 Hi friends. Welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. It's January 2021. It's the new year. How exciting is that? So this is my first favorites video of the new year. If you didn't know, I put out a favorites video every single month. So this is my December favorites. We talk WW foods, beauty, home, pets, fitness, whatever has been my very favorite things over the course of the last month. I include it in today's video. I'm going to link everything I talk about in the description box down below for you with the exception of some food items that are just found at your local grocery store. I love doing these favorites videos because I love watching them and I like hearing everybody's favorite things. So I know what to pick up either online or next time I met the grocery store. So if you're excited for today's video, please give it a big huge thumbs up. 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Says my husband who doesn't even eat chocolate. He loved these bars. It's the perfect pairing of chocolate and peppermint and creamy ice cream. They are delicious. The only store that I could find them in my area was Kroger or Fred Meyer, but I know that I've heard other people picking them up at Walmart and Target. If you can still find these, get them. They are so delicious and they're five points on the WW plan and worth every single one of those points. Next up is chocolate. Who doesn't love chocolate? Well, besides my husband, I love chocolate and I'm always looking for a healthier version. And I found these unreal coconut chocolate bites. This is a mounds candy bar dupe. These are so delicious. They're the perfect size. They're only 70 calories. You can't beat it. And it is literally like you're indulging in a mounds bar, but with absolute perfection when it comes to ingredients. Perfect size. They're small. They're doable. You can work one into your day every single day. I ordered these in my imperfect foods box. I'll link them down below with $10 worth of free groceries. And you can also find these on the Thrive Market. I'm actually going to be sharing another item with you today that I picked up off of Thrive. I'll also link their membership down below with a free gift up to $24 when you join. I love the Thrive Market. Seriously love it. But these unreal bars are mounds dupe that are better ingredients and a lot less calories and points. Also on the Thrive Market, I picked up another box of these Lara bar kids. These cinnamon bars are so delicious. They remind me very much of a very soft snicker doodle cookie. They have excellent, excellent ingredients. And again, they're portioned out. They're a kids size. So they're fairly small, but they're the perfect sweet treat. This is also a really good thing to have for breakfast. Pair it with some eggs and some sausage. And it's a really delicious breakfast. These are really good. Again, I picked these up off the Thrive Market. Also in my perfect foods box, I found Ora Bora. I have said over and over on my channel that the only sparkling water flavored on the market without natural flavors, aka artificial flavors has always been spin drift until I discovered Ora Bora game changer. This is the best sparkling water I have ever, ever had. I ordered these from Imperfect Foods, which I get every two weeks. It helps prevent foodways. The prices are exceptional. And I often find really great new food finds like this. This sparkling water is clean ingredients, no natural flavors comes in several, several flavors. This one is my very, very favorite. This is cucumber lavender. It just has the perfect, perfect balance of flavor. Absolutely positively delicious. Highly, highly recommend. I'm definitely going to figure out where I can get these at all times. You guys know my love for cottage cheese. And I don't know where I've been. These canutes and doubles are delicious. It is cottage cheese and fruit all in a little container. You mix it all together. And I thought that these would be really high in points and calories just because there is like a sweetened fruit attached to it, but it's not. This is four points. It's 100 calories. It has nine grams of protein and it's the perfect cottage cheese fruit combination. It comes in several flavors, but I have to say the blueberry is my all time favorite. I hauled these from Trader Joe's and I didn't have very high expectations, but these blew me out of the water. These are absolutely delicious. These are the pistachio cranberry bites from Trader Joe's. Now they're small, but they are mighty. So here's the size of them. I mean, they're pretty small, but they're really, really delicious. They have pretty good ingredients, not necessarily the best oil, but they're really good. They're a nice, sweet treat that's actually packed with vitamins, minerals, nuts, seeds. They're really, really good. I don't know if they're seasonal at Trader Joe's. I did pick these up in the month of December. So next time you're there, check it out for these because they're really, really delicious. Next is this dip. I'm a sucker for dips. And if you didn't watch my meal prep just about a week ago, I prepped some feta dill burgers, some chicken burgers that were supposed to be Greek style. So they had a tzatziki sauce. So I bought this good foods one. And this is the best hands down tzatziki sauce I've ever had. It is only one point for two tablespoons. You can't beat it. It has big chunks of cucumber and perfect dill flavor. It's plant based and it has perfection when it comes to ingredients. Super good. Anything from Good Foods is a complete win in my book. But this tzatziki sauce, the best of the best. So the next item is just the package because I ate them because they're incredible. These actually came in my Miss Muscle Box. It's a subscription I get every month. It's $29.99 a month and it's a fitness box. So you usually get a few food samples, a piece of fitness gear, whether it's a shirt or a pair of workout pants or a jacket. You get an article of fitness clothing every single month along with some other really fun fitness themed things. I found some great products and this is one of those. This is the Shrewd Food Protein Dippers in Dark Chocolate. I actually got the milk and the dark in my