Food blogger over here.

I had a really great-ish weekend. Summer like weather finally showed up so I wore some summer dresses and hosted a little BBQ with Alex with some friends too. Yummy burgers on the grill, cards against humanity, just really nice.

I also made lots of paleo friendly food, and didn't tell anyone *hehehe*

Lettece wrapped burgers, lots of veggies and Chocolate chip cook dough brownie for dessert. Oh yes, it was that good. 

I do admit I'm not the best baker..yet. These fell apart as soon as a finger touched them which made me so annoyed. Just gotta make them again right?!

Raw, No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownie

Ingredients

Brownie:

• ⅓ cup raw pecans
• ½ cup almond flour
• 4 tablespoons raw cacao powder
• 5 pitted medjool dates
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tablespoon coconut oil, melted

Cookie Dough:

• 6 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
• 3 tablespoons coconut milk, full fat
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon raw honey
• 1½ cups almond flour
• ½ cup chocolate chips

Instructions

Brownie:

1. using a food processor or a blender grind the pecans into course meal and place it in medium bowl
2. remove pits from dates and process it into a creamy paste
3. using your hands, mix together the pecan meal with the almond flour, cacao powder, date paste, vanilla extract and coconut oil until all ingredients are combined
4. line a 7×5-inch baking dish with parchment paper and spread the mixture until evenly distributed

Cookie Dough:

1. in a large bowl, whisk together the coconut oil, coconut milk, vanilla extract and honey
2. add almond flour and mix just until all ingredients are combined. Do not over mix
3. gently fold in chocolate chips
4. spread the cookie dough mixture on top of the brownie and use a piece of parchment paper to smooth the top of the cookie dough
5. refrigerate until dough is firm, approximately one hour

Recipe serves 10+ people. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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Happy baking. How is it the end of may already? 

The down side of weight loss

It's no secret that in the past few months I've really gotten serious about my weight and what I'm doing to my body by feeding it poor food. I actually love going to my gym classes at 6:30am before the day begins and eating paleo. Both have done amazing things for my body and mind.

 I don't eat "special" or "always workout" because I want attention, I eat well and workout because it's a healthy activity to do, helps us live longer and makes me feel all good and happy after a good burn, blah blah blah. I think thats normal. 

What really bums me out is the comments/questions people actually say or ask me about my weight and clean eating.

I'll gladly explain what paleo stands for and what I do at the gym. If you're curious about why I do or don't do something, I'll happily chat away, but I never shove my feelings down your throat. This is something I'm passionate about and I want to share with everyone. 

Lately though I've been people are getting bold with the types of questions they ask me and their comments are the same. So, let's use our filter and not be like my examples below and make someone feel like they're only looked at for their weight. 

"You know Sarah, I didn't think I'd ever see the day you would became skinny."-My Gramma

 "so what size (jeans) are you now?"-co worker. 

As I'm exiting the bathroom, ready to go home from work.

"You're way to skinny"-Hairdresser. 

Ya. 

Would we ever say to an overly obese person that they're too big now. Or ask them what size they wear after noticing said person has gained some pounds? No way we wouldn't. The same should go for the person who takes care of their body. I'm at the healthy weight for my BMI, and actually shouldn't be losing much more, and I eat well.

I've realized as the song goes, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. *excuse my french*