NOURISH: CREAMY CHOCOLATE, COCONUT + AVO BOWL

This is a favourite of mine for a few reasons:

~ The simplicity of it. 5 ingredients. Perhaps 1 or 2 additions. But essentially, 5 ingredients and you're good to go.

~ The 'mouth feel'. I use this term when there is an epic combination of flavour, texture and temperature for me... and a thick, creamy, cold bowl like this is spot on (it's still freaking hot in the tropics at the moment)!

~ And... I could say thirdly that it's full of amazing healthy fats and ingredients our body will love and use as fuel (which it is)... but really... food is way more about making us (and our taste buds) feeel good, over the nutritional content am I right? ;)

So let's cut straight to it then.

NOURISH :: ALMOND + BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

If you're like me and have a super duper hectic week filled with amazing things that all come with deadlines, then meal prep is going to be your best friend. Yesterday I brewed a big pot of bone broth, a slow cooked beef tritip stew, cut up veggies ready to go, and I was going to make these as well, but being back in Cairns after 2 months on the road (where everywhere else on the coast seemed to go in and out of rain and cooler temps) it's freaking HOT! So I'm keeping baking to a minimum in the heat.

So these babies were instead whipped up at 6am this morning, and baked whilst I walked down to see the sunrise, and back up in time to pull these out. Then I did my morning workout and sweated an insane amount, and one of these teamed with a smoothie was my breakfast.

OUR EPIC SUMMER ROAD TRIP (SO FAR)

It was only a few months ago that I felt strong urges to start putting some of our stuff away into boxes. But my logic mind was going bonkas - I mean, why put things into boxes when you're still living in your home? In your house? With no plans to go anywhere?

But I couldn't stop it completely, and so I began putting things into boxes. And to cut the story short, it was not long after that I said to B "baby let's go away for 2 or 3 months over Xmas" - when we have previously left Cairns for only 3-4 weeks. It just felt right. I wanted to get out. Get away. For longer than usual. And that meant having someone look after our place. And so, having some of our stuff packed away for said house-sitters, would be fab! 

Fast forward to now and we've been on the road since December 7th and won't be back in Cairns til the first week of Feb (ish).

GRATITUDE LOVE LIST 2015

We all love a good REFLECTION don't we? 

For some reason it's felt a little tricker than usual for me to do this week ~ I've put off my written "wrap up" of 2015 and my intentions for 2016... and have been left feeling a little off. Unbalanced. Anxious. It's happened this way for no particular reason really, except that I haven't felt the right time to sit down, go within, and look at it all, and as the Type A Christie likes to have mentally wrapped up one year before moving into the next, it's felt challenging internally.
Alas... here I am typing a few things down and I suppose I can add these to my written book when I get the chance to be with myself; in a park under a tree, at a cafe with an organic coffee, or in a tiny nook of someone's house with cushions and candles.

For now... here we go. My 2015  G R A T I T U D E.  L I S T.

HEALTH HACKS FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH AT CHRISTMAS

If you hadn't noticed (or perhaps you like to bury your head down a bit this time of year), Christmas is literally around the corner. With that comes many mixed emotions and they are different for everybody.

I love Christmas time. I love present shopping. I love planning and prepping (and eating of course) all the meals, treats, and food we have this time of year. I love decorating the (real) tree. I love laughing til my abs, my cheeks, and my brain hurts with my sisters at mums place. I love the travel to get to mums. I love making rum balls. I love beach swims. I love lazy snoozy afternoons.

However... I'd be lying if I said I didn't get stressed at some point by everything going on.

XMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE :: THE EBOOK

A few of you would have already seen this (perks of being part of the newsletter tribe) but I am yet to birth it into the online space here.

NEXT LEVEL NUTRITION XMAS GIVEAWAY

Did you see this on Instagram?!? I am sooooo excited for this ~ in fact I would be all over this if it were someone else's competition.

I am running this from December 1st to December 15th, but only on Instagram. You need to jump on over to @christiefischernutrition and like this photo, share this photo, tagging myself and #NextLevelNutritionXmas telling me why you need this loot of goodies in your life! It's that easy!

NOURISH :: CHOC MUD TRUFFLES FROM DR LIBBY

WELL IT'S OFFICIALLY DECEMBER! Can you believe it! It was a training this morning we were chatting about it... and how quickly the year seems to fly by. But as a kid, it seemed to take  f o r e v e r  except when it was the school holidays, which also flew by.

Are we not as present to our daily life when it seems to fly past us? Or it simply a case of "Time flies when you're having FUN"? I'm not going to dwell on it too much - I like to jam as much FUN stuff into my days (read: into my life) as I can so I'm always doing what I love, whether time stands still or moves at the speed of light!

I digress.... CHOCOLATE MUD TRUFFLE BALLS!