Patience

Alice's girlfriends

I love this clip! I think all of it is true about me ;)

Just do it

I am trying out a new diet right now and it is really getting to me.
Previous diet was just getting me eating right and a lot more and the results
have been amazing. The new thing I am trying out is called carbcycling meaning
you have high carb and super low carb days to get your body into burning a bit
more fat.

On high carb days everything is great and I feel strong and motivated
but the low carb days are a real challenge especially since those days
a morning run is added before breakfast.

But it is just for three weeks and I will tell you all about the results when
I am done with my trial. The cool thing is that we can do whatever we
want in our lives and the only thing that limits us is our minds. And my
mind is playing some real tricks on me right now but I have decided
that I will JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of love

And if lighting candles doesn't help

Try jazzing things up with this groove!
Yeah baby!

Lighting the first candle

Four Sundays before Christmas it is a Swedish
tradition to light the first of the four candles. The first
candle symbolizes the beginning of the Christmas celebration
period according to the church but no matter what you believe,
lighting a candle in these dark times just doesn't need a particular
reason. On each of the following Sundays another candle
is lit and on Christmas eve you should end up with four
glowing candles if you got it right ;)

I have started getting our flat into Christmas mood and have only
gotten one present left to buy (because I get SO excited and because
I HATE shopping with too many people around).

I hope you are having a nice and relaxing weekend!!!!

Lots of love

Lighting the first candle

Four Sundays before Christmas it is a Swedish
tradition to light the first of the four candles. The first
candle symbolizes the beginning of the Christmas celebration
period according to the church but no matter what you believe,
lighting a candle in these dark times just doesn't need a particular
reason.

I have started getting our flat into Christmas mood and have only
gotten one present left to buy (because I get SO excited and because
I HATE shopping with too many people around).

I hope you are having a nice and relaxing weekend!!!!

Lots of love

Kill them with kindness

My mum was the strongest advocate of "kill them with
kindness". She was super nice and hardly ever lost her
temper or behaved badly against anyone. Anyone but
herself. As much as I think it is good to be in control
of your feelings and not being a rage freak, I also think it
is good to let out some steam now and then.
(and by that I mean speaking your mind or getting rid of
the rage in for instance the gym and nothing else ;))

Lots of love

Kill them with kindness

My mum was the strongest advocate of "kill them with
kindness". She was super nice and hardly ever lost her
temper or behaved badly against anyone. Anyone but
herself. As much as I think it is good to be in control
of your feelings and not being a rage freak, I also think it
is good to let out some steam now and then.

Lots of love

Don't say there is a limit....

Watch this guy first........

Casual Friday

Happiness on a Friday morning is to put on my brand new
Acne Flex basement Jeans (same size I was wearing when I
was 20 years old!!!!!!!). And I had to wear them to work
so thank you for casual Fridays although I know I am bending
the rules a bit by wearing these.

Thursday evening was date night and we met up at Nike town
and I got a new lovely silver hyper warm sweater for running (also
HAD to wear it in the gym today) and a gorgeous wind runner.
Unfortunately the clumpsy sales clerk put some ink on it so I
will go back on Tuesday to return it for a new one (pics to follow).

Afterwards we were supposed to have dinner at newly opened
meatliquor for a burger but the queue was far too long so we headed
back to our hood and good old favourite Byron.
My new all time favorite next to the skinny burger is the Oreo cookie
milkshake with added malt. Love love loved it!

It if Friday and time to let the week go.
Breathe and relax.
Lots of love

I give thanks

Love is a state of being. Your love is not
outside. It is deep within you. You cannot lose it
and it cannot leave you.
Eckhard Tolle


Today i give thanks for all the lovely people
in my life! Who make me smile and shine every day!
Happy thanksgiving!

Lots of love!


Just love this song right now :)

Fredrik Paulún

Fredrik Paulún is one of the foremost low carb gurus in
Sweden. When I look for inspiration on something healthy
but yummie and NUTRITIOUS to cook I go to his
webb page. Unfortunately it is only in Swedish....

