 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 today we're talking about my August favorites. I have a lot. I have some unique different favorites for you this month. We have home, WW foods, beauty. We even have a pet favorite. So I'm excited to share everything with you. And if you're excited, give this video a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. Turn your bell on because I upload lots and I upload five videos every single week. And I do a favorites every month. I will link everything that I share with you today down below with the exception of foods that you can find at your local grocery store. Discount codes, everything will be down below for you. Along with nutrition coaching, where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend. This is how I've lost and maintained a hundred and forty pound weight loss as well as links and discounts to my other favorite things and my Facebook group. Come join us. We'd love to have you. So let's jump into August favorites. So I wanna start out with a couple of supplement favorites. Recently I did a whole video on the supplements that I take to not only lose weight, maintain my weight loss and to just be a healthier version of myself. One of those supplements that I take daily is a probiotic. Now we get prebiotics in our food but we can take a probiotic supplement to work with those prebiotics for optimal health. Now I go back and forth between a pill probiotic form, a powder probiotic form, but I really wanted a live culture probiotic. This is really the best of the best when it comes to probiotics. So I discovered this right here and I have been loving this. In fact, both Troy and I have been taking this daily. I've talked a lot about probiotics here on my channel and I have tried several on the market. Some I love, some I didn't. And I really fell in love with the Flora Biome. Also from the brand TriQuitra Health which is the same brand as the Omega-3s that I take. This is a three-in-one prebiotic, probiotic, postbiotic supplement. So prebiotics are to promote a healthy microbiome in your gut, live culture probiotics to populate that microbiome and postbiotics for immediate gut relief and benefits. The Flora Biome is derived from holistic fermentation as nature intended. It's truly total gut health in a bottle. It's going to give you prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics. It's going to help with overall gut health, brain function and mood, weight management, energy levels, immunity, skin health and appearance. Flora Biome is USDA organic, GMO free, vegan, soy free and gluten free. It actually goes through a six-week holistic fermentation process and you're getting 50 billion CFUs per serving. That's unheard of in a probiotic. Flora Biome is designed by nature, optimized by science. And the other supplement from the TriQuitra brand is a Omega-3. Now, I don't need enough fish. I love fish, Troy does not like fish. So I very rarely cook fish for us. If I eat fish, it's on my own in a meal prep or something I choose for lunch or when I'm out for dinner. So I definitely needed to supplement an Omega-3. When I had my blood work done the last time, in fact, every time I've had my blood work done, my good, healthy fats are always low. So my doctor recommended an Omega-3 supplement and this one is the best quality Omega-3 supplement that you can find. Our body actually can't produce Omega-3 fatty acids on its own, so you have to obtain them from diet or supplements and I just don't eat enough fish. So I take an Omega-3 every day and I have fallen in love with this. One of the things I love about it, which is a big concern with most fish oil supplements is it goes rancid quickly, which can really lead to loss of nutritional value, unpleasant odor, and can even cause stomach issues. The so active Omega-3's free fatty acid crystalline form is perfectly stable, so it never goes rancid and it maintains its full nutritional capacity. It is also in a bloodstream-ready state, making it easy for your body to absorb. It's irradiation-free, gluten-free, soy-free, GMO-free, made in the US, clinically backed, and a third party lab tested. You take two capsules daily with or without food and what makes this Omega-3 so different than others on the market is a standard fish oil supplement has a 21% absorption rate or the so active Omega-3 has a 95% absorption rate. When you consume fish oil, the body must break it down into free fatty acids before the Omega-3's can enter the bloodstream and nourish the body. I take two capsules every single day. This is part of my morning supplement. These, both the probiotic and the Omega-3 fish oil tablets, I take every single morning and I have noticed dramatic, dramatic increase in my overall gut health, as well as my heart health. I will have my blood work taken again here in about a month and I'm curious to see where my levels fall for Omega-3's or those good, healthy fats. So I'll link both products down below for you with a discount. Now let's jump into WW Food Favorites. I have quite a few new things starting with this right here. I hauled this in my most recent Sam's Club haul. This is the Like Air Puff Corn. This one is the Pancake Flavor. Now I bought these at Sam's Club. You actually got eight individual bags of three different flavors. The Classic, the Cinnamon, I believe, and the Pancake. I love the Pancake. Actually, they're all really good. This is kind of a cross between a puffed corn and a popcorn. Really, really good. I love the taste, the texture of these. They have a nice, clean ingredient. 