Day Seven: Yoga Muffins!

They say that working out in the morning is the best time to work out. And if that's when you choose to do so, exercise on an empty stomach is optimal. Optimal for fainting, I say. If you want to see checkerboards in front of your eyes for 75 minutes each morning...don't eat before your 6:30 am hot yoga sesh.

They recommend not eating within two hours of a hot yoga practice but I have to eat a banana and have a glass of juice before morning yoga or it's touch and go whether I'll maintain consciousness 'til the end.

I'm finding that cheese strings and apples are no longer cutting it, so here's a really healthy and yummy muffin that I have perfected over a few tries.

Justy's No Fainting Yoga Muffins
Mix together:
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups of oat bran
1/4 cup of ground flax (use your coffee grinder to "powder" it or your don't get the goodness.)
2 tsp of baking soda
2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
good dash of cinnamon
Make a well in the dry ingredients


whisk together 2 eggs and pour in well
dump in 3 small containers of unsweetened applesauce (you can also use cranberry apple or pear etc)
add 4 TBS of canola oil
add 1 1/2 cups of frozen raspberries or strawberries
Mix until just blended....not too much.


Spoon muffin mixture into "Pammed" muffin tins and let sit for 10 minutes while the oven is warming to 400C.


Bake for 15 mins.


Remove muffins from tin immediately and let cool on rack.

Eat with butter and coffee or green tea....or no butter and a glass of juice. No idea how many calories are in these, but really? It's a really healthy muffin...and not cake like most muffins. And when you're burning 1000 calories per yoga sesh...who cares?

Here's to not fainting in public:)

xo