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Good evening. Today I am sharing my new favorite breakfast, they're great for busy mornings! They are super easy to help you meal prep for the week and are extremely simple to actually make. Once you make them you can store them in your refrigerator and then warm them up in your microwave for 30 seconds and enjoy a super fast, but healthy breakfast! 4 eggs 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese 1/2 cup spinach (I only used 1/2 of the spinach pictured above) 1 Tbsp salsa 1/3 cup coconut water (to make eggs more fluffy) Mix all ingredients together (I cut up my spinach just to make things easier!). Greece muffin tins WELL. Cook for about 20ish minutes, I just kind of kept an eye on them. This recipe makes 6 muffins, I had 6 and one got eaten before I took the photo (real life!).

Happy Tuesday! Today I am sharing my second food diary on Weight Watchers. A 7-day journal of my meals from over the last week. Since I started becoming more and more interested in healthy eating I have done extensive research into what I should and should not be eating and decided to share that! DAY 8 (school day) Wake Up  (6:30 am) - 16 oz water When I first get up in the morning I like to drink about 16 oz of water, which is great to start off your morning and your digestive system. Throughout your day you should be drinking half of your body weight in ounces of water. So I try to do that every day. Breakfast  (7:15 am) -  2 spinach egg muffins Morning Snack  (9:30 am) -  apple slices with cinnamon Lunch  (11:30 am) -  greek yogurt parfait, trail mix Afternoon Snack  (3:00 pm) -  grapefuit Dinner  (6:00 pm) -  GF vegetable soup --- DAY 9 (school day) Wake Up  (6:30 am) - 16 oz water Breakfast  (7:15 am) -...

Happy Monday! Today I am sharing a seven day food diary of everything I ate over a seven day period while on the Weight Watchers diet. DAY 1 (school day) Wake Up  (6:30 am) - 16 oz water When I first get up in the morning I like to drink about 16 oz of water, which is great to start off your morning and your digestive system. Throughout your day you should be drinking half of your body weight in ounces of water. So I try to do that every day. Breakfast  (7:15 am) - GF oatmeal and the Zen Tazo tea This really fills me up for my long day ahead! Morning Snack  (9:30 am) - Trail mix I make my own sort of trail mix and it's delicious!! I seriously do not like regular trail mix you buy but this is SO good. I did a whole post about it, which you can find  here . Lunch  (11:30 am) - Greek yogurt, 2 turkey rolls, GF pretzels I eat the Danon Oikos triple zero greek yogurt. "Turkey rolls" are just a piece of turkey rolled up, because I don't eat bread lol...

I started a new diet!!! After trying the Whole30 diet, I realized that I needed something a little more realistic for my lifestlye. So, I decided to do a healthy Weight Watchers. While on this diet I am not indulging in ice cream or cake every day but however this is much more realistic. This diet conforms more to your lifestyle the most. This is where you calculate the number of points, like calories that you get for a day and then you eat pretty much whatever you want as long as it is in that number of calories. This diet can be dangerous if you are not consuming a healthy amount of calories. In two upcoming posts I will be sharing my food diaries from the Weight Watchers diet!

Last week I attempted the Whole30 diet and decided to share my results here. First I only stuck to the diet for 1 week. After researching lots of diets over the course of the last few months I looked into the Whole30 and thought, besides the dramatic cut of a few food groups, it could be a good option. This diet was very hard to stick to because it is not flexible for any lifestyle but it's own. In case you were unaware the Whole30 diet is where you eat clean for 30 days and if you mess up once you are supposed to start back at day 1. This is supposed to completely reset your digestive system. You eat moderate portions of meat, seafood and eggs; lots of vegetables; some fruit; and natural fats. This diet is very hard to stick to because you have to pretty much bring all of your food with you wherever you go. It is also very healthy because you cut out all of the processed foods you usually eat. If you are looking for a diet that would be more convenient, this would not be ...

Happy Monday! Today I am sharing my take on trail mix. The trail mixes that you can buy premade a the store a really not my thing, I just don't like eating them. So I found this amazing recipe for this incredible treat! So this is super easy to make you take 3 parts almonds to 3 parts mixed dried berries to barely 1 part dark chocolate chips! I make this container of the snack and then pour it into a little travel container throughout the week so that it is easy to take with me on the go!

Today I am sharing one of my favorite breakfast treats! I adapted this recipe which you can find here to make these delicious gluten-free muffins. Ingredients: 3 very ripe bananas 1 egg 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt or sour cream 1/4 cup vegetable oil 3 Tbsp. milk 1 Tbsp. vanilla 1 1/2 cups gluten-free flour (I use  this kind ) 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt Directions: Heat oven to 375 and grease muffins tins WELL, it makes about 12 muffins. Mash bananas, I ended up using a hand mixer to mash them. Whisk mashed bananas, egg, yogurt/sour cream, oil, milk, and vanilla. Pour the flour and sugar on top of the mixture then add soda and salt on top so they do not touch liquid. Whisk all together until smooth. I added a little sugar to the top of them. Bake for 20 minutes, until golden brown, and cool on rack.