100 calories per bag. You are going to get one gram of protein and it only has three grams of added sugar, which is really good for a sweet treat. I've been utilizing these a lot as dessert and you get quite a bit in the bag for the 100 calories. Again, nice, clean ingredients, nothing artificial and made in the U.S. I know you can buy this brand at multiple stores, but like I said, I bought the Combo Box at Sam's Club. Also, this hummus from 365, which is Whole Foods brand. This is my all-time favorite red pepper hummus. I actually went to Whole Foods recently and picked this up and I've been loving this. I'm about halfway through this. I love this with vegetables. I love this with crackers. I love this as a spread on a wrap or a sandwich. I don't know what it is about the 365 brand from Whole Foods, the roasted red pepper, but it is so incredibly good. The taste, the texture, I love this. So if you have a Whole Foods near you and you love roasted red pepper hummus, definitely pick this up. And then cheese. Now I know cheese is just cheese, but this cheese, this thick cut, chef's blend cheese has become my jam. I really love this. I don't know what it is about the thicker cut of cheese. This one is the private selection brand from Kroger stores. Tillamuck makes a really good thick shredded cheese as well. There's just something about it. I feel like you need a lot less to get the cheesiness and the cheesiness is just more cheesy. That's a lot of cheesies in this one sentence, but it's hard to explain, but there's just something about this thicker cut cheese that I have fallen in love with. To be honest with you, this is probably the only cheese that I'll buy moving forward. It is not a light cheese. I'm not concerned about that. The taste, the texture, everything about this is so good. And like I said, I feel like I use less of this for the same amount of cheesiness. So I'm probably consuming the same calories and points as I would with a light cheese and this is just a million times better. Now you know what? I love Lakonto products in general. Lakonto is my go-to sugar alternative. Well, I recently picked up their barbecue sauce with monk fruit. Now this is only 10 calories for two tablespoons. It is so good. There's no sugar added. It's made with the Lakonto monk fruit. It has that perfect smoky, earthy taste that a barbecue sauce should have. In fact, this really reminds me of a full sugar barbecue sauce. It's that delicious. And again, 10 calories for two tablespoons and that's plenty. I've been doing pulled pork with the barbecue sauce. I've been adding this to wraps. I've been putting this on my burgers. I have really fallen in love with the Lakonto barbecue sauce. I kind of picked it up on a whim and I'm not mad that I did. Now I do have a 15% off discount code for Lakonto site-wide. I'll link it down below for you. Definitely check out the barbecue sauce. Now these crackers I bought at Sprouts. Now I've actually bought these at Target. Target carries the Moonshot brand but these are the Margarita pizza crackers with no added sugar. These crackers are so good. They literally taste like pizza so they're the perfect cracker for cheese and crackers. I've been on a big cheese and cracker kick. Sometimes I'll even throw a piece of turkey pepperoni on there and I really feel like I'm having little bites of pizza and you can have 10 crackers for 140 calories. There's three grams of protein, two grams of fiber and the ingredients perfection. Organic wheat flour, organic sunflower oil, organic tomato, organic sourdough, sea salt, organic spice blend and baking soda. That's it, so nice clean ingredients and again if you love pizza, cheese, a little pepperoni in this cracker, delicious. Another thing we love in this house is mud water. This is actually the second container that I've purchased of this because Troy and I have used up the entire first container. We've actually even dug into this one and it's about a quarter of the way gone. Mud water is incredible. If you notice in my what I eat nowadays, I have not been having a second coffee. I've been utilizing mud water instead. This is basically like a chai hot chocolate blend so if those two had a baby, it would be mud water with exceptional ingredients. So it definitely gives me a chai vibe. So let me tell you what's in here and then I'll tell you how I prepare it. So there is masala chai, kakao, lion's mane, cordyceps, chaga, reishi, cinnamon, turmeric and Himalayan salt. That's it. So this aligns really good with my new whole