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All of these link you to a post on my blog, but there will be another link in that post which will link you to the recipe or just click on the picture!

Breakfast 

OATMEAL/OATS

Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal

Apple Pie Oatmeal

Baked Banana, Blueberry and Raisin Oatmeal

Baked Oatmeal Casserole 

Baked Raspberry-Banana-Almond Butter Oatmeal

Banana Bread Protein Oatmeal

Banana Oat Chia Seed Pudding

Berry Oat Cups

Blueberry Oatmeal

Coconut Overnight Oats

Creamy Oatmeal with Banana Nut Topping

Overnight Oats

Peach Pie Oatmeal

Peanut Butter/Banana Oatmeal

Raspberry Overnight Oats

Savoury Oatmeal

Various Overnight Oats Recipes

Various Overnight Oats Recipes 2

PANCAKES

Apple Cinnamon Protein Pancakes

Banana Maca Pancakes

Blueberry & Banana Pancakes

Chocolate Banana Pancake Bars

Flourless Coconut and Banana Pancakes

Greek Yoghurt Pancakes

Paleo Pancakes

Pancakes in a Jar (not a recipe)

Strawberry Shortcake Pancakes

OTHER

Avocado and Egg Breakfast Pizza

Avocado Fried Egg

Baked Eggs in Tomato Cups

Banana “Scramble”

Berry Greek Yoghurt Parfait

Blueberry Coconut Pecan Breakfast Cookies

Breakfast Boost Sprinkle

Breakfast Pizza

Breakfast Tostadas

Butternut Squash and Chicken Mash

Cocoa Banana Breakfast Quinoa With Walnuts

Coconut Breakfast Quinoa

Healthy French Toast

Huevos Rancheros

No Added Sugar Granola (Vegan, Gluten-free, can be Nut-free)

Oat Bran ”English Muffin” 

Olive Oil Poached Eggs on Avocado and Braised Kale Toast

Paleo Banana Almond Muffins

Peanut Butter and Banana Yoghurt 

Pomegranate Yogurt Bowl

Raw Buckwheat Porridge

Raw Sprouted Buckwheat Granola

Red Pepper and Baked Egg Galette

Sponge Omelette with Yoghurt and Blueberries

Super Food Fruit Salad + Cacao Puree. Over Warm Brown Rice

Toasted Banana Breakfast Roll

Vegan Pumpkin French Toast

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thehealthycook:

Calorie counting is common within the weight-loss community, but it doesn’t mean you should do it. Here are 10 reasons why counting calories doesn’t always work:

1. Counting calories over-simplifies healthy eating. Eating a healthy diet is complicated and nutrition labels over-simplify it. We are led to believe that low calorie foods are good and high calorie foods are bad. But it is a lot more complicated than that. This way of thinking can lead to eating disorders, infertility, illness, and depression because it encourages the consumption of processed foods instead of nourishing foods. 
2. Counting calories prevents a positive, healthy relationship with food. Always being calorie-conscious changes your focus from how you eat to how much you eat. This can prevent you from having a positive relationship with food. Instead of thinking of food as life-giving nourishment, counting calories can make you feel apprehensive toward food, or even make you think of food as being bad for you as if it is the enemy.
3. Counting calories creates a stressful relationship with food that can interfere with digestion.Feeling stressed while eating is bad for you because it can interfere with digestion. The sympathetic nervous system triggers responses in the body that can shut down the digestive system so the body can deal with the stressful situation.
4. Counting calories can also increase your feelings of depression. You may feel depressed when you feel you’ve eaten too many calories because you ate that burger and chocolate shake you feel you shouldn’t have. The constant pressure from tracking calories and feeling like you’ve let yourself down when you go over your daily caloric intake can increase feelings of depression.
5. Counting calories is extremely inaccurate. Not only is it wrong to think calories from different foods are the same, but you shouldn’t always believe the numbers of calories printed on labels because they are often wrong. The calorie tables we use today are outdated. Dietitian Rick Miller says, “We’ve known for some time that the calculations for certain foods such as vegetables and high-fiber foods are inaccurate. The calorie figures you see on a food label aren’t always the amount you will ingest.”
6. Quality of calories is more important than quantity. If you count calories, you may become obsessed with calorie counting. You may buy low-fat this and fat-free that, but these foods lack much needed vitamins and nutritional value. Plus, these foods often replace the fat with sugar, which then gets stored as fat in your body. Your calories should mainly come from whole, natural foods that don’t have labels—the foods that are made by Mother Nature. And, you should avoid eating processed and packaged foods as much as possible, including those that are labeled as low-fat and fat-free. In many cases, these foods are worse for you than the full-fat products.
7. Calorie counting adds more work to your already busy life. It’s work to constantly tabulate calories for every meal, or record everything you eat in a food diary or journal. You probably don’t need to add more work to your already busy life, so forget calorie counting and focus your efforts elsewhere like exercising or cooking healthier meals for your family.
8. Counting calories encourages calorie-restriction, which slows metabolism and makes it difficult to lose weight. The biggest problem with using linear calorie equations for fat loss is thatthe fewer calories you consume, the fewer calories your body burns. When you start a calorie-restricted diet, you will probably find that you lose a pound or so in the first week but less in subsequent weeks. This phenomenon is believed to be a metabolic adaptation to prevent starvation and keep your body balanced. But a slower metabolism means slower weight loss, and counting calories encourages this.
9. Counting calories is not a way to guide your nutritional health. Counting calories should be used as just one tool for weight loss and should not be used as a long-term solution. It should be used as a learning tool to become more aware of how many calories are in junk foods and sodas, for instance, but it’s not a tool for guiding your nutritional health.
10. Calorie counting interferes with “intuitive eating.” Humans are, by design, intuitive eaters. This means that if you knew nothing about calories, carbs, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals contained in foods, you would naturally eat the foods your body needs to stay healthy. Sometimes your body may crave carbs while other times it may crave fats, and there are reasons for this. Your body intuitively knows what it needs to stay healthy and balanced, and counting calories interferes with this intuitive ability to eat healthfully. (source x)

yes yes yes YES. Getting RID OF my calorie counter was the best thing I ever could have done for my overall happiness and health. Could be helpful when you’re starting out, but be careful you don’t rely on it too much.

ALSO, the lower-calorie your diet is, the harder its going to be to sustain that. you might last a couple of months on 1000cals a day, but eventually youre going to have to increase it because it simply isnt enough for so many things, and as soon as you increase it, you will gain weight because your body snatches up the calories it’s been missing. if you start out on a suitable caloric intake, you wont have to increase it and gain weight. it’s also better to switch to a proper caloric intake as soon as possible because the longer you stay on a low-calorie diet, the longer you will gain weight for once you increase it. also, a low calorie diet will make you more sensitive to change, e.g. you might gain weight from having pizza one night which wouldn’t do anything to someone on a suitable caloric intake. 
also, if you constantly count calories, after a while you will find that you get really anxious and stressed when you’re in a situation that you don’t know the exact number of what you’re eating, e.g. in a restaurant or in a piece of birthday cake. i personally counted calories for so long that i literally cannot cope if i don’t know the exact number of how much i eat daily down to the calorie. it’s a horrible habit to get into and it gets harder to break the longer you continue it.

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This woman is 44. Fitness is the fountain of youth. 

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Keep believing in yourself and you will make your dreams come true! XO -Amy Chisholm

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they say u are what u eat, but i dont remember eating a fuckin legend