I am a person who is highly interested in my own health and well being and I know a lot of people feel the same way, espcially in Januray after perhaps over indulging a little over the Christmas period. Eating whole foods, plant based diet does wonders for the human body, significantly reducing the risk of myriad diseases, promoting optimal internal system health, helping to maintain a healthy body weight and much more.

I also discourage pharmaceuticals when and wherever possible, as there are many plant based alternatives that can be very effective in countering certain health problems.

With all of that in mind, I find the Nopalea wellness drink I have been hearing a lot about recently quite interesting.

I had not previously heard of the Nopal cactus, nor the name Opuntia Ficus Indica, but when I looked up more information on the plant, my suspicions were confirmed: this is the cactus also known as the Prickly Pear, which is native to my home region, the Sonoran desert.

With the help of Nopal cactus extracts, Nopalea is packed with rare and potent antioxidants that are scientifically proven to help the body reduce inflammation.

TriVita claims that when you take Nopalea daily, it can help your body:
Reduce inflammation
Cleanse itself of daily toxins
Promote optimal health

Seeing as though the anti-oxidants contained in this drink have been proven to help with inflammation (the leading cause of pain), I can see this product being a very helpful plant-based solution that could help many people. In addition, I personally LOVE the taste of the prickly pear cactus fruit, so it’s very likely that I would enjoy the taste of this wellness drink. I’m certainly looking forward to trying out Nopalea for myself in the near future.

Over 3 million bottles of the Nopalea anti-inflammatory wellness drink have been sold. To learn more, check out the Nopalea Facebook page or try it for free (only pay $9.95 for shipping) by calling 1-800-203-7063.

Have you heard of Pregnenalone? It’s a topical cream that is a natural hormone and contains 15 mg per pump – it helps you to maintain a sufficent level of hormones and has even been said to help with memory function,c ognitive abilities and controlling various inflammations. It sounds like something that might come in useful for me so I am going to look into where I might be able to get some.

Since losing weight I find that I wear a lot more Make Up than I used to – you’d think it’d be the other way around though right? It’s not so much that I feel like I need it more now, it’s that I feel more like I am worth the effort now I guess?

I have been reading loads of Cosmetics Tips and Make Up Tutorials on cosmohut.com recently, it’s a really great site for women to chat and share and learn from each other. I enjoy it there a lot and am pleased they have so much information about make up as I feel I have a lot to learn

You know, prior to around 6 months ago I had never had a tan before in my life – neither a real nor a fake one – shocking right? Given how common it is these days for people to be tanned and how effective and popular all the various tanning methods are. But I had never been abroad before to catch some real rays and being naturally very pale skinned and used to it, it never really seemed important to me to be tanned.

However I went to Spain in the summer and got a lovely natural golden glow from the long lazy days on the sunbeds and have been hooked ever since.

I came home and right away started asking my girl friends what methods they use for their tans – a lot use sunbeds, a lot get spray tans and many use those rub on creams you can get. You can even get a tanning implant these days that will last as long as 90 days, so for those that love to be tanned and are short of time it’s the ideal solution.

This might be something that suits me a lot as one of my main objections about beauty treatments and the like is that once you’ve started with them you have to keep up with them – I don’t bother going to beauty salons for things like nails and plucking and waxing as I am too lazy to keep going back every few weeks, I’d rather just do it myself at home.

The tanning implant works by giving you an injection of Melonatan, you get a tiny rice sized implant just under your skin that slowly releases the melonatan in to your system – so once it’s there that’s that, you don’t need to do any thing else and can just sit back and relax while your tan takes care of itself.

I wonder why it is that a lot of the Geeky Gadgets out there are aimed at men? Or that people assume the only way a woman could be interested in a gadget would be if it were pink?

Ok I admit it I do have some pink gadgets, if the option is there and the pink version is just as good as any other colour then I will always select it, but it isn’t what gets me interested in the gadget in the first place.

A great resource for all of us gadget geeks is Geekalerts.com – they have loads of Geek Products and Discount Coupons as well as news and information about all the latest gadgets and gizmos, it’s updated regularly and often features quirky items I had no idea I even wanted until I read about them. They also offer discount codes for many online retailers allowing me to combine my love of gadgets with my love of shopping and saving money

They always seen to have Carbonite offer code and that suits me as I love to shop in Carbonite, I am a Carbonite nerd! Plus I am always on the look out for Amazon.com coupons as it’s my absolute favourite site on the entire Internet, I just love their affordable products <3

A friend of mine recently asked me if I wanted to get my palm read, I have never had it done before so I said sure and asked her where we were going to be going and if she was driving – she looked at me like I was crazy and said that we didn’t even need to leave the house as we’d be doing it online! It never really occurred to me that you could get a palm reading online but of course it makes sense, you can get pretty much every thing else you want online these days so why not let someone read your palm?

I love looking at very funny pictures and videos online, who doesn’t? They are a great way to offer a distraction from your day – I love nothing more than sitting down in my big comfy chair with a nice cup of tea just after I have finished my work out and had a shower and looking at things that are going to make me wail with laughter. It’s like my reward to watch funny pictures and videos.

I have a bookmarks folder full of funny sites and I now have a new one to add to it, it’s a site I came across just a few days ago called uBerhumor.com. It is updated on a daily basis with new content and as well as funny pictures they have some videos as well – the content is laid out into categories such as ‘fail’ and ‘cute’ so you can jump straight to the kind of content that you know amuses you personally. For me I love animal pictures but am willing to look at every thing as lots of things tickle me – I tend to like slightly inappropriate and dirty humour as well, I guess I have an immature sense of humour but I’m OK with that. The more we can find to laugh about the better, right?