food focus approach to eating. So you can buy mud water in what's called a starter pack. That's what I would recommend. It's actually $20 off right now on their website. I'll link it all down below for you but you actually get the whole container of the chai. You get samples of all their other products which are also very good. You get a handheld frother which is the best handheld frother. It's USB chargeable. I love, love, love it. I use that frother all the time now. It's really the only frother that I use. You get all of that in the starter pack for $20 off. So I make an ice chai. I use mud water, a little bit of hot water. I froth it up real good with the handheld frother and then I add about a three quarters of a cup to a cup of my low fat fair life milk which is 13 grams of protein and then I top it with maybe a little bit of cinnamon or some whipped cream and I make a healthy version of ice chai at home. This is 20 calories. So the entire ice chai is two points and that's for a big 24 ounce iced chai. Mud water has changed our life. Troy does not drink coffee but he loves this. I have an ice chai every single day and not only is it two points and about 100 calories, it is giving me all of the goodness that is in mud water. So I highly, highly, highly recommend and take advantage of the $20 off the starter kit. Now I know this is kind of a weird favorite but this is a rediscovery for me in the month of August. These are the Ocean Spray 50% less sugar craisans. Now you're probably like, great Jen, we've all had the craisans. Okay, here's what I rediscovered about these. In a quarter cup, which is 100 calories. Did you know there's 10 grams of fiber? 10 grams of fiber in craisans. I have been loving these on my yogurt bowl. I've been doing craisans and cacao nibs and pumpkin seeds and hemp seeds and chia smash and all my favorite things on my yogurt bowl and by putting a tablespoon or two of these on my bowl or really in your oatmeal or on your salad, you're getting anywhere from about four to 10 gram fiber. That's crazy. So if you struggle to get your fiber in naturally through foods, craisans, craisans, a quarter cup, 10 grams. Now I've also been loving these net butters. Now you know I love American Dream Net Butter. In fact, they are releasing their fall collection soon. I cannot wait. I'll be posting about that on my Facebook page so make sure you're in my Facebook group but I also love the offbeat butters from Clean Simple Eats. Now you know I love Clean Simple Eats. It's my all time favorite protein powder. I use it every single day. I use their greens. I use so many of their products but I've been really loving their nut butters. So I bought this little box that has a bunch of their different nut butter flavors. This is chocolate peanut butter cup. This is a loha. These are single serve pouches. I've been loving these in my yogurt bowl. Loving these for travel. I've even just eaten these as a snack just to get in some healthy fat, some protein, you just squeeze it out. And I was thinking for my upcoming trips I have several over the next few months. These are going in my carry on. Something you can keep in your purse, your car, take for travel, keep in your desk drawer and I love that they're single serve and then that butter is delicious. Absolutely delicious. So just another thing I fell in love with from Clean Simple Eats. Another product I utilize all the time. I've been putting these on rice cakes. Absolutely delicious. They have the little samples side, the little single serves and they have full jars. They even have powdered peanut butter, which is delicious. By the way, spoiler alert, probably the best powdered peanut butter that I've tried as well. So I'll link Clean Simple Eats down below with a discount. And my last WW food favorite I'm so excited about and that is the Premier Protein Pumpkin Spice. It is fall, it is fall, it is pumpkin spice time and Sam's Club has cases of the Premier Protein Pumpkin Spice. I bought two cases and I plan on buying several more before the season is over. This is so good in my protein coffee and my profi. It is one of my favorite things. I actually have this in my profi this morning. It is the perfect sweet pumpkin spice flavor. I love this. Love, love, love this. So get your hands on this if you have a Sam's Club membership. It may come to Costco. I know you can buy it on Amazon. I'll link it down below for you but really your best price option is going to be Sam's Club. Now I have one pet favorite as well. You guys know I live in Arizona. It is hot year, here year round. It's summer here still so we're well over 100 degrees and you also know that I have two dogs. So I wanted to pick something up for my dogs that would allow them to be a little bit more comfortable and a little bit more cooler in the hot months and I found a dog cooling blanket. Now I recently just bought a cooling throw and cooling pillowcases for my spare room for my friend Michelle who was here this last week. I bought the cooling blanket and pillowcases for her and she said