 Hi friends welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I am here with April favorites. This is one of my favorite videos to film, no pun intended, because I get to share all of the things I have been loving for the month and I have some really great things for you. I have a new pillow that has changed my life. I have lots of WW foods. I have beauty. I have fragrance. I have everything for you so if you're excited give this video a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not because I do a favorites every single month and I actually upload five videos every single week. Check out the description box down below where I will link everything I share with you in today's video with the exception of what you can find at your local grocery store. You'll also find nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. This is how I myself lost 90 pounds last year and I'm almost at 140 pounds lost total. Highly recommend personalized macros and calories and I offer one-on-one coaching for accountability or if you would like to chat with me directly. You'll also find links and discounts to my favorite other things and my Facebook group come join us there. We'd love to have you. So let's jump on in to my April favorites. Like I mentioned I discovered a pillow in the month of April actually at the very beginning of April that has changed my life. I talk a lot about sleep here on my channel how I can fall asleep but I have a hard time staying asleep. I often wake up with kinks in my neck so I was really on the hunt for a pillow that really focused on neck support so that those kinks from my neck those headaches the things I would wake up with that were pretty uncomfortable in the morning would be diminished and I found the elegiere cervical pillow for neck pain relief. It is ergonomic it's an adjustable contour pillow for sleeping memory foam slow rebound and release evenly it's an orthopedic neck support pillow for a side back or stomach sleeper and this is the box of it I've obviously been using it all month so I'll go ahead and insert footage here of the actual pillow but this is a memory foam neck pillow it says about a third of our lives are spent in sleep memory foam neck pillow from elegiere gear allows you to spend one third of your life with high quality sleep relieves neck and back pain improves sleep quality the memory foam is a transparent bubble structure that ensures the breathability and moisture absorption required by human skin and the function of this pillow is to maintain a suitable height for people to sleep and prevent that extra pressure on your neck the pillow can be too high or too low the better the pillow is designed to fit the head and neck the better the overall ergonomics of the pillow are which will give you perfect sleep this pillow is so versatile like I said you can either be a side back or stomach sleeper and make this pillow work and of course it offers the 360 degree support around the entire head and like I said this has literally changed my life now I am typically a stomach sleeper but I often sleep on my side I sometimes sleep on my back I have slept in all positions with this pillow and it is absolutely incredible game changer if you need support for your neck if you wake up with a kinked neck your lack of quality sleep has a lot to do with your pillow definitely pick up the memory foam pillow I bought mine directly off of amazon so I will link it down below for you with a special discount highly highly recommend again it's completely changed my sleep quality now let's jump into ww foods because I have a lot of new ww food favorites we're going to start with two new releases from one of my favorite brands ever and that is motivate so motivate just released back and stop back at it their peach greens I love motivate greens no grass here these are very sweet very flavorful there's no grassy taste or texture I mean their green definitely a green greens they dissolve beautifully in water and like I said you don't get any of that earthy grassy taste they have tangerine and peach I love both flavors equally but peach is back and honestly one of my favorite flavors these are the greens I reach for the most I find that they taste the best they dissolve the best I love the motivate greens because one serving actually gives you your daily intake of all of your fruits and vegetables including your super fruits you're getting antioxidants alkalizing nutrients literally everything you would get from eating boatloads of vegetables all in a greens supplement not to mention it's going to help you get in your water so I've been loving the motivate greens and the other product for motivate that I love love love with every fiber of my soul is their new protein powder it actually comes in both chocolate and vanilla it's a hundred calories and gives you 20 grams of protein I've been using this non-stop every time I make a protein shake every time I make protein in my non-fat Greek yogurt you know I love to stir protein powder in with non-fat Greek yogurt for double the protein I've been using my motivate the chocolate the vanilla I love them both equally they have