Hi everyone,<\/p>\n
I hope you have all had a good start to the year. Personally I have had quite a slow start to the year, I felt pretty sluggish and was feeling the need to find my mojo again. Do you get like this? I felt quite uninspired even with the promise of a fresh new decade. Along with all that, we then get bombarded with all the weight loss adverts and detox brands wanting us to juice away the Christmas weight. I actually had one of the local weight loss group leaflets through my door on boxing day!!! I mean really! Personally I find all of that a bit too much. I don\u2019t want to starve myself for a week drinking nothing but green algae.<\/p>\n
So what am I doing to get my mojo back? Well I can tell you what I am NOT doing. I am not giving up a thing, not one thing! I don\u2019t want to do dry January, I enjoy a glass of red wine and I still want to have it. I LOVE cheese so I\u2019m not giving that up either. What I will be doing is tweaking. In fact I\u2019m going to call it the tweak program. A tweak here and a tweak there across all areas of my life. Exercise, nutrition and organisation, planning etc\u2026 you get the picture.<\/p>\n
One thing I do know is that if you pile on a load of big changes in your life you are setting yourself up to fail. So a handful of small changes bit by bit can make all the difference.<\/p>\n
So here we go, some of things I am doing to get my mojo back\u2026<\/p>\n
Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n
You guys already know that I love to go walking. I love to get the kids out at the weekend and go for a country walk but during the week when they are at school I get in a proper beach walk. So I am trying to up my game just a little bit with this. Outside walking is good for the soul, you can breathe fresh air and get some head space. I walk between 5K-10K depending on how much time I have.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
As this is something I already did I have just added the prospect of getting in an extra day doing this a week. So before, I perhaps did it twice, now I am aiming for 3 times. Nothing major but enough of a tweak. Or I challenge myself to walk that little bit further on the days I do go. My Fitbit Versa<\/a> is one of my favourite wellness things that I have ever bought and it encourages me to get my 10,000 steps. I keep an eye on my heart rate while I walk with it and make sure I am staying in the \u2018fat burn\u2019 range.<\/p>\n
Nutrition and gut health<\/strong><\/p>\n
You may think it\u2019s odd to read a cook book but there is loads of great information in it to learn about the benefits of various nutrients which are easy to add to meals. Off the back of it I have changed at least one meal in my day – again tweaking. I always go to toast, bagels or croissants in the morning so I am trying to change that to natural unsweetened yoghurt with blueberries, granola and chia seeds. Live yoghurt is great for gut health, the chia seeds are full of omega3, calcium, fibre and iron and more. Blueberries are a great antioxidants. Bosh! If on some days I want a croissant though, I\u2019m having one.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
As you can now guess I\u2019m a bread junkie so I often go for a sandwich for lunch. Usually a pretty bog standard ham and cheese one. Not really getting much from that am I? So I will change things up by not taking away my love of bread entirely but going for yummy wholemeal toast with smashed avocado with a little sprinkle of sea salt and chilli flakes. I love this meal and it\u2019s super quick to make too. Avocado is a superfood and a healthy fat which is so good for you.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
I also really love scrambled eggs and spinach as a go-to lunch. Great protein and the spinach is packed with vits. I saut\u00e9 the spinach in a pan with a little olive oil, pop that on the plate and then do the egg in the same pan. I crack the eggs straight in and use a rubber spatula to scramble them on a mid heat so not to cook too quickly. I always turn them out of the pan just before they over cook. I like them glossy. They carry on to cook on the plate with its own heat. I use one of those flavour grinders that\u2019s a mix of salt, garlic, and fennel seeds and herbs. (I try not to add too much salt but a little to taste is all good and I never use table salt)<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
I have often had three cups of regular tea with milk by 9am! I love my tea and won\u2019t be cutting it out. I will however try and swap some of them throughout the day for hot water with fresh lemon. It\u2019s great for digestion and flushes through the system.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
I also am trying to drink more water in my day. I already use the fab water bottles<\/a> from QVC (I have the flamingo set) while on the go but I need to remember to drink more. Thankfully my Fitbit does a little buzz on my wrist throughout the day to remind me to have a drink of water.<\/p>\n
Bit by bit I shall add more in as I go. I shall share more things I\u2019ve done along the way. I have also been listening to a lot of great health, nutrition and wellbeing podcasts and this week the Inside QVC podcast is on all of those things featuring Rae Carpenter, Dr Max Gowland and Jack Morrison from Your Zookie. Click here<\/a> to listen.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n
Let me know if you are making any changes to your lifestyle, I would love to hear your tips or things you have discovered. Do also check out the Health and Wellbeing page<\/a> on QVC for some great videos and products.<\/p>\n
As always you can keep up with me on Instagram<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"