Days 17 of our 12 habits in 21 days mission

We can’t believe that our 12 habits in 21 days mission is almost over. Today is the last day and we'll try to keep it together, since we've been a little off the wagon the last few days. And it all started so good on day 17 with this green smoothie.True it did not smell like something you’d like to drink (thank you savoy cabbage!), but it’s highly alkaline because of the lemon, apple, cabbage and spinach and is good for a little detoxification, if you want one. We had 3 of it throughout the morning and came to lunch without a solid breakfast.

Lunch was this satisfying wrap with chickpea, roasted vegetables and some of our avocado dip. We forgot to mention – we used the avocado dip also as a beauty mask on our face one time for 10 minutes. It felt so refreshing and after washing it away our skin was a lot softer and felt hydrated without any cream on it. But because we're a little stingy when it comes to this dip, we did not put a lot of it on our face, just a small tea spoon. Stela doesn’t share food!!! Even if it’s with her face.

By the way we broke the no seconds rule and had a second wrap at lunch. And we would without a shadow of a doubt do it again, but this wrap is long gone.

After lunch as always we wanted something sweet, but no oat cake was on the horizon, so we made an oat-carrot cake and topped it with almond cream, that we made myself. It was just right – not too sweet, but sweet enough.

After all that sweetness we went to the gym for a 30 minutes HIIT workout and an 1 hour pilates class. Funny how we've always found pilates kinda boring – they make you breath like Darth Vader, you’re not allowed to make fun of that, and on top you are supposed to be as slow as a slug. But we can tell you as soon as we got over the whole breath in breath out thing we found out these exercises are no joke and are quite effective.

And yes, the leftover sushi was our dinner after the exhausting workout. We ate it exactly until 8 pm, so practically we did not break the no-eating-after-8-rule, but it was quite racy. Challenge: Stuff 8 sushis in your face in 3 minutes. And we won that challenge.

So yeah, that was day 17 – it is for us quite a solid day – food-and-exercise-wise. And all the next days were quite a disappointment, but hey, everyone needs to live a little.