When I started my current job, I had so much fun (some might say a little too much) scoping out the local cafés and finding my favourite cup of coffee that I would look forward to every morning. I’m a foodie through and through and exploring new places to eat is almost a hobby for me. Since then, I have stumbled across too many great cafés to count on both hands, and with that came some delicious new snack ideas.
I remember as a child literally grabbing hot, fresh muffins off the counter as soon as my mom took them from the oven. Muffins don’t nearly get the love they deserve. They’re portable, suitable for all times of the day, and you can get super creative with them. My favourite muffins are hands down banana and walnut. However, today I decided to branch out and discover what other flavours I could come up with. Behold, these beauties were born.
I absolutely love food and not-surprisingly I treat myself to something sweet every single day. In the past I would reasearch diets for losing weight in all the wrong places and found them all to be incredibly restrictive and unrealistic in the long-term. It has taken me years to adapt my palate and get away from overly processed foods to what I eat today. My diet is made up of fresh, whole and nutritious foods that help me to perform my best in the gym and every day. However, I’m all about moderation. There is no point in starving yourself of the foods you love because it will leave you unhappy and unsatisfied pretty quickly. My solution is to eat an ’80/20′ diet. That means that I eat well 80% of the time while enjoying chocolate, popcorn, bacon (the list goes on..) about 20% of the time. This type of diet has worked for me so far but I am constantly adapting and changing as I go. By not depriving myself of the foods I love I have been able to make this a complete lifestyle change, and I have compiled a list below of how I did it and what my favourite snacks are.
