Cellulite Defense Gel-Cream Review

I still have stretch marks from when I was prego with the kiddos. I've lost some weight, but some is still there.

Body Merry's Cellulite Defense Gel-Cream is made to combat cellulite with their unique Caffeine + Retinol + Seaweed formula.

Full List of Ingredients:

• Organic Herbal Mix (I do wish they'd state what that mix is)
• Organic Aloe
• MSM Methysulfonylmathane
• Sodium Stearate
• Kosher Vegetable Glycerin
• Organic Coconut Oil
• Menthol
• Cetyl Alcohol
• Caffeine
• Algae Extract
• Japanese Green Tea Leaf Extract
• Fragrance (I wish this wasn't in it)
• Organic Sweet Almond Oil
• Hydroxyethl Cellulose
• Carrageenan Gum
• Retinol
• Kelp
• Dulse - Red Alga
• Wildcrafted Horsetail - Shavegrass
• Organic Cayenne
• Apricot Kernel Oil
• Vitamin E
• Sodium Benzoate
• Potassium Sorbate
• Phenoxyethanol
• Ethythexyl Glycerin

I have to say that looking at the ingredients, and looking some of the things up I'm impressed with much of what's in the formula, but there are other things I'm in question of: Phenoxyethanol, Ethythexyl Glycerin, and the fragrance.

Like all their products, it is free from harsh chemicals such as parabens, sulfates and phthalates. That's really good!

Applying it:

Message the gel-cream onto the affected areas twice daily (morning and night). It helps to clean the area you are applying it to first.  Make sure your skin is completely dry before applying it.

It's a fast absorbing gel-cream that helps visibly reduce the appearance of bumps and lumps. This formula leaves your skin looking and feeling younger, smoother, and tighter.

I've tried skin tighteners before. I don't like ones that are used on the face. I just feel like I have Halloween make-up on, or something. It just doesn't feel natural. This cellulite defense gel-cream doesn't feel bad at all. It absorbed into my skin quickly. It doesn't smell bad. I don't mind the tighter feeling on other parts of my skin. Instead of it making my skin feel tight, it actually just gives it a tingling feeling.

I do like the packaging. The red and white just looks pleasing.

It's great that it quickly absorbs into your skin. It's not sticky, or oily feeling.

Cellulite Defense Gel-Cream is rated perfect on Amazon. The price is $79.95, and is on sale for $27.99.

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I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

WW: Hiking {Linky}

We went hiking at Platte River State Park this last weekend. 

I love seeing moss and lichens growing on trees.

There was a tepee off this trail.

The youngest one always has a stick in his hand.

A mini waterfall was off the trail.

The two boys spent the night with their cousins, and then went hiking afterwards. They hardly fall asleep in the car. This was a rare exception.

Do you ever go hiking?

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Shake the Crave Review

We love smoothies at our house. We usually have a smoothie about 5 breakfasts a week.

I was sent a few samples of Shake the Crave. Shake the Crave is made by Trusted Health. 

You can mix a scoop of Shake the Crave with milk, almond milk, cashew milk, soy milk, or rice milk. Add a little ice to thicken it up if you prefer.

I used the vanilla sample first. It's made with real vanilla beans. It tastes like an old-fashioned, hand-dipped milkshake from a small town creamery.

One sample is supposed to be for 1 glass. I used the sample for everyone in our house, so I added to it. Our smoothie this morning had:

• A sample of Shake the Crave Vanilla
• 4 leaves of collard greens from our garden
• 1 frozen peach (cut up)
• 1 banana
• 2 cups of unsweetened homemade almond milk 

It was really good! Everyone drank it down like it was going out of style. Shake the Crave helps you to experience a “new normal” in the way you feel. It makes you feel more satisfied and full longer, and boosts energy levels and feeling of well-being.

It's great to drink at breakfast or lunchtime, as a healthy snack or quick meal on the go. 100% pure ingredients.

Shake the Crave helps with weight loss. It's not that anyone of my boys need to loose weight. There is nothing in Shake the Crave that is bad to those that aren't trying to loose weight either.

Most diets start out where you feel really motivated. You then start depriving yourself of calories, nutrients, and your favorite foods. Next, you begin having these intense cravings for junk food, snacks and processed food...chips, soda, bread, and more. So far I've been doing pretty well all summer with cravings. I never really ate bad. At some point, you finally break down and indulge. Then you feel guilty, blame yourself and even have negative thoughts about yourself. You question your willpower and sometimes even your character. Finally, you lose motivation and slack off or just flat-out quit.

