okay Saturday I am so late this morning I am a just one more thing type of
person so I know I have something coming up and I just try to fit in one more
thing one more thing one more thing and I was doing that all morning so I'm
still in my PJs awesome I hope you guys are having an awesome
weekend today is my mother's birthday happy birthday she turns 70 today so we
are going to brunch here in a little while and that's why I'm trying to fit
everything I can into this morning so I've been going crazy already on my
Saturday my nice stretched out neck PJ's are looking pretty fashionable this
morning right alright so it is day 15 discussion for rediscover me challenge
which I'm going to get to in a minute I've got some housekeeping stuff I'm
gonna announce first but this week on the Rediscover Me challenge is all about
health and wellness and we're talking about baby steps into this stuff because
I feel like when a lot of us embark on this journey and even for me I've you
know been in a pretty good groove with it for a while now but if I try to make
a big change all at once it's so overwhelming and I find that just
layering in the baby steps a day at a time is so much more effective so if you
guys listen to the chat I did before we started rediscovering I was like a week
before we started where I gave you that printout called the healthy habits
tracker which you guys can get at getyourprettyon.com slash/healthy tracker
I do one of these every week for myself to keep myself on track and I track my
water intake on here I track my workouts if I have any goals like I have my move
goal and my Apple watch and I want to hit it four times a week and I also
track things like whether I'm cutting out my nighttime snacking or not but it
just really helps me to have that visual right here on my desk it's right in
front of me it's a reminder every day that I need to do these things so I also
recommend if you do the healthy habits tracker you can start out just one
at a time maybe today you're gonna focus on water and tomorrow you're gonna focus
on eating more whole foods or maybe this week you're gonna focus on more water
and then next week you can layer in the next step I just find that that works
out so much better than trying to make all the sweeping changes all in one day
because that's overwhelming and again I just can't on stress this enough that if
you have a bad day or you have a bad hour whatever you can always hit the
reset button like at any point in time you can hit the reset button and it's
ironic that we're talking about hydration today and I'm normally
drinking my water by this point in the day but I'm still on my coffee right now
but it's called coffee chat right so we totally can drink our coffee together
all right so yeah as a matter of fact I saw a meme yesterday I was laughing I'm
gonna post it in our private rediscover me challenge group it says it had a
limited the top I was like a cartoon and it said something about how do you
expect me to drink eight eight glasses of water a day and it shows her with
eight glasses of water in front of her and then on the bottom part it says also
me and it has four cups of coffee and four glasses of wine so it's so true
like if I thought about how much coffee and iced tea that I drink in a day it
should make the water consumption pretty easy but you know it's more fun to drink
this stuff so anyway housekeeping stuff yes so we have the giveaway that I
teased yesterday is up today for every thousand subscribers we get on my
youtube channel which is brand new we're going to give away a combo seasonal
annual membership to gyps style challenge so that's a really good prize
we are already at I want to say we're like at 1,400 followers right now so
there's no reason why we shouldn't get I mean we have like what 26,000 people on
Facebook and 15,000 on Instagram and I'll be sending this out to my
newsletter list so please subscribe if you're already subscribed you're already
entered which is cool but we're gonna do a drawing
every single time we hit another thousand so do subscribe to the
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I share content over there that you won't see here on my lives or
on the blog so there's some new fun stuff that's coming up over there I'm
excited about it so do subscribe to that if you want to win yourself an annual
membership that's a really good prize also oh this morning one of the things
that I was doing while while I was getting ready for coffee chat that
delayed me so I announced yesterday that the spring challenge is going to open on
March 8th so that's like what three weeks away not even so I'm gonna start
dropping little Easter Egg hints here and there about things that are gonna be
on the challenge not everything I'm going to show you today is on the
challenge but a few of the things are so we got some new arrivals in yesterday
for Allison + Aubrey actually getting ready to ship these off to be
photographed so we have these cute little earrings they're like a geometric shapes
tortoise cellulite tortoise and this is super trendy for spring you're gonna see
lots of this resin jewelry lots of celluloid jewelry and everything that
I'm showing you today is under 30 bucks but I have a special treat for you I'm
gonna give you 10% off all new arrivals if you guys want to shop any of the
things I'm showing you today at Allison and Aubrey calm just enter code coffee
ten COFFEE TEN and this is just for coffee chat people so do take advantage
of that we also have these are so cool I love this it's a leather cuff bracelet
and that's gold and that'll go with everything we have more of the celluloid
