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coconut balls, eat your veggies, green smoothie, office food, outfit of the day, overnight oats, raw tabouli, stevia, summer heat, trulycommitted
1. Started my morning with a quick yoga fix:
It is nice to get your heart pumping first thing in the morning.
2. Today’s outfit:
Early morning, cause office wouldn’t be bearable later this afternoon, that’s why I try to start at 7 am, so I can finish earlier. By the way: this skirt was pretty snug on me a few weeks ago and today I got in without problems. That is what I call success – not a number on the scale.
3. Breakfast to go:
Carrot Cake Overnight Oats are my go to office breakfast. I used the second recipe, and also added 1/3 cup of Greek yogurt.
4. I managed to make a batch of Kabocha Fashionistas Coconut Bounce Balls :
They are also a great snack to go option. And I am starting to enjoy the taste of stevia. It grossed me out in the beginning, but since I love to use vanilla protein powder for baking and prefer the less processed stuff I recently purchased a brown rice vanilla protein powder which has only three ingredients: brown rice, vanilla extract, stevia. It grows on me.
5. I hit the grocery store after work (and library) and got heaps of vegetables and fruits.
That is why I love summer: a lot of my favorite things are in season and living on mostly fresh produce is a lot cheaper. And a tip if you have a small budget and try to save money while grocery shopping: check out if you have rural stores around like an Asian, Turkish or Russian grocery store. For the whole purchase above I only paid about 15€ at my favorite Turkish grocery store.
6. Today’s Truly Committed in July challenge: Eat your veggies!
I watched this video a few days ago and was really sad that I didn’t manage to buy parsley this weekend. A huge, delicious bowl of veggie goodness! Beating the summer heat…
7. Kitty and I chill out on the cool kitchen floor, since my bedroom and office have windows on the sunny side and turn into sauna areas from 8 am to 8 pm. Thus I close the door and we stay in the kitchen and hallway all day.
Perfect conditions to work on your master thesis… right!?
8. Today was my first day of trampolining – and I did not go due to the heat and did some more yoga (especially stretching and training towards difficult poses) and a lot of squats instead. University sport – I will miss your cheapness! I don’t pay a cent for this class! … and thus can skip it if weather really doesn’t make me feel like spent the evening in a not air conditioned gym.
9. Best way to end a 33°C (91°F) day?
Make yourself a huge green smoothie! This one contained: 1 banana, 2 handfuls spinach, a piece of cucumber, 2 tbsp hemp protein, 1 tsp spirulina, 1 date and some water. And watch a movie everyone talks about and you haven’t seen yet: Eat Pray Love. Reading a good book is also an option – if you can fit in both: bliss!
10. Oh and before I head to bed I’d love to share my favorite blog post of the day with you:
Madam Frank on “How I Am Not Obese.”
Goes perfectly with my thoughts on Intuitive Eating. Enjoy!
With An Open Mind 
Aww, thanks for the shout out! Glad you liked my post 🙂 xx
Thanks for the post 😉 . I will probably be in Rennes for my semester abroad (starting January) and cannot get enough of your stories about France!
Awh your coconut balls look great – fab to know they work with other protein powders too! I like brown rice powder and other vegan powders, especially for baking, but it’s nice to mix it up sometimes and I have so many to play with hahaa! Funny how some people don’t like stevia at first..I’ve never really had a problem with not liking it 🙂
I’m loving all the fruit and veg around at the moment too! Fave time of year because I love berries and melon so much 🙂
Thanks pretty! I have a few protein powders on rotation, too – but for baking purpose I only use the rice protein. For me it is all about the fresh cherries and peaches – the flat wild peaches are my favorites. To me they present the taste of summer!
The green smoothie is a wonderful way to end the day!
Your coconut balls do look fabulous! I was wondering could you use spelt flour or almond meal instead of the coconut flour?
Glad to have stumbled on your blog
The recipe is not mine, it’s Nickys 😉 but I think you might substitute the coconut flour with almond meal by using close to double the amount or lowering the liquid content (e.g. just 1 T of coconut milk). Coconut flour does bind a lot of liquid. Play around with it, you will notice when the dough is to dry or sticky.