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#HEALTH: Some of annie’s beauty… healthy meals and snacks…

04 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by Mami și Zâna in beauty, health, lifestyle

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food, healthy, ingredients, natural, natural ingredients, natural products, personal experience, recipes, tricks and tips

DISCLAIMER: I am not a nutritionist or a health expert in any way. This is my personal experience and what I’ve learned from it!

I’ve always been a little nervous to add anything related to my fitness routine or my diet to my blog, but here I am braving myself and doing just that!

With my food, I always try to keep a certain balance! I got used to a healthy eating even before that was actually “a thing”! So this new “trend” that got everyone these past couple of years, for me was actually a life style long before.

I’m not saying that I was juicing or living on salads all the time, but I definitely still can hear my Mom’s voice in my inner ear telling me to eat all my veggies, not only my meat!

Due to the whole access to information we have nowadays, I can say that my meals have now a good variation of courses to choose from, keeping the same healthy and nutritious properties.

One more thing I need to throw in!… I’m small ( read tiny ), but very energetic and I really need nutritious food in my system periodically! Plus I go to the gym almost everyday(!?) – “not very good to your body!” some may say. I don’t care! It’s my body that allows me to do that and I sure listen to its signals! Plus being active helps me with my other issues, like insomnia.


 I would love to write a separate post where to share my gym programme, and all the exercises I do to “spend” my energy! Would you like to read about that?


So here you have some of those healthy meals I love! But first…

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Aliments you’ll always find on my table:

– meat ( chicken, beef ), fish ( salmon, tuna, cod, etc. ) and lots of eggs ( main supplier: my own Granny )

– milk: natural whole fat milk, fat Greek yogurt and vegetal milk: almond and coconut milk, plus cheese: cottage cheese, mozzarella, feta, etc.


  I know, right!? Outrageous!!! I loooove milk… From the good old cows! The same one our parents and grand parents grew up with! Those who think it’s not a necessity for the body, will crucify me for sure! Well, I love it! And I don’t have any allergic reaction to it! I’ve heard lots of snobs saying that “we’re the only species that drinks milk from other species!”. So what?! It’s what we’ve done for ages now! It’s the world we live in! And why not make the best of whatever nature has to offer!?


– vegetables: salads ( lettuce, ruccola/rocket, baby spinach ), broccoli, brussel sprouts, pees, pods, carrots, zucchini, mushrooms and potatoes ( sweet potatoes too ), cucumbers, spring onions and garlic

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– fruits: avocado, bananas, mangoes, apples, strawberries, oranges, limes and lemon and whatever seasonal fruits I find at the market… But I live on bananas, like a little monkey! Haha!

– dry fruits: apricots, grape, figs, dates, coconut

– seeds and nuts: sunflower, pumpkin, chia, flax seed, sesame, peanuts, walnuts, almonds all eaten raw!

– spices: olive oil, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, chili powder, basil, oregano and anything that makes your food taste good

– guilty pleasures: peanut butter… Crunchy!, and rye flour biscuits. YUUUM!!!

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MEALS

Breakfast options:

1. Yogurt with fruits, nuts and honey

2. Poached eggs on rice biscuit with avocado

3. Fruit smoothie

4. Banana pancakes with fruits

Snacking options:

Rye flour biscuits, banana + seeds and nuts

Lunch options:

1. Stir fry

2. Rice pasta with meat and veggies

3. Eggs with greenery + salad

4. Vegetables simply boiled in hot water with salt, chili flakes and soy/oyster sauce or cooked, steamed in the oven with a bit of olive oil and some spices

2nd Snacking:

mainly nuts and maybe one banana

Supper:

1. Salad: Caesar Salad, Caprese, whatever recipe you come up with…

2. Steak and veggies, either steamed or cooked in the oven with a bit of olive oil and some spices, or simply boiled in hot water with salt, chili flakes and soy/oyster sauce

3. Fish and veggies, either steamed or cooked in the oven with a bit of olive oil and some spices, or simply boiled in hot water with salt, chili flakes and soy/oyster sauce

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this post, a bit different than the usual makeup/beauty reviews! Should I continue with the whole HEALTH thing and make it a mini-series? I really need your opinion on this one…

Thanks for reading!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS, INTERESTING FACTS and some TRICKS:

