Enjoy food with Nic

💙My week in pictures💙

1. Lamb shank dinner

2. He is obsessed with greek yoghurt!

3. Home video from 1989, incredible to see my nan again 💕

4. Multitasking

5. Old school classic, fish in butter sauce

6. Loves chillin on the bath mat 🤔

7. Chapter 8 is taking FOREVER

8. Impromptu wine date night

9. Urgh

10. Me and my breakfast shadow

11. The healthiest and first takeaway I've had in 6 weeks! ( ate half and had the rest the day after)

12. Sick of the sight of that laptop atm 😂😂

13. Family pub trip

14. Silence, sunshine and wine = bliss

15. Mum's epic peri peri chicken salad 🥗

16. Stunning

17. Look at that view 😍

18. Twins 💙

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💙Recipe of the week💙

Absolutely obsessed with these chicken sausage pastas!

This one did not disappoint though i feel the need to confess.... i have spent years telling everyone I dont like red pesto. Turns out I love it!

This week i am having a break from these style dinners and I am already regretting it!

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I am not remotely mad about this... its been a weird week.

I started the week with great intentions and smashed my morning walks monday-wednesday. The sun was shining. The beer garden got me several times.... but i didnt go mad....but the pints made a comeback.

Thursday brought the rain 🌧 so,Thursday's walk was abandoned. And then i headed over to Wales for 48 hours.

The sun was shining, several beer gardens got me but again, I drank less than I previously would have. I got my steps in each day with seaside walks and ate really well. Chicken salad,scrambled egg for breakfasts, though of course i did indulge in a hot sugared doughnut because you just have to when you're st the seaside!

I weighed in a day late and this small gain means absolutely nothing. 👌

Next week is a super busy week... i am dreading it! So much work to do, lots of running around going on and I am tired just thinking about it. But. I'm going to do my best. Get my walks in daily and drink more water.

I have meal prepped today with whatever random bits I have in 😂

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💙My week in pictures💙

1. It'll soon be here girls 💕 and this week i collected my GG bag and winter pj's... I'm all set!

2. Ronnie chilling watching Alley Cats 🐈

3. Sunrise walks all week, what a way to start your day.

4. Chinese chicken and homemade egg fried rice. Gorgeous. But now i think about it, its been sooo long since I had a Chinese takeaway!

5. A day in town 🐝

6. One of my favourite spots in Manchester. tangerinemcr Perfect spot for drinks and loads of food vendors. This is the Tangerine Spritz and it was ridiculously good 🍹

7. My longest walk this week 👏

8. Obsessed 😍

9. Peri peri chicken.... this is why I only order from our butchers now.

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💙Recipe of the week💙

I can't explain how much I enjoyed this one. Its basically my favourite things in a healthy dinner 😊

Blending cottage cheese with pesto was a great way to get some extra protein and the portion size meant I wasn't hungry.

Sometimes social media will tell you pasta is bad and almost 500 calories on your dinner is too much.

Don't fall for it.

You need proper food and adult sized portions.

This prep was so good I'm going to make a variation this week!

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Week 5 and what a busy week. I feel like i say that all the time. But yeah, basically my life (and the world it seems) is on fire 🔥

This week I've had some longer walks/more steps, mostly by accident. But I got into a podcast series and off I went. (If anyone cares it's "Eras" on BBC Sounds... this week i have blitzed the Phil Collins, Queen and Abba series).

Work has been busy but I've made some great progress 💪 I spent Wednesday networking, presenting my research and meeting the Greater Manchester Good Landlord Charter team. I have also started drafting the 8th chapter of my thesis 🙌

Food wise I've made some good decisions this week. My meal prep has worked well, apart from breakfasts but I think I just missed the convenience of breakfast bagels.

The heat has absolutely done me in though! Barely any sleep but I'm proud because I have stuck to it. Consistency is paying off and those morning walks have become second nature 😊

Today is my planned rest day, so its butchers pick up, then off for a burger and a few drinks. Tomorrow is meal prep day ready for another great week!

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💙My week in pictures💙

1. Homemade cottage pie packed with veg

2. I absolutely LOVE hosting a little spread, and the raspberry, lemon and mint mocktail was gorgeous! 🍹

3. The sun reappeared so cider in the beer garden was necessary

4. Then my hormones told me to inhale a pack of chocolate biscuits, so i settled for a hot chocolate in my pj's.

5. Hot & spicy chicken, Mexican rice, halloumi, broccoli and corn on the cob. Elite 👏

6. My little poser 😍🐾

7. On nan's birthday I always watch The Wizard of Oz and have a treat 💕

8. Not bad at all 🏆

9. Never visited this local lake before and it was beaut
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10. Again, making better choices in the beer garden

11. 😂

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💙Recipes of the week💙

💪It's all in the prep!💪

This week i roasted a chicken and made this BBQ chicken pasta salad for dinners.

Also grabbed some protein thin bagels from Lidl and made bacon, egg and cheese bagels. Once cooked I assembled and wrapped them in foil. Each morning after my walk, I would grab straight from the fridge and pop into the airfryer (in the foil) for approx 14 mins on air fry while I had a shower.

So 2 meals for each day, ready to grab and enjoy!

I have just prepped next weeks dinners and cant wait!

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🌟This is the first 4 weeks I have been consistent in a long time! 🌟

This week the scales showed a 1.8lb gain (following horrific totm 🤦‍♀️). Now, this could've really derailed me. In 4 weeks this is my second gain... but let's take a step back and look again.

In 29 days, I have lost 6lb.

My goal was 1lb a week, so I am smashing it.

In 29 days, I have completed 23 walks. All ranging from 45-120 minutes. I have walked when hungover, in the rain, after falling over my own feet and smashing my knee and when I was so exhausted I didn't want to move.

In 29 days I have increased my average steps count from 4686 a day to 9748.

In 29 days I have planned and prepped my food. I gave tracked calories (even on the few days I have been over my goal).

In 29 days I have still enjoyed a few drinks, had some great laughs with friends and even ordered a drunken pizza.

In 29 days, I have created and stuck to a routine that suits me, my lifestyle and my jobs.

So is that 1.8lb gain this week a fail? Absolutely not.

The wider view is the scales are going down, my beer gut is looking smaller, I'm making better decisions, I'm sleeping better and I am actually enjoying it.

I'd call that a win 🏆

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💙My week in pictures💙

1. Meal prepped breakfasts

2. Tidy house, how long will it last 😂

3. A very accurate depiction of me!

4. In my happy place 😊

5. Next weeks meal prep is already planned!

6. Look at him 🐾💕

7. Sunshine steps 🚶‍♀️

8. Love a little roast

9. Peri peri chicken for the win!

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