Review: Flavor God Seasonings

I have been following FlavorGod seasonings on Instagram for a long time now, and two weeks ago, Ken and I finally decided to give them a try. We both love to spice our meals, and as we try to eat low-salt, these seasonings seemed pretty perfect for us. Further, I have read a lot of positive reviews on athlete's profiles who also use these herbs to spice their plates.

When I saw the current offers they had, it was of course beyond dispute that we benefitted from the Pizza Combo Set offer. What comes in this combo are 4 different spices along with a PIZZA spice... Just imagine if your chicken steak or your broccoli tasted like pizza... heavenly.

You may wonder what's so special about these seasonings as you get so many different ones in your local grocery store?
Flavor God seasonings are chemical and filler free, low-salt and sugar-free herbs and spices, created and invented by Chris Wallace. Plus, what matters most to him (and the company) is the health of people and the food we eat on a daily basis, therefor sacrificing the nutritional value has never been an option for them.

The shipping took a little longer than expected, but the waiting was totally worth it.  I can't picture myself buying any other spices anymore. I literally put these seasonings on anything you can think of. Just comparing what you pour out of that bottle to what you would buy at a grocery store, you can experience a huge difference in the ingredients for the better. The seasonings are of a great quality, and the bottle is a lot larger than comparable spice blends. Even if they are low-salt, they pack plenty of flavor. Another plus of this brand is that the seasonings are made by a hard working person who gained popularity from inventing seasonings that are natural, low in sodium, and targeted at the health conscious. That's one of the things I mind the most when I buy such things , especially when I discover them on a social media like Instagram. 

What comes in this combo, beside the pizza spice , is a 'Garlic Lover's' , 'Lemon & Garlic' , 'Everything Spicy', and 'Everything' seasoning. Mainly I spike my fishy meals with the garlic seasonings, I really like the lemon&garlic seasoning along with the salmon, it tastes just heavenly.
As I don't really like spicy food, I don't use the 'Everything Spicy' that often, however Ken thinks it's just delicious along with his beef steaks. I prefer the normal 'everything seasoning' for my chicken, turkey and beef. Not forgetting that you can also spice up your vegetables with these seasonings.

I would highly suggest following him on Instagram if you want some tasty and healthy recipes. I am so thankful that he invented such amazing flavors, that are definitely worth their prize and also worth a try. Seriously, I think I am never going to buy any other seasoning in a grocery store, they definitely can't keep up with Flavor God Seasonings at all.

All the seasonings

1 tbsp is already enough to spice your meat

Using 'everything seasoning' for my green beans and turkey steak

Yumyum!

Nike Addiction

On Monday and Tuesday we were on our traditional Christmas-shopping trip in Düsseldorf (Germany) and Roermond (Netherlands). Talking about 'we' I mean my sister, her boyfriend David and my lovely boyfriend Ken. It's always fun when we are on the road, especially during our little city-trips (pictures below).

On Monday we hit the road in the early morning so we could explore Düsseldorf's shops to the fullest. Luckily it stopped raining in the early afternoon, but it was still freezing cold, therefor we spend most of the time in the shops and took all the time we needed to find fancy clothes. I tried to eat the healthiest possible, but to be honest, that's not very easy if you cross all those beautiful little Christmas-markets the whole day. Therefor I treated myself with a traditional potato-dough with shrimps in the evening and that one or another cup of mulled wine. Usually I don't drink alcohol, but at least once a year I think I can make an exception. 

On Tuesday we visited the McArthur Glen Fashion Outlet in Roermond and I was so damn looking forward to buying new fashionable workaday clothes as I am starting to work in 2015.

But you know what?There was this Nike-store, and you know how much I love Nike...

There was that one pair of tights that leaped my eye straight away, but sadly they didn't have my size anymore. Therefor I was more than happy when I saw this simple black sports-bag which had the perfect size and a very modest price. I definitely needed a new bag as my current gym-bag is already 10 years old. (Yes, keep on justifying yourself Jenny...)

Then it happened, I was in a frenzy and I also got myself two colorful sport-bras... because you can never have enough sport-bras. And of course a new hoodie... Nobody wants to get cold on the way home after a great gym-session, right?

Honestly, I wouldn't mind going to work in my gym-clothes...

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Definitely my favorite picture for the moment. 

Ken& I, and David photobombing haha

Goofing around in Roermond

#pumpingfairy-Friday

It's #pumpingfairy-time again...weeehhh...

