I found this one on line, not my creation, however I did make some adjustments to make it a little more guilt free so have a read, buy what you need and try this. It’s very yummy and very guilt free.

Fudge Brownie Layer

1 Cup Nuts (can be any kind almonds are the most leanest nuts so I used those)

15 Large Dates

1 tsp Vanilla & a pinch of salt

4 Tbsp Cocoa Powder

Put all above in your food processor until it turns in to a ball of chocolaty goodness. Plop it out on a flat tray this is the bottom layer done.

Coconut Top Later

1.5 Cups of shredded coconut

1/3 Cup almond meal

1/4 Cup Coconut Oil

I warmed the coconut oil to make it easier, just add all these ingredients together. Then press this white mix on to the brown layer. Drizzle with melted dark chocolate add almonds and pop in the fridge. Chop up and serve. Yummo !!!

Enjoy

Renee

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Arrived at the event Friday night, the plan was to sleep there to be there ready for an early start Saturday morning. The bit no one told me about was we were sleeping on the dirt under the stars no running water no electricity. iPhone went flat no FB, no email no txt OMG! But that was ok because look what I woke up to, the most amazing sunrise over the River Murray.

Then we met all the others working there and were familiarised with the course and our roles. There were CFS Crews, Surf Life Savers, St John’s, SA Ambulance personnel as well as us Army people all volunteering our time to make this thing work. It was over two days Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was hot and there were 30,000 flies, Sunday was cool and rainy. This was the Obstacle I was stationed at “The Bunker!”. Got to watch 5000 people get on their hands and knees and crawl through that bad boy.

Only I could put a little Pink into a Military Obstacle Course!! In this pic is a group of middle aged women who go to the gym together and put a team in. They are just normal women attempting something awesome that’s what I loved about this that there were so many different fitness levels, so many different kinds of people participating. True Grit is heading to Brisbane 13-14 Jul, Sydney 07-08 Sep and Tas, Perth and Melb dates are soon to be released. I would recommend it to anyone it was such an awesome out of the ordinary event.

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The Science of it…. Vitamin C helps with the transporting and the absorption of the Iron after consumption. As Vitamin C is an ascorbic acid, when this acid binds to the iron it makes it more stable with a better shot at being absorbed through the mucus membranes of your intestine. Ewww too far?? Sorry just wanted you to understand that even after you’ve tasted your food and swallowed it, it still has a job to do. I want you to think of food as medicine not just pleasure.

So the easy to way max out on this little tip is to simply have an OJ next time you are out for dinner dining on expensive steak. Or in my world the kids and I have an OJ when we have steak. Normally I’m anti fruit juice as they are a massive teeth rooting sugar bomb but when the goodness out ways the bad that’s the time to use it.

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I was wanting to try something different this year from the traditional slippers, PJs or chocolates for my Mum for Mother’s Day. So I found these cute letters in a Typo store 3 for $10. I also found this cute paper decorated sticky tape to decorate the letters with, although I also think they look great white too. I just thought I’d personalise them a touch. The letter’s are the initials of my kids just in case that bit didn’t come across.

So it’s really easy took me 10 minutes, the hardest part was taking photos and blogging about it!! You can also buy these letters in the craft section of a Spotlight store and you could paint them any colour you like.

Then I added the tape to represent each grandchild’s name. The boys are the birds and the lace is my daughter.

Then the final product for under $15. I think I like them so much I might make them one each for their bedrooms. Easy, cheap and personal gift for your Mum this Mother’s Day. Just don’t tell my Mum..

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When you exercise amazing things are happening on the inside. On the days you talk yourself in to sitting on the couch or going shopping these amazing things don’t happen and you miss out. There is a whole heap of chemical reactions taking place some that leave you feeling great and some that leave you feeling sore the next day.

Me after my workout just now

Endorphins. You’ve heard of these bad boys right well they are your reward for working out. They can make you feel happy and can also block pain which enables you to push on through discomfort. Some people even become addicted to this feeling, ever heard of a runners high?

