Weight Gain/Body Changes......

So after you have a baby loosing weight is really difficult. My son is now 2 months and 3 weeks old but I am still gaining so much weight. I thought it would be easy to loose all the weight I gained during pregnancy. When you are going through pregnancy your body is out through so much and takes ages to repair itself.
I walk my dog twice a day I am up and down like a yoyo dealing with Leland and doing housework so I can't understand where I am going wrong.
So today I decided it was time to make more of an effort to try loose weight because it is affecting me in more ways than my clothes being tight, I have very little confidence to go places on my own and I feel like everyone will look at me and think I'm fat.
Today was the start of healthy eating we had hot chorizo salad. A combination of grapes mushrooms, chorizo, caramelised onion chutney, balsamic glaze and salad leads.

Its a pretty simple and quick recipe.

Final outcome!

Fingers crossed I can shift this weight so I can marry Joe next year when I get my confidence back.

Tomorrows a new day and a new start for exercise and healthy eating.

Money Problems and Planning A Shopping List

Today has not been the best day.

Getting news that you won't get help paying for rent and then they double your rent arrears, because they stop paying 2 month ago with out telling you!

Now I really have to get my bum into gear and organise money.

So today I spent my day watching videos on how to plan Your meals.

Obviously I can't stick to them religiously as sometimes my fiance doesn't get home till hlf ten which is a bit late to eat.

I sat and looked through all my cook books and put sticky post it page markers at every recipe I fancied.

I gave a colour to each meal.

Orange = breakfast

Green = lunch

Yellow = tea

Pink =sweet snacks\desserts

So after all that i got another piece of paper and put it into sections. Meat, Veg, Tins and Other.

So flicking through the recipes I was writing down all the ingredients I needed and how much I needed, and that was my shopping list.

Not shopping till Wednesday so fingers crossed I can keep to my shopping list.

Let's Bake...... Pretzels!!!

So you know when you have those days when all you want is something sweet but a bit savoury at the same time.
Well today was that kind of day for me.
So I made pretzels!

So I cheated and used the bread maker but it will just end the same way and it would if I made it by hand it!

Raw pretzels! Mmmm... Tasty

So after 8-10 minutes I have lovely golden brown Pretzels. Not all the perfect size or shape but as a first attempt they are not too bad.

Now for the exciting bit...

TIME TO ADD THE CINNAMON SUGAR!!!

Obviously you can add any topping like chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, melted nutella the list is endless.

End result!

Cinnamon Sugared Pretzels.

If you want the recipe leave me a comment!