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What? I like Pitch Perfect.
OMG GOD! SOLANGE KILLED IT!
AFRO + DRESS + NATURAL BEAUTY = ABSOLUTLY EFFING STUNNINGNESS
“A Collection: Exotic Fruit”, acrylic gouache on paper
A Collection is a year-long series of small gridded paintings updated bimonthly. If...
Delicious raw, vegan tarts made entirely of fruit!
This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.
A light pudding cake made with Laughing Cow wedges
Recipe: www.fitnesstreats.com/2013/05/laughing-cow-custard-cake
Vegan cookies I’ve made with:
- 3 tbsp almond butter
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 2 tsp carob powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup vanilla flavored rice protein
- 1 tbsp coconut flour
(Recipe and nutrition facts on: www.fitnesstreats.com/2013/05/carob-almond-protein-cookies)
These images are from the book ‘Hungry Planet: What the World Eats’ by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluision. The idea behind the project is “to better understand the human diet, explore what culturally diverse families eat for a week”.
These portraits feature pictures of each family with a week’s worth of food purchases.
To see all the different photos: Part I and Part II on time.com (There’re many different countries so there’s a good chance you’ll find a family from your own country.)
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A self massage sequence from a book I’ve bought “Reflexology, Hands-on treatment for vitality and well-being”.
According to reflexology practitioners, reflex points on your feet and hands correspond to your whole body, so stimulating those points helps release tension and gives you a feeling of overall well-being. Sounds like the perfect excuse to ask your boyfriend for a foot massage! No helpful boyfriend available? Here’s a sequence you can perform on yourself.
Hi! I have a problem, which I can't solve by myself. I'm 20 years old and currently I weigh around 55 kg. I used to weigh around 51.5 kg (that was in January 2013). From January, I have started to run, and at best I have runned 7.5 km. Before I started this hobby, it was out of question that I could have runned over a km. So could my weight gain be because my muscles has grown? Aside running, I compete in showjumping.
Hi! Running doesn’t really build muscle like weight training does. I’d say that gaining 3.5 kg of muscle because of running sounds unrealistic, even if you had very little muscle mass when you first started.
Showjumping is actually closer to weight training than running. Have you been doing more showjumping and eating a bit more to ‘compensate’ your runs? That could be an explanation.
But besides the scale, how do your clothes fit? Do you still fit in your favorite pair of jeans? Here are a few tips to gauge where you’re at: 
Hey! I have a bit of a sweet tooth and I'm trying to stay away from the sweets as much as possible, but it doesn't always help. You have any tips for me to control it better?
Hi! I’ve written a blogpost about cravings, listing all the tips and strategies I’ve read in various fitness magazines: www.fitnesstreats.com/2013/04/usual-and-unusual-strategies-for-controlling-sweet-cravings
It’s kind of a long post but you may find some new ideas to control your sweet tooth.
“Plant, cultivate, harvest.”
“When you make the right choice, you won’t see the results. At least, not today.
We live in a result-focused world. We expect to see results, and we expect to see them now. Push the button, the light flicks on. Step on the scale, look in the mirror, check the account balance online 24/7. Give me feedback, trip a sensor, hit a buzzer, tell me, tell me, tell me it’s working!
But that’s not how success is built. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. “Progressive” means success is a process, not a destination. It’s something you experience gradually, over time. Failure is also just as gradual.
There is a natural progression in life, which everyone knew intimately back in the days when we were an agrarian society. You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest.
In today’s world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. We plant the seed by joining the gym, and then get frustrated when a few days go by and there’s no fitness harvest.
The step we keep overlooking (and overskipping!) is the step of cultivating. And that, unlike planting and harvesting, takes place only through the patient dimension of time.
Just as a farmer has to wait a full season to reap his harvest, you must do the same. In my opinion, this is the hardest principle for our microwave and fast-food culture to deal with because we want instant results now, not in 120 days or a year from now!”
From the book “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson.
Quinoa Protein Cookies with Rhubarb Sauce
A vegan, gluten-free dessert for a little “spring detox”.
Ingredients (for 10 small cookies):
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- 1/2 cup cashews soaked in water overnight
- 3 tbsp vanilla flavored pea protein
- 2 tbsp coconut flour
- 1/4 cup almond milk
Instructions: Mix everything in a food processor. Use a cookie cutter to cut out the cookies and bake for 25 min at 230 degrees Celsius.
Ingredients for the pink rhubarb sauce:
- 6-8 rhubarb sticks
- one pink grapefruit
Instructions: Steam the rhubarb sticks, mix in the flesh of the grapefruit, puree using a handheld blender.
Nutrition facts on my blog: www.fitnesstreats.com/2013/04/quinoa-protein-cookies-with-rhubarb-sauce
Why I Start My Day With Warm Water & Lemon
I had no idea how beneficial this was for me growing up but everyday, like clockwork, mom would pour out a cup of hot water and squeeze some fresh lemon into the cup.
Usually in a mad hurry to get through breakfast so I could get outside, would gulp it down, scarf my processed breakfast (we lived in blissful ignorance around breakfast cereals, lucky me) and then grab my bike and I was gone.
Fast forward 20 something years to now where I, now knowingly, live my life according to the principles of Ayurveda and yoga that my family instilled in me at a young age.
So why do I think drinking this is a big deal? In a nutshell:
- It raises your PH levels so from acidic to a more alkaline internal environment - Disease cannot live in an alkaline environment as it needs acidity to thrive. When we sleep, our bodies become acidic so the simple act of drinking water & lemon in the morning balances the body.
- Empowers your immune & nervous system - Lemons are rich in potassium and vitamin C stimulating your neuro-impulses and strengthening white blood cells.
- Improves digestion by removing toxins from the digestive system and promotes bile production in the liver.
- Aids in weight loss again due to keeping the body in an alkaline environment. Lemon is also a craving buster.
- Purifies the body by eliminating toxins, clears the liver and the skin.
- Calms you with a high level of Vitamin C first thing in the morning.
No-equipment workout: shoulders, legs and core
This is a circuit of 10 exercises. Perform each exercise for 50 seconds with a 10-second break (use the free Gym Boss app; if you don’t want to use a timer, you can also perform each move for 10 to 12 reps instead):
1. In-and-outs on the right leg
2. In-and-outs on the left leg
3. Bear to squat
4. Low plank to high plank (both arms at the same time if possible; on your knees if too difficult)
5. Plank walkout with right leg up
6. Plank walkout with left leg up
7. Down dog knee-to-elbow, right leg up
8. Down dog knee-to-elbow, left leg up
9. Bridge-up (substitute with a glute bridge if this move is too difficult)
10. Dancing crab
(Exercise descriptions on www.fitnesstreats.com/2013/03/bodyweight-workout-shoulders-legs-and-core-but-without-push-ups)
Repeat circuit for a total of 3 rounds!
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