Weight Gurus Smartphone Connected Digital Bathroom Scale

With smartphones being so prevalent in society a scale that can talk to our phones in a world of apps is one of the best ideas in a long time. With the app we can tell our ups and downs and not have to think " What was I before again?" The app is simple to use and each time you weigh you just scan in the jumbled screen and it adds a weigh in to your history 

I love my weight gurus scale and all the things it can do. 

Here is a little bit about the scale.

Skinny Jane's "Skinny Burn" Review

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I have been working on losing weight for awhile and had been on a medication do help boost my metabolism and appetite suppressor. I ran into some issues with it but also some good results. In about 6 months I lost 40 lbs (gained it back later) It had some bad reactions for me as well. I found myself never hungry and I had to force myself to eat at least once a day. The thought of food made me nauseated, my blood sugars were constantly bouncing from normal to too low. I would get dizzy, cold sweats, ect and it got to the point I had to have my lunch hour at work changed because if I waited till they wanted I was sick. It got to the point I had to drink soda to keep my sugar up but I had been so good not drinking it, setting me back on soda addiction. Finally I had enough and just stopped filling my prescription. 

Since then I had been trying to find a new way to lose weight and when I got the chance to review Skinny Jane I jumped on it.

A positive change

So I recently got food poisoning a few weeks ago and it was horrible. BUT there has been a positive change since then. I have always been a soda drinker, specially Mtn dew. I just love it. Well I had been having a lot of problems about the last 6 months where my stomach was on fire everyday and I was always having to take tums. I went on vacation for a week in January and had no mtn dew while gone and the burning went away. So following that I stopped drinking regular mtn dew and then drinking Mtn dew Live wire. I really love live wire but its hard to find and expensive because I have to buy in in 12 packs.

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Then came the food poisoning. I couldn't eat or drink anything but water and I hate water. I always normally do flavored water with mio and things anyway but had switched back to soda full time when the water locally started smelling really funky. That day though I had nothing but plain water and the only thing I ate was a piece of french bread plain, greek yogurt, and plain water because everything else made me sick. I have never ever had food poisoning so bad in my life before. It was so bad I had to call out from work because I couldn't even walk right and the nausea was worse than anything else I have ever experienced.  So I spent the next 24 hours asleep or in the bathroom and then had to go to work the next night after expelling anything I had been able to take in all day and no food in my stomach. 

So of course I was miserable and spent the next few days scared to eat much of anything and that whole week was just miserable because I had to then work on the only day off I had in exchange for the sick day.

I went through terrible caffeine withdrawal but I am over it now and I have only had a soda 3-4 times since then. I used to drink 2-3 a day and really if I can't have my Mtn dew I just don't see the point anymore. So I have been Living on the Nestle Pure life Splash in mandarin orange and the flavored waters from Dasani in acai grape and mixed berry.

So here is to healthier options and maybe a new step in my weight loss journey.

Mio water enhancer..... vs. crystal light/generics. A battle review

So I hate and I absolutely mean HATE water. It taste funny to me; and I know what your thinking its all in my head, but I know other people that feel the same way so maybe its all been ingrained in YOUR mind & we are the normal ones. Anyway I had been using these drink mixes usually I stuck with the generics from IGA that were $1 for 8-10 drink mixes because I was trying to cut cost, but sometimes I would splurge for the good ones from crystal light or the Walmart ones that were almost as much as the crystal light ones.

Before I started to use the mixes I was drinking the 32 oz of powerade all day at work. That’s 10 hours at work plus lunch. I’m talking on the phone all day so I’m always drinking. So I would consume anywhere from 2-4 a day, that’s 200 calories a bottle so that means 400-800 calories just from drinking while at work. that’s not counting anything I drank before work or after! So that’s why I converted to the mix because it was 8-10 for$1 @10cal each instead of 1 for $.85 @ 200cal each. It just made sense and I had wished I had noticed it sooner.

The bad thing about the generic mixes is that they would clump at the bottom and if I swallowed a unmixed clump by accident it sent me into sputtering fits so bad that my eyes would water. Heaven forbid I be on a call with a customer and have to put them on hold because my beverage is trying to kill me. So then I switched to the box of 10 for $2.50 each, ouch I hated seeing that money fly out of my pocket.

I had hoped that the crystal light stuff wouldn’t clump and it didn’t clump as much but it still clumped. They are bitterly sour when you swallowed the clumps enough to make you gag and make a face like you took a giant bite from a lemon thinking it was an apple. (if someone was dumb enough to do this I would love to be there with a camera.) Although I will say their flavor selection was amazing because I always tended to get tired of the same flavor after a while. (NOTE: I forgot to mention the WalMart generics were comparable to the crystal light mixes and nothing like the horrible mixes I got from my local IGA)

I was working on a morning shift not sure of the hours but a girl on my team was always drinking mio at work and I thought it was a cool Idea but I never gave too much thought. Then I was at a friend’s (Kerrie & korey) and korey had the berry pomegranate and asked if I was thirsty, knowing I hated tea and plain water, offered me some of the mio. Right away I was hooked, I went right to the store and bought the berry pomegranate and drank it till it was all gone. What got me was the pure flavor no bitter after taste that I had experienced with some of the mixes, a simple bottle that I didn’t experience any spills with. Oh and here is the BIGGEST one……. Not a single calorie! Not one! So now it was helping with my quest to lose weight. Any other benefits you ask? Yes there is! One bottle is good for 24 uses or more if you like yours weak like I do. So now we have gone from 1 use for $.85 to 8-10 uses for $1 and then to 10 uses for $2.50 and now 24 for $3.50.

I am totally addicted to the strawberry watermelon I almost don’t get anything else at this point because I haven’t gotten tired of it yet and it’s been a year and I’m still drinking the same flavor! For those that know me that is a total shock because I get bored with things.

So now I was still bad with energy drinks occasionally when I felt I was going to fall asleep. Now I know I said occasionally but I drink a lot at once. Here is the lable from the can I would drink:

That’s 300 a can and I was drinking 2-3 cans of monster energy. Omg there we go with extra empty calories!

Well I went to the gas station about 2 months ago and I saw an empty display for something labeled mio energy. I asked the cashier about the display and they told me a guy that came in swearing by it bought the whole shelf! So I started to do some research on it. The red one Is black cherry but with the green I was getting conflicting information on wither its call thunder punch or green thunder. So knowing I’m picky and not wanting to waste the money I picked up the black cherry first because it was the best bet. So I tried the next night on my way to 3rds, still adjusting I’d felt tired every night. I loved the taste and as the night progressed I realized it did work and it didn’t cause me to have the adverse affects I always had to the monster such as stomach ache. A few days ago I picked up the green one (green thunder officially) and didn’t know what to expect because I couldn’t find what the flavor was supposed to be. I tried it and I love it more than the black cherry so definitely for normal I will go with the strawberry watermelon or wait there is a new one I forgot! Its orange tangerine I love that too!(not an energy mio). So I am keeping these 3 in stock at my home.

Walmart just came out with a GREAT VALUE version of mio and its $1 cheaper and they have some flavors that mio doesn’t have like grape. I have to deplete my mio stash and ill let you know what I think once I try it. They even have generic energy ones!