They were right-eating right and exercise is key

On Saturdays around lunch time I go to my favourite gym exercise class, it's a bootcamp where we do lots of tabata work with cardio and weights. That 1 hour class is a killer where I constantly give myself pep-talks along the lines of it's only an hour, you can do this for an hour, and you'll feel so good after this class is done, now keep moving. 

The instructor is this really really fit women whose life is about fitness and wellbeing. When I say fit I mean she has muscles that I didn't even know existed. She's great and I may have a little crush on her. 

She also says the best things at the right time, like when I was doing jump squats and she looked right at me and said 5 little words that meant so much to me those are great jump squats. I needed that little push because this class was kicking my tush. 

It feels really good to be pushing it really hard during my workouts. With the whole30 challenge and working hard at every class I'm really happy with my progress. 

Whole30 was great. Having my bestie Karen doing it along with me helped me so much to stay on the wagon. By help I mean make muffins and granola bars for each other to snack on. 

April 30th 2014-June 1st, 2014

April 30th, 2014-June 1st, 2014

I didn't lose any weight during this whole30 challenge but I did lose 3cm from my waist and 3.5 from hips. 

What's next now the "challenge" is over? Nothing. I plan on sticking to this type of eating. More whole foods, processed is out. Foods with ingredients I can pronounce is the main thing I focus on. Fresh foods. Not looking back now. 

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?