So my little guy, as most who know me personally would already know, know that he is pretty high intensity and is like an energiser bunny on a carton of red bull during the day and is a terrible sleeper waking in the middle of the night every night anywhere between 1-4 hours.  This is
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Today I overdid it.  Not intentionally it just happened. I started my day with a beautiful 5km walk.  I am still at mums so stopped at the top of the hill to admire the amazing view. I stopped again on the way back home I came through one of the vineyard tracks I saw a
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If you do not like gassy noises that are produced by the human body STOP READING!! My morning started with a nice 5km walk around Lyrup followed by another delicious smoothie bowl.  A play date with Lochie with some of his little mates, a trip to the shops rounding off my day with some lovely
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This weeks weigh in has to come with a different set of scales disclaimer.  I’m at mum’s this Wednesday so using her scales rather than my regular ones. This week: 1.5kg Since surgery: 32.7kg Total: 51.6kg Gotta be happy with that. Back to work today after an extra long weekend thanks to the Easter public
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  After my frump affect of yesterday I got up this morning and head off for a walk. My aim was to do the 5km that I did on Monday and Tuesday however this was cut short to 4km. I trudged back home drenched wet, in need of windscreen wipers for my glasses and I
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Banana Cupcakes Makes: 18 Cake Ingredients: 4 ripe bananas  2 1/2 cups SR flour 1 cup milk 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1/4 cup vanilla yoghurt 3 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1 teaspoon cinnamon  Icing ingredients: 250g unsalted butter 2 teaspoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 cups icing sugar Method: Preheat oven to
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Creamy Mushroom Protein Sauce  Makes: 2 large or 4 small portions Ingredients: 1 small onion, finely diced 3 garlic cloves, finely diced 1 teaspoon unsalted butter 100g mushrooms, sliced 1 cup water 3 beef stock cubes 2 tablespoons light sour cream 30g natural protein powder Method: Sauté the onion and garlic in the butter for
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Vanilla Protein Pancakes Makes: 6 Ingredients: 1 scoop vanilla protein powder 2 tablespoon rolled oats 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/3 cup light coconut milk 1/4 cup skim milk 1 egg white Method: Place the protein powder, rolled oats and baking powder in a food processor and process until ground Add in both milks to the
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Asian Turkey Meatloaf Makes: 10 Ingredients: 500g turkey mince 1 egg 1 small onion, finely diced 1/2 celery stalk, finely diced 3 garlic cloves, finely diced 2 teaspoons freshly ground ginger 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce 3/4 cup breadcrumbs Method: Preheat an oven to 180 degrees Celsius and place a silicon
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Macaron Inspied Protein Cookies Makes: 40 cookies or 20 sandwich cookies  Ingredients: 1 cup almond meal 3 scoops chocolate protein powder  6 egg whites 3 teaspoons stevia or xylitol  Method: Preheat the oven to 140 degrees Celsius and either line 2 baking trays with baking paper or have 2 silicon macaron trays ready Mix together
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