Hello! Oh, I feel like I'm stuck, I need to move my desk again. I haven't spoken to you guys at
all yet today and it's like one o'clock in the afternoon so my apologies but I thought we could
hang out today I wanted to chat to you guys about some things as well.
Um, yeah other than that it's gonna be pretty tame. I'm just gonna vlog for the next couple of days.
Today my friend, who is also named Rachel, I know a lot of you guys know her channel, uh, 'Rachel Lee A', I'm
gonna be hanging out with her soon and we're just gonna sit and chat and like plan out some things
and yes I still have my big giant water bottle. So actually I saw Rachel just yesterday. I was gonna
go out for a walk. Mitch was at a tattoo appointment, I grabbed Luca because Ducky was
hiding under the blankets and didn't want to go out - it was kind of cold. (I) grab Luca, put him
on the lead, grab my phone, airpods and then I walk out the front door and as soon as it
clicked shut behind me, I was like... 'I don't have my keys!'. And I messaged Mitch and I was like 'hey, uh,
how long's left of your tattoo appointment?'. He's like 'we literally just started, why?' and I was like
'oh my god' and I didn't have a face mask on me because where we are like we can go for
walks and things without a face mask, we don't need them but if you want to go in like major
retail or a ride share or whatever you still have to have a face mask with you and because i didn't
have any keys or anything - I would have had to get an Uber, go to the tattoo shop that Mitch
was at, pick up the keys and come home and then I called Rachel and I was like 'please tell me
you're home and she's like 'I'm not but I'm leaving where I am soon, I can meet you at home' and I was like
'thank you, you saved my butt' so I walked an hour to her house yesterday and I was like well
that's my cardio and I was just setting up a new hard drive. The two hard drives that you saw there,
it's the same brand but they are older models and they're full. Both of them were eight terabytes
each, um, and this new one that I picked up, I think it's ten. So I've already been to the gym today
and I did an upper body session and then I ate as soon as I got back, which I didn't show any of that.
I'm sorry. I don't know if you guys want to see that in every video. Um, feel free to tell me what
you like or don't like. Yeah, so I did that this morning, then I ate as soon as I got back but I
am gonna cook for Rachel, Mitch and I so I'll show you what I'm cooking when I get around to that.
(in background - oh hello)
(in background - I think they're semi losing their minds...) Rachel: You get so excited, don't you!
Yeah! Look at how cute you are! Look at that face! He's like, what is going on? (in background - can i have it?)
Hello, hello - double vlog. Um, so we've been sitting here looking at Youtube stuff and we've decided
that we're gonna go pick up some Gopros. Wait, this is so loud. So I have an older Gopro and
I've been using it for bits of this video and then I was showing Rach, um, the new one and how you
can actually mount like a flip up screen to it so I think we're gonna go pick up some of those now.
Camera acquired.
Rachel Lee: well this just looks amazing, thank you for cooking for me Rachel Aust: that's okay! Rachel Lee: I love it, I'm so excited
*chatter*
Hello, okay I think we're focusing. Anyway, um, I wanted to have a little ramble
at you guys. I don't know if you remember, if you've seen it, that is.. um, in my last video, also if I
sound a little bit congested it's because Mitch has had a cold all week and I thought I got by
without catching it but i'm a little bit a little bit not great today not the best so we'll see how
we go. I normally don't get too sick. If you saw my last video which was like a 'what I eat in a day'...
uh, at the start of the video because I hadn't uploaded in like two weeks or three weeks or
something and I was like thank you for waiting for me. Just because lately I had been in a bit
of a funk with making content because sometimes that feels like what it is. Like Youtube feels
like a bit of a content machine, like you're constantly just like churning and you have to
create for the sake of creating and that feels bad sometimes like I feel like sometimes when you are
making things and being creative and expressing yourself in that kind of way you need to pull
back to recharge a little bit and I kept finding, like, I've been noticing this for the last like
year to year and a half, every time I go to film a video where it's just like a sit down talk to the
camera video that has like cut overs and things I just, I - I keep finding myself like wanting to push
it back. I'm like 'no I'll film that tomorrow, no film it the next day, no I don't want to film it
today' and I was, I had to really have a sit down with myself and be like where is this resistance
coming from. If you can hear crunching it's Ducky finishing off her dog food from this morning
um, but I was just like I love making videos, I love chatting with you guys in the comments. I love
being able to like share things with you whether it's just like something that I'm using or a
recipe that I've been working on or whatever like you guys mean so much to me and I'm so thankful
to have you in my life and when I was sitting and I was - I was doing this thinking.. I realised I love
making vlogs and as much as I like to sit down and do like informative or fact videos I just really
look forward to catching up with you guys and like having you join me for the day. I feel like it's a
more chilled out video. They're my favourite to film, they're my favorite to edit, so it's something that
I'm thinking I want to make more of and I really hope you guys will join me for the journey. Um, I
think it will allow me to share a little bit more. It will be more relaxed so I feel like I can be
more authentic and authentic is a weird word to use in that situation because I feel authentic
in all of my videos but I feel the videos where I'm just sitting down and talking you through like
10 facts or talking you through 10 tips or whatever, those videos don't feel (like) i can be as like
casual and I guess forthright and they feel more formal and a bit more restrained and pulled back.