a nice clean ingredients there's less than one car and again you're getting 20 grams of protein for only a hundred calories so the macro ratios of this protein powder is spot on you always want at least 10% protein for the calorie so for example if this is a hundred calories we would want this to have at least 10 grams of protein and it has 20 and the flavor is so good the chocolate is very cocoa-y very rich very decadent and the vanilla is just the perfect vanilla protein powder sweet but really get you really get that vanilla bean flavor cannot really honestly recommend both of these products enough and I will go ahead and link motivate down below for you with a 20 discount are these cookie things from Trader Joe's so I actually shared the ginger ones in my last month's favorite they're absolutely delicious and a lot of you reached out and said get the Meyer lemon cookie things these are amazing especially as we move into spring and summer they are very lemony and you actually get nine cookies for 110 calories nine of these now they're thin and they're crispy and what I love to do with these besides just eat them is I like to crumble these up and put them on my protein pudding or on my greek yogurt with protein powder the motivate vanilla with this sprinkled on top absolutely delicious tastes like lemon curd lemon meringue pie and you're getting that little bit of crunch and that rich lemon flavor these are amazing I hope that Trader Joe's continues to bring out new flavors but the lemon and the ginger are staples for me I have a couple of beverages that I recently discovered that I've been loving and one of them is hint water now I've drank hint water for years but this particular flavor I had never seen it before this is the coconut essence water so all of the hint waters have zero calories and they're just infused with a little bit of flavor this coconut one is so good like I said I love all the hint waters I've been drinking them for years but the coconut became a favorite in the month of April I think this is like the ninth or tenth bottle of the water that I purchased because it's so good it has just the right amount of coconut to give you all those tropical vibes and again zero calories zero points and a great way to get in some extra hydration and the other beverage is this Gatorade fit now I shared this in a grocery haul and so many of you commented and said I love Gatorade fit and I was a little leery of it I don't drink a lot of Gatorade products I don't drink any energy drinks or anything like that but what caught my attention is this this healthy real hydration no added sugar no no artificial sweeteners or flavors no added colors and an excellent source of vitamins a and c and I have the watermelon strawberry this is an electrolyte beverage and post workout even pre workout electrolytes are so important and I wanted to have something that I could take on the go so if I had an errand to run after my workout I could get in my electrolytes it is 15 calories for a bottle it's zero points I don't even track this and I lose it out I mean it's 15 calories but this is thelicious the watermelon strawberry is so good it's my favorite flavor and I definitely get the electrolyte boost from this I love this I can see myself really reaching for these Gatorade fits a lot especially when I'm feeling like I just need a little bit of a boost or if I'm in a little bit of an afternoon slump this is a great way to get in some electrolytes so actually both of these beverages became a fast favorite now you know I love Lakonto I use all of their sweeteners granulated powder golden I love their syrup their maple syrup their cinnamon maple syrup they're my favorites I use their chocolate chips but there's two products from Lakonto that I had never tried until the month of April and I really truly love them both first is the Lakonto barbecue sauce so this is the monk fruit sweetened barbecue sauce original it is only 10 calories for two tablespoons so again zero point barbecue sauce it is sweetened with monk fruit it has that perfect smoky slash sweet taste it's really really delicious and it's much more affordable than some of the other low sugar ones like G Hughes or sweet baby rays and you can buy this right off of the Lakonto website so when you're placing your order for sweeteners serps chocolate chips baking mixes all the good Lakonto things you can add the barbecue sauce to your order I love this the other thing is the no sugar added ketchup so I had always purchased the primal kitchen or the Heinz no sugar added this one is so much better it's so much more real authentic ketchup taste and there's only five calories zero points in a tablespoon and again sweetened with monk fruit as all Lakonto products are so both of these became a super fast favorite in the month of April and I will link Lakonto down below for you with 15% off next up is this fair life chocolate milk this is almost gone it's definitely being added to my grocery list this week I have been making a milk shake packed with protein for weeks now I've shown it in several what I eat in a day videos super simple to make and I'm telling you