Healthy Tips to Hold onto when your Routine is Gone

Have the holidays messed up your routines?

Just like in nature we go through seasons in our lives. Through periods of change it can be hard to hold on to what makes you feel good. You lose focus on yourself and draw your attention to the change in your life. Yourself often seems like the easiest thing to shift your priorities away from.

When your routine fades and your busy keeping up, start with baby steps to get back on track.

Carry around a water bottle, sip on it all through the day. This is the most important thing you can do for yourself. Hydrate! There’s nothing more important and where you will feel the biggest difference. Never get into the car without a water bottle.

Rest. Sorry to say it, because you might be thinking “yeah right!?” who has time for that. Make time, go to bed early, don’t worry about your messy house, have a bath. You can’t give from an empty cup. What self care practices recharge your battery? Do it.

Eat Breakfast. Whatever you can manage. Something with protein in it to start your day is best. Eggs, nuts and seeds, peanut butter, almond butter, or greek yoghurt. Oats have a little protein in them and you can add lots of things that do.

If you don’t eat breakfast your body goes into survival mode and will use as little energy as it can get by with and store the rest. This storage becomes fat. Your body gets concerned when you don’t eat and enters the survival mode not knowing when you will eat next and when you do it will continue to store energy instead of use it. Humans are capable of living without food for three weeks. To get your body out of survival mode you need to eat consistently, especially breakfast.

Here a couple of recipes to help.

Power Oats

Don’t use quick oats, they have been stripped of fibre and nutrients in the processing. Regular oats or steel cut oats are best. 1/2 cup per person works well and double the amount of water. (1 cup of oats add 2 cups of water) Let simmer on medium heat until  it becomes the consistency you like best.

Ingredients you could add:
hemp seeds
maple syrup
honey
cinnamon
pumpkin seeds
any nuts and seeds (I really like walnuts in my oats)
dried cranberries
fruit of any kind
greek yoghurt

Get creative try new things.

Smoothies

Ingredients:
frozen strawberries
frozen blueberries
frozen mixed berries
celery
kale or any leafy green
unsweetened coconut milk
unsweetened almond milk
cinnamon
lemon
any fruit

Most Important Ingredients contain protein:

chia seeds
pumpkin seeds
hemp hearts
soft tofu (non GMO)
almond butter
any nuts or nut butter
walnuts
plant based protein powder

Strawberry Almond Smoothie
Serves 1

2 tablespoons unsalted almond butter
3/4 cup light unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/2 cup frozen organic strawberries
2 tablespoon help hearts
2 tablespoon chia seeds

Blend together until smooth. Enjoy.

Strawberry Green Smoothie
Serves 1

1 cup of Kale
1/2 cup of strawberries
1/2 banana
1/2 lime wedge (peeled)
1 cup almond milk
small hand full of walnuts

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Meal Worthy Smoothies To Go

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because it sets up your digestive system to burn calories or store them. If you skip breakfast your body will think it needs to store calories for a famine, instead of burn what you consume throughout the entire day. Your body will function on LOW and you’re going to feel tired.

Smoothies take 5 minutes to make and you can take them to go. I find even when my belly doesn’t feel like eating breakfast, because it’s too early and I’m too tired. I can still drink a smoothie, maybe even in the car on my way to work, or at work.

When you make smoothies, the most important part is for it to contain protein, to increase your energy. I always aim for a minimum of 10g of protein per person.

CREATE YOUR OWN SMOOTHIE RECIPE

Ingredients:
frozen strawberries frozen blueberries
frozen mixed berries celery
kale or any leafy green
unsweetened coconut milk
unsweetened almond milk cinnamon
lemon
any fruit

Most Important Ingredients contain protein:
chia seeds
pumpkin seeds
hemp hearts
soft tofu (non GMO)
almond butter any nuts or nut butter
walnuts
plant based protein powder

Strawberry Almond Smoothie
Serves 1

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons unsalted almond butter
3/4 cup light unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/2 cup frozen organic strawberries
2 tablespoon hemp hearts
2 tablespoon chia seeds

Directions:
With a blender mix everything together until smooth. Enjoy!

Mixed Berry Green Smoothie
Serves 1

Ingredients:
1 cup of Kale
1/2 cup of mixed berried
1/2 banana
1/2 lime wedge (peeled)
1 cup almond milk
small hand full of walnuts

Directions:
Mix everything together with a blender until smooth. Enjoy!

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