#Leanin15 - My review of the UK's Best Selling Book

Joe Wicks - The Body Coach - Lean In 15

Before and After

This is my review of the UK's best selling book of 2015/2016

The title of my Blog says it all really. This is a best selling book and its best selling for a reason. I've looked at many recipe/diet/lifestyle books and this is by far one of the best. It's very well written and easy to follow. The recipes are fantastic and none of them use super fancy food that no one has ever heard of before.

By total coincidence, my boyfriend bought this book at the same time as me and we had it delivered on the same day. We were looking through that evening and decided that the very next day we would try one of the recipes. We went for page 72. Tomato and Chorizo. Below is the result - and can I just say, we were very proud of ourselves!! It tasted fantastic. We couldn't find any Spring onion in the supermarket so we decided to use Spinach instead and it went perfectly.

The back of the book consists of some before and after photo's of normal people that have tried Joe's 90 Day SSS Plan. They all look incredible.

He also has a few pictures and instructions on HIIT workouts.

The Hiit workouts look great but they're flippin' hard work. I decided to go on Youtube and watch a proper video to do my HIIT workout. Joe Wicks does 4 rounds - I managed 3. Not too bad for my first attempt.

Yesterday I did my own version of the Italian Stallion Sausages. Unfortunately, we were too hungry and just ate it straight away before I thought about taking a picture. I used my Pampered Chef chopper to make the courgettes and onions very small rather than chunky. It tasted beautiful and I'll be recommending/doing again soon. It was a lot more a soup/stew than I imagined but that's probably due to how finely chopped the veg was. I also added about 12 Cherry Tomatoes rather than the 4 or 6 he recommends and I added some red pepper. Beautiful!

I've got the ingredients to be trying Cauliflower Cous-cous Chicken Salad, Cheesy Chorizo, Chicken & Spinach and the Goan Fish Curry. Think I'll be cooking this afternoon!!

UPDATE:

You can see the steam it's that hot!! This is plateful of Cheesy Chorizo, Chicken & Spinach. It was beautiful. I did part spinach, part kale and I didn't add any nits. Other than that, the recipe was the same. Another one that I'll happily make again!

I just need to learn to 'prep like a pro' and I'll be all sorted!!!

I hope you all enjoyed reading this post. Follow me on Instagram @emsky1329 for more food pics and ideas. 

Bye Guys xxx

***Happy New Year 2016***

Hi Everyone. Hope you've all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. 

I've not written a blog for a while, due to being so busy over the last few weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to normal now and continue doing blog posts. 

I'm writing this on the 2nd January. Already I've had a good start to my New Year. I've actually made some resolutions this year and I hope I can stick to them. It's not often I even bother making them. 

1.       Keep going to the gym.

2.       As little alcohol as possible. (I'm doing dry January - more about that later)

3.       Stop spending on rubbish and budget better to save more.

4.       Start writing my book and keep going with blog.

5.       Eat healthy.

6.       Keep a To Do List.

That's right, I've gone from doing no resolutions whatsoever, to 6!

I started going to DW gym in November and I've been enjoying it. Always feel much better after I've been but my motivation isn't very good. I've only ever been once on my own, so that needs to change.

I've always wanted to write a book so hopefully 2016 will be the year that finally gets started.

I definitely need to start keeping 'to do' lists. Especially for things around the house. 

On to Dry January - I've signed up to do the Cancer Research Dryathlon. With one major clause... I get to drink on the 23rd!!! It's our annual Pride Awards with work and I can't not drink there!!!! 

Anyway, Other than, I will be doing dry January. Because I'm doing it for Cancer Research, I need people to sponsor me. I've already admitted there will be one evening where I won't do it, but to make up for that, I'm going to continue it into February. 

If you'd like to sponsor me, just copy this link into your web browser... https://www.justgiving.com/Emma-Parkinson-dryathlete1329/

It is only the 2nd Jan, but so far I've been eating a lot better, drinking lots of water (hot & cold) and I've been to the Gym today and plan to go again tomorrow. 

Oh and by the way... this was how I celebrated my New Years Eve - A night in with my boyfriend and my cat. So guess what, no hangover yesterday :)

Hope you all have a fantastic 2016. Don't forget you can follow me on Instagram - emsky1329 and Facebook - Stardust Beauty Blogger

Ciao for now :) xxx