it is a milkshake packed with protein so I've been doing one cup of the fair life chocolate milk now this is a little more calories a little more points it is eight ounces or one cup is 140 calories but there's 13 grams of protein in here 13 grams of protein so I've been doing one cup of chocolate milk with my favorite protein powder motivate is been one I've been using a lot I add a little bit of ice and I blend it up in my Nutribullet and it's a milkshake it's a milkshake with between 35 and 45 grams of protein it's so good and it is low calorie because I'm not adding any frozen fruit it's simply the fair life chocolate milk and your favorite protein powder definitely the chocolate and vanilla from motivate are amazing in this and this has really been a game changer for me I have also made ice cream in my ninja creamy with this I'll definitely be sharing that recipe in a future what I eat in a day so make sure you're subscribed but fair life regular milk fair life chocolate milk obsessed and last but not least for ww food favorites are these little hundred calorie packets of roasted and salted cashews these have been a game changer for me I've been keeping one of these in my car and one of these in my purse and I actually took these on my trip to New Orleans and this was literally a lifesaver when it came to a snack it gave me a little bit of sweet a little bit of salty a little bit of crunch and it's only a hundred calories and I'm getting some healthy fats and some protein these little hundred calorie packs of nuts I kind of forgot about them and now they're back like I'm going to be purchasing these forever moving forward because it's such a great pre-portioned way to have a healthy snack on the go love love these especially the roasted and salted cashews now let's jump into some beauty favorites starting with fragrances you guys always love that I share my dossier fragrances of the month with you and as always I purchased two cents for the month of April and I've been loving them both so this is what dossier looks like they replicate high-end perfumes for affordable prices so anywhere from $29 to $49 versus hundreds and hundreds of dollars and I always say that their replicated fragrances are just as good as the high-end version so as always per usual I bought two for the month of April and I love them both first of all the packaging perfection really really nice packaging makes a fantastic gift I've actually gifted dossier to multiple people in my life but I wanted to share with you the two fragrances that I picked up for April kind of leading in this spring and I really wanted something that was fresh and fruity and these two did not disappoint first up this is amberie cherry this is the replication of the tom ford lost cherry perfume now that perfume was just released by tom ford not too long ago I actually talked about it in a new makeup releases on my beauty channel and I said there's no way I was going to spend the price point for a tom ford perfume then I saw that dossier had their replicated fragrance and let me just tell you this is tom ford lost cherry for a correction of the price so let me tell you about the notes in this so the top notes are cherry almond and cinnamon so it's a little spicy a little bit fruity the middle notes are cloves rose jasmine and plum and the base notes are peru balsam tonka bean and vanilla so it's smoky it's deep but it's fresh and it's perfect for spring I smell cherry I smell vanilla I smell the tonka bean I absolutely love this fragrance and I love the magnetic lid of dossier because I keep these in my purse because there's no risk of leaky and the other fragrance that I picked up for April is the citrus peony and this is the replication of dior yes dior misty or blooming bouquet odie toilette so again a citrus floral spring fragrance the top notes in this one are mandarin bergamot and black current and the middle notes are rose apricot and peony your base notes are musk peach and raspberry so very very fruity a little bit of undernoted floral a little bit of undernote of musk she's delightful she's fresh she's springy and she is a replication of the dior hundred hundreds and hundreds of dollar dior and you can get the citrus peony for a fraction of that price both of these fragrances smell so good I feel like I have a little bit of both of them in the air and it's a nice combination not gonna lie but the citrus peony is fantastic so like I said I can't recommend dossier enough I purchase two fragrance every month and I'm never disappointed one thing I will say kind of side note is the longevity isn't going to be exactly the same as the high end fragrance now don't get me wrong they do have quite a bit of longevity but I find that I do have to reapply once a day or so to really get that fresh fragrance back but for the price you can't beat it I mean you can buy several bottles of these for the price of one of the bottles of the high end so I will link dossier down below for you with a five percent discount that you can actually piggyback with any other discount on the dossier website I have one skincare favorite for you it's actually the moisturizer