Estrogen. This is what selects carbs or fat for your body to use during an intense workout. Chicks burn fat for fuel, why guys tend to burn carbs because of our higher estrogen levels. So menopause can mean some weight gain, or slower weigh loss but it isn’t out of the question. Why do guys get it so dam good?

Serotonin. This one is awesome, makes you feel happy, helps you sleep, and boosts your appetite but for healthy foods, yey! Serotonin increases when you workout more often and works with endorphins to make it feel awesome, guess that’s the bit I love. Another side effect is clearer thinking and more energy wow who doesn’t want that. Ever just gone for a walk to clear you head, come back and felt great, this is why.

Dopamine. Lastly another pleasure chemical, could it get any better, this guy also shows up during orgasm enough said.

Above are just four reasons for you to workout each day, four reasons that you wont see but you will definitely benefit from. Most of these happy hormones can be released when eating quickly and eating unhealthy foods, which obviously leads to weight gain. So the better way to get them is a daily workout, 20 minutes in not too little it’s better than nothing.

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I have run in a few Fun Runs now ranging from 4kms with Mr 9 to 12km City to Bay multiple times. The best bit for me has been the fundraising for charity as I have now raised over $1000 with all my runs for children’s charities and breast Cancer research. If you want a goal to help you get moving a Fun Run is the prefect motivation. It comes with a dead line and accountability of telling your family. Fun Runs are not scary they are believe it or not fun! Google Fun Run’s in your area and start running now, even a 3-4km Fun Run is enough to get you moving and a great goal for your own health and fitness.

Me & My Sister-In-Law at last years Mother’s Day Classic 7km Run Run

For Your Best Results Here’s What Works For Me

1. Hydrate. In the days leading up to the run drink lots of water. Start about three days out and just make a conscious effort to drink more water than usual. This will have you hydrated for the run day. As you don’t want to drink heaps that morning as you will be peeping enough as you will be nervous.

2. Eat Well. Eat well in the lead up also. Choose high water content foods as they will also help hydrate you. Also eat carbs starting a few days out so they are stored in your body for the run. When you run the first half of the runs energy will come from what you’ve eaten that night and morning, the rest will come from what you have already stored.

3. Morning Of Your Run. Do what you would normally do before a run or workout. Don’t try anything new on the day of the run. Not the day to experiment at all keep to your routine that works when you trained so it is trialed and tested and will work perfectly for race day.

The biggest thing is don’t over think it, just go there run and have some fun and feel amazing at the end when you have achieved your goal. Try getting involved with the fundraising for the event that will also motivate you hugely. If you have never actually ran the distance of the Fun Run you will be surprised at how much you can do on the day when your adrenaline takes over. Enjoy your Fun Run then find the next one you will go in.

Another post you may like: Finding Your Inner Runner

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OPTION ONE CUTTING BACK – This is an option, cutting back instead of cutting out but you really need to be strong here.

1. Stop Buying It. Don’t bring it in to your home. If you used to buy a 1.25lt bottle, now buy a 600ml or a can. Down size slowly.

2. Find a replacement. Try swapping for water, water with lemon, fruit juice, tea, milk, protein shake, sparkling water, just have something ready for when you feel the urge.

3. Make a note of your consumption. The only way to know if you’re having less is to record it. Note down how many you have had that day as you have them. See if you are having less, try and cut back to 50% by a weeks time.

4. Water Water Water. You need to buy a water bottle, and you need to have it with you all the time. Sip on water all day and you may find you don’t even get to the point where you are thirsty for a different drink.

5. Stick at it. To get rid of this habit you need to find new habits. You need to plan, you need to know what you will do when you crave it, you need to tell others not to buy it for you anymore. Do not quit, stick at it and watch it become less of an addiction.

OPTION TWO – Cold Turkey

1. This is an option. Make a date, tell everyone, stop buying it, stop drinking it and stick at it. Same things apply as above you will need a plan in place for when you crave it. Because you will crave it and the cravings will be strong after all you are addicted to it.

