Stuffed Eggplant
I have been trying all sorts of new recipes that involve stuffing vegetables lately, mushrooms, zucchini, and eggplant! This one is going to be made on repeat methinks.
Ingredients:
2 eggplants
1 can tomato paste
1 onion
1 whole tomato
1/2 cup feta
1/4 shredded parmesan
1. Cut eggplant in half, scoop out middle and place it into another bowl. Place the shells in a container with water and microwave for 4 minutes until soft.
2. Chop up the inside of the eggplant, cut the onions into small pieces, cut the tomato up. Saute these with 2 cloves garlic and then add in the tomato paste and feta cheese.
3. Place this mixture back into the softened shells, top with Parmesan cheese and bake in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes.
Goes great with Greek food, especially this greek chicken!
Call Me Mellow Yellow
Get ready to see me in a variation of this kind of look over the next few months. Black, white and a punch colour. I'm glad gingham has made a resurgence in trends these days because it has been a longtime favorite of mine. Perfect for summer!
I picked up this moto jacket off a friend over a year ago and honestly have gotten so much use out of it. I love a good moto jacket, for some reason I don't have one in black.....yet. I have my eye out for a good one everytime I go to the vintage shops. Also can we talk about how cool these sunnies are? I love a funky pair of sunnies.
Outfit: Jacket-Zara (second hand), Gingham top-Red Ribbon, Shoes-Aldo, Sunnies-Bamboo Ballroom, Belt-Simons, Necklaces-Miss Boss
Squat Form Stretches
If you're having a hard time getting deeper into your squat and reaching 90 degrees try to work on some of these movements and stretches. These will help loosen up tight hips, hamstrings, and adductors.
1. Supported deep squat
Hang onto the pole and sink into your hips, hold onto the pole lightly and try to relax into it. Hold it for a few minutes.
2. Unsupported deep squat
Use your arms to press your elbows into the knees, sink your hips low, keep the chest up and back flat. Go in and out of this position, try to hold for as long as you can. 3 sets
3. Hip openers
Knees are bent, push up onto your knees, and push your hips forward, sink back down. Repeat 10x and then switch which leg is in front.
4. Adductor stretch
Knee bent sink into the one hip keeping the other leg straight. Hold for 30s each side repeat 3 sets
5. Hip Flexor Stretch
One knee bent, push into that side, you should feel the stretch in the front of the hip hold 30s 3 sets
6. Frog stretch
Feet turned out, hips nice and wide sink back into your glutes hold 30s 3 sets
Tropical Smoothie Bowl
This tropical smoothie bowl is so tasty, I am all about them smoothie bowls these days, so its fun to mix them up!
Ingredients:
1 frozen banana
1/2 cup frozen peaches
1/2 cup pineapple
1 cup frozen spinach/kale mix
1 scoop protein powder
1 cup coconut milk
Blend it! Top it with shredded coconut, sliced banana, chia seeds, granola and enjoy
Body Positivity- Find your movement
I think the trend in fitness is to workout for the point of aesthetics, to grind it out to look a certain way and not enjoy the process. I think that if you can find something you really enjoy the process of then you'll always feel at home in your body. Like everything we do in life what's the point of doing anything without passion?
Body positivity is a process, it's not something that just happens overnight. There's good days and bad days but finding some form of movement you're passionate and setting movement based goals will help you find that. For example: Lift more, run faster, get more flexible, work on your left hook. These things put you into your body for the sake of moving it not for it's aesthetic purposes.
That’s my challenge to anyone reading this:
1. Try out some new forms of movement
2. Set movement based goals
3. Try to visualize your body as a tool to produce that movement. Focus on things that will
Improve that.
4. Practice speaking of your body in only positive terms
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