Good Morning! Hopefully your Monday is going well so far.
I’m hoping everyone had a great weekend full of good times.
Sometimes, the simplest weekends are the best.
Mine was spent mostly moving the rest of my stuff, baking, and relaxing.
There are lots of things coming up this month, so I thought I would take it easy.
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Haha, oh auto correct, how I love you so.
I also got to enjoy some beautiful weather this weekend.
If the weather stayed like this all year round, I’d be a happy lady.
It was so nice in fact, I got to wear one of my newer purchases for the summer.
I could live in dresses, they are my favourite go to option to wear during the day.
When the weather permits it, that is.
It has been pointed out to me that I have a lovely tint of orange happening, especially on the bottoms of my hands and feet.
Lovely. Hey, the way I see it, I don’t need to tan?
Taking a cue from this girl, no tanning beds, just eat more orange food.
So how do I go about receiving this tidbit, why of course I made a recipe that involved more pumpkin.
I don’t know what it is, but I can’t get enough orange food. I just can’t stop eating pumpkin, squash, or carrots.
Do they have some sort of addictive quality about them? Probably.
So what better way to enjoy the beautiful weather, then turning on the oven and baking up a storm 
I will not stop baking things, even when it is super nice out. I just love roasting my veggies and baking too much for that.
I started out with trying a snack version of scones, though they aren’t as big and flakey as normal scones, that are filled with butter and sugar.
These are a healthy alternative snack attack version.
Snack Style Coconut Scones inspired by Felicia’s Pumpkin Protein Bars
- 3/4 cup coconut flour (sifted)
- 1/4 cup protein powder (I used sun warrior, vanilla)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon stevia, cinnamon, and baking powder (adjust stevia based on sweetness preference)
- 1 banana, mashed
- 1/2 cup pumpkin
- 1/2 cup egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon coconut butter, melted (you could just use oil instead)
- 1/4-1/2 cup almond milk (if needed)
These are a great choice for snacks. They have no added sugar (besides stevia), are grain free, and gluten-free. Coconut is my love as of late. I can not get enough. I have many more recipes in mind that I need to get trying to this week sometime. We’ll see how that goes.
Enjoy the rest of your Monday!
What is your favourite coconut product? Or are you a weirdo who doesn’t like it?
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Love your dress ! I have been loving pumpkin lately too. Yum!
It’s so good. Usually I crave it more during the fall, but nope it’s an out of season craving I guess
That dress looks so beautiful on you, Lisa. I too am enjoying the warmer weather! Dresses rock.
Thank you! I’m so happy summer weather has finally arrived!
LOL! Case of the manboobs.
Those scones sound tasty
Haha. I burst out laughing when I first read it.
Hahaha manboobs! Thanks for the laugh
Your dress is adorable lady! Where’d you get it!?
Thank you! I got it from a place called Aritzia, I don’t know if they have it in the States though? Hmm
holler to my fellow oompa loompa carrot fiend
ps i think id rather have a case of the manboobs than the mondays
Haha
Loveeee that dress and Lisa you are lookin quite fabulous my friend
Great recipe too, as usual!
Thanks love!xo
Love your dress!! You look gorgeous! I just had a coconut cream pie larabar yesterday and it was amazing
Thank you! Oooh, I haven’t tried that flavour yet, surprisingly! Sounds so good though
You look gorgeous in purple. That is a great dress and color on you!!
Why thank you!
gorgeous woman you are! and even more gorgeous GF scones! yes!
Thank you Lindsay!xo
Hi Lisa. I stumbled upon your blog a few weeks ago and I feel like I can relate to a lot of the struggles you are facing right now. I’m currently in an outpatient program to treat my anorexia, but if I don’t start making progress soon I’ll be going to an inpatient facility. Anyways, I don’t normally comment on blogs, but I just wanted to address something that is a bit concerning to me. Like you, winter squash is also one of my “safe” foods. Although I do enjoy the taste, I mostly eat squash because it’s high in fiber, mostly water, and fills me up for little calories. Up until a week ago squash (pumpkin, acorn, kabocha) was one of the only things I was eating. My hands and feet were orange like yours and I also played it off like it was cute and funny. Well my doctor ran some blood tests and my vitamin A levels were so high that it had become toxic in my body. Now, it can’t kill you, but it can make you feel very sick. A few of the symptoms are bone pain, muscle weakness, headaches, dry skin, stomach pain, weight loss and extreme fatigue. I don’t know how much you’re consuming, but I do remember reading that you were experiencing some of those symptoms. I’m not saying that this is why you’re feeling sick, but I just wanted to bring this to your attention.
I wish you the best of luck and will continue to follow you on your journey towards recovery.
Hi Arielle! Thank you for the comment. I hope your outpatient program will end up working, so that you don’t have to go into inpatient, but understand that is not the way everyone can recover successfully.
Wow, that is crazy your levels ended up being toxic to your body. I actually have run some tests for Vitamin A levels, I go once a month to get blood work done. My doctor is very on top of that, which is good. So fortunately, this is not an issue with me. But I had no idea that too much could be toxic, so maybe I should be more careful with the amounts I am eating. I am going to make sure to mention this to my doctor when I see her this week, and make sure we are testing for that monthly, just in case. Can’t be too careful, right? Thank you for the well wishes. And I hope you will recover successfully and warm wishes to you!
Yum, I’ve got to make these!!
Is your dress from Aritzia? I think I tried it on in white the other day!!
Yep, sure is!!
I buy so many of my clothes form there haha