Now, as some of you may know from having watched my channel over the course of the last 18 months or so, I occasionally talk about weight loss and getting my body into a healthier state than it is. Last year, I embarked on a weight loss attempt and lost a good 60lbs by combining different methods to help me win my struggle.  It’s year later and I have gained 20lbs. The really screwy thing is, this weight didn’t come back until January of this year. All of a sudden things have flown out of proportion with my body once again.  I do not like that the weight is creeping back up and particularly what I don’t like is that I was having days where I was very swollen in my lower legs again. If anyone has ever had to combat their calves and ankles swelling then I am sure you know full well that it’s not exactly comfortable to endure.

I also started to feel chest pains. Luckily within the last two days these have subsided. But I will say that I have been motivated to take matters into my own hands once again. I am not ever saying that someone should do anything against seeing a medical professional. I am only documenting what I can do given that I have no insurance coverage and I know that there are things that I can change that even if I go to a health professional, they are going to tell me the same things anyway. I figure I will save myself the $250 plus lab work haha. Bottom line is, I just don’t have it.

A couple of years ago I had heard about how we have bacteria in our bodies, and some people such as those who are obese are prone to having more of these bacteria. So I decided to do a little probing into this. I recently purchased a Candida cleanse/diet ebook from a website but I cannot remember what the site is called for the life of me.  In the book, the author indicates there is a simply test you can do to determine whether or not you have an over abundant growth of yeast in your body. Now for me this just makes sense. I think a lot of women at some point in their lives have had to deal with a yeast infection caused by something disrupting the natural balance of things. That’s the key, natural balance. See we have yeast in our bodies at all times but we normally have other kinds of probiotics in our intestinal tracts and other areas where yeast lives and they help keep things in check and in balance.

I don’t believe that achieving a permanent weight loss is simply a two-pronged attack. I have never thought this.  I have always felt that there are many factors to consider when losing weight. I think a lot of those things are looked at with organizations like overeaters-anonymous. They tend to look at your psychological reasons as to why you over eat as well as other factors. I am convinced at this time that there is a need to get things back into balance with my own body. Particularly because I find that when I have no choice but to eat unhealthy foods my body wants more of them and then I go completely out of control with cravings and urges for those kind of foods. I have seen this become prevalent within myself in the last 4 months.  It’s out of control and I wish to stop it only it is very difficult.  So I decided to get some acidophilus pills to take every day to help re-balance the probiotics in my digestive system.  I have also started a salt-water cleanse to help clean out the colon.  Once I am complete with that next week, I am going to give myself a gall bladder/liver cleanse and do my best to eradicate junk that’s in my body and give it what it really needs. Once I get myself all going with those I am going to buy a full probiotic system that will replenish all of the good “flora” in my digestive tract.

A lot of this comes from wanting to change my spiritual practice as well. Seeing what things cause what to happen in our bodies which block our intuition and connectedness with our higher selves. Understanding what contributes to us being disconnected.  So it’s just one line in my attack for this life-long battle of the bulge.  There has to be a strategy that involves different solutions, not just limiting your intake of calories and our output of energy expended. I do believe these are crucial, I just don’t think they are the sum of the whole.  Finally, here is an article that gives some insight into what kind of bacterias might be culprits on defeat with the obesity battle.  Intestinal bacteria could be a contributor to being fat.

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As you can tell I am a DIY’er a lot of the time when it comes to my hair and that is simply because well, I don’t have the funds all the time but I always need a root touch up. There are also a lot of times when my hair just annoys the heck out of me and I have to do something different with it. I haven’t had a fringe or bangs in a very long time. I had tried to do the side-swept bangs and they were just annoying as hell and that was an idea I quickly regretted doing. They looked nice for about five minutes until I couldn’t stand them dropping in my face anymore haha. SO this is what I have opted for. When I get some cash, I will get a regular cut. Anyway…

Loved this new foaming hair colour that has been put out by John Frieda. I don’t have many cons to say about the product other than what I said in the video that the color bleeds a bit when you are washing your hair and that gives me some concern about color fading too fast for me. Only time will tell though!

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Just a fun grab bag of the latest stuff I have been accumulating over the last couple of weeks. I got some new stuff to add to my own personal makeup kit.

I like the new falsies mascara my maybelline for the way it coats my lashes however I am not so sure about it making them look like you are wearing false eyelashes. Still a good product overall.

Found a very nice nude shade of lipstick by L’Oreal and a perfectly matching lipliner from Revlon lol yea they are competitors but oh well, they should match their colors better lol.

Then I got a couple of presents from Sephora like my new Buxom lip polishes and lipstick set and an Urban Decay liquid liner in perversion.

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Just sharing some tips on how I’ve learned to combat racoon eyes at least what works for me with my mascara application and how it wears throughout the day. Also my go to technique for my eyeliner, I do my best to match it to whatever color shadow I am wearing so that I don’t get that big gloppy black mess on the corners of my eyes a lot of the time. That sometimes happens because I have oily lids and throughout the day that ends up happening.

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Just a quick run down of the products that I used on my lips for my previous video that I uploaded the other day.

L’Oreal Color Juices in Bubble Gum
Mabelline Sugar Plum Ice
Some taupe colored lip pencil

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