Yesterday I cooked a half vegetarian version of his Taco
Frittata. Unfortunately it is not possible to make a frittata
without eggs but I used quorn instead of meat.

So here it goes:

150-300 g ready made taco mince (below is yummie quorn)
5 cherry tomatoes chopped
1-2 peppers chopped
1 red onion chopped
3-4 eggs whisked with salt, pepper and chili if you like some heat
I also added a little bit of milk with the eggs

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees celsius.
Fry the veg and add the mince.
Put in a mold and pour the egg mix on top.
You can add a little bit on cheese on top.
Then put in the oven for about 15 minutes.
Nutritious heaven on a plate.

Lots of low carb love!!!!!!!!!

Reaction continued

No matter what happens you have the ability to chose
your reaction to it. Chose happiness and compassion.
That is happiness!

Rich vs Poor

It is being alive that makes you rich.
So easy to forget.
The Universe ;)

Lots of love

New supplement trial

Today a new shipment of supplements arrived and I am trying out:

ALPHA LIPOLIC ACID
ACETYL L-CARNITINE

Apparently they boost brain function and loads of other
goodies. The former could even help with depression or
alzheimers. The latter is a great fatty acid and antioxidant
and helps convert glucose into energy instead of the body
storing it as fat and increasing the risk of diabetes.

If you want to learn more klick on the links above or read
all about it by guru Charles Poliquin here.

Lots of smart healthy love

More supadupa lovely please

When it comes to this time of the year I always try to
reach some kind of closure. What have I learnt during the last
year, what do I want to improve in the next year and what was
supadupa lovely (and make sure I make room for lots of that).

This year I have learned lots, started a new job, moved, travelled
the world and broadened my horizons. I have made a big training
comeback and will not need surgery for my knees. I have made new
lovely friends and come to closure with some of the old.

I have also decided that from certain events I have had enough.
Out with the bad and in with the supadupa lovely.
(and please let me kick out this bad flu too)

Run

How I would love to run to this song...
Need to get rid of this bad bad flu sooooon!!!!!!!

Stockholm in my heart

Well on to Stockholm - sensitive readers please stop
reading. There are some serious pieces of meat to follow.

Stockholm where was I..... Friday evening I met up with
some of my favorite darlings. First coffee then amazing dinner
followed by drinks and good laughter. I am so privileged to have
you guys in my life.

Allmänna Galleriet is a buzzy vibrant place and the food (mostly
meat) is AMAZING. It feels like a butchers, meets your grans,
meets a hip bar. Love love loved it!!!!

The meat

The knife (!)

On Saturday morning after two hotel breakfasts - pre and post training -
I headed out to dear M and J to watch their gorgeous little gem get
christened.  I had such a lovely time and it is so nice to be with people
who just embrace you into their families. I feel deeply touched and warm and
fuzzy on the inside.

Cutiepie Leah

The dress :)

Every time I am in Stockholm I squeeze in at least two visits at Blueberry.

They have the most amazing smoothies, bars, snacks, teas and yummie

goodies you need to keep your energy levels high. Check out their

web page for inspiration and what to put in that blender. 

My favorites are Goji delicious, Beauty box and blueberry lifestyle. 

I am still exhausted so will crawl further down under the blankets
now and rest. Tonsillitis is tiring and manful on top of that.... Yeah you
can only imagine....

Lots of love

Dinings

I just came home from the most amazing weekend
in Stockholm. Unfortunately in my luggage, along with the
salty licorice I also had a bad bad flu and I am lying in the sofa
now in quite a state. I haven't been this sick for a long long while.
This is why I will only post a few photos of last Thursday's supa
dupa amazing meal I was treated to.

Dinings in Marylebone is one of the most AMAZING Japanese
restaurants I have ever been to - Tokyo included.

So in the lack of ability to write, yet think anything constructive
today I leave you with these little appetizers. More from Stockholm
to follow.