Like, I feel like I'm lecturing you which I don't want it to be like. I feel like I have cultivated
genuine friendships especially with the people who have like found my videos and then even come
aboard my training program or whatever like it's so cool that so many of you guys are interested
in similar things to me and we have similar lifestyle habits and I don't know.. it's just
so exciting and I love that and I want to be able to share more so I'm just going to be tweaking my
video style a little bit because actually enjoying creating stuff is really important for me. When -
when I don't enjoy it, I don't - I don't want to do it and then I push back on it. So yes, there will be
lots of new things coming and I'm excited to share a lot more with you guys and bring you guys along
for more of my days and things like that like. I'm really genuinely excited about making videos and
this is the first time I have been excited in years so it feels really good to reignite that
passion and actually just like actively want to make so much stuff. You guys don't even know, like
I have a really full notepad in my phone which I need to transfer over to Asana just so I can keep
all my ideas in the one place but I'm excited and I'm looking forward to, you know, chatting more with
you guys. Now, this afternoon I'm thinking I'm going to work on a new, like, a protein bowl / protein
bites recipe. If I'm happy with how it turns out I'll tack it on the end of this video and I'll
also upload it in a blog post on Eat Run Lift, (I'll) probably link it in the description box too but
I really want something that has a little bit of a coconut flavour to it so I'm going to check the
pantry, see if we have any coconut... I feel like this flavour combination will work really well together.
So I'm going to have a little bit of a play in the kitchen later and I'll film with you guys.
I don't mean to sound up myself but I think these are the yummiest protein balls I have ever made!
Look at this, I don't know if it's an Australian thing or if anyone else has had these as well
there's these things called 'chocolate spiders' - I'll put an image on the screen if you don't know what
I'm talking about, I remember my mum making them when I was really young. It was like a food you
would take to like a children's birthday party sort of thing and they were.. I knew this was gonna
sound so weird, they were noo- like dry noodles that you would like crush up and then you would
like coat them in chocolate and you turn them into these little.. they look like spiders basically. Like
legs popping out everywhere. Um, those protein balls taste exactly like those! I think the two main
components that made that taste was firstly using a good quality chocolate protein powder. I think
when it comes to any kind of protein recipe the type of protein powder you use is going to make a
really, really big difference in the flavour. Um, and I used the iso100. Is it gourmet chocolate? I think
that's what it's called. I can't quite remember. I'm pretty sure it's called gourmet chocolate.
Um, that's the one that I use. I know I'm getting it confused because we normally buy gourmet
vanilla. I'm gonna take off this jacket it is like actually quite warm now. Iso100 chocolate protein
powder and then what I've never done before but I know when it comes to baking and cooking when
you have coconut you should cook it right so either bake it in an oven and about 180 celsius
(for) eight minutes should do it on a baking tray but I wanted to put rolled oats in the recipe as well so
I thought why not just put them both on a skillet and just cook it. It took, say about 15 minutes at
a moderate temperature just to cook them through. Just make sure you're moving it around on the pan
pretty regularly so they don't burn because the middle will cook faster than the outside. So you
want to make sure you're bringing the outer lot into the middle where possible. Cook them up and
then I put them with the other ingredients and oh my gosh - it made such a big difference. It was
so flavourful! The coconut became really nutty and the cooked rolled oats added this amazing slightly
crunchy texture and I think that's why like the crunch from the oatmeal and the coconut combined
with the chocolate flavour really brought back those chocolate spider memories so that was interesting
to eat those and just get like whacked in the face with my childhood, um, but I popped them in
the fridge just to cool off for about 45 minutes before I serve them up and they will stay in the
fridge for a couple of days or you can pop them in the freezer if you really want to freeze them.
I haven't tried freezing this particular recipe so I'm not sure how it will hold up frozen but a
lot of protein ball recipes will freeze relatively well. Thanks for coming to hang out the last couple
of days, I'm sorry I'm not sounding the best at the moment. I'm gonna wait a few days before I film my
next video but I'm very excited for all the new stuff that I'm working on for you guys and I can't
wait to catch up with you guys in the comments! I really do love chatting with you, it's such a
fun part of my Monday. If you do want to make the chocolate protein balls recipe or the recipe which
I featured earlier, um, the one that I did earlier is a little bit of a knockoff of my chili chicken
quinoa, I just use noodles in it instead and the protein balls I just photographed them so I'll
make sure that I put them up on the blog and I'll link them in the description box for you
guys but thank you for watching and I hope you're looking after yourselves. We'll catch up next time!