A few months ago I did a review of the Valentia Detoxifying Clay Mask and Eternal Youth exfoliating scrub, you can find my video review on YouTube. I loved both of the products so when I was asked by Valentia to try their Clear Lift Revitalizing Serum I hopped on board right away. You want me to try your vegan eco-friendly skincare for free? Sure thing, sign me up! Eco-friendly Skincare: Video Review My video review of the Valentia Clear Lift Revitalizing Serum is below, and also available …
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Meatless Monday: Fruit Krumble Recipe
Another Monday rolls around, and as it's Meatless Monday I want to share this recipe for a warm fruit Krumble. In England we have a dessert called apple crumble which has stewed apples and a topping of a crumbled cooked mixture of flour, margarine sugar. Not the healthiest of things to combine with fruit eh? Delicious though. So I decided to come up with something that would work instead of the fat laden, processed original and make it healthier and whole foods based. Enter dates, coconut and …
Meatless Monday – Review: Cheezly
Continuing the theme of vacation posts I never got around to posting last year this week for Meatless Monday I'm reviewing a vegan cheese product I had while in England. One of the perils I discovered of traveling in the UK is the lack of vegan options in airports so for our return journey I decided to take a packed lunch with me. On our shopping trip at Morrisons I discovered this vegan cheese as the ONLY vegan option for rolls other than veggies so I decided to get some, eager to try the UK …
Vegan food on our UK vacation
Many of you will no doubt know that we took a couple of weeks vacation in November 2014 to visit family and friends and while fun it was my first time going back 'home' as a vegan. While they cater everywhere for vegetarians, it seems vegan options are less available in the UK, or I'm spoiled here in California! Anyways before we left I did lots of research on vegan options and got a lot of help from friends on vegan facebook groups. The town we're from in England doesn't have any …
Meatless Monday: Air New Zealand Meatless Meals
Ok first I want to say vegan food at LAX was pretty pathetic. The terminals restaurants we ALL closed for refurbishment so there was nothing to eat other than a small coffee bar called The Pie Hole. Then did a vegetarian pie that Bob had, and I had a vegan apple crumble, water, fruit cup and potato chips. Bob had the veggie hand pie (which he said wasn't very good), apple juice and potato chips for a grand total of $21.40 Man airport food is expensive, and it wasn't that great either. The …
Thanksgiving 5k race recap
I really hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving here in the USA, and didn't get trampled in the black friday shopping. Here at Workout With Di central we did something different this thanksgiving and kicked off our day of overeating (and drinking) with a 5k turkey trot. The thanksgiving 5k was organized by Elite Sports Venture County who d a lot of events locally so we were pretty happy to get a 5k on Thanksgiving that was literally a 5 minute drive from our house, less than that really. Despite …
Definition Magazine 2014 Vol 3: Circuit training bodyweight workout
So this week has been CRAY CRAY! Nope not particularly busy, in fact I'm actually falling nicely into a routine but from a weather standpoint. Since last Wednesday we've had a heat wave here in Southern California. Now it was already 90° daily so a heat wave has meant triple digits EVERY DAY since Thursday! Crazy. People always say they want the sun but this is ridiculous. My plants are melting, the dogs are miserable and honestly everybody I speak to has had enough. This has meant that …
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12 minute HIIT workout
Wow this one was a tough one! I've been wanting to do more cardio lately, as I have a 5K race coming up in August and honestly I need to more more high intensity cardio rather than just spinning which I seem to have a lot of lately. If you try this workout you'll see that all you need is 12-15 minutes! Seriously, just workout as hard as you can in those 12 minutes and you are DONE. I was a hot sweaty mess after this workout, though I was doing it outside in 97 ° beautiful sunshine! The …
Throwback Thursday – First charity fitness event
As a fitness instructor in England I was subscribed to Fitness Professionals and one magazine I saw a flier or ad for the starlight foundation, using fitness events to raise money for ill children and I figured "I can do that". So I organized and taught step for 3 hours (I think, it could have been 4/5 it was a LONG time ago!) as part of my step-a-thon. I don't even remember how much money we raised it was so long ago. But basically the participants got sponsors for the event and we …