Healthy Sunday

Hellooo!

I've just got back from a lovely Pilates class and thought I'd share what I did and ate yesterday as I'm pretty proud of myself!

Firstly, I woke up early (set my alarm as the Baywatch theme tune which literally made me jump out of bed feeling great), drank a big glass of water and got my boring jobs done.

After a breakfast of organic greek yogurt, berries and muesli, I went for a power walk in this really pretty park down the road from my uni house. It was so sunny so this really lifted my mood and made me feel really positive about the day.

Way home from the park. Blue skies!

After doing some yoga stretches at home using a video on YouTube (there are loads if you type in something like 10 minute yoga stretches - I really like doing these after workouts), I made a refreshing and healthy salad with avocado, puy lentils, sweet red peppers and feta and also a carrot, apple, spinach and lemon juice!

In the afternoon, after writing my French cover letter (I'm applying for placements in Paris for next year - if anyone has any contacts let me know!! haha), and having some rye bread with peanut butter and a banana, I walked to the gym which is about a 20 minute walk away. In the gym I did 15 minutes on the treadmill to warm up - I like to mix it up a bit by changing the speed and resistance regularly within this 15 mins because I get bored quite easily. Then I did some ab crunches, side crunches, V sit ups, planks and side planks, followed by squats, lunges, glutbridges and squat jumps. I finished off with ten minutes on the treadmill and a nice walk home.

For dinner, I made a coconut, lentil and sweet potato curry. I got the idea from Deliciously Ella (I love it!) but I added some broccoli because it's just great. It was so easy. Here's the recipe for one person.


1/2 tin coconut milk
1/2 tin chopped tomatoes
1 (or half) sweet potato
80g green lentils
A few leaves of fresh coriander
2 tsp ground turmeric
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp ground cumin
1 lemon
Salt and pepper to taste
As much broccoli as you want
Brown basmati rice if you want it

1. Preheat the oven to 180
2. Add the coconut milk, chopped tomatoes and the spices to a saucepan and heat until it boils
3. Whilst waiting for it to boil chop the sweet potato into bite size chunks
4. Once the sauce is boiled add all the other ingredients apart from the lemon (obviously) and the rice
5. Put a lid on the saucepan and allow it to cook for an hour
6. Cook the rice while you wait
7. Take the curry out the oven, squeeze some lemon juice over it and enjoy!

The finished product!

I loved this it was so warming on a cold Sunday evening.

After dinner I went to bed nice and early so I could get enough sleep to have a wonderfully productive Monday.

I'm also trying to drink loads of water at the moment to combat my winter skin so I kept filling and refilling my water bottle and drinking green tea throughout the day.

Hope you had a greeeatttt weekend!