Ok soo like I mentioned earlier I absolutely LOVE creating delicious healthy meals! Here is the photo and recipe for my Negative Calorie fruit salad. It is so yum and all the ingredients cost me about $10NZD 6 pound and hmmm USD $7 ?? In other words.. Its very cheap and this hole bowl has lasted me about 3 days so far and I’ve been eating it like its going out of fashion!
Recipe:
1 fresh mango
4 oranges
1 pink grapefruit
1 tin of pineapple chunks (can use fresh, and drain the syrup)
1 tin of strawberries ^^ same as above
2 apples
Cut it all up and hey presto! Delicious fruit salad that makes you feeel devvviiiinee darling.
This post goes to my new followers, so flattering to know that people actually enjoy reading the stuff you post! I promise to keep the goods coming ya’ll!
Love and good eating,
Eva. Greenthumb
Just had the worst bloody day!!
Its been raining for about two days now, driving me nuts! And had the most intense test at uni which went less than average!! Arrrrghhhh… And the other thing I had to look forward to at the end of it was this guy coming over who I really liked and thought would completely lift my mood, but hey he bailed, So now I’m sitting here with an empty bowl of soup realising that you REALLY TRULY can’t rely on anyone but yourself. I refuse to think that anyone else can give me the happiness that I need, it is completely void of fact to think that way and always ends in disappointment. OK so maybe every now and then people can really lift your mood, but from experience the only way to be happy in life is to stop trying to find it anywhere but from your own means. End of.
Which brings me to my next point. I see a lot of people hating on skinny blogs, fair enough actually a lot of the time they are horribly depressing and self obsessed and narrow minded. YES. But all I know is that the happiness I feel when I look in the mirror and see that I look better than I did two days ago or two months ago and its genuine happiness… and pride in myself that I had the self discipline to do that. No one else refused that chocolate cake in the shop for me, no one ran that mile for me or did endless gym classes for me. It was all ME. And if that seems selfish or stupid to some, fine. Each to their own. But maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself what you have done for yourself lately, then maybe you should go for a run :p
Love & angst;
Eva. Greenthumb
I can’t explain why but I am just obsessed with this photo.
1967.
(Source: sibilidomdom, via fuckyeahhippiegirls)
Another favourite thing of mine… Definitely doesn’t help with healthy eating, so I’ve had to cut it out. Any advice from stoner dieters VERYWELCOME (more blogs on this topic pending…)
A Section dedicated to Sexy Skinny Hippy Girls :)
So for those canny readers out there who take note of the dates and times that blogs are posted, I’m sure you’ll realise this is my third for the night. There are a few reasons for this… One being that I can’t sleep, as stated in my previous blog, and the other being that I am new to this ‘Thinspo’ blog scene and am rather excited to be quite frank. I’ll start by talking a bit about myself in some more detail, and by myself, I mean my recent diet history.. lets stick to this year to avoid unnecessary babble.
05.01.2011: I decided to stop eating meat. I made this decision at my ex boyfriends BBQ… I was offered a sausage, I declined. “Why?” he asked “I don’t want meat” It was as easy as that… I simply just didn’t want it, it disgusted me. From then on I haven’t touched the stuff. Since making this sporadic decision I have developed very strong ethical objections towards meat eating (I wont bore you with them in this post) but that is where it started.
From then onwards I found my entire outlook on food changing. I wanted to fill my body with healthy, nurturing foods that made me feel good. I began eating a lot of fruit. Every day I would wake up and crave it, nothing but. this lasted for a couple of weeks and in that time, along with no meat, I ended up dropping 15 pounds without even thinking about it. I liked this. Alot.
After this weight loss occurred I felt over the moon, my clothes looked amazing on me and I felt so confident. It was the start of a new era!
I also became very interested in vegetarian cooking and creating healthy and delicious meals! Wonderful! Joined a gym, even more wonderful! Life was good, and I was at the lowest weight I’d ever been.. 120 pounds, I am 5’7 by the way.
However this progress all went down hill a couple of weeks ago, the uni work piled on, the temperature dropped, the stress amounted and so did the unhealthy eating. I never once touched meat and I can honestly say I don’t think I ever could.. but it was a carb bonanza.. Pizza, stir fry, tempura sushi laden lunch boxes, carnage.
I gained back most of the weight I had lost, and along with it I felt like I lost the identity and happiness that my new body had brought me. I no longer felt free and happy, I felt trapped, uncomfortable and gross.
So here I am, starting a quest to be back to the weight that I was, and actually I think I’d like to supersede it and get down to about 100pounds. We all have a weight that we feel comfortable with, and I think that’s mine.
Today I started properly; I went to the vege store and bought bags worth of negative calorie fruits and veges, made myself a large soup and absolutely delicious fruit salad (photos pending)
I drank a tonne of water and green tea.. and didn’t slip once! (apart from the dates, Im sure they’re low enough in calories to get away with though!!)
Anyway, I plan to continue this detox for another two weeks before I come up with a more sustainable eating regime.. I’m confident in this time I’ll be back to my comfortable weight and would have learnt the lessons necessary from my massive slip up!
All the support that is given will be welcomed with opened arms! I’m sure we are all different in our goals, life paths, personalities etc… but when it comes to weight loss there are issues we all face and can’t usually seek support from those nearest and dearest. Anonymity is important in order to feel comfortable enough to express your thoughts as well as your goals. So for now, all I can say is…
Love & Support
Eva. Greenthumb
I dedicate this blog post to the highly underrated pitted date!…
As I was lying in bed tonight, a familiar sensation came over me. It started in my brain and ended in my stomach.. it made my taste buds tingle with an urge like no other. SUGAR CRAVING. It happens to me every night, usually between the hours of 8pm and 12am (when I finally go to sleep.. sometimes/usually later. Borderline insomniac) ANYWAY.. I get this sugar craving, so strong that it awakens any sleepiness inside me and transforms me into a tossing turning mess. SO I discuss my options to myself;
1. Force sleep (from experience this doesn’t work, so I discard this option almost as fast as it enters my mind)
2. Get in car. Drive to Petrol station. Buy chocolate. lots of chocolate. And ice cream.. maybe a magnum.. hmm. (no.)
3. Explore my pantry for healthy options… Ahhh yes.. Well before this exploration begun, my body cut me some slack and told me that in fact I’m not craving chocolate, it is dates I am craving!! and hey would ya know, there they are, in their shining glory an entire unopened pack of the sweetest dates you’ll ever eat.
So I ate about 6.. and now I’m writing this blog telling you about it, because although my sugar cravings have been satisfied, I am still wide awake 0.0
The moral of the story is… Don’t cave. eat dates. :))
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