I can't believe I did a workout!

For those people with young children you will know where I am coming from when I say, a wake up call at 2am to watch cartoons isn't pleasant. So for the next 2 hours I had my daughter Mietta staring at me as I layed beside her in her bed to keep her vibrant voice muted as our other 3 children lay sound asleep. Anyways to cut a long story short, I had a terrible nights sleep and I really didn't want to do a workout.

Until I realised that was the old me thinking! It is so easy NOT to do things, trust me I am the Queen Of Excuses so now I find ways on how I CAN DO IT!! So when NIKE asked me to come up their new slogan JUST DO IT!! Yeah yeah okay, that wasn't me but you know where I am coming from. If you don't do things yourself, they just don't get done. Don't expect a friend, a husband or a lover to get you out of bed and say C'mon, lets workout! Unless you are part of a bootcamp team and they come strip the sheets off your bed at 5am in order for you to show up!

Ok, I am now simply just rambling to fill in this post so I will end my attempt of a short story on "making excuses". I made a commitment to myself to achieve anything in life, I need to give it a fair go. Like really give it my 100%. 

So there! I should have just posted I can believe I did a workout! and dropped the word "CAN'T" as I am here to let you know I CAN and so can you. If I CAN DO IT with 4 kids under 6, sleep deprived, when it's still dark outside and the rain is pouring and all you want to do is lay in your warm bed then seriously what is your excuse for not making time for yourself to get fit, healthy and feeling fabulous. Check out Fit Yummy Mummy for my fitness secret.

Please add your comments so we can work out a strategy and a plan of attack for all your excuses!!

Read soon XxDani

Yummy turkey burgers

Hi there, 

No workout for me today, allowing my body to rest however I don't really rest with all the glorious domestic goddess duties I have throughout my day. I am on my feet all day so I don't feel guilty sitting on my bottom and not moving.

Here are my meals for today;

Breakfast

Vanilla, pear and cinnamon porridge. Sprinkled with walnuts

I cook this on the stove top and if I don't have fresh pears, I open up a can of tinned pears and add the entire contents and it's luscious sweet juices (please note I try to avoid any products with "added sugar" whenever possible) and add enough milk so this turns into a fluffy cloud. I then sprinkle the walnuts and this breaky fills my belly and I am ready to rock and roll for the morning.

Morning snack

1 orange muffin

1 latte

As per my previous "oranges" post this was my inspiration for my morning tea catch up with a girlfriend. 

Lunch

Home made chicken soup with rice noodles

I typically make a weekly or fortnightly batch of chicken soup or as my sons like to refer to it Rainbow soup (this is when I add red, green and yellow capsicums, broccoli and beans right at the end of the cooking process. I will make sure I post my rainbow soup the next time I make it. In this case I had a frozen batch and after coming home from my girlfriends house, I needed something quick and placed it in a saucepan and defrosted this soup dejour!!!! 

Afternoon snack

Crackers with laughing cow cheese

1 raw carrot

Dinner

Turkey burgers with veggie puree

I basically add the following ingredients depending on the weight of the mince;

eggs
fresh bread crumbs soaked in milk
shredded carrots
grated onion
clove of garlic
add various spices eg curry, cumin, tarragon
salt & pepper

For my puree (only because I find this easy to feed our 10 month old baby girl Zali) I boil all my veggies, in this case cauliflower, carrot and broccoli, use some of the water and add some milk and blitz it! I save the veggie stock for other meals.

Hope these meals sound and look delicious to you, too bad there is no "smell this" button as these were a real hit tonight!

Good night all, I'll catch you tomorrow Xx Dani