hi guys, how’s your Wednesday going? Its a chilly day today in North East England, but at least its bright and sunny :-) These are my eats and happenings from yesterday. Happy WIAW!

I started the day with Yoga for Runners then had a mug of lemon and warm water while I had a shower and got ready. Breakfast was a bowl of Kashi Go Lean with a chopped banana, some frozen blueberries and rice milk plus a lovely vanilla coffee, black and sweetened with stevia:

I was working from home around a morning meeting so it was great to have the time to actually sit and enjoy that coffee! Before I left for my meeting I had a chopped apple with some ‘burnt caramel’ dip and a mug of green tea:

I just mixed some tahini, molasses and lucuma powder up with some water to make a  dip – I added the lucuma and it was a good way to mellow out the flavour of the molasses and add a caramel flavour. I decided that it would probably be a good idea to change out of the hoody I’d been wearing all morning for the meeting ;-) and as it was so cold and windy outside I thought a jumper dress would be in perfect, OOTD:

Gold swallow earrings: Topshop, patterned and crocheted scarf: Urban Outfitters, mustard yellow jumper dress: H&M, grey cotton tights: H&M, black turnover top suede effect boots: H&M

I absolutely love jumper dresses for this time of year, I think I have about 5 of them! I got this one a couple of weeks ago when I returned a dress that was stained. I’m still loving that mustard yellow colour right now!

When I got home from my meeting I had a huge bowl of Healthy Feast Salad and a pear:

Mid afternoon I got one of my home made raw cookie dough bars out of the freezer as a snack and for some gym fuel:

Love these! I got to the gym a little early so I did 10 min of intervals on the cross trainer, 10 min of intervals on the step machine and an extra 10 minutes steady state on the rowing machine before going into my body pump class which was awesome as usual!

Dinner was nice and easy to prepare as most of it was sitting in the fridge just ready to warm up and assemble! I had some steamed spring greens with brown and red rice, roast onion squash, baked tofu and a coconut ginger sauce:

This was so delicious! The coconut ginger sauce was lovely – just some light coconut milk warmed with 1 tbsp of coconut flour and 1 tsp of corn flour for thickness plus some shoyu and fresh minced ginger, yum! The tofu had baked perfectly as well and had a wonderful meaty texture.

For dessert I had my usual post body pump bowl of protein ice cream:

1 scoop of smores spiru-tein with water, ice and gums topped with dried cherries and cacao nibs, delish! I then warmed myself up with a huge mug of Cococardio sweetened with stevia:

This hit the spot on such a cold and windy evening!

All in all a pretty good day, I got loads of work done and a report finished for work so I was happy. Another thing that made me smile today:

Kale! James picked me up some when he was in town, along with another of my current obsessions – Shogun apples! I’d never heard of this variety – they are a type of Fiji apple and they are huge and so sweet, plus I like the name ;-)

Are you a fan of the jumper dress? I love wearing them with thick tights, leggings or skinny jeans when the weather gets colder. They can look really good but still be comfortable and warm. I actually wore a knitted hat today for the first time this season it was so cold! What outfit do you turn to as the weather gets cooler?