they were amazing. So I decided to also at that time buy a cooling blanket for my dog. This is the Rye Well Dog Cooling Blanket. It actually comes in three different sizes depending on the size of dog you have as well as where you want to place the blanket. It has cooling and cotton surfaces for all seasons. I picked mine up in the 32 by 44 inch in the color gray. Help your dog beat the heat with this cooling blanket featuring the ArcChill Natural Cooling fabric from Japan. It actually lowers their body temperature by three to five degrees. Helps prevent overheating and dehydration. It's perfect for hot days at home, in the backyard or simply place it in your pet's favorite spot and let them enjoy the cooling sensation. It's designed for versatility. It has the double-sided design that features the cooling side, cotton side for all seasons. It does not contain any harmful substances such as formaldehyde or fluorescent agents so it's very healthy for your dog. It can be machine washed or hand washed in cold water. After washing just hang it in a cool ventilated space. I was excited about this just to keep the dog bed a little bit more clean and I love that it is cooling for the hot months and then simply flip it over for the cooler months and my dogs both love it. I can't recommend the cooling blanket enough. It just really helps them be a little bit more comfortable in the hotter months and then flip it over to the other side for the cooler months and for me I really appreciate that it helps keep their dog bed a little bit more clean. It's kind of cumbersome to wash a dog bed that I can easily throw this blanket in my washer and dryer. So again, you can buy this right off of Amazon. It'll be linked for you. I also have one home favorite before we jump into beauty and skincare and that's these plates right here. So I bought these on Amazon. I actually shared these in a recent what I eat in a day. These are snack plates. So they are plastic. You can buy four white or the four pack of the different colors with the teal, the white, the yellow and the orange. These are my all-time favorite little snack plates. I love that there's a cup for sauce. So I also shared in that what I eat in a day that I made a little snack plate for lunch. I've been doing that a lot with vegetables, fruit, crackers, I've been using those tuna pouches, my hummus from Whole Foods. You can put all your little snacky things in this portion. Your favorite hummus, sauce, dressing, whatever you want to dip it in the little bowl and it keeps it separate from the rest of your food which I very much appreciate. Love, love, love these plates so much. Again, I bought them off of Amazon. Super affordable and they are dishwasher safe. Now moving into beauty and skincare, I have one skincare item that I've been utilizing a lot. You know I've lost a lot of weight and with a lot of weight loss comes saggy skin. That includes skin in this area. So I always say that I have this like little gobble gobble turkey neck. So I bought the Iqosmetics Confidence in a Neck Cream. It smells so good. It smells like oranges. You can see I've used a lot of this. I've been using this on my neck every night. So I just blended in right here and then down across my chest. And I feel like this is helping to firm up that area. Is it going to get rid of it altogether? No, I would have to have a neck lift or whatever cosmetic procedure involves the neck which I'm not doing. I said I was never having cosmetic surgery again but this definitely helps me feel like that area firms up a little bit. It adds the hydration so it's not so creepy looking. I really, really love this and it became a fast favorite. Let's have a dry shampoo favorite. This came in my Ipsi subscription box. This is really good. Now I said in that video that I have a hard time spending a lot of money on dry shampoo because I feel like drugstore dry shampoo is really good. But this is like really, really good. This is from ITK. This is the first class Turkel Detox Dry Shampoo. Now it is a little bit on the pricey side. However, it is a big container. A little goes a long way and there's no white cast which I love. I have dark hair so a white cast is not something that I appreciate in my hair and this doesn't give me any white cast and it does so good as a dry shampoo. I actually have it in my hair today. I like to add a little dry shampoo to clean dry hair like right after washing to add some volume and this one is so, so good. This is definitely, definitely worth the money and you can buy this right on Ulta's website. Now I have a couple of makeup products starting with this one from Drunk Elephant. This is a new to me product. I think this came out even not too long ago but this is from Drunk Elephant and this is the D Bronzy Drop. So what you do is you mix this in with your moisturizer. You can even mix this in with your face primer, really whatever you wanna do. Mix it in with some kind of a mulliant product and it's going to give your face this bronzed goddess glow. I love this for when I'm not