Morning friends!

Today I have another fantastic guest blogger to share her beautiful words of wisdom with you all! Sam has been an incredible support in my recovery and she’s always filled with lots of positive energy and truths. I couldn’t be more thankful she’s here today to share some of her wonderful advice with all of you. Take it away Sam!

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Hello Lisa Lately-ers! If you don’t know me, my name is Sam, and I blog about food, fitness and having a balanced lifestyle over at betterwithsprinkles.com. I adore Lisa and her blog, so I’m incredibly honoured and excited that she asked me to fill in for her today. We Canadian lady bloggers have to stick together, right?

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Happy Wednesday! I hope your week has been great so far!

While I’m still recovering, I thankfully have another amazing guest poster for you all to enjoy! Danielle is a great person, whom I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting last year at the Healthy Living Summit. Not only is she awesome, but the recipes she creates for her blog are amazing as well. You’ll definitely be excited over her paleo chocolate cupcake recipe she’s posting today! 

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Hi Lisa Lately readers! Thanks so much to Lisa for letting me guest post today! A little background on me: I am a nutrition and health coach living in Boston who helps women learn to feel amazing about their bodies and boost their self esteem. I blog over at DaniellePrestejohn.com.

After posting my chocolate cookie recipe a while back I got a request for Paleo chocolate cupcakes. Ask and you will receive. I got experimenting in the kitchen and came up with these. The chocolate coconut combination is one of my favorites so I was pretty excited when these came together. The frosting got the sister stamp of approval (which isn’t easy when something is Paleo) and the cupcakes were approved my non-paleo dad! I call that a win.

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Morning all!

Today I have another lovely guest post from a great friend of mine, Heather. We’ve actually had the pleasure of meeting before, and she’s just as amazing and beautiful in person, as she is on her blog.

I couldn’t think of a better person to help get that positive energy flowing through your day and help spread an important message to all of us! With that, here’s Heather with a fantastic post!

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How do you define love?

To me, love is unconditional acceptance of what is.

Do you love yourself? Do you unconditionally accept yourself? Get honest.

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Happy Monday friends!

I’m still recovering at the moment, but thankfully I have an amazing friend who will be filling in for me today. If you don’t already know Amanda, you’ll be certainly glad to find her blog. She’s not only a great friend of mine, she’s also an inspiration, a great supporter, and an awesome person in every way. We both are major beauty junkies, coffee addicts, and share so many common interests, which I think is pretty neat.

Anyways, I’ll let Amanda take it away now!

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Why hello, hello there!

My name is Amanda and I blog over at a little place on the web called Running With Spoons. I’ll be taking over for Lisa today while she recovers from her surgery, so I hope you guys don’t mind listening to me ramble on for a while.

When Lisa first asked me if I’d be interested in writing up a guest post for her, I was more than thrilled – not only because I love the girl, but because she and I have so much in common. We’re both Canadian (pretty neat, eh?). We both love living a healthy lifestyle. We both love coffee. And we both have an obsession with all things beauty related.

If I’m being honest, I have to admit that my love for makeup probably outweighs my love for food and fitness. I see it as a great outlet for creativity, and I can’t deny that spending a little bit of extra time pampering myself always lifts me up if I’m feeling funky. That being said, life gets busy, and as much as I like to play around with color and wear dramatic looks, sometimes there’s just no time. Let’s be real – no one’s thinking about creating a gorgeous cat eye effect when they’ve slept in past their alarm and have 15 minutes to get their butts out the door. But at the same time, no one likes to look tired and drab either, so I thought I’d share my basic go-to makeup routine with you guys because it only takes all of 5 minutes and makes you feel just a little more glamourous.

First up, skin, and more specifically, the skin around your eyes. Tired eyes make you look extra tired, so brightening up the area around your eyes works wonders in making you look more vibrant and awake. If you suffer from dark circles, use a salmon colored concealer to neutralize the darkness before following it up with a brightening concealer. For this, I love Bobbi Brown’s corrector in Bisque, and Maybelline’s Dream Lumi concealer in Radiant.

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Happy Friday friends! Since I’m currently away, I have a few amazing guest posters for you over the next few days, first up we have the amazing ladies of purely twins with an amazing cookie recipe!

These two amazing girls have been a great inspiration, not just to me, but many others as well. They’re both so kind and beautiful inside and out, and I’m happy to have Lori and Michelle guest post for me today! I know you’ll enjoy them both as much as I do.

Let’s get right to it!

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We are Lori and Michelle and we blog over at purelytwins. We are honored to be writing a guest posts for Lisa.

A little bit about us… we love to create fun and quick recipes. It is a passion of ours really. We can make any excuse to get in the kitchen to play around with ingredients. We also watch our sugar intake due to skin issues. But we also have big sweet teeth so making fun and low-sugar desserts is something we like to do.

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Morning lovely people! This will be my last post for a while, but don’t fret, I’ve hooked you up with some amazing guest posts coming from some of my favorite bloggers so stay tuned!

There’s been this Blog Everyday in May challenge going around lately, and I decided to join in on one day of the fun…it actually looks pretty neat, so maybe I’ll do it another time, since I clearly don’t like following rules of challenges.

