Paleo Chocolate Recipe

Hello Faithful readers

I loved making this chocolate, it was so easy, SO YUMMY and so PRETTY!

So many flavour opportunities here, i made the basic recipe into a maple pecan and my body thanked me! :-)

Ingredients

3 Tablespoons Organic coconut oil

3 Tablespoons Almond Butter

4 Tablespoons Cacao powder

1 Tsp Vanilla extract

1-2 Tablespoons Unprocessed Honey 

(This depends on your taste and how sweet you would like it)

Then add whatever you would like to change it up, e.g. a pecan and a tsp of maple syrup...

So super easy just put all the ingredients together and mix them up in a heat resistant bowl on top or a pot with some water in it that is boiling (a double boiler) :-)

Then once they are all melted and mixed together you can add your creative mix ups and pop it into whatever form you would like it to dry in, e.g flat sheet to crack into shards, little paper patty pans like i did, etc etc

Then pop into freezer and enjoy within 30 minutes, leave in freezer and EAT away

NOM NOM NOM

Enjoy

God Bles Y'all

Paleo Pizza Base

Hello faithful readers

So i attempted a cauliflower pizza base a few nights ago for dinner and i thought it was really YUM, unfortunately i did not squeeze enough water out of the base and so it was a bit soggy but still good flavour :-)

Here is the recipe, let me know if you got a crispy result and how

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 4 pieces (it's a 12" pizza. Good for 2 to share)

Ingredients

• 2 Cups Grated Cauliflower ($4.00/head, 2 cups turned out to be about 1/2 a large head)
• 1 large egg lightly beaten
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp oregano
• 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese for the crust 
•  + 1/3 cup shredded mozzarella OR 1/3 cup cottage cheese to be easier on the tummy (shoutout to my fellow lactards!) 
• 1/4 cup tomato sauce 
• Whatever clean toppings you want (we used mushrooms, red bell pepper, onion and arugula)

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Grate your cauliflower- you can do this with a regular grater, a food processor, or with the Grate setting on the blender. Once you have 2 cups of grated cauliflower dump it onto a paper towel and wrap it up in 2 layers of paper towels and squeeeezzzeee all the water out- this is SO important if you want crispy pizza crust, otherwise the crust is soggy. Once you have squeezed out as much water as possible, combine the dried out grated cauliflower with the egg, garlic and oregano and mix it together. Flatten it out onto a parchment paper covered baking sheet. Put the crust into the oven for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes pull it out, slather (gross word but I can't think of a better way to say it) the tomato sauce onto it, top with the cottage or mozzarella cheese and your toppings of choice. Cook for an 5-10 minutes or until the cheese is melted.

God Bless y'all

Inspired

Hello My faithful and now patient readers

I have been absent from my blogging for a while and to be honest i have been absent from my mind, my exercise and my fitness journey, basically i fell off the wagon...

But good news is i am back and i am back with a vengeance!!

Here is a bit of inspiration for you all and for myself, i listened to a Christian weight loss coach called Jonathan Conneely and boy did he turn my attitude around, here is a bit about what i learnt and i believe if you get it, and then DO IT, it will change your life

Be Blessed, be inspired, START TODAY!

This is me back on track taking my boys for a walk every morning on a roll at the moment, praise God.

In order to achieve WEIGHT LOSS we need to do something.

We need to Create a new vision for your physical body, and that starts in our mind.

MINDSET- we need to develop a new mindset, and this is how we do it.

We need to ask ourselves a question that question is very important it is: 

What is it that I want and WHY do I want that thing that I desire so badly?

I know for me 

I want to be fit for my kids so I can run after them and keep up with them as they get fitter and faster, i have two boys!

I want to love myself again, because right now i sure dont and that is not healthy for my loved ones and definitely not healthy for me.

I want to be a role model for my children and to look good for my husband and myself.

I want to live a life of fitness and health and not sickness and depression.

Write who you are

For me

I am strong and courageous 

I am a winner 

I am in charge of my body 

Here is an insight into someone who believed before he achieved, this is a great example of how we need to think in our minds to make this weight loss journey a reality-

"I am the greatest, I said it before I knew I was. I figured if I said it enough I would convince the world that I really was the greatest -Muhammad Ali 

We need to create The winning MESSAGE in our minds and in our hearts.

It is very important to RECREATE A YES ENVIRONMENT.

YES i can

YES i will

YES today is the day

You have to CONVINCE YOURSELF that you can and you have to Speak as if you already have it.

Faith comes by hearing, start hearing the right things, one good place to hear the right things is from the word of God-

Mark 11:23 Truly, i say to you, whoever says to THIS mountain, be taken up and thrown in to the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

2corinth 4:13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written , "i believed, and so i spoke", we also believe, and so we also speak.

Create Your winning confession, talk to yourself everyday in a positive winning way.

Next we need to do something physically to keep us on track:

1. Write your vision and make it plain, 

2. Then claim it and put in three places that you will see everyday and CLAIM it out loud every day and start to see it. 

3. Start to see yourself there.

Think, speak and act as if you already have it!!

Take your I AM and your I WILL statements and write them into a mantra or vision for yourself to claim everyday till the vision becomes you and who you are. 

Win before you win, think, speak and  act as if you are already there. 

Then you have got to Act!

Act by Creating winning Movement.

YOU HAVE TO DO IT EVEN WHEN YOU DONT FEEL LIKE DOING IT!!

Get comfortable being Uncomfortable!

We may never feel like getting up early to exercise or choosing the healthy meal option over the non healthy meal but if we always do what we always did we will get what we always got... 

Michael Jordan once said when asked how he got so good "I demanded more out of of myself ON A DAILY BASIS than ANYONE HUMANLY POSSIBLE could ever demand out if me!" That is the winning mindset.

The law of winning - commit and lock in the small simple discipline things that you can change and that You can do every single day to win.

Just make a choice everyday to change something small, so if you want to say it is too windy to walk, change that and say IM GOING not matter what, small choices that will get you there!

Do this so that when you lay your head on the pillow at night you can ask yourself did I win or lose today?

If you want something you've never had you have to do something you've never done!! 

Commitment takes courage.

Take a stand, burn the fear that stops you, burn the doubt, burnt he uncertainty take a stand!!

Not someday I will

No NOT someday I will

YOUR SOMEDAY IS TODAY!!

Hebrews 12:11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

God Bless Y'all

Lets do this Thing

That's what I'm talking ABOUT!!

Yep I did it, I got out there this morning and walked uphill pushing a 15kg 2yr old and a 7. Something kg 6 month old!!! Here is me in all my sweaty glory and boy do I feel Goooooood!! And my evidence to the left, I love map my run so cool to look at my success and have concrete evidence to go back on for inspiration. You have got to get that app if you don't already.

Thanks to cousin Felicity who keeps asking me to walk I got some much needed exercise today, I was thinking up every excuse to cancel but thought no just go, and I felt so good that I did :)

The walk was just beautiful, blue skies gorgeous weather and sweat tells me I actually worked hard, lovely.

Also I had my assessment for healthy life challenge today it was an eye opener and very exciting.

It's a government grant for my shire that gives me free gym, free crèche and free cooking classes for 10 weeks! The bad news my waist line  should be 87cm and it's currently 102!! Eeek

More good news though is that she thinks I can lose 10kg in the 10 weeks, and I'm aiming for that for sure so keep watching this space :)

God bless you all

Tomorrow's my dad's birthday so eating to celebrate is inevitable...