Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide - Starting again

The last time I posted about my workout regime was in November last year when I started the Kayla Itsines BBG healthy eating plan and 12 week workout sessions. I think I got up to week 4 before I lost my motivation because of illness and Christmas. My friend Marianne and I started BBG again on the 5th of January with thousands of other girls and joined #thekaylamovement and #kaylasarmy to share our journey along this painful but exciting path. 

You can read my first post about the BBG programme here as I am explaining a bit more on how I 'found' Kayla and how the training works. 

I have done BBG for 5 weeks now (the first 2 weeks we did pre-training) and I'm feeling quite positive. I've not seen much progress myself - I still have my weak areas like tummy, bum and thighs. I do feel much stronger though! I'm doing all of the workouts properly, I have strength in my legs and arms - it is quite easy to do 10 push ups and continue with triceps and mountain climbers. I am very enthusiastic about the next 7 weeks and can hopefully post a progress photo soon!

A couple of weeks ago I bought some sportwear gear - I think when you buy new clothes for training it makes you more inspired and gives you the motivation you might have been lacking. 

With Kayla's healthy eating plan I am enjoying food so much more than before. I cook and prepare my meals, bake my own cookies and eat guilt free. I still make sure my portions are not too big, I count my minimum serves and keep an eye on my food groups daily. 

I made a couple of collages of what I am usually eating at breakfast, lunch, dinner and my favourite part - desserts. In these pictures you see me eating avocado almost everywhere. It is my new thing! I tried avocado a long time ago but I never liked the taste very much. When I was on my holiday in Australia I started to like it a bit more, they serve avocado with almost everything! I usually mash it with a fork, mix it with natural yogurt to get a creamy texture and spread it on my bread or add it to my pasta for extra flavour.

For breakfast I usually have rye/soda bread with a topping - tuna and egg or avocado and egg salad. I also love to add something fresh - lettuce, apple, grapefruit or anything juicy and rich in vitamins.
 

 

I like to vary my dinners and I try not to eat the same thing two days in a row. I love sweet potato, wholemeal pasta, rice or vegetable/meat muffins and soups for dinner. They are very filling but light and easy meals for the evenings. I am putting a lot of effort into my cooking - I make my own meatballs and prepare different vegetable mixes. My favourites at the moment are muffins. I use sweet potato, zucchini, onion, chickpeas (different veg ingredients) and sometimes add some mince meat (turkey, chicken, lean lamb). Green tea is almost essential every evening!

 

For snacking/desserts I love to have different fruits and at least once a week I bake cookies or make pancakes. I usually make almond meal cookies or oat cookies and they last me days! For pancakes I use a half a cup of buckwheat flour and half a cup of plain flour, a cup of rice milk, 1/3 cup of brown sugar (optional, I like my pancakes sweet) and 2 eggs - super easy and yummy!

Once a month I am shopping at Unicorn Grocery where I stock up my dry ingredient shelf - these big bags of oats, oatmeal and coconut flour last me months. Rice milk is a good replacement for regular milk and sugar when you are making pancakes. Hazelnut butter is amazing when baking cakes or cookies. Couscous and corn pasta are delicious with meat and/or vegetables and they make a nice light lunch or dinner. I am experiencing many different things at the moment, so many new flavours and I really like it! 

What is your favourite foods and what do you like to eat for your breakfast, lunch or dinner? Let me know in the comments!