Does any of this sound familiar? It does to me.

Most diet programs and products are full of processed foods and ingredients - they might encourage you to eat less food, but they totally ignore the quality of the foods you eat. They are filled with genetically-modified ingredients (GMOs), MSG, artificial sweeteners, fillers, binders, and synthetic or isolated nutrients that provide little or no nutritional value. Remember Slim Fast anyone? They totally had this problem.

Why is Shake the Crave Different?  

They offer a simple and delicious way to support healthy lifestyle goals, without the hype, artificial ingredients, or unrealistic dietary restrictions.

This shake tastes great, fills you up and helps you feel full longer.

It's not a shake filled with low quality ingredients. There is no fillers, no fluff. Just pure ingredients working together to nourish your body and help you feel fuller longer.

Benefits and Features of Shake the Crave:

• Thick and creamy - tastes like an old-fashioned, hand-dipped milk shake from a small-town creamery. It has a great aftertaste.

• Experience a "new normal" in the way you feel.

• Feel more satisfied and full longer.

• Boost energy levels and feeling of well-being.

• Great to drink at breakfast or lunchtime, as a healthy snack or quick meal on the go.

• 100% pure ingredients.

• One bottle has 15 delicious servings - about one week's supply at two shakes per day. $40 per container.

• Contains no artificial sweeteners, flavors, colors, preservatives, or isolated/synthetic vitamins.

• No gluten, soy, egg, GMOs, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, fillers or binders.

• Available exclusively from Trusted Health Products.

• Good source of protein.

• Good source of calcium. It does contain milk, which is hard for me because I have a dairy allergy.

• Low fat - only 0.5 grams.

• Low sodium.

• 120 Calories. 

• It's made in the USA. 

• You'll Deal Directly with the manufacturer when purchasing Shake the Crave.

Follow These Steps:

1. SHAKE - Enjoy two delicious shakes a day – one at breakfast and one at lunchtime. These will help you feel full longer.
2. SNACK –Eat two or three low-calorie snacks throughout the day to curb cravings and boost your energy – preferably around 100 calories each of raw and/or organic veggies or fruit.
3. MEAL – Take your time and eat a sensible dinner. The more whole foods in the meal, the better.
4. MOVE – Exercise with moderate aerobic activity (like brisk walking) 5 times per week, plus muscle strengthening 2 times per week.

 Ingredients:

Organic non-fat dry milk from naturally raised cows
Organic unrefined cane sugar
Organic coconut powder
Organic ground vanilla bean from tropical vanilla plants
Electrolytes from mineral salts

Why Sugar?

They have accented this product with natural cane sugar and with milk, coconut powder, and vanilla giving you a total of 20 grams of sugar for the best possible result. This type of sugar converts to glucose quickly, which fuels ATP production in your body.

The vanilla shake has 20 grams and their chocolate shake has 19 grams of sugar and a lot of that sugar actually comes from the organic non-fat dry milk, the organic coconut powder, and the vanilla or coco beans. Eight ounces of bottled, unsweetened grape juice has 36 grams of sugar; eight ounces of bottled unsweetened, raw orange juice has 21 grams of sugar; eight ounces of unsweetened apple juice has 24 grams of sugar; and one peach has 14.7 grams of sugar.  In the whole picture of what we consume juices have more sugar than 1 single shake.

Shake the Crave only has 10 total ingredients - all 100% pure. These ingredients have been chosen for how effective they work together in the right proportions, to give you the best benefits possible.

Try Shake the Crave for Free:

Try Shake the Crave vanilla and chocolate shake mix! For a limited time, the manufacturer is willing to offer my readers 2 FREE sample packets of Shake the Crave vanilla or chocolate shake mix. They said they would love to have our readers try out Shake the Crave and agreed to send the 2 sample packets FREE if our readers would pay a minimal shipping and handling charge of $2.95. This is a one-time only offer! Click here to get your 2 FREE sample packets now!

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I received samples of Shake the Crave in return for writing this post. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Rock N Learn is Featured on Zulily

As many of you know I have a Rock N Learn DVD, or CD giveaway going on here {winner's choice}.

Zulily is featuring many of the DVDs today. Some are sold in sets, and others are sold individually.

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Head on over to cheek out their merchandise. Any of their DVDs would make great stocking stuffers.

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Sing, Sing a Song Saturday

Sing, Sing a Song Saturday is all about me discovering something that is different. I don't want to post things that you and I have more than likely heard before. I want to find something different. It could be from another country, someone singing from the streets of NY, and more.

