Getting Off Track

Hey guys! I hope you all had a beautiful and joyous Easter!

If you're like me I know you indulged in your favourite sweet treat!

My Easter Outfit!

I'm here to tell you that it's ok! My day was way off par but I'm not stressing about it!

I was out for a girls night on Saturday and didn't get in until 3am so consequently I didn't wake up until 11am! Waaaay late for M1!

Basically my meals were all pushed back a few hours (at least) and as it was Easter I ate chocolate and my M3 was a YOLO meal! 

And you know what? I'm not panicking about it at all! Yes I'm expecting a lesser number on the scale this week but I enjoyed yesterday and I have no regrets!

It was one meal, one day. In the bigger picture that is not important: what is important is consistency - I eat clean and work hard 99% of the time. I refuse to feel bad about one cheat meal - and I urge you to do the same! It the grand scheme of things, one meal, whilst you might not feel good immediately after is just one bad decision with regard to your meal plan / weight loss system. If everyone hated themselves for every bad decision they've ever made then what kind of world would this be!

What I'm trying to get across is - don't panic. Plan for your YOLO meals (I did! I worked out hard during the week knowing it was coming,) and enjoy it! 

To add a bonus bit of confidence, here is my food journal from yesterday. I'm eating super Lean, Clean and Green today and I'm feeling fabulous!

Love and Hugs, 

Georgie xo

Tastes So Good Tuesday: Healthy Nachos!

Yes you read that title right!! I have been so beyond excited about this post for weeks now!

Nachos are my absolute go-to 100% favourite meal! You know when you get asked; 'what would you want to be your last meal?', Nachos will be my answer; without a shadow of a doubt

However, we all know that nachos are not the best thing for us to eat, between tonnes of cheese, chips and sour cream - it makes for a pretty calorific fat-filled meal.

Until now.

Today I am sharing with you, my little tips and tricks to make fatty nachos a thing of the past, and showing you how you can incorporate these beauties in to your meal plans!

What's great is that instead of using sugar-filled, bulked out, crappy store bought dips, you make your own, and instead of using horrifically unhealthy chips, you use wholewheat pitta bread!

HOW GOOD DO THESE LOOK! *Salivating!*

It's a little bit of a combination of recipes so I'll split it up accordingly! It's all my own recipe apart from the salsa :)

For the 'Chips' you will need:

Wholewheat Pitta Bread (Depending on the amount of nachos you need/want)

Sea Salt

Spray Oil

Baking Trays (yes multiple!)

For the Guacamole you will need:

At least two avocados

1 Red Onion (chopped)

2 Cloves of Garlic

Chilli Powder/Flakes (Optional - I like the kick)

Sea Salt

Juice of a Lime

For the Salsa; Follow this recipe

For the Sour Cream you will need:

1 pot of Plain Chobani/Greek Yogurt (I prefer Chobani)

Optional Extras:

Jalapeños

Reduced Fat Cheese

Method

Start by making your dips!

Guacamole

Take your avocados, remove from skin, put into large bowl

Using a fork mash the avocado but make sure it remains pretty chunky

(Tip: leave the pit in the bowl with the avocado - it will stop it from browning)

Add the lime juice, garlic, red onion, salt and chilli and stir!

Refrigerate until needed

Chips

Basically, you want to cut your pitta into triangles!

Start by cutting your pitta in to two vertical halves

Along the diagonal, make into triangles, pulling apart as you go (the two sides of the pitta)

Place triangles on a baking tray, spray with 0 cal spray or spray oil

Sprinkle sea salt over

Bake on a medium heat for 10 minutes - bake sure they don't burn but they should be crispy

To Serve

Pile all of your chips onto a large serving plate

If you want some cheese, use about an inch of reduced fat cheddar, grate it and sprinkle over the chips, place in the oven for literally a minute!

Add 2 tbsps-ish of Chobani in place of sour cream

Add your Skinnytaste Salsa

Add your Guac

Add your jalepeños if needed

And Enjoy!!

I really want some more after writing this post haha! Let me know if you try these out! Trust me you'd be CRAZY not to! 

Even my Dad LOVED these - and he's pretty hard to win over with healthy eating!

Blueberry Yogurt Perfect Fit Cookies!

Now normally when I have one day off of uni/work I go a little baking crazy. So having had the whole of the last week off I am amazed I made it to today before I got measuring cups out!

Today is the third snow day and I am for sure starting to go a little crazy. I need to get outside!! Also after six and a half weeks off of uni, I SO need to go back tomorrow but it's looking unlikely as my car is buried under a foot of snow! Praying for an overnight miracle!

Anyway, as I've been stuck inside all day for three days my Pinterest addiction has gone in to overdrive. (Follow me - georgietoningup) I have literally spent hours over the last few days organising boards, creating new boards, getting new pins, organising my non existent wedding etc - you get the picture!

On Friday I came across THIS recipe for Blueberry Yogurt Cookies. I was attracted as the Pin caption said that there was no oil or butter in the recipe. 

I then saw that the recipe yielded 48 cookies and there was no way that I needed or would eat that many so I halved it - obviously you can adjust accordingly.

I then followed the above recipe, although my oven took 15 minutes longer (25 mins total baking time) than stated but that is no surprise for my oven!

The other adjustments I made were;

- 1/2 Cup All Purpose Flour + 1/2 Cup Perfect Fit Protein (instead of 1 cup flour for 24 cookies)

- 3 tablespoons of egg whites instead off 1 egg

- 1/4 Cup of Sugar and 1/4 Cup of Half and Half Sugar (Stevia+Sugar) instead of 1/2 cup of sugar.

- NO frosting!

Now my cookies were not crispy - so dont expect them to be! Although they have all been gobbled up already so it doesn't seem to matter!

Thank you Rachael at La Fuji Mama for this great recipe!