FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Country Coffee Bathurst

With Mothers Day approaching so soon, I wrote a little piece for TheWeekender.Travel on places to visit in Bathurst. All which are lovely and I am hoping, if not too busy, to go to a few of them.

But I will end it at this cafe, a favourite of ours. We have only just moved back to Bathurst and I am looking forward to enjoying our old haunts all over again.

FLASHBACK POST FROM 2016:

For Father's Day, I asked my husband where he wanted to go, he said "Country Coffee!"

We used to live in Bathurst and this cafe was a regular haunt for us. My husbands favourite is the cheese and avocado melt and apricot mists(which is apricot and ice cream blended and it is delicious).

I had the double bacon Turkish sandwich with tomato relish- which was wonderful and made me want to bring some relish home. 

Little one had a treat of the Hindi hamper- which had a sandwich, hot chips, a popper and a mini mars bar and as an extra treat a baby-chino.

Busy as always, but a friendly staff, beautiful foods and well priced. 

<3 Mia <3 

The Truth of Me and Food....

and here comes the food.......

I have had it! 

Food, you and I have to talk.

For years now, I have hated food. Because of a whole lot of different reasons, growing up with not a lot of money, food became a huge focus. Mostly because I craved it so much. Then came the pressure of different movements, diets, expectations connected to food. Which meant I ate the worse of it (because I didn't have it as a child and had craved it). These things were not really food. Then would hate myself, listen to the pressure of those around me and media which would make me do a crash diet. Lose some weight but never enough, so would binge again and put it back on.

Sound familiar?

But this year I am stopping, no scales, no diets, no eating food that tastes like cardboard.

I am going to remember my relationship with food again.

I am going to eat, I am going to fuel my body and if I crave that chicken burger, I am going to eat that too.

What I am going to do is;
Eat when I am hungry, stop when I am full, even if there is food still on my plate.

I am going to cook more and I remember why I loved it so much in the first place. Cooking has always been a comfort spot for me, but as my hatred of food grew, the more I avoided the kitchen.

I am going to keep walking, camping, swimming and going to the gym, because I like the way I feel afterwards. But avoid the madness that comes when I push myself so hard and I don't see the results I want, so I just give up. Instead I will just do it, just because, and then I can enjoy it (and often do it longer).

The theory is to stop thinking so much and more listen to when my body needs to move and when it needs to eat.

So come on 2018 and come on food, lets dance <3 Mia <3 xxxx