that I have on today and this is from the brand Elimus and this is their super food glow primer moisturizer what I love about this it is so glowy it is just absolutely beautiful whenever I don't wear makeup I always use this moisturizer because it literally adds a beautiful glow to your skin and this serves as a primer under makeup as well so I don't use a primer when I'm using the Elimus glow moisturizer it gives me a glow from within it serves as a primer a little bit goes a very long way like I'm talking a pea sized amount will do your entire face so it lasts a very long time now Elimus is a little bit pricey so keep that in mind but like I said you're getting so much use out of this I mean months and months and months and it is such an amazing moisturizer truly truly my favorite for that glow from within I love lip oil I talk about lip oil all the time on my channel and one of my favorite indie brands or independent owned brands blend bunny released their line of lip oils I actually have this purple one on today these are amazing they're so hydrating they're so juicy they're not sticky I've been loving these I actually took all three of these with me on my trip to New Orleans and I mean I've made a dent in these lip oils already and I just got these these are so so so good if you want a good lip oil that gives shine and hydration without stickiness highly recommend blend bunny another thing I've been loving are the new elf cosmetics halo glow wand also took these on my trip I'm actually wearing all three of these on my face today so I have the contour halo glow wand the blush halo glow wand and the highlighter halo glow wand so these are kind of duplicates replications of Charlotte Tilbury which are like four times the price of these they have that kind of foam applicator so you just dab it on the skin and blend it out I have been loving these these are only nine dollars a piece and they're fantastic the contour one I love it for my nose because I can do just a couple dots on each side and blend it out the blush is glowy the highlighter is glowy these are fantastic and for nine dollars a piece why spend 40 plus dollars on the Charlotte Tilbury love love love these you also know how much I love Timu like let's be real I love Timu I Timu for clothing I actually just did a full face of Timu makeup on my beauty channel so if you love makeup and you don't follow my beauty channel I will link it down below for you but I bought the Timu beauty mascara it's actually from the brand she does and this is their ultra long mascara oh my god you guys this is no lie the best mascara that I have literally ever used and I want to say it was like less than five dollars it is fantastic it kind of has an interesting brush to it you can see that it has the curved end so that curved side I use for my upper lashes and then this flat side I use for my lower lashes one coat of this and my lashes are like in your face I love this mascara I am actually going to go purchase more of this these this is now my go-to mascara I love love love this so don't sleep on Timu's beauty section as well I will link this mascara and Timu's beauty section down below for you and last but not least I always love to end out my favorites with my eyeshadow palette favorite of the month it's actually the one that I have on my eyes today and that is from the brand melt cosmetics and this is their bad aside zodiac air palette this is such a beautiful palette I have this whole bottom row of purples on my eyes today I love this peachy coral row as well the mattes the shimmers everything about this palette is so so so good I absolutely have been loving it I got this in a melt mystery box along with the fire palette and I love these these are so small so compact there's even a mirror so they would be amazing for travel but I love this purple color story it's deep it's grungy like I said it applied absolutely beautifully to my eyes let me go ahead and give you kind of a close-up of the shadow application but I really really really love this and this palette is affordable and it's still available on the melt cosmetics website so I'll link it down below for you but if you love purples corals a little bit of both highly recommend so those are all of my april favorites the pillow life-changing dossier amazing fragrances all the beauty motivate loconto trader joe's cookie fins there was so many good things in this month favorites so let me know down below what are you excited to try for yourself from my favorites and of course if you enjoyed the video give it a big thumbs up subscribe if you're not I do upload five videos a week and I do a favorites every single month everything will be linked down below for you discount codes links for easy shopping just click the link purchase the products i'll make everything really easy and link it at the top of the description box for you you'll also find nutrition coaching links and discounts to my other favorite things and of course i'd love to have you come on over and join our facebook group it's free it's supportive it's wonderful and we'd love to have you thank you for watching and i'll see you next time bye