Jumping on the Juice plus bandwagon!

So in my previous blog post I said I was starting juice plus, well today was my first day and.. I loved it!!  The shakes taste incredible, so far I've only tried the chocolate one but it was like an actual chocolate milkshake! If like me you've ever tried "chocolate" protein powder/meal replacements you'll know that most taste really artificial! 

I blended a scoop of the chocolate powder, a banana, a few ice cubes and 300ml of water = heaven! (Picture 2)

My lunch one I did the same but instead of the banana I used strawberries, it was nice but I think berries will go nicer with the vanilla shake mix.

Throughout the day I drank a shit tonne of water and nothing else, then tea time rolled round and I couldn't wait ( hadn't ate actual food since Thursday due to weekend juice cleanse) 

I needed something healthy, quick and easy; being in college till late exhausted me! So cooked some chicken, put some peppers, mushrooms, garlic seasoning and some spray oil in a wok then added rice noodles and I INHALED the whole thing in about 4 minutes! On the plus I made enough for tea tomorrow. 

Since I hasn't used my healthy snack option all day about 3 hours after having tea I warmed a nak'd cocoa delight bar and added a chopped strawberry and some vanilla alpro yoghurt.. Tasted really nice think I'll forgo the strawberry next time though with the nak'd bar. (Picture 4)

I'm unsure as to whether to post daily food diarys or just if it's an interesting day, time will tell! Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow! 

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Doing another juice cleanse

While waiting for my juice plus shakes to arrive ( next post) I was eating clean for about a week and dropped almost 5lb! So when I got the email to say they'd been dispatched I noticed on twitter my local health bar @fuelshakes were doing a weekend 3 day juice cleanse for £35; what a great way to kick off my health kick I thought and really cheap! 

Currently on day 2 now and yesterday was rough, it's been nearly 5 months since my last one and last time I was in work, which definitely took my mind off it! 

I have no idea what's in them but I think they're very similar to the cleanse I've done in a previous post. 

My juice plus shakes came yesterday and I'm so excited to start them on Monday!   

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March 2014 Challenge and a little Fitbit review

I'm a huge fan of MyFitnessPal and the community message boards, it's a great support network and a motivational tool.

Pretty much any day you can find a group or challenge to join, the past few days I've joined two which are going to be my ultimate March challenges: Lose 5lbs in March and to walk 100 miles in March.

I think the easiest out the two will be the 100 miles, it seems a lot but when you divide it over the month it equals out to roughly 3.2 miles a day over the 31 days.

I walk on average about 5 miles a day thanks to my ultimate fitness gadget:

I've had a Fitbit for just over 2 years, started out with the Fitbit ultra which was the best thing I'd ever invested in! When it broke, I was devastated! Within a few weeks I had the new Fitbit Zip permanently attached to me!

I couldn't recommend Fitbit enough, it's changed my whole outlook on being active, the app and online dashboard are great tools and I check them multiple times a day.

I have some less active days so March I'm going to try to be active everyday to log my 100 miles!

Hopefully all the walking and continuing eating at a deficit will help lose the 5lbs.

I've been doing the 10,000 step challenge for just under a week and I've lost 2.4lbs; maybe water weight but anything down on the scale is good by me.

Time for a happy, healthy March!

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