I am happy that I scheduled this day on Friday because I always forget what day we have haha because currently,this is what my days look like: 

• Monday= Legday
• Tuesday= Backshoulder/Backday
• Wednesday= Pumpday 
• Thursday= 2nd Legday
• Friday= 2nd backshoulder/backday
• Saturday= Poledanceday
• Sunday= Restday

The gym has become such an important part of my life, and I am glad about that. I don't understand those people who lack motivation and ask people for help how to stay motivated. Get your sweet little butt up and go to the gym, that's it. Yes, sometimes even I don't want to hit the gym at all, yet I pack my gym-bag, take my pre-workout booster, get into the car and hit the road for the gym. It's as easy as that. Once your are there, the motivation will come. And believe me when I tell you that I always had the best gym-session when actually I wasn't motivated at all and didn't even want to go to the gym because I was 'too tired'.

Therefor hats off to these 9 fit-fairies that spoiled me with so many fitspirational posts on Instagram. If you also want to become a part of our gym-army, just hashtag your gym-related posts with #pumpingfairy the next time. I would be delighted if you joined us.

1. pia_fit03 has some new babies: UnderArmour Sneakers for the gym
2. nillesjulie had prawns with bell pepper, avocado and rice for lunch
3. caro_rouge also has new trainingshoes
4. t.vani08 has done a 5k run in the morning with her fluffy ball and had some oats afterwards
5. flouwelsch was in the newspaper, congratulations again!
6. carolegoerend took a 10km-run-selfie
7. lauragetsfit.14 tried out my coconut-macaroon recipe and enjoyed them as a little evening-snack
8. dariareiter I welcome you to our little army!
9. b_lume enjoyed a super healthy turkey sandwich. Looks so delicious! 

Fairy's Christmas Wish-List

It's that time of the year again, the most beautiful and festive of all months; december. I totally love the last month of the year because everyone is in a joyful mood, the stores are festively decorated, you can open a little door on your advent calendar everyday as christmas is almost knocking on the door. 

I really love to make presents to my beloved family and friends and I already contemplated a little bit about it. This year I will try to get the presents a little sooner... isn't it too hectic the week just before christmas when all the late-boomers are frantically searching for a gift? 

Therefor I am floating some ideas if you don't have the foggiest idea yet and don't want to be super late and give away a super shabby gift. I also brought in some of my wishes, most of them are for the gym but I would also love to have some fancy everyday-life stuff to look fancy outside the gym. Yes I also have a life outside of the gym haha.

BETTER BODIES, Camo Print Sports Bra

NIKE Fuel Band 

BETTER BODIES Slim Sweatpant

NIKE Free 5.0

SWAROVSKI Stardust 

6 PACK FITNESS Renee Tote Beige

2XU Elite Compression Top

KATE SPADE Racoon Iphone Case

FRENDS Headphones

BETTER BODIES Long Tights (Black/Camo)

#pumpingfairy movement

Fitfam, you made it through another week... weeeeh. 

Have you planned anything special for your weekend?

As for me, I am taking two pole-dance workshops tomorrow with the beautiful Véro Vegas. She used to live in Luxembourg but moved to Innsbruck (Austria) some years ago to open one of the first pole-dance studios. I can't wait for her classes tomorrow morning, 3 hours of pole dancing, that's insane.

When browsing Instagram the past days, I realized that quite a few people joined our fit army again. I am happy to welcome you and I invite every woman or man to enter our growing community. It's such a pleasure to see how you guys keeps fit even during December, because usually people skip the gym during the festive month because it makes no sense to them anyway due to Christmas eve, Christmas, Sylvester etc. 

I feel confident that over the next week more than a few will meet in our gym-army to whom I would accord a hearty welcome.

1. xeniia_93 proudly presents her transformation. She lost 22kg, we congratulate you!

2. dowhatyoulove_loveyourlife loves her salad at her favorite pub.

3. veronique_xxx transformed too, great work!

4. nillesjulie had chicken,broccoli, carrots and rice-noodles for lunch along with sriracha.

5. alexscastle takes her workouts to a new level.

6. b_lume has a delicious salad for lunch.

7. sophieja96 kicks us with a motivational butt-kick!

8. the.lovely.four have a new post on their blog: healthy apple sauce muffins.

9. flouwelsch has done a great cardio workout.

Always remember to dig deeper and enjoy your weekend!