box. Holy moly are these good. You guys, this is a whopper. This is a whopper with 10 grams of protein in 150 calories. These are incredible. If you want a sweet treat but you also want some protein, highly, highly recommend. I did reach out to them to see if I could get a discount code for you guys. I have not heard back, but in the event that I have by the time this video goes up, I will link that down in the description box as well as where you can pick these up. Yes, yes, yes, and yes, these are delicious. And let's end these WW foods with a bang with some chips because everybody loves chips. These salt and vinegar poppables, holy smokes, these are the best poppables I have ever had. I've been kind of on the fence on them. Some of the flavors I've had I didn't care for. Some of them were okay, but these sea salt and vinegar ones are really, really delicious. What I love most about poppables is their light, their airy, and you can have a boatload of them for four smart points. 28 chips to be exact. I love these. If you are on the fence too about poppables and you like salt and vinegar, try these. These are better in my opinion than traditional full fat greasy salt and vinegar potato chips. Let's jump into this month's beauty favorites and I have a lot. Starting with this shaving cream. This is the best shaving cream I have ever, ever used. I love it. Number one, because it doesn't leave my skin dry, it really helps moisturize my skin as I shave my underarms and my legs. This shaving cream, I don't know why I've used this stuff in the can for so long. This is the Elba Botanica and mango vanilla. It is a lotion consistency shave cream that's out of this world. I don't know if it comes in other scents, but this one is very fresh and what an awakening and it really is honestly the best most moisturizing shaving cream I've ever used. Next up is this primer. Don't sleep on elf cosmetics. Not only are they inexpensive, they're cruelty free and they make some pretty rock star products. This matte putty primer has been a complete game changer for me. I've been watching a lot of beauty tutorials on YouTube and I noticed a lot of them use this putty primer and it was really affordable. I think it was seven dollars, so I thought I would give it a try. What does it hurt? It's seven dollars. This stuff's incredible. It fills in all of the fine lines, wrinkles, large pores on your face and just gives you this flawless porcelain doll type of look before you even put on your foundation. I love it. I will always, always purchase this. I picked this up on target.com. I will find the most affordable price and link it down in the description box for you, but if you're looking for a good mattifying primer, especially if you have oily skin, you can't go wrong with this one. Now you know I love beauty counter. It's a clean cosmetic and skincare line. I've slowly been transitioning all of my skincare over. I'm pretty close, but I picked up this Dew Skin Tinted Moisturizer just because I wanted something for 2020. When we're not going out of the house a lot, just something that's going to add a little color to my face, but it isn't going to require putting on a full face of makeup. So what this is is it is a moisturizer that's tinted. So when you apply it, it gives you the look that you have a very sheer light foundation on. It's perfection. I use this a lot more than I care to admit on days that I just don't want to put on a full face of makeup. I'll pop some of this on, add some mascara, a lip, and I look like I've spent hours getting ready. This is the perfect combination of moisturizer and tint for all those days that you just don't want to put any makeup on. From watching all these beauty tutorials on YouTube, I've gotten really into baking and I showed you in my Get Ready With Me video during vlogmas. I'll link that down below for you guys. How to bake your powder on your under eye to give you a flawless look. So I picked up a couple of different baking powders and I found one that I am absolutely loving. Now I haven't tried them all, but this one has been a game changer when it comes to translucent powder. This is the Beauty Bakery Oat Flour Translucent Powder. This is what I use to bake my under eye. And again, if you don't know what baking is, I'll definitely link that video for you. I explain it all, but basically you want a nice white translucent powder to apply under your eye here that's going to fill in all the fine lines and wrinkles and pores and again give you that porcelain doll look. This one so far of all the ones I've tried has been my favorite. And funny thing about this, it's one of the most affordable. I've always applied my foundation with a beauty blender and I still use my beauty blender a lot more to apply my Beauty Bakery Baking Powder. I decided to go ahead and invest in a foundation brush and I actually saw this one, I believe in a Jacqueline Hill tutorial. This is the Mint Pear Foundation Brush. It was pretty darn affordable and this brush has completely changed my life when it comes to applying my foundation. There is no comparison between a beauty blender and a foundation brush and they can be very expensive. Upwards a 50 or 60 dollars. This Mint Pear one was really, really affordable and it works so well. I just dab on my foundation. I feel like I use a lot less and it gives me a much more flawless look. So if you're in the market for a foundation brush, pick the mint pear up. So I recently got my hair cut and colored for the first time since the beginning of June and I was talking to her about heat protectant and explaining to her that the one that I received in my FabFit FunBox several, several boxes ago from Drybar is amazing but it's better for wet hair because when I spray it on my hair, when it's dry, it dampens my hair. So she introduced me to this. This is the Milk Shake brand. This is an all natural hair care line. I have already been on their website and ordered several more products. This is my very favorite thing. This is their Thermo Protector and it isn't an aerosol can. It's a very dry spray and what I do is I just spray it on mainly the parts of my hair that's colored before I run any type of heat product over it, whether it be a flat iron, a blow dryer, a