2. Have ibuprofen ready for the withdrawal headaches. You can get past it you just have to exercise some will power. These will fade as you overcome it, be the boss of your body no longer be a slave to these chemicals.

3. Make new habits. You need to find something else you enjoy, something else you can drink. I recommend water of course but you can drink anything just to get you off the soft drink at first.

Set a day you will quit, have things in place to make it easier, tell people, stick at it, deal with withdrawals as they happen. You may even be surprised how easy it is. Once you have cut back or quit the cravings will stop. You just need to reprogram yourself.

It Can Be Done. My husband was in the Police for five years most of that was spent drinking coke to stay awake for shift work. Over time it started to dissolve his teeth. This was picked up by the dentist before he turned into a feral ! But that was reason enough for him to quit cold turkey. So he switched to lemonade for the cold bubbly taste then slowly cut that away too. Since he cut soft drink away and really not changing too much else he now has abs that he loves flexing in the mirror!!! Ha ha!! You’ve been outed. Point is cut soft drink away your health will improve with less sugar cravings, less highs with bigger lows, less heart burn, and you will enjoy some weight loss without having to do too much else. This sh*t is nasty please please please do yourself a favor and stop putting it in your body.

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One thing I don’t drink a lot of is soft drink, I just don’t like the gassy bubbly feeling that I get when I drink it. I end up burping, feeling bloated and yuck after I drink it so it is easy for me to just not have it. However I know that for some of you soft drink is the first thing you reach for when you feel thirsty. Let me share a few facts today about why you really should put some thought in to cutting it back or even better cutting it out.

Is This How You Are Feeling Most Of The Time?

Do you feel tired all the time, do you crave sugar, are you hungry all the time, are you over weight, do you get heart burn, do you get highs and lows in your energy levels? Do you drink a lot of soft drink? Could you be addicted to it and not realise it and not realise that it is in fact responsible for all of the above.

The Truth About Soft Drink – Why Is It So Addictive?

Sugar

First thing you need to understand is how much sugar is in one soft drink, 10 tea spoons of sugar, so in one drink that’s more than your daily need of additional sugar. You drink your Coke you flood your body’s blood with all that sugar. Your body reacts to all that sudden excess sugar, your pancreas releases insulin to combat all that sugar. So you have the high of sugar in your blood feeling energetic. Then the insulin does its job of mopping up all the excessive sugar which drops you back to a low. You’ve gone from high to low, now you need another soft drink for that pick me up hey. Noooooooo.

Phosphoric Acid

Soft drink contains phosphoric acid which gives the drink its bite. Phosphoric Acid actually leaches calcium from your bones promoting Osteoporosis. Even if you are taking a supplement you are contradicting it with the soft drink. This is also what rots your teeth slowly over time.

Sodium

Sodium which is salt, stops water being held in your cells so it keeps you feeling dehydrated. This is put in on purpose to keep you thirsty to keep you drinking more.

Caffeine

Caffeine of course is a diuretic so you continue to lose water through out the day. As it is a stimulant, you receive the high of energy but then a crash, you crave more on the low grab another soft drink.

Diet Soft Drink Is Just As Bad If Not Worse

The artificial sugar in diet soft drinks confuses your body when it tastes something sweet that isn’t sugar. As a result, it makes your body crave for actual, sweet food. So while you may be taking in 0 calories from drinking diet coke, there is a higher likelihood you will  consume more food after drinking the diet soft drink, which then leads to weight gain.

The thing that shits me most is the four above ingredients of soft drink are put in there deliberately to get you addicted so you keep buying it for the rest of your life. All the while slowly poisoning yourself and stopping you from being your best healthiest you you can be.  There really truly is NOTHING good about soft drink it’s all empty calories, it’s not water it has no nutrients. There really is no good reason to put it in your body other than you have become addicted to it. Think for a moment would you give a new born baby coke? No but why do you give it to yourself?

If anyone has quit soft drink I’d love you to leave a comment for others to hear how you went, how you did it and any changes you found after you did it.

