Top 60 Ella Woodward Quotes

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.

Making small changes every week over a few months will result in huge changes.

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.

Honestly, I have been able to accept my father’s new relationship because you get to that point with your parents that you realise it’s their life, not yours.

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.

I have always kept my beauty regime super simple, but I would say discovering you could use coconut oil to take off eye-makeup remover has been a game changer.

You have to separate the negative into two categories – half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it’s important for us to remember it’s okay they don’t like us, and sometimes there’s no point in engaging in that.

Just because I like being healthy doesn’t mean I can’t have fun – I don’t drink excessively, but I’ll have a couple of vodka-and-sodas.

For lunch, I tend to eat leftovers. I’m always recipe testing, so I tend to enjoy whatever is left in the fridge. I’m a big snacker, too.

Eating a natural diet with loads of fresh fruit and veg and little processed food helps me manage the symptoms of my illness.

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.

Healthy eating doesn’t have to be crazily complicated; it can actually be so fun.

My illness is now in remission, and on a day-to-day basis, I truly feel amazing. I wake up with such incredible energy, which I never had before my illness, and I really feel so in tune with my body.

I’m always cooking big veggie curries for friends with tons of spices, coconut milk, chilli – I’ll saute potatoes in the spices, then cook them with all the flavours and stir in some chickpeas and spinach at the end before serving it on a bed of sesame brown rice. It’s easy to do and tastes amazing!

With eating well, there’s a perception that it’s depressing. People think they’re just going to meditate and eat kale.

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.

I literally never ate fruit or vegetables before. My diet instead revolved around ice cream, chocolate, peanut butter and jelly eaten with a spoon, pick-n-mix, and lots of cereal and pasta – I was a sugar monster.

If I could go back in time to Freshers’ Week, I’d tell myself to make the most of university. Enjoy the fact you have all this time to do things you love. People always say that to you when you’re about to start, but you never listen, do you?

It’s so cool, the number of emails I get from people saying I changed their life. It’s pretty crazy.

I don’t know what would happen to me if I ate a bacon sandwich, but I’m just not interested.

What I hear a lot is that fresh, healthy eating isn’t accessible. That it’s full of bizarre ingredients people have never heard of that are really expensive. There’s also a perception that it’s time consuming and not very filling.

I don’t really have a 9-5, which I love, as every day is so different.

Just because you want to eat vegetables and eat well doesn’t mean you can’t share food and have fun with it. It should still be an exciting thing. It shouldn’t be just eating kale on your own in the corner.

Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache.

There are a million different things that I want to do.

People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word ‘awesome’ too much, but that’s just me.

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.

I’m conscious of the way I live and do things every day that nourish my body. I eat well, I work out, I try to manage stress, I get a good sleep in, and together, that does wonders.

I love social media, but it made me quite anxious.

I’m a neat freak. I find I work best when I feel organised and together, and as I work from home, that means my house is always so tidy!

I always moisturise in the morning, put my make-up on, and at the end of the day I take it off with coconut oil, wash my face, moisturise, and so often, that’s it.

My whole thing isn’t about being vegan, to be honest. It’s more about a more natural diet.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

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.

I’m promoting healthy – healthier – eating, not suggesting everyone should emulate me.

I was really inspired by lots of people I came across who were managing various illnesses through diet and lifestyle. I kind of figured, you know, if it worked for them, then I might as well try it and see if it works. So I did.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I’ve always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points.

I really focus on natural products, so I love using unrefined products instead of refined ones. I swap white rice for brown rice or quinoa. I use brown rice pasta instead of regular pasta, nut milk or oat milk instead of dairy milk, and coconut yogurt instead of cows’ yoghurt, etc.

I don’t have one favourite spot – I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.

I want everyone to eat whatever makes them happy.

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.

I work out most days, normally first thing, and then I just see where the day takes me. I recipe test most days, do lots of social media and emails, but nothing else is constant. Some days, I film YouTube videos; other days, I have lots of meetings, work on blog posts, brainstorm ideas, and work on upcoming projects.

I want to make vegetables a bit cooler and help people see them as something that can be an interesting, delicious addition to any meal, but that doesn’t mean you should feel you only need to eat broccoli!

I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.

There are so many amazing plant-based foods out there that I don’t feel the urge to eat tofu bacon.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

I love Anthropology for kitchenware – they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc.

I was a real sugar junkie. I don’t think I realised I was actually fully addicted to it.

I literally couldn’t walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had blackouts, never-ending heart palpitations, unbearable stomach issues, constant headaches – the list goes on.

I didn’t believe in marriage; I thought it was a silly concept before I met Matt.

Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.

I’m on my phone 24/7 replying to every Instagram comment and message to try and understand how people are seeing us, and their questions and concerns.

I find both yoga and pilates awesome at calming my mind and strengthening my body.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

It’s crazy to think my blog is being read by people around the world.

I think if you don’t enjoy something, it’s not sustainable.

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.

I think it’s really important to find the right balance for you – a way of eating and living that satisfies you physically and mentally – and that’s different for everyone.

I want to give you a way to eat your broccoli in a way that you actually want to eat it.