Friday favourites #6

Happy Friday! So close to the weekend :)

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Here are my favourite reads from the week. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have!

This is something I am jealous that people get to do. Sunday food prep is something I don't get to do working away from home the majority of the week, but these are some fab tips from Laura at Keeping Healthy Getting Stylish.

Doesn't running in lots of bright colours make your run that much better?! An amusing look at the rise of modern day running gear from Lazy Girl Running.

Since oats really don't agree with me I don't get to enjoy the loveliness that is overnight oats .This buckwheat alternative from Gena of Choosing Raw over at Food 52 looks like an amazing substitution. I can't wait to try!

The really nosey part of me loves knowing what's in other food bloggers' fridges!

A really interesting and important infographic on obesity in the USA

Just hilarious! The dos and don'ts of marathon running.

These strawberry popsicles look so simple and so refreshing. Thanks My Whole Food Life!

What was your favourite read of the week?

E x

Friday favourites #3

Happy Friday everyone! Hasn't it come round quick?

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Here's a round up of all my favourite reads from the last week. Hope you enjoy!

I love love love the Real Life RD's WIAWs - I get so much from reading them :) This week's was a good read all about calorie counting

A perfect explanation of why the "perfect" body often means a horrible life.

I love all of Chocolate Covered Katie's food, but this savoury dish made me druel.

I love all of Roni's posts, and she does a fab job of showing the importance of loving our bodies, and also how tough that can be. I think she looks amazing in the picture in this post, and I love the video.

This is so interesting, on crying! I used to be like a stone - I refused to cry at anything. Now I cry at everything and anywhere.

An interesting idea that clean eating is seen by some as a "fad diet"

Have lovely Fridays!

E x

Friday favourites #2

Hi all!

Happy Friday! Yay for the weekend,  *does a little celebratory dance*

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Here are a few of my favourites from across the web this week for your delectation:

- You know as a female when you realise that the Disney portrayal of romance doesn't actually exist (oh how my heart broke)!? Here are a few more realities that Disney glossed over.

- What 10 imperfect things are you happy with? From straightforward_nutrition

- A brilliant message, and proof that even the people we idolise and think are perfect can feel insecure. From @staysharpbestrong

- Learning from the French as to how we can have a happy relationship with food. From @MindBodyGreen

- Love numbers 7, 14, 16, 20, 21...heck, I love them ALL! (Read if you need a reminder of how amazing humanity can be).

- If you're in the middle of exam season, learn how best to eat for exam success.

What were your favourites from the week?

Hope you all have fabulous weekends my lovelies!

E x

Friday favourites

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Guys, today I got through an entire box of tissues. AN ENTIRE BOX! I don’t know whether it’s super bad hayfever, or a cold, but I’m streaming like there’s no tomorrow. I’m currently on my way back up North to Cheshire to spend the weekend with my parents (Mum and I have the very important matter of dress shopping to attend to) and because I used all my tissues today, I am sat here with an ENTIRE toilet roll on my knee, literally unravelling it as I sneeze and sniffle.

Today I had my introductory session at the Richmond Wellbeing Service. I’ll write a full post on this next week, but it’s such a well thought out service! Anyway, the whole session was lovely and calming (one of the main things the service aims to treat is anxiety), from the classical music when you entered, to the serene white walls, and the soothing voice of the practitioner. And then there was me, sat right in the centre of the room, sneezing, blowing my nose, rustling around in my bag. SO embarrassing! 

Anyway, today I want to share some of my favourite things I found across t’interweb this week. I hope they make you smile, cry and think as much as they made me do!

This was just heart wrenchingly beautiful. My family have lost someone to breast cancer of the liver, and I’m sure any of you who have seen lost someone to cancer will be able to relate to this.

Such a brilliant demonstration of just how common (to the extent we probably don’t even notice it anymore) unnecessary comments about women appear in the press.

If only I had this many pairs of running shoes, then I too would lie on them #runnersdream, from Run Eat Repeat.

This happened in London this week. Personally I think it’s a fab idea.

I love me some ways of happiness making, particularly when it’s got some evidence by it.

Well said, from Madeleine Shaw.

So true, from Kimberly Snyder

Eating wise today I’ve struggled to get healthy stuff in me. I started off well using some frozen fruit for a smoothie, but I had no other fresh produce in since I’d been away all week, and I didn’t want to buy any more since I wasn’t going to be there this weekend. When I work from home I also snack eat, and then panic and end up not having dinner. I don’t feel happy with my eats today, I do feel panicky, as I always do when I’ve not had a routie to structure my eats around. 

Exercise hasn't been too bad: went for a half hour run first thing, and did another 5,000 steps throughout the rest of the day.

Enjoy your weekends!

E x