Renee

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35 Random Renee Facts

1. I eat way too much chocolate.
2. I am sh*t scared of the dentist.
3. I actually still work part time in the Army Reserve 2 days a week but I called myself a stay at home mum so people wouldn’t judge me.
4. I am sick of Delta Goodrem, I want to like her but she’s driving me nuts.
5. I’ve been to Paris twice once with my husband and once with my Mum.
6. I got married at 20 and have been for 14 years since.
7. My last baby was a c-section 10lbs2oz giant.
8. I love pedicures.
9. I’m about to turn 35 and still get spots and it sh*ts me.
10. I love winter PJs and slippers.
11. I hate jewellery all I wear is a watch, same old pair of earrings and my wedding rings.
12. My first job was working at KFC.
13. I have a pic of a fitness model on the fridge to remind me what I want to look like.
14. I love getting emails and comments on the blog from people thanking me for helping them.
15. This is really hard to think of 35 things.
16. I love Nina Proudman from Offspring’s look so much that I dress like her.
17. I think I’m addicted to my daily cappuccino without it I crave it until I get it.
18. I never had an engagement party.
19. Tulips are my favourite flower.
20. I think 35 is old and it’s a bit scary really.
21. I never thought I’d have 3 kids in a million years.
22. My favourite song at the moment is Ed Sheeran Give Me Love.
23. I regret getting so sunburnt as a kid and young adult I hate my freckles.
24. I had Poly Cystic Ovaries and had to conceive Mr 9 with fertility assistance.
25. My Personal Trainer course was the best thing I’ve ever done.
26. I have a tattoo on my left wrist that says Believe.
27. I am a bad speller and get really upset when people point it out on the blog.
28. I suck at gardening everything I plant dies.
29. I love party planning and throwing awesome themed parties for the kids.
30. Man flu sh*ts me!
31. My favourite saying is ‘to the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world’.
32. I can’t believe you are still reading.
33. I get upset when I lose a Liker on my blogs Facebook page it’s like losing a friend.
34. I achieved some pretty awesome things in my 34^th year, one of my best.
35. I have a truck licence.

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I was away from home since Friday morning to Sunday afternoon leaving my capable husband at home with the kids. It’s been Daddy Day Care for 3 days and 2 nights. Happy to report kids are still alive and the house is still standing!

But the thing I mostly wanted to share was the comment from my Husband…..  “I was a Police Officer for 5 years and I’ve been on 3 tours of Active Service, but none of that was as hard as looking after 3 kids for 3 days alone!”

These words I have longed to hear for the last three years, these words made me smile, these words made me happy that finally he now just maybe, just maybe he really appreciates what it’s like to stay at home with three kids alone for more than just a day. My husband is in the Air Force and is often deployed overseas or just interstate for work. So it’s more often than not, just me at home with the kids, on my own, doing it all. Since Friday morning until Sunday afternoon he had the pleasure of spending that time alone living my everyday life.

He often wonders why when he comes home from being away, why I’d possibly want to go out now that he’s home. Now he totally gets it, he in fact couldn’t get out of the door fast enough to get the food shopping done when I did finally get home. He needed to get out of the house to get some air. He didn’t say that of course but I could recognise that look of oh my god take me to the Asylum. It can get a bit crazy with a 2 year old and the bigger ones, it is intense, and quite energy draining at times. The worst bit is we just put Mr 2 into a big boy bed from the cot so he didn’t get much sleep after he learnt to get out of bed and open the door to walk around the house at all hours of the night.

If you think your are ‘just’ a Stay At Home Mum you are so much more, that title is sh*t you are god dam Wonder Woman. And yes if you work and have kids you too get a shot at the title  also. What we do each day as Mum’s is often taken for granted but take you out of the picture, no one can replace you, no one, some may come close but you what you do everyday in your home, for your family without pay, without recognition is massive. Be proud of what you do and don’t be scared to take time off as you will be surprised at suddenly how appreciated you become.

Renee

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