[healthi eatin] intolerances and recipes

So I have had to adjust my diet and looking for recipes for the food i Love. As I find and test them I will post them to this site.

chicken soup for the soul

so been feeling crap lately so decided to look up chicken noodle soup recipes. so i found a few that i was going to use as the base, but it turned out somewhat more random than i had planned.
I made a asian styled chicken noodle soup instead and its been delightful with some dry crunchy noodles..... family loved it and quite cheap as we ate it over 3 nights.  so good i think i will have to make it again.

[healthi eatin] the healthy chef & other great blog/websites

so as part of my healthi livin and eatin journey I have been looking at various blogs trying to look at calories and healthy options.
What i found have been some great sites, here's a few I've bookmarked for later.

• the healthy chef - http://www.thehealthychef.com/
• cacao powder - https://sungodssuperfoods.com.au/recipes/cacao-powder 
• Good chef bad chef - http://www.goodchefbadchef.com.au/ but more specifically zoe's recipes - http://www.goodchefbadchef.com.au/recipe_categories/26-zoe/recipes 

[healthi eatin] frozen banana treat

Ingredients
2 frozen bananas
2-3 tspn instant coffee powder
3 square dark chocolate (finely chop)
optional - 1/4 tspn cinnamon
other flavours - instead of coffee add mint, 1 scoop protein, 1 tbsp chopped almonds
Method
let frozen bananas sit for 5 min
in food processor break into chuncks to pulse (~ 20 times) until smooth
add coffee chocolate cinnamon
then eat

cal 190
protein 2g
chol 0g
fat 13g (sat 4g)
sugars 19g
carbs 32g

do something that scares you and something that inspires you

so i love playing sport and would do it every day if i could if my body would let me. However its because i love it so much that i do it.... as a side effect sport also keeps me fit because its exercise that i don't need to think about doing.  its almost incidental  So why don't you find something that you love doing and see if you lose weight.. got to be better than doing exercise because you have to lose weight. If you have that mindset going in not only will you hate it but your body will hold onto the weight because you subconsciously told yourself something.
Now the other side of the coin is being scared. So how do you step outside your comfort zone every day. I think what is the worst that could happen, what's the safe option and what's daring but I'm likely to get away with. I go from the middle daring and take a step towards the unknown. And you know what. You learn something new generally and it never turns out as bad as you think it will .

technology and weight loss

so tech is great. i use a polar heart rate monitor, manage my blood pressure and my weight and fat%. so i am not a great tracker though. i use it to record my sport sessions but i hate tracking my food. but ..... then i found my fitness pal
unlike other apps i can just add the calories and polar heart rate kcal rate and then its done.
So if you havent tried it i suggest that you do. its even converted die-hard avoiders such as me :)

so i have faced my fear wrt blowout foods

so today at work there was a new marketing ploy which involved buckets of movie popcorn. So i had resisted until a colleague picked up a bucket for me. So of course i ate some telling myself that i would have a small portion and use it as morning tea. However I just looked over at the bucket and it was half empty. How the truck did that happen. Oh my, my heart sank.
However my theme for this week is challenges and learning from them and of course turning it from a negative to a positive I took this as a opportunity to understand more about my eating patterns and behaviours.
I eat when I am distracted and it is not mindful eating. So here's my plan of attack. Deny myself nothing but it must be the size of a 50c piece or smaller if its considered a bad food or empty calories. So i get the satisfaction of eating something, otherwise naughty, but the small portion size means that it is something that I should be able to work off with a healthy lifestyle.
so I'm going to try this out and see what  happens. What do you think ?