tortoise stuff these earrings are in all the stuff is on our new arrivals page so
you can check it out there and again some of these pieces are going to be on
the spring challenge and the best we have these are cute we've got this
little cuff bracelet that's got a little bit more that tortoise on it
you're gonna see this stuff everywhere this spring and we have a pendant
necklace this is really cute it's got some beads on it and the tortoise
pendant and I love these things that I'm about to show you I need to put them on
over my PJs to actually look cute all right so we got some cute new kimonos
this one is pink floral it's like a blush pink it's really cute I'm trying
to find the top of it so I can actually put it on all right so it's got some
ruffle sleeves and I mean it doesn't look awesome with my PJs but it's really
cute it's like an open front kimono with some ruffle sleeves and throw this on
over a t-shirt with some jeans and it's like an instant outfit maker and I love
this one because I just have a thing for black and white polka dots
other than stripes and leopard polka-dots are my favorite so we've got
this one too which is the same style it's got the ruffle sleeves and I'll
show you that but I put this one on inside out so but I don't think you can
tell anyway these are super cute we've got lots of new arrivals and you can get
10% off COFFEECHAT10 is the code to use for that okay so on to today's
Rediscover Me lesson we're talking about hydration hydration yes so I think that
we I think starting with water is really a good baby step to ease into this I
shared with you guys several times that when I would need to
hit the reset button I've been eating lots of junk food or we go on vacation or
whatever like the first thing that goes out the window is I usually stop
drinking water and just replace it with coffee and tea all day long so this is
one of the ways that I signal to myself hey we're jumping back into healthy
lifestyle again and you know just that signal to my brain helps me to hit the
reset button so I always start with this whenever I'm embarking on trying to make
some positive healthy changes and there's you know so much research behind
being well hydrated it's good for your skin it's good for all of your system
and I have an especially good reason to be staying hydrated right now I had some
medical tests done and in December and because I was having some issues which I
thought was one thing and ended up being something else but what they discovered
is I had a kidney stone in my right kidney and it's in there right now it's
not causing me any issues but I'm just like thinking any moment this kidney
stone is gonna just like wreak havoc on my world I've never experienced one
before I've heard all these horror stories and I'm doing everything that I
can to hopefully break that up and flush it out without having any issues but
that's really a reason why I've been trying to up my water and take
significantly but I think one of the things that helps a lot with this is I
have a nice cup it's a 32 ounce cup and I know if I fill it up actually it's
yeah it's 32 ounces and I know if I fill it up twice a day and drink all of it
that I'm going to hit my water total for the day there's you know some
calculations out there that you can do specific to your body but half of your
body weight in ounces of water is a general recommendation so definitely
check that out first but there are lots of tips and tools you don't like plain
water you can make some fruit water and keep it in your fridge put some
strawberries in maybe like do some slices of watermelon and love that in
the summer months like lemon of course it's always great to put in your water
try some flavored things with it there are lots of flavored waters out there on
the market right now there's sparkling water there's so many different options
if you're not really a fan of drinking water but I also find that using some
kind of tracker there are apps that you can download onto your phone to track
your water you can do it through Fitness Pal if you're a Fitness Pal user you can
do it manually like I do I like to just mark it off I go fill up my water cup
come back to my desk and put a hash mark in every single time I finished one of
my big cups of water so that's really helpful and it keeps that front and
center right in front of me so I'm kind of a fan of paper for that reason I feel
like apps and things like that are hidden
they're not blatantly obvious in your face all the time so those are all
little tips and tricks that help with my water consumption I would love to hear
your tips and tricks to like is there if you're not a fan of water is there a
good fruit combo that you've tried that you enjoy then definitely share that
with us I know some people like cucumber in their water I do I think it's very
refreshing especially in the summer months but I would love to hear your
tips and tricks and what helps you meet your daily intake of water so please do
share those with us and I hope you guys will join us over in the private
Facebook group for the discussion on today's lesson I will be back here
tomorrow with your next baby step and we are going to be continuing these
throughout the week and just layering in a piece every day so do try to get your
water intake in today and definitely let us know I want the Facebooker to be
accountability for you too so please check in over there and let us know if
you're hitting your daily intake all right so have an awesome Saturday I will
see you guys back here tomorrow bye
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