Protein Coconut Macaroon

What's the best thing you can do on a december afternoon, except being a couch-potatoe watching television...? Exactly, smashing a fast and healthy baking session for the festive days.

I think that coconut macaroons are quite christmasy, but unfortunately the original ones are way too unhealthy for us as we want to stay fit and look sexy as a fox. So I changed the recipe to a healthier version. This is definitely one of the easiest and fastest recipes I've ever shared with you. 

All you'll need

Beaten egg-white

dough-blobs

form little balls

that's how they look when they're ready

Ingredients: 

1. 100gr shredded coconuts
2. 2 egg-whites
3. sweetener (to taste, I didn't use sweetener)

Directions:

• Beat the egg-white until stiff
• Add your shredded coconuts to your egg-white in a bowl
• If you want your macaroons to be sweeter, add your sweetener
• Mix until you get small dough-blobs
• Take a spoon to form little balls and place them on your baking tray. (Feel free to do the same thing with your hands if this is easier for you)
• Bake for approximately 10-12 minutes at 175°c until they get a golden layer

You see...you don't need a lot of ingredients to create a healthy but festive pastry. So while other people are serving those fatty christmasy cookies and cakes, serve those light and easy digestible protein coconut macaroons and I reassure you that your people will love them and ask how you made them. 

Mr.&Ms Universe 2014, Hamburg

I am back from Hamburg and I have so much to tell you...

But let's start from the beginning. We hit the road over the night to arrive earliest possible on Friday. This made us one of the first teams to arrive at the check-in and registration hotel. Unfortunately we had to wait around 3 hours until our rooms were ready. Being super tired these 3 hours seemed infinite. Initially I wanted to go to visit the Christmas markets, but we were all so tired that we decided to stay and take a nap between our meals(eat,sleep,repeat hehe). Later that day, Ken and I put on the cream tan, let it air-dry and went straight to bed , as we had to get up very early.

On D-Day the alarm woke me up at 5.30am. After I was done with my hair and make-up, we packed the most essential things for the big day and left for the competition at the 'TriBühne' in Norderstedt, Hamburg. The competition took the entire Saturday as the prejudging was in the morning and the finals in the early evening. My class was the second one on the schedule,so I immediately had to put on my bikini for the first round. Vincent (a team-mate, great athlete and kinesiologist) helped me out with the last tanning layer and with my warm-up. For the second round, which was in the early evening, I wore my brand-new dress which I ordered only a week ago. The third round was only a short line-up in the bikini again and the prize-giving.

I have to admit that the level was very very high. I knew that the standards would be a lot higher than in Rheinbach and Eupen as it was an international competition, but I never expected the level to be pro-like. I still can't believe that I could be part of this competition in my first season.

I met a lot of wonderful athletes that weekend who inspired and motivated me with their physique and wisdom.

I can't begin to tell you how happy and proud I am that I got the chance to compete at the NAC International Mr.&Ms.Universe. But this would not have been possible if I wasn't surrounded by such great people. 

My biggest THANK YOU goes to my family and my lovely boyfriend for supporting me and tolerating me when I was bitching around or when I was grumpy all day long because I cut down on carbs haha. It's hard to keep up with me when I am grumpy, on the edge and tired at the same time... I can be a real pain in the neck, so sorry for that. 

And my heartfelt thanks to my coach, Jean-Marie Bermer from Powerfood's J-M.B, because of whom I could witness a considerable first season and acquire so many legendary experiences. He taught me a lot of things I didn't know about a real diet, discharge, charge, water depletion and about my training sessions. He encouraged me all the time, never mind if this was a little metaphorical butt-kick to motivate me again. I am really grateful to be part of this team, which makes such competitions even more fun as we are always having a great time together.

In the end I didn't get a placing at all, but I participated knowing that I would look a bit 'de trop' on stage, compared to the other athletes. Primarily I went for the experience and to see what the level would be like. Now that I know what the standards are (not only at the Universe), I can start the next season with much more determination, knowing what I am working for. I am determined to grow bigger muscles and lean down for the next season which will be in April. I want to step op stage with a whole better shape as there will be some very important competitions for me. The next season will be mine. FOCUS!

P.S For further pictures, visit my Facebook-page

Backstage, before the first round

Back pose

Round 2: evening dress

Round 2: evening dress

Taking some shots after the first round

Posing in front of the big trophies

NAC Luxembourg Team Powerfood's J-M.B