curling iron and it protects my hair. You can use this on dry hair. I use it every single time that I apply any heat. It's amazing. I can't believe I didn't pick this up from her sooner. Unfortunately, Milk Shake is a little hard to find. You can generally only find it from a hair care professional or off of their website. So I'll link their website down below and I'll link this product directly. If you're someone looking for a really good heat protectant, wow, just complete wow on this Milk Shake. Next up for Beauty is a hair mask. As I've mentioned several times, I have very dry coarse hair. It's just always dry and frizzy. So I'm always in the market for a really good hair mask. This one has blown me away. This is from the brand May Rocky. They reached out to me and offered to send me this hair mask to try. I'm so glad that they did. I've been using it several times a week. It is 100% vegan. It instantly smooths all the frizz, makes your hair frizz-free and shiny and beautiful and my hair has never, ever felt softer. There's a couple of different ways to use this mask. If you have very dry damaged hair, you can apply it before you even shampoo. Let it sit in your hair about 20 minutes and then wash your hair as normal. What I've been doing is after I shampoo my hair while I'm washing my face, my body, shaving my legs, I apply the hair mask in the shower. I let it sit in my hair for about 20 minutes and then I rinse it out. You don't even need conditioner because this hair mask leaves your hair so soft, silky, and shiny. It's affordable and it honestly is the best hair mask that I've tried. I've always been a big fan of the Perfect 10 Hair Mask but it's really, really expensive. This is much more affordable and in my opinion may just work a little bit better. I saved the absolute best beauty product for last. This is something I have seen all over the internet. I think on Instagram more than anywhere. I don't know why I didn't buy this sooner. This mascara is the best mascara ever. I mean 1,000 million percent the best ever. This is called Essence. This is $5, $4.99 for this mascara. It comes in this one here and I believe there's a waterproof version. This mascara is a one coat wonder. It lengthens my lashes like I've never seen before in one coat. It separates them very, very nicely. I actually have this on today on my lower lashes. This mascara, I can't believe how great it works for $4.99. You can buy this on Amazon. I actually bought two because I've heard such good things. I wish I would have bought more. It is that good. And there is not a single mascara on the market that's quality like this for less than $5. So I definitely recommend this. If you are a mascara lover, if you want your lashes to look out of this world for $5, Essence is the way to go. What favorites video wouldn't be complete without my custom 2021 calendar that I've mentioned several times in today's video. So this is what my calendar looks like. This is my blood, sweat and tears. I created this myself. I had it designed so that it's fully customizable to you no matter what your goals are, whether you're losing weight, maintaining your weight, or maybe you just want to drink a little more water every day. I had this calendar designed to not be a one size fits all because let's be honest, we're not a one size fits all. I love this calendar. I have been using it since January 1st. I'm obsessed. It's kept me accountable. And honestly, it's been really fun at the end of the day to check the boxes of all of my goals that I achieved that day. You can pick this up down in the description box for only $15 free shipping anywhere in the United States. If you're outside of the United States, simply shoot me an email and I'll let you know what the additional shipping charge will be. My email is also down in the description box. I appreciate the hundreds of you that have purchased this calendar and I can't wait for the hundreds of you that are going to get this. Highly recommend it. I'm shipping the same day. So head on down to my website and pick up your 2021 calendar. And last, but not least, for my December favorites is jewelry. You guys know I love, love, love jewelry. Sylviox is a personalized jewelry company. They have necklaces, earrings, bracelets, inklets. You name it, they have it all customizable and all that you can personalize just for you. So I picked out a couple of pieces. I've been really loving rose gold lately. So I picked up this beautiful heart rose gold necklace. I love the detail of it and I had it personalized with my initial, but my favorite piece that I bought, my favorite, favorite piece hands down is this pendant necklace on each side of the cylinder. It has my name Troy diesel and Lola. So it has my entire family, the loves of my life all around my neck. And it's a stylish piece at that. So I love this company. I love that they have high quality, extremely affordable personalized jewelry. Definitely check them out. Personalized jewelry makes a great gift and it's extra special when you wear something that's personalized just to you. So I'll link them down below also with a discount code. So that's everything I have for you for my December favorites. We have quite a bit this month. I can't wait for January. I've already been picking up some new things that I've been loving and I'm definitely going to share those with you at the beginning of February. So if you enjoyed today's video, please give it a big huge thumbs up. It means a lot to me. And again, let me know to continue doing these favorites on a monthly basis here on my channel. Don't forget about my calendar down in the description box, nutrition, coaching, macros, calories, personalized one-on-one coaching, links and discount codes to everything that I shared with you today will be down in the description box as well as all of my other favorite things. And my Facebook group definitely head over and join us. We're 17,000 member strong and growing. And of course, we'd love to have you be part of that community. Don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell next to it so you don't miss a single video. Thank you guys so much for watching. Happy January. Happy New Year once again. And I'll see you in my next video. Bye.