What would you say if you had to sell yourself in 10 words or less? For someone who likes to blab and type a lot…this was actually harder than I thought.

Describe yourself in 10 words or less…

Kind

Starbucks-addict.

Loyal.

Beauty-junkie.

Sarcastic.

Foodie.

Sympathetic.

Sweet-fanatic.

Sensitive.

Big Heart.

This makes me sound like a super awesome. I guess that’s the point of selling yourself though, yes;)

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Apparently, when I’m stressed out I like to get creative with my food. Maybe because it distracts me from my mind and anxiety. Yes, that’s probably it. I’ve been experimenting more in the kitchen, which means more recipes for you!

I had some pumpkin leftover from yesterday’s Breakfast, and decided I better put it to use before it goes to waste. Enter pumpkin balls. Sounds super appetizing, right? Well, they were in fact.

Pumpkin Protein Energy Bites (makes about 8-10 balls)

• 1 tablespoon coconut oil*
• 1/4 cup almond butter (or nut butter of choice)
• 1/4 cup oat flour (grind oats into flour)
• 1/4 cup protein powder
• 1 tablespoon hemp seeds (ground)
• 1/3 cup pumpkin
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch of sea salt
• dash of stevia

First grind the oats and hemp seeds together (if the oats aren’t already in flour form)
*Melt the coconut oil slightly by heating it lightly in the microwave.
Mix the above ingredients in a bowl (dry and then wet) until combined fairly well.
At this point, add desired sweetener and spices to this mixture.
Combine once again, until a doughy consistency is reached. At this point, you’ll want to get in with your hands to make the dough come together.
Form into balls, store in the fridge or freezer, and they’re perfect to grab on the go!

Holy moly these are good. Especially when placed in the freezer for a few hours so they’re the perfect texture.

I’ll also be living on these the next few days….

Smoothies galore. This particular smoothie contained frozen banana, spinach, avocado, chia seeds, sun warrior protein powder, and almond milk.

What ten words would you use to describe yourself?

What are your favorite soup, smoothie, or blended recipes? I’ll be in dire need of some goodies to keep my energy up the next couple of days!

Have you tried any of the energy bites or ball recipes? (using balls so much in a post is awkward) What’s your favorite combo?

Hope you all have a lovely week! I’ll try to update as soon as possible.

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Hellooo to all the friendly faces out there! Put on a smile, since we’re already half way through the week. There’s a ton I have to get done today, so let’s get straight to the What I Ate Wednesday party.

Since things have been more on the go this week, simple meals have been the name of the game. Although, that’s usually my style anyways. I just don’t have the patience to wait long for meals…unless I’m baking!

By now, we probably don’t even need to guess what’s for Breakfast these days.

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Hi friends! I hope your week is off to a fantastic start so far. Mine sure is, but it’s remained pretty busy.

Firstly, thank you all for all the sweet comments in yesterdays post. My Mom is very pleased with all the nice things you said;)

You guys know by now that when I like something, I really like it. With some new shopping trips and new experiments; I have some fun new obsessions to share. Others not so new, but I still cherish them.

Since things have been a little nutty over here, I felt it would be appropriate to share some things I’m loving lately.

1. Vegan Coconut Banana Oatmeal.

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Long time no talk! Well, three days but it feels longer.

There was no chance to post on Friday, since I was practicing my pilates class like crazy and also had teacher training that day…and all weekend, so I unfortunately didn’t have the chance to update at all. No biggie. How was everyone’s weekend? Hopefully, it was a marvelous one.

My weekend was pretty darn good over here, busy, but it was still great! Let’s get to the good stuff and take a peek at some happenings lately…

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Morning all! How’s the week treating you so far? I’m hoping well.

One of my major passions in life is food. Particularly, healthy foods. I really believe in an all around healthy lifestyle. This includes a relatively health and nutrient filled diet. For me, spending my time on cooking, planning, and shopping for those “clean” foods and recipes is pretty normal in my life.

As you may guess, I actually love going to the grocery store, wandering aimlessly down the aisles looking for new foods to try, or over-hyped items to try out for myself.

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Morning friends!

My morning tea couldn’t come soon enough this morning, as I had a rather sleepless night. Somehow, I even managed to sleep in until about 6:15, but otherwise I was tossing and turning most of the night.

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Most of the time I’d like to think I’m a pretty good person. However, I have this little quirk where I tend to blow ideas way out of proportion. No matter how little the situation or event is, I have this really unique talent where I imagine the worst case scenario. Actually, maybe beyond the worst case and it’s not something I’m too proud of.

While blowing things out of proportion isn’t something I wish to have in my life, I can sometimes appreciate this quirk as it’s a reminder that I have room for improvement. There’s always stuff I need to work on, and that will make me learn and grow during the process. And I know I can keep doing things to challenge this way of thinking. There’s also cases where this type of thinking holds me back in life, since I tend to way over-think life situations.

Once I express these thoughts, they can turn around in an instant. My fears ultimately sound completely unimaginable once I get them off my chest, and hear feedback from others. These experiences leave me feeling humbled ,and I always gain a learning experience on changing my perspective. We all deal with ebbs and flows, but we only have control over what’s happening the the moment. These are a few things that have allowed me to relax the past few days…

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