Lots of love

Edamame and lobster miso

Pork belly 

King crab tartar with sesame dressing

Wagyu beef with spice sauce and vegetables

Lobster sushi

Black sesame creme caramel and cherry sorbet

Little miss Bliss

I am touring Stockholm and feeling like little miss Bliss!
Lovely food, lovely friends, lovely weather and
my mind feels at esse!

Stockholm i do love you!!!

Drain and refill

When I feel drained of energy, sparkle and
Power I turn to my darlings in Stockholm.
Am having a fab time and recharging.

And Stockholm is delivering some serious
Love!!!!

Have a fab weekend guys <3

Action and reaction

Lately I have been thinking about action and reaction.
The ways by which we react are they always proportionate to
the actions we are reacting on? Do we always need to react?

In yoga, meditation and many sports you train your ability
to let things you don't necessarily need to pay attention to,
to pass by. You learn how to focus on what is important.

What a bout the noise? Let it go.
Who knows, you might even afford
to give it a smile or acknowledge it for what it is and let is pass.

Smile and breathe.
Lots of love

I miss her

19 years have passed since our dear, beloved, amazing
mum left us. I miss her...

I have so much to be grateful for
and I know she is here with me.
Today is a day devoted to you mum.

Lots of love

Surprise planning

Today I started my serious Christmas gift creating.
I love creating gifts myself or adding some kind
of personal touch. If I don't give an experience
that is.

I just hope that the ones I ordered today will turn
out just as good as I imagine they will be ;)

Love-hate London

This weekend flew past way too fast.

We should invent a clock to slow down the good parts.

Or we should get better at that carpe diem thing.

 

Friday I came home very late from work and spent the entire

night cooking and cleaning. Getting to bed when you are exhausted

is just the best feeling.

 

Saturday morning I had Garuda with ex model Luigi and three other

lovely people. As always the laughter and the vibe in the classes

are heart warming. Then I headed off to the shitty St Martins Lane hotel,

which is supposed to be a five star, ubercool design hotel but that

delivered shitty service (sorry for the s-word) and didn't deliver according

to plan. Meeting up with my sister and the two big kids (who really are two

young people more than kids) was so amazing and we spent the whole

day together just browsing around and catching up. In the evening

we had dinner at our place and the warmth of our apartment and

all the love still makes me smile.

 

Chicken korma, 3 different kinds of chutney, rice, veg and popadums

Sunday was not as pleasant. Both tube lines from my part of town

were down and due to parades there was no way of getting a

cab ride in to the city centre that would be under an hour or

a cab ride under 50 pounds....

 

London does easily stop when there is any sort of disruption.

I am so glad I can walk back and forth to work during the

Olympic Games because it will be mayhem. People not used

to the situation (like me a year ago) get mighty frustrated or don't

understand. But London is London and not Sweden or Germany.

And although it will never be my number one city I

have friends and people around me

who make me like it here. And that is worth more

than a perfect tube.

Lots of love

Bella Italia

Will now have to do without Silvio ;)

The flame

When the winds have blown too hard

When too many tears have been shed
Will the flame still burn
Will the flame still warm
When too many words have been said
Or too little has been outspoken
Will the flame still shine
Will the flame still comfort

When light has come after dark
and when new views can be sighted
Will the flame still attract
Or will it just burn

Remembrance day

If you have wondered why google.co.uk have a poppy
on their site today is because it is to remember
the soldiers who died in world war 1.
In London you see a lot of guys wearing a poppy
on their suits in remembrance.

Groing up in Sweden I think a lot of us have very
little ideas about the war and it is not honored in the
same way. So I am embracing this British tradition
and posting this beautiful poem about this day.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

111111

Happy 111111!!!!!!!!

Bring on the good stuff

We are moving up to the weeks before the Christmas holidays
and I do LOVE this period. It is really crazy with lots of get togethers,
trips, parties, visitors and training events but I feel like a kid on Christmas
eve. And they are all my little treats.

Alittle preview? Swedish lunch at work, my darling family is coming for
the weekend (wiiii), Funk the Buddha yoga with live DJ, dinner with
friends, old flatmate dinner, Stockholm and last but not least some
kick ass training. I want to be able to rock that ski slope when the time
comes and the improvement from not being able to squat less than five
months ago to doing hundreds makes me understand that our ability
to move is a GIFT and not a must. Enjoy your bodies and let them
out now and then.

