Arbonne Nutrition | 30 Days To Fit pack

It's getting closer to that time of year again - the time of year where everyone wants to lose their festive weight and get a kick start of a healthier year. 

In general, I'm a rather healthy and fit person, I use protein powders most days anyway and as I'm wanting to try move to a more plant based life I thought I'd give the Arbonne Nutrition pack a go. The cheaper and smaller of the two nutrition packs came with a box of the Herbal tea, a box of Fizz Sticks (you can pick pomegranate or citrus flavoured), a box of digestion plus, a bag of daily fibre support and a bag of their vegan protein, I got the chocolate one but they also have vanilla. 

Arbonne have a 30 day to Healthy Living plan that this pack is based around, during the plan your meant to completely cut out dairy, wheat/gluten, refined sugars, caffeine and alcohol. Its quite a lot to cut out, but when you think about it these things were never meant to be in our bodies, way back when we wouldnt have had toast or cereal for breakfast, would have been anything we could have caught, killed or grown. So I'm all for cutting out crap we are most likely intolerant too. 

I mix the digestion plus, the tea and the fizz sticks together and they taste insane together! It basically just tastes a bit like warm ribenna - I say warm cause I cool mine down. The tea in itself tastes really nice too! 

I've yet to try the Fibre Support - but the whole point in this is basically to replace the nutrients that we are meant to get from our foods but don't anymore. Basically cause our foods come from many places over seas - after they've been harvested they instantly start to lose their nutritional value - essentially cause the crop is dying as soon as its been cut. So this is just there to supplement what were no longer getting from our foods. 

Final item here now is the Protein Shake powder. I got the chocolate one as I'd already tried it a few weeks ago, it was just the most velvety smooth chocolate protein I'd ever tried. It provides 20g of vegan protein per serving which is pretty good! It will definitely help get me to my goal of 96g of protein a day! 

Have you ever tried anything from Arbonne before? What do you think of these products? 

Protein Pick n Mix Haul

I've decided to bulk up over the autumn winter time, so I'm putting on weight but I want to try keep the fat gain as low as possible, but heres the thing, I snack a hella lot. I decided to put a cheeky wee Protein Pick n Mix haul, all da snacks. 

 Snack bars! I got 4 of the Milky Way protein bars, I've tried one of these so far and they are tasty but they don't taste as good as an actual Milky Way - boo! Would recommend though, they weren't too chewy, and tasted pretty good. 
I also got one of the Barbell Cookies and Cream bars, this does not taste like how I expected it. Other Cookies and Cream bars taste amazing but this one tasted a wee bit like coffee... Maybe I just had weird taste buds. 
I got one of the Confetti Cake Crunch My Bars. This was really nice, but a bit chewy. 
I've yet to try this last one but its the Fulfil Cookies and Cream bars. 

 Next up we have the My Muscle Mug Mug cake - this one is Red Velvet. I've not tried it yet but I've seen a few people on Instagram talk about this one and they had only good things to say about it. 
I also got a Swolesome foods cookie - this was amazing, it had a surprise jammy filling inside it. If you were looking for a decent macro treat that actually tastes amazing then this is the treat for you.

 Jim Buddy's Donuts are heavenly. Actual heaven in a plastic tub. The Chocolate Orange one was the better of the two but they were both outstanding. You need to eat them pretty quickly though thats the only thing, I think they say to eat within 5 days. 

 GRENADE SHAKES ARE AMAZING! Ok, these taste amazing, all the flavours are beaut (although don't tell the others but White Chocolate is my fave). I got a set of 6 as they were better priced when you bought more. As a post workout these are great, I also though have one if I'm running late and dont have time for breakfast. 

 I also got two of the PEScience Select Proteins, I got them in Snickerdoodle and Cookies and Cream. I actually only got these cause a fitness Instagrammer I love was using these to make cake. And I like cake so it seemed to make sense. 

Final two products are Kodiak Cakes Flapjack and Waffle mix - I've used this before and love it so this is just a repurchase, I use it along with protein powder to make pancakes. I also got the Nuts'n More Hazelnut Spread, still need to try it so I'll update you on my twitter about the taste if you fancy knowing how it is. 

Thats all for my Protein Pick n Mix haul, is there anything you like the look of here or anything you think I should try soon? 

Health and Fitness

At the start of the year I was doing so so so well with exercising and avoiding junk foods, for the last two or three months though I've been so far from eating healthily and exercising moving that its untrue. Since university finished in May I've basically become a couch potato. I've gone from walking 3 or 4 miles a day to being lucky if I even do 1 mile.
I decided recently that I absolutely had to get back into the way of movement as not only if my overall fitness suffering but so is my skin and the amount of sleep I get. On an average night I'll be awake well into the wee hours, usually I fall asleep around 3am - its currently 1am and I'm not even a little bit tired.
To kick start my body into functioning properly I've been following a 10 day plan that I got on Tumblr. It has quite a strict meal plan and a few easy (Jesus these are not easy for me) to do exercises to do daily. I've been on it for almost a week so I'll update you at the end of it with how I did on it. The meal plan is basically just eggs, poultry, fish (not a fan), fruit and veggies ( also not a huge veggie lover). Oh what have I got myself in for?
I think most of my days are going to be spent eating turkey bacon and boiled eggs with me chocking down greens.

Along with this I'm going to try drinking protein shakes and a detoxing tea. Recently I've been spending quite a bit of money in Holland and Barret - for someone that has no form of income I spend waaaay to much money in there. But anyway, I love going in and having a wee look around at snacks and such like that I can eat instead of devouring packets of crisps and bars of chocolate. I'm currently loving their own brand flapjacks.
Hopefully by exercising and eating better my skin will stop being such a disgusting mess - face and back (anyone know how to get rid of back acne?) and fingers crossed I can fall asleep quicker than usual.

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