Eat your vegetables!

Eat your vegetables, take your vitamins! It’s what I remember hearing as a kid. You?

What veggie did you hate as a kid, but now enjoy? Broccoli for me. I still don’t really like it. But I eat it because I’m an adult and it has some good health benefits. I just discovered my love of cauliflower a few years ago. I was missing out for so many years!

I documented in January mentioning that I was starting to take vitamins on a daily basis. The reason behind it all, was because I had a poor diet, and my family kept suggesting I start taking supplements.

And that’s exactly what I’m doing.vitamins1

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For a few years I ended up buying iron pills, multivitamins and other supplements I thought I needed — but they all got forgotten about (and reminded about each time the Boyf popped his nightly pills vitamins).

Enough was enough. I felt as if I was being nagged and I decided to subconsciously make a 2013 New Years Resolution to make an effort in bettering my body.

vitaminsI bought one of those old person pill holders, filled them up each Sunday night ready to start the week.

Gotta be honest. Haven’t really noticed anything significant in my body to write home about after taking all the supplements. But I can only assume it’s doing more good than harm. Right?

A few months into me taking the daily vitamins I received an e-mail from Koge Vitamins asking if I wanted to try out a 30 day trial of whatever I chose.

I ended up going with Daily Vitamins, just so I could stop taking a monster amount of pills each day. 3 is enough!

The packaging was quite nice, don’t you think?Koge

Koge Vitamins
Each Daily Pack Includes:

  • Two Multivitamins
  • One Omega-3

You can buy it on their site for $29.99.

All Koge vitamins are physician quality (Health Canada and FDA approved, backed by the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee) and they avoid artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, etc. to keep it clean and natural.

So folks, I’ve finished the 30 day cylindrical tube of pills. Do I feel any different? No, not quite. But I think adding in healthy fats like Omega 3 is beneficial, especially since I was on paleo for those thirty days in April/May. But I will keep taking Omega 3 supplements with my other daily pills.

One thing about Koge Vitamins is that they control the entire supply chain process which allows them to eliminate a significant portion of excess costs that customers normally incur by shopping at retail locations.  This is the reason they offer quality product at prices that are affordable.

If you want to try out Koge Vitamins, they’ve kindly offered up 20% discount for all you guys! Just use the code: SPIFFY.

Disclaimer: I received compensation and product from Koge Vitamins. The opinions, as always, are my own.

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ootww and a barf inducing #CrossFit WOD

How in the h-e-two sticks is it Friday already? And pay day!

Last night was busy as heyyyy. I went to CrossFit and immediately drove home once it was over (barf inducing WOD last night. I’ll tell you all about it later).  I didn’t barf. But I felt like I wanted to because I wanted to finish. So, I drove home and packed up Alfie’s belongings, scooped him up and headed in my car for a little drive to meet my CEO and her 10 mth old boxer puppy to go for a walk.

Well, wouldn’t you know, Alfie had to poop REALLY bad? Little nugget couldn’t hold it in, and luckily I had a towel laid down on my seat (because I love my car so much and didn’t want it covered in his fur) he took a dump right on the darn friggen towel. I was so shocked he did this, I was yelling “AH AH! Ah AH!” (his command for “No”). I pulled over onto the side of the road and scooped it all up in a little plastic bag and rushed it to the nearest garbage can on the street.

I think he could tell I was really peeved off because he didn’t whine or cry the entire ride there. He’s usually a very nervous dog on car rides and doesn’t know where the heck we’re taking him.

The walk? OH the walk on the other hand was interesting. He didn’t go after the boxer, but he stuck by my side the entire time whining and getting “huffy” (he makes weird noises) at me since I was told to ignore him. We’re trying to socialize this Pomeranian of ours and it’s taking a lot of work lol.

Anyhoo. The week flew by. To be honest, I didn’t want to get up this morning and I hit snooze twice and ended up finally getting out of bed at 7:40. I like to usually get up around 6:50-7:00 to get chores done (dishes from previous night) out of the way before heading into work. But I didn’t want to do that either last night, or apparently this morning.

I went to CrossFit four days in a row this week Mon-Thurs, and I’m kinda wondering if I should go again tonight. 5x seems kinda nutso. But I have nothing else planned for the long weekend, and they’ll be closed lol.

Man. I’m still doing okay with paleo but once in a while I have those chocolate mini eggs, or something chocolatey like that. ANd I get these sharp twisty pains in my stomach. BAD cramps like I’ve never experienced before. They last for shots of 30 seconds, then moves to another area. That goes on for about 10 minutes. I suppose the little workers in my stomach are all strong, trying to kill the bad sugar in my stomach. Right? That’s my theory on it anyway.

I’m multi-tasking. Eating my breakfast, uploading it to instagram and writing a blog post in the a.m. at 8:30 in the morn. Go me.

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Have a great Friday/long weekend. I’m sure I’ll be back here at some point over the weekend. You know how it is.

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Ralph Lauren and essie team up

Do you remember the first perfume you ever purchased? I vaguely remember which was first, but it was a tie between GAP dream perfume, and Ralph by Ralph Lauren.

I went through endless amounts of those travel sized bottles of GAPs perfume. Why did they stop making them?

Each time I go into Sephora I gravitate towards that RL perfume. It brings me back to the years 1999-2004 when I wore it religiously. It was my signature scent back in those days. My best friend Jenna ended up receiving it as a gift, which ended up smelling just as good on her as it did me.

Ralph Lauren and essie have come together to create four limited edition collection which features one of the four  Big Pony Women Fragrances  and an essie nail polish to represent each perfume’s “personality”.  Each nail polish color is unique and designed exclusively for these sets.ralph-lauren-sport

Set 1: Sporty
Set 2: Sensual
Set 3: Free Spirited
Set
4: Stylish

Since I’m more of a sporty person I received set #1.Ralph-Lauren-Essie

The scent on this one just reminds me so much of Ralph by Ralph Lauren. Perhaps it is that scent. I’m not sure. But it smells great and perfectly me.

The summer nautical blue polish I received in the sporty set is just called #1 Blue. It will look fantastic on tanned toes in the summer. I’m bringing this polish with me next time I get a pedicure.

 Rita Remark, essie’s Lead nail artist who created four amazing looks for each collection, does a “how to” on the unique nail looks she created. So fun.

Sets Available at The Bay and Sears (50ml fragrance & exclusive essie nail polish)
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Sets Available at Jean Coutu in Quebec (30ml fragrance, 50g body mist &  exclusive essie nail polish). Note, I received this gift set below which is only available in Quebec, exclusively at Jean Coutu.
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Each set comes with a nice canvas tote to carry your items in.
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Do you have a signature scent?

What was the first perfume you’ve ever worn?

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