Giveaway with a little Happenings

Because I believe in this product so much and know whoever the lucky winner is will be hooked after they try it; I am giving away 1 wrap to one lucky reader.

All you you have to do to qualify is be a follower of my blog and leave me a comment below.

Goodluck!

In other news:

I was oh so excited at the fact that I was going to get my new camera at a great discounted price, only to find out the next day that the website (CAMERAPROMO) is a huge hoax. DO NOT use that place. I don't want my blog to be a negative place of bashing, but this place is a serious rip off and have horrible customer service. 

So now ya'll are stuck with my duck taped camera photos and phone pics. Lucky you ; )

My little precious is starting to throw some serious tantrums!! Is that supposed to happen so young? I thought they stayed sweet babies much longer than this. Anyhow much of my day is spent trying to redirect, because I have heard it is still too soon for them to understand punishment.

Of course I cannot leave out all the work that has been going on at our house. The only before and afters I have so far are these.

Lame, I know! I promise they will improve and get much more exciting. The prep work is killer! Oh and in case you are wondering what the before and after are, it is the clean floor. I will never scrape a popcorn ceiling again!

Oh and I ask my honey to get a good picture of me working (yes I have to ask him to take pictures of me or I would never have any) and this is what I get. Attractive right?

Crewe loves helping his Daddy with ANYTHING!

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do! Baby Einstein and sugar = happy baby!

There has been playing too. Finding a good balance between house renovations and everything else in life has been something we are working on.

Questionable sandals? Are they boys or girls? Lets just say we only wear them at home.

This guys future is lookin bright

And we played outside A LOT! Dang you Lubbock weather for getting cold

Playing in the rain is pretty cool too

We ended the day in the dog bowl.

Hope your week is going great with far less tantrums!

Happy Wednesday!

Results after 1 Wrap

So I figured I would post my results as I complete each wrap.

It doesn't matter what size you are. Everyone can start seeing results in as little as 45 minutes.

The applicator is applied for 45 minutes and then continues working 72 hours after removal.

e-mail me at: happilywrapped@yahoo.com

Ultimate Body Wrap

This is what I would call "Healthy Habits Awesomeness"!

Have you heard of it??? I used to be such a skeptic about this product until my husband and I tried it. We are officially believers. Some people think it is a hoax and works about as well as an infomercial product, but my question to them is "Have you tried it?". Once you try this you will become a believer.

If you have 45 minutes and $25 you have time to give this a try. It is all natural and composed of plant extracts and botanicals. I use it and am nursing.

This wrap can be placed on multiple parts of your body, but it is best to start with the main area you are wanting to tighten, tone, and firm. Most people experience inch loss by their 4th wrap. The reason for this is the ingredients on the wrap target your fat cells and through lipolysis cause the toxins to leave the fat cells and be flushed out of your body.

Here is how it works. (This was the part I wanted ALL the details on because if something works so well I want to know how it scientifically works.)

Once you apply the wrap this is what happens:

1) Detoxification is the first thing that occurs. This allows the ingredients to pentrate the fat cells,

2) Lipolysis by definition is the break down of fats to release fatty acids. So essentially the ingredients enhances the bodies abilities to chop up larger lipocytes into little molecules that can exit the cell.

3) Microcirculation enhances the tightening, toning, and firming of the skin, which is why there is an improvement in scars and stretch marks. This is often the first thing you will experience after your wrap.

4) Lastly it contains anti-inflammatory angents. Anywhere you can reduce inflammation you will see a loss in inches.

Check out some of these results.

This is after 2 wraps

This is one of my friends results. Notice she got these results after 6 wraps and 18 days.

The inches lost are not water weight in fact they encourage you to drink as much water as possible over the next 3 days, becasue even after removal of the wrap  the ingredients continue to work for 72 hours. The more water you drink the higher the chance of the toxins that have been released from the cell will be flushed out of the body rather than reattach.

My brain works in pictures, so hear you can see that the wrap allows the fat reservoir to shrink as the excess fat is released from the cell to be flushed out of your body.

Source

Eating more than your  body needs for fuel is what causes the increase in size of the fat reservoir. Your body does not need to use the amount that you are eating for fuel, so it is stored as fat.

Make sense?

I made my husband try this product out with me just to make sure it was legit. He was wrapped for the second time today and has lost 2 inches.

I will be wrapped for my second time tomorrow. My little love pooch from Crewe is going away and not even several rounds of P90x could touch my pooch. Our before and after pictures will be up after we complete our fourth wrap (4 wraps is considered a full application). Be looking for those in about a week.

I will posting more about this periodically.

If you are interested in hopping on this train of awesomeness send me an e-mail at

happilywrapped@yahoo.com

How many calories do I need anyway???

In starting on a healthy lifestyle, it is so important to know how many calories you should be eating a day to make sure you stay on track. All calories are not created equal either. If you target caloric intake is 1800 a day, do not make that 1800 come from 1 meal and then not eat the rest of the day. This will cause you metabolism to plummet. Even though it appears you are consuming less calories by eating only one meal a day your body goes into a starvation mode and holds onto everything you eat, good and bad, because it thinks it will not get the nutrition it needs again. Your goal should be to keep you metabolism running fast and steady all day.