Today I'm featuring an artist named Andrew Huang. Andrew is just starting out.

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99 Red Balloons - Played with Red Balloons

Music Made of Garbage

As little as $1/month to download all Andrew's music here

Follow Andrew on YouTube 

Follow Andrew on Facebook

Follow Andrew on Tumblr

Random Tid Bits

1. I had a conversation with the boys about soda.
   
   Me: I just don't want you boys drinking soda a lot. I know someone at my work that drank Mountain Dew and got kidney stones.
   
   Mica: What are kidney stones?
   
   Me: Well it's like a small stone(s) that is trapped in your kidneys. The only way to get it out is by peeing it out. If it's really big they have to do surgery. I heard that peeing out a kidney stone sometimes hurts worse than having a baby.
   
   Mica: I don't want to pee out a stone. I won't drink Mountain Dew ever.
   
   Me: Well don't drink Mountain Dew.
   
   At school a few days later Mica won a prize. He picked to have a soda. It surprised me that they even had that option considering that they don't even want parents to pack juice in their school lunches.
   
   Mica ran up to Daddy after school and whispered: Dad is this soda going to give me kidney stones? I don't want to have to pee out a stone!
   
   Daddy knew nothing about our conversation about soda. He laughed and said: I think if you just have one soda you're fine. 



2. Mica hates spiders. I don't know where he got this fear of spiders.
   
   Mica: I just killed 3 spiders in my room with my Indiana Jones whip.
   
   
   
   
   Me: Yuck, make sure you clean the spider guts off your whip and floor with toilet paper. Are you sure there were 3 spiders you killed?
   
   Mica: Ya Mom I'm sure. 
   
   *Cleaning it up Mica said Oh I guess it was just 1. The others are just crack designs in our wood floor.



3. Both boys love to talk about natural disasters. Isaak calls a hurricane "Hore-i-cane".  It's too funny to correct.



4. Mica has been asking me for weeks: Mom am I old enough to have a frappe yet?
   
   Me: What's do you want?
   
   At first I don't know what he's talking about. He pronounces it as "frape" rhyming with grape.
   
   My answer: No you can't have a frappe.

   

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5.  We went to a wedding this last weekend. In the reception hall people were smoking.
   
   Me: Look at that the worker...she is smoking.
   
   Daddy: What are we seriously stuck in the 1990s?
   
   Me: That's sort of what I was thinking.
   
   Daddy: I thought that was illegal to smoke inside everywhere.
   
   

   

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   Is it illegal to smoke in public places where you live. It's illegal to smoke inside all public places in Nebraska. Even bars and bowling allies are smoke free.

Bloominous DIY Flowers Made Easy!

I'm a big fan of do it yourself projects. Projects where the artist's hand is in it are: 

• More rewarding

• Creative

• Fun

• Less Expensive

 It does help when you have the right supplies to help with DIY projects. 

I recently stumbled across a new website called Bloominous. They just opened in 2014. They certainly have all the supplies to make fantastic DIY floral arrangements. 

They have kits for pretty much any type of event. 

Many of their kits are sold for weddings. Brides can save so much money just by going the DIY route. They can save anywhere from 30% to 50%. Now brides can focus on having fun with their wedding; instead of being stressed about the money that gets spent.

One of my favorite memories from when I got married was getting together with my close friends and family to make mints for the reception. It wasn't a stress factor, it was a bonding memory. I know if I would have made my own floral arrangements I would have loved that to!

There are three perks about using Bloominous for special events:

1. Cost Saving of 30% to 50%. There is little mark up when you DIY. In a typical florist shop they mark things up 300%!


2. They send flowers that are cut, dethorned, and trimmed. This makes the DIY project go so much smoother. When you have a special event that's about to happen, time is of essence. All their kits come with photos that show step-by-step instructions. You can put together their designs in 10 to 20 minutes.


3. A design that maintains both a professional look and quality design. A florist that has been involved in the field for 10+ years have worked on the kits. More thought has gone into the kits beyond just the flowers themselves. It's about the vases, favors, and more.

 

Each set comes with a 100% fresh quality guarantee. If for any reason you are not satisfied with your order, Bloominous will replace your kit, or refund your money.

Each order has a flat overnight shipping rate of $19.95 or you can get free shipping with orders over $99. For big events it's easy to spend $99.

Visit their Bloominous' Website to learn more about how they started.

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Join Bloominous on Instagram.

  

I received an Amazon Gift Card in return for writing this post. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. The photos in this post are from Bloominous.com