Where on Earth Have You Been Missy!?

Hey m'lovelies, it's been a while hasn't it? Though my absence has all been in good reason which I will explain to you all in the next couple of paragraphs!

So recently I've been having a bit of a midlife crisis, quite sad considering that I'm yet to even turn twenty but I digress. As you all know from the post I put up just before my disappearance I got really sick, although it was nothing overly serious it completely wiped me out. I wasn't blogging, I wasn't going to sixth form I was simply existing, eating my body weight in mini rolls, playing the Sims and generally feeling a bit sorry for myself. Do to the large amounts of time I had on my hands I ended up doing a lot of thinking, a lot of over-thinking, and spent the fortnight contemplating every life decision I've made so far.

As I'm sure many of you are experiencing or have experienced at some point there comes a time in your life where you have to grow up, where you have to start making these huge life decisions. What do I want to do with my life? Am I studying the right things? Am I wasting my time? How do I work a washing machine? All these questions, and the reality is the only person that can truly answer these questions is you (minus the washing machine one, parents can be rather useful there). After a lot of thinking (and a lot more packets of mini-rolls) I came to some important conclusions about where I am in my life and I'm happy to report that I am indeed still very set on going to university and studying in my chosen profession and with all my university applications finalized I'm going full speed ahead with that.

Something I'd been forgetting lately

With all this going on I also gave my blog some serious thought, when I started blogging it was a hobby to help me get away from the intensity of my studies. But as people actually started to follow me and I realised people were reading my ramblings I suddenly felt obliged to keep on top of things and to do more reviews as that's where my main traffic comes from. As much as I love writing reviews for you guys they do take up a lot of time and buying products also can add up to be quite expensive and I realised I couldn't do this every single post. With me being such an all or nothing person this led to me avoiding my blog all together which makes me sad because this was such a release for me. So I made the decision to come back and just do things my way, old Alexi Metal Pirate style. I can't wait to update you guys on all the great plans I have ahead of me and maybe even share a snippet or two of my new found enlightenment with you (I'm clearly now going to become a great philosopher).

To long didn't read? In short I'm back! I want to carry on blogging but I feel like i haven't found my niche yet, and you know what? That's okay! So until I do this blog may be a chaotic mix of me going on about my life, the odd review and tutorial or maybe even things that are completely out of the ordinary! All I can say is that I love each and every one of you and I hope you'll sick with me while I try and figure this thing called life out, and hey, even if I don't you can read the chronicles of Alexi trying and failing to get her life in order and if nothing else may just make you feel a little bit better about yourselves haha!

Love & TubTubs

Fitness Fridays: A day in the life of my diet

Hey m'lovelies, so when I said I was going to start FF I received an email from a lovely girl who wanted to see what I was eating day to day on my calorie restricted diet. Now i'm no nutritionist and my diet is far from good but it's a damnsite better then it was when I was eating takeouts every other day, probably still a bit carb heavy but I'm taking in so much less saturated fat and my body's really thanking me for it!

Now I took the pictures for this blog three weeks ago and have only just gotten around to writing it (oops!) but a little bit of background is that on this particular day I wasn't at home and was looking at potential universities so this is in a scenario where I was eating lunch out but it still gives you the general idea of what kind of things i'm eating during the day.

Breakfast was a pot of golden syrup poridge, poridge is so good for you, syrup maybe not so much but personally I can't stand the taste of porridge unless it's sweetened. I was up at 6am and in for a long day so this was great for slow realise energy and did tide me over until my late lunch.

Lunch was a M&S duck and hosin sauce wrap, now I like to think these are really good for you because of the protein and salad, however the reality of the situation is duck does have a far amount of fat in it and white tortilla wraps aren't exactly a shining example of health but everything in moderation! Besides, these are probably in the list of my top five favorite foods ever because they are utterly delicious!

Dinner was a king prawn stir fry with rice, sweetcorn, onion and broccoli. If you want to make this healthier I would definitely recommend using brown rice rather then white because it's so much better for you however this is what I had in my cupboards and this is what I made do with. Stir frys are my favorite thing to cook at the moment because they're so quick and filling and you can put pretty much anything you want in there. Dinner was followed by a bowl of light vanilla ice-cream, at only 40kcals a scoop I highly recommend this to any dieters with a sweet-tooth.

