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Being healthy is hard...

Do you ever have those moments when you're 10 months into the year and suddenly you realise you have achieved a grand total of  0  resolutions you swore to stick to back in January? Lose weight! Eat healthily! Lay off the McDonalds! Go for a run! You catch a glance of yourself in the mirror and you’re greeted with all the unhealthy decisions you’ve made, knowing that you really should have taken more care, and the guilt and the gut aren’t a pretty sight to behold. You guessed it! That happened to me. I realised I'm sick of not feeling like I have done anything productive with my year except drink untold amounts of wine and watch 200 episodes of Friends on repeat. I’m sick of feeling like a blue whale while standing next to my skinny minnie friends that can eat the entire contents of the Earth and end up losing weight. (I know I shouldn’t compare myself to others but in this day and age it’s impossible not to, so I’m going to do it and nothing can stop me.) I

What I eat in a day

My biggest struggle when I'm in diet mode is deciding what to eat. I can sit for hours flicking through recipe books to find something that will do, but the truth is I need something quick and easy.  As much as I'd love smashed avocado on rye bread toast with vine tomatoes seasoned with salt, pepper and a little chilli to spice it up, accompanied by a perfectly poached egg that's just the right level of runny when I slide my knife through it. Oh... and a perfectly coloured smoothie in a mason jar to make it oh so aesthetically pleasing and totes insta-worthy, I just don't have the time or patience to do that. I need something I can grab as I walk out the door in the morning that will survive in the microwave at work and make all my colleagues well jel. The best thing I ever learned to do was food prep. I know what you’re thinking… not another food prep monster that’s going to tell me that tupperware is my new best friend! But honestly, tupperware is your ne