Ella Woodward Quotes
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Growing up, my dad was the ultimate person for open-mindedness.
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It's about making small changes at first and adding foods to your diet before you take any away; start with one extra vegetable or fruit at every meal, and hey, presto, that's 21 portions a week.
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Since September 2013, I have been in a really good place with my health. But I still have to be conscious about keeping it in that good place and taking care of myself.
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I think it's essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I'm sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it's worth it.
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My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad.
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I don't make big promises about losing weight or anything like that. I just suggest things that people can make to make them feel good.
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For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.
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I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up refined sugar, gluten, dairy, anything processed or refined, and meat.
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Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.
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I don't want people to see healthy eating as a diet. I want it to be satisfying food that everyone takes pleasure in eating.
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I don't know what would happen to me if I ate a bacon sandwich, but I'm just not interested.
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Home-made smoothies are a great way of satisfying a sweet tooth. Adding in things like frozen banana will make it taste super sweet and creamy.
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The things I cook and eat on a regular basis are really inexpensive.
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It was back in 2011 that everything changed. I was not a healthy eater at all. Up until that point, I was a student and a complete sugar addict.
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As I started eating more natural foods and thinking about what I was putting into my body, I became more interested in what I was putting on it, too.
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If you eat broccoli steamed or boiled, it's not very exciting, but you can roast it with things like turmeric and make it amazing. It's all about how you cook something and what you pair it with.
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I eat the way I do because I really enjoy it but also because it's the only thing I've found that helps me manage the illness I had, and that plays a big part in it.
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I've always been pretty lucky with my skin. I did notice a big change when I changed my diet and started to eat more natural foods in that my skin just got clearer and brighter.
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Healthy eating isn't supposed to be about self-denial; it's not a punishment.
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People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word 'awesome' too much, but that's just me.
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My main aim is to change our perception of how we look at vegetables because I think vegetables have always been put on the side - it's always been your steamed broccoli or boiled broccoli with your meat.
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Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.
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I love exercise, but I didn't join a single sports club as a student - I have no hand-eye coordination. Things like yoga are amazing, but anything with a ball just isn't for me.
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Blogs are amazing, and I'm so grateful to mine for giving me such a great platform to explore other ideas, but it's just not practical to scroll through 30 pages of blog to find a dinner recipe.