New Year, New You?

Hello, Hello you beautiful amazing confident creature! Happy New Year!

After the wild mess and interesting opportunities the past year has presented us a new year brings hope! Hope to improve or even get out of the house more in a safe way. Be safe this year and take care of yourself!

Take care of your self! This is crucial for this time of year. Yes, we have new hopes and new goals and I know if you put your mind to something and keep going at it YOU WILL SUCCEED!

There is a dark side to this time of year.

Okay the ghost clip art might be too cute for this. On a serious note be oh so careful on others looking to take advantage and make money from you on the idea that “You are not good enough” ” You are not skinny enough” only YOU have the power to determine your worth! Remember that!

Some things to look out for…

Avoid Weight Loss Teas

Several celebrities and influencers encourage people, no matter their size, that losing some extra weight by drinking teas is a simple solution. Everyone should lose some weight and they can ALL do it by drinking the tea. Honey…. NO.

According to fraudguide.com the teas are mostly produced with caffeine. This could give you energy? However, caffeine is a diuretic which means taking it can lead to water loss. You might lose some weight but sadly it is only water weight. Even though the rituals put in place in some tea drinking programs do have benefits to the simple timing. For example some diets or tea programs say to drink a glass before every meal. A little extreme but this could work with any tea or even just water to fill up your stomach. The actual teas themselves may say or promote they have natural ingredients and its a quick fix to lose weight. DO NOT buy into it.

If tea does interest you I get some detox teas from Walmart or local store that make me feel lighter and I drink them at night so it cuts out the night time cravings. I would highly suggest the YOGI teas. My roommate in college showed them to me. They have a huge selection all detoxing different areas.

Do get some yummy tea at the store to help curve cravings or simply sip on at night

Avoid Weight Loss Pills

Again another product that makes money off convincing you that you need to lose weight fast and not in a healthy way. Most diet pills that claim you do not need to watch what you eat or exercise then it is usually a SCAM.

My personal story….

I’m a confident person but in college I wanted to slim down to look good in pictures? I’m not sure why? I looked amazing in college, and now. However, I let a very famous company persuade me into buying their “Fat Burner” or should I say a giant pill full of Caffeine and wheat fillers. LAME. It did not work at all.

As a college student I decided to do my research on the pill after I took it EVERY DAY, twice a day, for a month. Now that didn’t really change anything because I have a prescription from a doctor for my thyroid. I take the pill every morning when I wake up. I simply added another one to see if I could get super skinny fast? Yes we all think we are smart until these companies reach into the insecurities and claim they can help. We all make mistakes. So anyways! turns out it was an awful pill for my health because the fillers, added caffeine, added hormones, and other ingredients in the pill were having a negative impact on my ACTUAL Health. All the yucky stuff in the pill truly changed my levels and I had to go get a thyroid panel because I was so tired and sick feeling. Sure enough it was the diet pill.

Okay, Never buy it again and move on right? NAYYYYYY I signed up for a subscrition by accident and they sent a bottle to my parents house because that was the address on my card. My parents didn’t think anything of it and just put the package in my room and said hey! you have a package. Another month, they do the same. These pills or “magical weightloss solution” were $49.99. Yeah so I called and asked for my money back and end the subscrition. They said “Sure, have a good day”

Next month, ANOTHER PACKAGE and ANOTHER $49.99. I was so mad. I called again and they said “OH, YOU need to end the subscription online yourself. Sorry.” So I go to this “profile” and yadadaaa you guys get it and finally find out how to end my subscription BUT I was a few days late for that month so ANOTHER purchase had to be made before it could be cancelled.

I FINALLY told my parents about this crazy diet pill that had charged me so much money. I called the company and mailed back all the bottle but the first one. They sent me $80.00 back and told me I could never use that profile again. I cancelled my debit card so they would not charge me again. Yes. so BE CAREFUL and LOVE YOURSELVES! That stupid pill messed up my health and my bank account.

LOOK OUT FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS and BAD PRODUCTS.

Look at natural supplements or vitamins instead.

Now some pills that you can get at GNC or other health places that have legit health claims or even simple supplements could help lose weight. For example, a good daily vitamin. Or Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Fish Oil. All of the natural stuff that will improve your lifestyle and is not a one time thing could help. My doctor recommended I took a daily multivitamin and a D supplement because I was crazy D deficient. Haha Need that D. But really the vitamins give me more energy and make me feel good for sticking with a good habit.

Weird Diets

Alright party people, I’m not here to hate on anyones diet! Eat and follow what you want! HOWEVER, do not fall for those ” funky pay in advanced meal plans/ detoxs” I’m telling you this for your own well being. Now they do have legit meal plan services however some crazy diets or detoxs out there are a scam. Once you know how to spot a scam you got this.

For example just this morning an add popped up on my youtube video. The add was saying Chris Pratt and many others followed this diet, most diets have it wrong, they say eat fruit and veggies. (I’m not joking I bet you could find this add) And I stopped and hit skip add because what the heck? NOT eating fruit and veggies? OKAY?

Be careful this time of year! If you start a diet good for you! Just make sure you really read into it and don’t follow some weird diet or juice cleanse just because they claim some celebrity did.

Higher Priced Gym Memberships

This one bums me out the most. Oh man writing all this makes me feel so negative but it’s sad how badly people will take advantage on this time of year to earn a pretty penny. So YES some gyms up there prices this time of year. I personally already have a gym membership at ANYTIME Fitness because ya girl likes the freedom and the ability to go in any one of the gyms Nation wide and at anytime, all included in the membership. Highly recommend looking into it, they have a teacher discount!

Be careful joining gyms that have fees and other things. Really question the person and maybe just work out at home or other places and join a gym once you have a routine set up and feel ready.

AGAIN not ALL gyms do that. Be careful and do research! You got this!

Items not related to weight loss?

I’m sure there are several companies or industries not weight loss related that take advantage of this time of year as well. The only ones I really read about and have personal connections to are weight loss. If you have had similar experiences or completly different comment them below! It’s always good to hear about more scams to watch out for and to read stories like mine so I do not feel dumb. Thanks!

You are incredible and setting goals in life, writing them down, and working towards them is what makes us uinique and happy people. I know you will do great! As far as 2020 goes, Just Have a Year. Be you!