  • I really don’t get it how some say that a smoothie in the morning can be so “satiable” and “fulfilling”, when I , if I don’t get to “chew” on something consistent so that my brain gets the idea that I’m actually eating , I turn berserker in less than 2 hours. Therefore a smoothie, although it’s an important part of my diet, will almost always accompany a main course from my Breakfast or Lunch, or it will be a Snack in between .
  • remember to eat your fruits/drink your juices or smoothies in the first part of the day to benefit 100% from their nutritious and energetic power! If you drink them at night, you might find yourself bloated, and without any will to sleep, which will cause a long night, therefore a zombie-like portrait when you look in the mirror the following morning!
  • for a better digestion, don’t drink water 30 minutes before and after your meals and by any mean, DON’T drink any water WHILE you’re eating!
  • the good, old, plain water is your best friend, so drink as much as you can!
  • eat in small portions, you can always come back for more
  • your body/mind will usually give you signals before you finish everything in your plate… THAT is when you HAVE to stop! Remember, you can eat/snack later!
  • try to eat your foods as freshly prepared as possible

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Summer of 2014 – Bronzed, glowing, healthy summer look… Tip #1 Powders: Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder Luminous Light and Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder Palette

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by Mami și Zâna in beauty, makeup

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bronze, dim light, glow, healthy, Hourglass, Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder Luminous Light, Hourglass Luminous Lighting Powder Palette, incandescent light, luminous light, radiant light, review, summer 2014, swatches

For me, this Summer it is going to be all about glowing, bronzed, healthy skin.

So, I decided to share with you what products and what tricks I use to achieve the amazing “Goddess” look. Bronzed, healthy glowing skin, vibrant colours on the eyes and lips, bronzing and contouring, self-tanning that is what my next posts will be about!

Let’s kick off this mini-series with Tip #1: Powders and the ones I am going to propose to you next are the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder, in shade Luminous Light and the gorgeous shades of the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder Palette.

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I’m sure all of you beauty addicts out there have heard and read tons of reviews on the beautiful Hourglass powders already, that is why I am not going to go in depth with analyzing these products. But I am still going to underline the essentials.

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The Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Luminous Light is described as a “champagne pearl”. On me it is a peach with white shimmers which doesn’t transfer on the skin but covers it in a “luminous” ( hence the name! ) veil. It really goes on mostly colorless on bronzed skin but since I am pale, on me it acts like a subtle bronzer, which is the main reason I bought it for.

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The Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette is, maybe, the most known and desired of their products. It really shook the beauty world mainly because it was a Limited Edition release. It was selling out like crazy! Good thing that by the end of last year Hourglass decided to make it permanent. That way I was able to move it from my Bucket List to the drawers of my collection.

The Palette contains 3 of the single powders shades, the particularity of it being that the shade in the middle Incandescent Light is a special shade created exclusively for this palette. The other two powders Dim Light and Radiant Light can be purchased separately.

Dim Light is more of a neutral peach beige type of colour, a pale, light beige with neutral to warm undertones and a very subtle satin shimmers. It matches perfectly my skin tone and I can use it all-over the face, light-handed though because of the shimmer particles.

Incandescent Light is the highlighting powder by excellence. A pearlescent, pale, light beige with neutral undertones and a soft ivory shimmer all in one product. It transfers amazing on my skin, creating a healthy awake look.

Radiant Light is described as a “golden beige powder”. It is the darkest of the shades, even darker than the Luminous Light ( see picture below! ). I use it to define my cheeks and on the places where the sun usually touches my face, which adds a subtle warmth to the look, that is very natural and flattering.

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All the powders are paraben, talc, fragrance, nano-particle and gluten free and recommended for all skin types, if gently and strategically used.

I got mine here and they still have them in stock! Also available at Sephora.com!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

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Beauty | Why Gluten May Be Your Skin’s Worst Enemy

15 Saturday Mar 2014

Posted by Mami și Zâna in beauty, health

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body, gluten, healthy, intolerance, simptoms, skin, skin care

picture-23 – this is a picture I took the liberty to copy from area414 blog post and paste it here

This is a post I found on area414‘s blog. It is about gluten intolerance. How does it feel when you have it, what you should do to try to limit its effects as much as you can… Bottom line to live a normal life and most of all to enjoy it!

This is for all of you gluten intolerant people out there!

Beauty | Why Gluten May Be Your Skin’s Worst Enemy.

Stay healthy!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

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