The Princess Diaries

Two weeks ago, I experimented with the Ketogenic diet, and whilst pretty difficult, it got me truly thinking about what I was eating on a daily basis. Since then, I've continued a lower carb diet (under 100g per day) and I've been seeing some great results, and have now managed to lose a total of 2 kilo's. Tomorrow is the 1st of August, and I have decided to challenge myself (for the next 31 days) to go sugar free, to see if it is actually as hard as all the articles I have read online say. My goal will be to eliminate all added sugar's from my diet, which includes artificial sweeteners - so no more Monster Ultra Zero's for a month! For the next 4 weeks, I will be documenting my progress and writing about it here, but to start myself off I thought I'd write up a little about what my health is currently like and make some predictions on how I think going sugar free will effect me. Body : I currently have a shoulder injury which impacts the nerves in my r

Today I've compiled a few of my favorite apps that helped me with my health and fitness journey, all of the following apps are free to download and use (paid upgrades are available but you don't really need them). In my quest for health and fitness, these are some of the greatest tools I have come across. My Fitness Pal This is a great app to help you keep your diet on track, it has a huge database of foods, and allows you to scan bar codes of packaged food items to input into your daily diary. It also shows you macro/micronutrients and allows you to set your own targets, whether you are working towards weight loss, or weight/muscle gain. You can also record your daily exercise and it gives you an approximate number of calories burned for each exercise. This has been a great help to me over the years, and its one of the tools I used everyday last year when I lost 10kgs. I now use it to see the fibre content of foods as that is something not always listed on labels.

The Keto Diet seems to be be the new trend, everyone seems to know somebody who is doing it, or maybe you've even tried it yourself. If you aren't familiar, Keto is a modified style of a low carb, high fat (LCHF) diet in which you aim to consume around 20g of net carbohydrates (or 50g total) while increasing your healthy fat intake to induce Ketosis - a state where your body burns fat for energy instead of carbs. So I tried it. "But wait," I hear you say "aren't you vegan? Doesn't everyone who follows this diet just eat steak slathered in mayonaise??" Yup, I followed the Keto Diet and made it completely vegan. Let me tell you, it was one of the most time consuming things I've ever done. Oh, and I also follow a 16/8 split of intermittent fasting. Day 1 After a very expensive trip to the supermarket because everything in my cupboards were carbs, I started my meal prep. Every article I've read on Vegan/Keto diets recommended lots