wearing makeup. Like I said, I have a lot of trips coming up. One of them includes going to Hawaii where I really don't wear a lot of makeup so this is going to come in handy to give me that really pretty sun-kissed glow. This is great. You use a tiny bit, you mix it in, you apply it to the face and with literally in minutes you have a nice bronzed look. For Drunk Elephant, it's not expensive. Drunk Elephant is a pretty pricey brand. I wanna say this is about $38 but you only need a couple drops to do your entire face. I mean, our face isn't that big and this is amazing, amazing, amazing. So a couple of makeup products including the one I'm wearing on my lips today and that is from NYX and this is the NYX Butter Gloss. I love the NYX Butter Gloss. I have several of the shades but this is my all-time favorite. I wear this all the time and whenever I wear this, you guys always ask what's on my lips, it's this. This is called Fudge Me NYX Butter Gloss. It's what I'm wearing today. I love this. It definitely has a lot of staying power and it's the perfect neutral brown shade that goes with anything. Anytime you want a brown lip, anytime I wear a brown lip, this is what I reach for and I wanna say it's like $6. I actually have a couple of these on hand because it's a favorite. Also this mascara. So this is from the Shop Miss A website which is Dollar Makeup. This is from the AOA brand and this is the Volume Mascara. You guys, I can't tell you how amazing this mascara is. It's so, so good. I love the big fluffy brush. I wanna say this is either a $1.55 or $1.88. Obsessed with this. The AOA Liquid Black Liner and the AOA Volume Mascara, you need them in your life. They have some great makeup. I actually have a full face of AOA coming out in just a couple of days on my beauty channel. So make sure you're subscribed to my beauty channel. I use this mascara in there as well as a full face of products from the Shop Miss A Dollar Makeup line. Literally the best mascara I've tried. And then this is another product I've really been loving this summer and for those no makeup makeup days, this is from L'Oreal and this is the Lumi Glotion. So this is a moisturizer slash skin tint. So it adds the most stunningly beautiful glow. It does have like a squeezy tube. I just squeeze this into my hand and then apply it to my face on no makeup makeup days. It's going to give you that pretty glow from within that little bit of color actually these two together. That's a winner for that sun-kissed glow. And I've just been loving this on days that I don't wanna wear foundation. I don't wear a full face of foundation when it's super hot outside. You know, I don't wear makeup to the gym. I don't wear makeup to pickleball. A lot of times I don't wear it on the weekend but if you just put this on, you just get this really pretty glow without the cakey-ness of makeup. I love this. And as always, last but not least for favorites is my eyeshadow palette, favorite of the month. And it's actually the palette that I have on my eyes today. I've been reaching for this a lot and she's neutral. And you know, girl loves a good colorful eyeshadow palette but as we move into fall, I feel like pull towards neutrals. So today and for a favorite is the ColourPop California Love Palette. This is an oldie but a goodie from ColourPop. This palette has been out for a very, very, very long time. I have had this palette for at least a couple of years. And like I said, it's the palette I have on my eyes today. What I like about this is it is a neutral with texture. So we do have a pressed glitter. Not my favorite thing in the world. I actually do have the pressed glitter on today. If you use like a NYX eyeshadow primer, it'll stick really well and you won't have glitter fallout over your face. But what I love about this palette is there's some really buttery mattes. There is some mattes in here with sparkle but the sparkle doesn't really translate. It just makes it more satin on the eyes. The shimmers in here are beautiful. This shade right here is what I have on my inner corner. It's so, so beautiful. Such a great affordable neutral palette. I think this is still available on the ColourPop website. So I will link it down below for you but I love this palette. So those are all of my August favorites. Those are the things that I loved in the month of August. I can't wait to continue using all of these things. As always, I will link everything down below for you. Any discount that I can find for you, I will put that down there as well. And let me know what was your favorite thing that I shared in my August favorites? And give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Subscribe, turn your bell on because we do have favorites every month and I do upload five videos every single week. And don't forget to check out the description box for everything I shared with you today. Nutrition coaching and come join my Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Happy September, happy start of fall and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.