A quote I try and live by is, "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

This way you are fueling your body with the most amount of food that will be burned off during the day through activity versus putting way too many calories in your body right before you are in bed and inactive.

You achieve this by eating regularly throughout the day. It took me a long time to believe this. My body could easily function on just eating a big dinner. I rarely thought about food the rest of the day, but it wasn't until  I listened to my husband and starting eating throughout the day that I achieved my fitness goals.

So lets figure out how many calories you need.

1. Calculate you Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)- the calories you need to breathe, grow hair, blink, essentially be alive:

Your Body Weight x 10 = RMR

or

ex. 130 x 10 = 1300

2. Now calculate you daily activity burn- the calories you need for daily movement aside from exercise.

Your RMR x 20% = Daily activity burn

or

ex. 1300 x 20% = 260

3. Now you will add you RMR and your daily activity burn plus what you burn through exercise.

You will need to decide what you burn a day in exercise. That number is variable. In my opinion 200 to 300 is a safe number for moderate activity, 600 for intense training.

RMR + Daily activity burn + Exercise burn = Energy amount needed

or

ex. 1300 + 260 + 300 = 1860 calories to eat a day to maintain your weight

Now if you are wanting to lose weight you will need to create a deficit from that 1860. I usually start by subtracting 300 calories a day. My next post will discuss easy ways to cut calories without cutting taste to help with this.

So that drops us down to 1560 calories a day. Our of those calories you want 40% of the calories to be from carbs, 30% from fat, and 30% from protein.

Lets break it down:

1560 x .4 = 624 (carbs)

1560 x .3 = 468 (fat)

1560 x .3 = 468  (protein)

This is where My Fitness Pal is a gem. It will keep track of the break down for you. I have the app downloaded on my phone. Once you set up your account it will spit out the number of calories you need to consume a day to meet your weight loss or maintenance goals. I personally prefer the formula above, but regardless both the number you get from above and from my fitness pal should be similar.

This will be your home screen and you add all the food you have eaten in the My Diary tab at the bottom

The My Diary tab takes you to this.

Clicking on Add will take you to this screen.

From there you will click on the meal and add your food. This app has every food you can dream of and even the capabilities for you to scan the bar code on a food. So cool!

The last screen I use is the Daily tab that is on your home page. It lets you know where you stand and what you have left for the day . The white circle is where you will find your carbs, fat, protein ratios you figured out above and want to stay within.

Unfortunately will have have to log in on-line to change those ratios. The app doesn't offer that feature, but after you do make changes it will automatically sync it to your phone.

Go here and click on Goals

Which will take you here. You want Custom

Put in your 40/30/30 and click Save Changes

Sorry about the picture quality! I was taking the pic off my computer with my phone.

This has turned into the longest.post.ever, so I will end there.

If this post left you feeling confused

Please send me any questions and I will do my best to answer them.

Happy almost Thursday!

Healthy Habits

It seems like I have more and more of my friends asking me or my husband for advice on nutrition, health, and work out routines. I by no means have all the answers when it comes to these categories, but have always tried to live a relatively healthy lifestyle and in the process have come up with some excellent tactics to make healthy eating and living- lively, yummy and affordable. From sweet fixes to healthy easy meals, this portion of my blog will cover it all.

This is my husbands transformation

His transformation is one of the most inspiring to me because I know this man loves to eat and we knew our eating had to be a lifestyle change. That initial picture was taken over a year ago. If I can get the guts to put a picture up of me in a swimsuit I will show my transformation. Guys just don't care about that stuff.

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Some of the topics swirling in my head that I will be discussing:

-Ways to cut calories in your everyday eating without sacrificing taste

- Formula to figure out how many calories you need a day to fuel your body

- Easy ways to track your calories

- How many calories you burn and hour doing certain activities

- Why eat whole wheat versus white

(Source)

- Low calorie sweet fixes

- Exercising from basic to advanced

-Why to NOT always rely on the scale - And other places to look for weight loss

(Source)

My goal will be to have 1 Healthy Habit topic of discussion a week.

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Hands down what you put in you body to fuel it is THE MOST IMPORTANT part of creating healthy habits. Trust me when I say this you can bust your butt in the gym, or at home and will never see the full results of your hard work without having the right diet in place.

Now let me dispel one of the biggest issues with the word DIET. Through the years there have been so many so called “diets” where a person commits to eating a certain type of food, or pre-packaged meals, and they are promised the weight loss of their dreams. The problem with those “diets” is they are hard to maintain for the long haul and can take a chunk out of any grocery budget. You can read more about our budget here.


So where do you start? Follow along with me and as long as you COMMITT you WILL see result. Whether your committment is walking 30 minutes a day 5 days a week to working toward running a 5K OR cutting out 2 fast food meals a week for a healthy smoothly ( I have a great recipe) and a turkey wrap. Commitment is the key.

Stay tuned on Wednesday for-

"How in the world do I figure out how many calories I need" and navigating My Fitness Pal.

Happy Monday!