Healthy Eats 5 - Healthy Eating Motivation

Hey everyone, as you will be aware this post is my last weekly healthy eats post so from now on I will be doing the Healthy Eats posts monthly. Today's post is probably the most significant one, healthy eating motivation. Today I'm going to go through tips and reasons for eating healthily and I hope they help motivate you.

The first thing I want to share with you is a fact that at first I couldn't quite believe, I found this fact on @rebeccalouisefitness on instagram.

Your body is 80% the food you put in and 20% the workouts you do.

I've always been a big lover of chocolate so in the past I have eaten quite unhealthily, I always used to tell myself that it was fine because I do a lot of workouts and sport. However this fact proves that you can't just do a lot of sport and expect to have your ideal body you have to eat healthily as well.

If for you (like myself) chocolate or sweets are your biggest weakness, I would recommend only allowing yourself to eat them as a reward for example:

For every 5 pieces of fruit you eat you allow yourself one bar of chocolate.

Or for every 3 workouts you do you allow yourself one packet of sweets.

I think using sweet treats as rewards is a great idea because not only are you eating less sweet treats it will also motivate you to do more exercise or to eat more fruit. You just need to make sure that you stick to the rewards and targets you have set yourself.

I think there are 2 things that are the fall down for most peoples diets and healthy eating routines:

Cravings and going to parties

Cravings are most peoples biggest weakness so if you want more information about how to stop your cravings I do a more in depth cravings post here.

If you know that you are going to party so you know you will probably end up pigging out on an unhealthy but delicious selection of treats then my you would be to eat extra healthily the few days before. That way if you end up eating unhealthily at the party it won't hurt as much because you have eaten extra healthily in the few days leading up to it.

I feel like I've just rambled for ages, sorry! I just do hope that this post can be of some help to you, it certainly made me rethink some of the things I'm eating. See you soon!

Healthy Eats #4 - Smoothies and Juices

Hey Everyone, today is another episode in my healthy eats series. After the fifth episode I am going to continue the healthy eats series monthly instead of weekly. Today I thought I would give you a list of links for the best smoothie and juice recipes and give you some of my own favourite combinations. I personally love juices and smoothies because they're so delicious and healthy. Here are my favourite recipes for you to try:

Niomi Smart - What I eat in a day

This blog post includes 3 Fruit Juices which all look absolutely delicious, all with vibrant colours.

Native Juicer - Recipes

A fantastic website that has so many brilliant recipes that specialize in different health aspects.

 

BBC Good Food - Smoothie Recipes

I love the BBC Good Food website for recipes including their smoothie recipes, their recipes all have vibrant exotic flavours.

My Juice Recipe - Link here

I love my own recipe because although the colour is not very appealing the fruitiness is unreal! 

 Hope you enjoyed this post, see you next time!

Ella x

Healthy Eats #2 - Healthy Breakfasts

Hey everyone, so today's post is the second installment of my Healthy Eats series and I thought I'd show three of my favourite healthy breakfast recipes.

Strawberry smoothie 

Ingredients: 

5 strawberries 

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence 

Approx 1 cup of vanilla or natural pouring yoghurt 

• First prepare the strawberries so cut the leaves off and wash them. 
• Put the strawberries yoghurt and vanilla essence into a blender.
• Blend until smooth and enjoy! 

 Healthier Toast with Green Tea

Ingredients:

2 slices of wholemeal bread
Low fat unsalted butter
Nutella
Banana
Green Tea

• Toast your slices of bread
• Spread with butter and nutella
• Cut your banana and lay it on top
• Serve with green tea and enjoy!

Granola with yoghurt and berries

Ingredients:
Plain Granola
Pouring yoghurt (I particularly like Onken vanilla)
Summer berries

• Pour your granola into a bowl
• Add your pouring yoghurt
• Sprinkle with berries and voila! A healthier alternative to cereal.

Thank you ever so much for reading, recently I planned all my blogposts for the summer and I'm super excited for some of them! I also added new tabs to my blog so be sure to check them out!

Ella x

Healthy Eats #1 - Avacado Recipes

Hey Everyone, so I've decided that I want to start posting some series on my blog and I really wanted to do a healthy eats series. I've decided that to start off with I want to post this series once a week for 5 weeks and then if this series turns out well I will then carry on this series but monthly. So the first episode in this Healthy Eats series is Avocado Recipes! I love Avocado and I think it is fantastic because you can eat it in so many different ways. Lets have a look at the recipes...

Avocado and Poached Egg
I love this lunch idea its delicious, really healthy and the perfect size for lunch. All you need is an Avocado and 2 eggs, take the stone and skin off your avocado and cut it in half. You poach your two eggs separately and put your eggs in the dip where the stone was and there you go an easy, quick and healthy lunch.

Creamy Avocado and Rocket Pasta
This pasta looks absolutely gorgeous and its sounds like it would taste soo good. You can see the full recipe here: http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/creamy-avocado-and-rocket-pasta/

Avocado on toast
All you need is to toast your bread and whilst it's toasting mash up your avocado. When your toast is ready spread the avocado on it and season with some salt and pepper and eat!

Avocado wrapped in prosciutto ham
All you need to do is cut your avocado into slices, put goats cheese in the dip and wrap the slices in prosciutto ham. This snack is so simple but it looks so fancy so it would be perfect to make for a party. For a more detailed explanation and recipe click here: http://domesticfits.com/2011/10/10/halloween-recipe-avocado-witches-fingers/

Here are just a few easy avocado recipes, for more fantastic ideas click here: http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/body/diet-nutrition/how-to/g3922/easy-avocado-recipes/?slide=8

See you next time,
Ella x