So that makes up the bulk of my diet for the day, throughout the day I try to drink as many fluids as I can, if you're not a huge water lover like me I highly recommend supermarket own flavored water, just make sure it's the ones with only a couple of calories because some brands can sure pack a lot of extra crap into something that's seemingly healthy! If I get peckish throughout the day I tend to snack on sugar free jellys however if I need something a bit more subtancial I find something light like an apple will tide me over until my next meal.

So hope you guys enjoyed the first post of this series, I'm really looking forward to it because I've just started up my health kick again and I can't wait to share with you what i'm learning. Until next time!

Love & TubTubs

Being Sick Sucks!

Hey m'lovlies, so as you may have noticed I fell off the face of the blogging world for just over a week, which is such a pain considering I'd finally gotten myself into a routine. But for the first time in my blogging career I actually have a decent reason for not being active, I'm really really ill. Boo!

So just to fill you guys in a bit without going into any graphic details I've been feeling a bit ill for a little but and assumed it was a winter bug that was going around and didn't think anything of it. Now I'm a pro at convincing myself I'm dying and Googling my symptoms so it would be that the one time something was genuinely wrong that I dismiss it *sigh*. So I went into A&E last Sunday and they drugged me up on painkillers before sending me home so unfortunately I'm still waiting about on my local healthcare service to have some more tests done.

So due to this blogging isn't the only thing that's taken a hit, I'm really far behind on sixth form work and had to miss out on hours at my job. So today I've just been playing catch up trying to get everything back in order before Monday when I have to return to sixth form and just get on with things. Blogging should return to normal next week though so don't think I've abandoned you lovely lot because I've really missed seeing your comments! Side note this post was a lot longer and went into a lot more detail, then my web browser crashed and I lost it all so this will have to do for now, sorry!

I hope you're all well and I'll see you next week!

Love & TubTubs

OOTD - Glam Rockesqe

Hey Guys! Just a quick OOTD for you, I tried to find a grungy background but alas down the back of my garden shed is the best I could do. This is just a slightly goth rocker outfit with a little glamor coming in from the heels. Enjoy!

• Top - Kill Star (On ASOS)
• Leggings - Oasis
• Studded Wedges - New Look
• Lipstick - Revlon Black Cherry

 Love & TubTubs

Fitness Friday's!

Hey guys! So today I'm going to finally talk about something that people have been asking me to do ever since I entered the wonderful world of blogging, that being my weight loss! So if you follow me on twitter you'll know that at the start of this year I made a new years resolution to start losing weight. Over the years I've been on so many diets but inevitably I've always ended up back at square one, this time i was adamant I wasn't going to let that happen.

So today will be the first of my new "Fitness Friday" series, now this doesn't mean that every single Friday I'm going to upload a fitness blog post as that just wouldn't work out with my schedule and I don't want to make promises I can't keep, not to mention that coming up with something new and different every week on a single subject could prove to be pretty tricky! So i'll be uploading posts for this series as the ideas come and i'll keep a log of them in the sidebar so they'll all be in one place for you!

Quick background on my weight loss so far, I started the process on January first 2013 and it's been a slow steady process with me taking months out here and there due to personal reasons etc, however making sure that I maintained my current weight during those months out. I hit my first weightloss goal back in July of losing 20lbs and this is when the after picture shown below was taken.

After & Before

My ultimate goal is to of lost 42lbs by the end of this process, now unlike most dieters I haven't put a strict time on this goal and another key thing about this is that my emphasis is now on becoming a healthier person rather then about my weight (This wasn't the case at the start but that's probably a whole blog post in itself). So over this series I want to share with you the things I've picked up that actually work and the habits that I've found that can actually be reasons as to why the weight isn't shifting.

So let me know in the comments any particular posts you want to see in this series and I hope this is useful to some of you out there.

Love & TubTubs