I am deeply grateful for have been given the gift of movement.
And for the gift of life.

Lots of supadupahot love

Nothing that chocolate can't fix

For the last couple of days I have had these massive

chocolate cravings. I usually listen to my body on what it 

needs but the chocolate fantasizing is getting a bit absurd.

In my defense - I like the 85-99% cocoa ones so sure there is

sugar in there but the health benefits of a cocoa percentage

that is that high exceeds the sugar that is left in that dark piece

of heaven.

Interestingly enough I just read this study on women and chocolate.

Turns out that there is no sinner without the saint. 

And no me without a piece of chocolate in sight.

Lots of cocoa love

In my thoughts today

Inspired by the fab MOJO girls. 

What to read

Finishing a good book is always hard. It is like saying
goodbye to a very good friend without knowing when or
if you will see them again... I just finished this book about
Fredrik Sträng who was one of the first to climb each of
the seven highest mountains per continent during seven
months. Fascinating story about how one mans iron will
and passion for climbing takes him on this journey.

What are you reading? And please don't be shy - the comments
box is open for you :)

Lots of love

Bohemian Rhapsody

I don't think I have ever heard something so cute come
from an ukulele but this video and song just makes me smile.

Lots of love

I can feel your smile

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

Walt Whitman

Photos and dumplings

Yesterday was such a fab day. Had an amazing session
with James D'Silva in his Garuda studio and headed straight
down to South Kensington and National History Museum to
see Wildlife Photographer of the year. An amazing photo exhibition
showing us how beautiful and creative nature is. All the impressions
made us so hungry we headed off to Gessler at Daquise for
amazing polish food - dumplings, beetroot soup and a warming
honey vodka shot.

In the evening I was invited to dear friend S
who had cooked lovely salmon in Prosciutto for me and with full
tummies we ventured into the darkness of the cinema to watch Ides
of March with George Clooney and Ryan Gosling.
I really liked the movie but sometimes it was hard to follow if
you are not familiar with the set up of the American elections.

Today is Sunday and I have already stuffed away all of my summer
clothes. Next time I will be unpacking them, Mexico and Cuba won't
be far away. But until then I will be snuggling up in warmth and
fluffiness.

In a few hours I am having brunch with fab Aussie veterinarian
M. Life sure is fun!

Have a fab day.
Lots of love

Beetroot soup with mini dumplings

Dumplings with sour cream

Picture by Joe Bunni

Picture by Mark McCormack 

So proud!

My trainer Shaun Stafford won the WBFF championships in Iceland
yesterday. I am so incredibly proud and privileged to be trainer with
such an amazing guy! To see the journey he has made from being
injured to a shining star makes me so happy for him!

Take a chill pill

And smile because this little guy surely is cute :) 

Bonfire Night

Tonight is bonfire night in the UK meaning loads
of fireworks and bonfires. It is to commemorate that
Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the house of lords.

I am just about to dash off to St Johns Wood for some
fab fab Garuda with James D'Silva and then to see
Wildlife Photographer of the year.

Tonight it is girls night with dinner and after seeing
Ides of March.

Whats up with you today?

Lots of love

Classic Guy Fawkes rime:

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot

Stronger

Yesterday I had a reunion with some peole I havent seen for what
seems like agos ago, but some quite painful memories are still quite
fresh. If you know that someone is going to be at a venue that you
strongly dislike - do you still go or do you let them keep you away.

Yesterday I decided that they are not going to keep me away.
I made peace with them and with the pain. I know I have moved on.
I know I have realised that sometimes it is the situation that brings
out the bad in us and not the people. Because I genuinely do think
that most of us are good and that if we all shape up a bit - this
world is a supadupafly place to be.

And with this content I will now dive into the joys of this
weekend. Will post tomorrow all the yummie stuff that is on.
Lots of love

You look wonderful today