How to: Make an Avocado Face Mask

Want to make a face mask that's edible, environmentally friendly, and can be spontaneous?

Use the dark green layer from the inside of the avocado for your next face mask!

Step 1: Cut open an avocado 

Step 2: Smash the outside green layer avocado meat with your hands

Step 3: Apply it smoothly onto your face

Step 4: Let the mask set fro 7-10 minutes, then rinse off

Enjoy a nice smooth face afterwards... and if you have a lover/partner, feel free to be spontaneous! Apply some on him as well... get healthy and creative with food!

Enjoy and don't forget to share or comment below! Would love to hear more edible and fun face masks ;)

CB xo

Handspring Pole Trick

Funny toes during handspring pole trick!

 

Can you do this trick?

Horizontal Flag Pole Trick

Check out my horizontal flag pole trick! I would love to be able to do the flag on the pole (Iron X style grip) but I am not at that level yet. Hopefully one day soon!

Thanks for viewing and happy poling!

p.s if you haven't mastered this trick yet, don't give up! It took me a while to get it right ;)

CB xo

Best Alkaway Water Filter - Fluoride & Chlorine Free Filter

At the Gluten Free Expo in Perth, I was very happy to see the Alkaway water filter jug that removes chlorine and fluoride. My partner bought this jug for me a few months ago, I use it regularly and I would strongly recommend it. Most of us don't know what's inside our tap water, and more often than not, it's filled with harsh chemicals that we don't need to be putting into our bodies. When I filter my tap water, and poor a glass afterwards with non-filtered tap water, I smell a massive difference. I can truly smell the chlorine in the tap water. This is not a joke, and this is NOT good for your health. A good quality water filter is worth the investment if you are serious about your health!

Additionally, they also sell stainless steel filtered water bottles which are convenient when you're on the go and can't bring your water jug filter with you.

Benefits of Alkaway Water Filter:

-Purified water
-Chlorine & Fluoride FREE!
-PH balanced
-Includes alkalizing sachets
-Sense of healing and wellness knowing you're drinking healthy clean water in a polluted world.

See the alkaline difference between different water sources below. It's important to recognize how tap water or bottled water may not always be as superior as they are claimed to be. The waters were tested with a proper and simple PH Kit (you can do the same for yourself at home) and if you have the desire to drink clean and alkalized water (Why wouldn't you? It tastes great!), then you know a water filter like this is worth the purchase! Comment below if you want a special link to purchase the Alkway Fill2Pure filter.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have the opportunity to drink some clean and cool water soon!

CB xo

Coconut Essence - Gluten Free Expo @ Perth Convention Center

Coconut Essence was at the Gluten Free Expo in Perth, March 17th 2013.

The team was giving out samples of their coconut water. Coconut water is now a very popular health product on the market, as it has many healing and health benefits. Coconut Essence makes coconut water, coconut oil, and recently coconut sorbet. Exclusively at Coconut Essence, they are the only ones to make a coconut sorbet with coconut water. Other coconut sorbet companies use filtered water, therefore, this gives their product a unique difference. It is a must try!

The team at Coconut Essence is exceptionally passionate and enthusiastic about their brand and product. Johnny to the left, has benefited a lot from incorporating coconut water into his diet, as well as adapting a gluten free lifestyle.

A few quick health benefits for you to remember:
-Great to hydrate with coconut water post work out
-Tasty to drink coconut water
-Great source of electrolytes
-Great to cook with coconut oil (especially at high heat)
-Great to moisturize skin with
-Great to use as a baking substitute
-Great to assist with blood sugar control

Have you incorporated coconut products into your diet? Has it helped you in anyway? Feel free to comment  below and let me know. Also, if you have a favorite coconut product/brand, share that too! I love trying and testing new products!

CB xo

Gluten Free Expo @ Perth Convention Center

The Gluten Free expo is on today, sponsored by Coles. There will be a lot of little gluten free businesses out there that I am excited to meet! Hopefully there will be free samples too... hehe!!! Gotta love those ;)

It will be my first Gluten Free Expo and I have been gluten free (for the most part) for more than three years. Some foods I eat may contain traces of gluten and due to the fact I am not coeliac I don't freak out, but I don't go out and buy a load of bread, type deal. I'm excited to make more gluten free friends today and I'll try to take as many photos and videos to embrace the gluten free lifestyle at the event.

Stay tuned!

CB xo

Intermittent Fasting Week 4 - I can't follow rules...

Rules. What are those again? DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN'T DO. Seriously. That's my behavior when someone tries to tell me what the 'rules' are. I hate it. I am a rebel. I like to go against the rules. However, that's not to say I won't follow a rule sometimes WHEN I WANT TO. I'm like that. It's the fire in me and my stubborn attitude.

So I'm doing the intermittent fasting diet and I get a whopping zero with regards to the 'rules'. My days go like this:

Monday fasted for 12 hours
Tuesday fasted for 16 hours
Wednesday fasted for 16 hours
Thursday fasted for 18 hours
Friday fasted for 11.5 hours
Saturday fasted for 11 hours
Sunday fasted for 8.5 hours

Why don't I do 16:8 everyday? Because I can't and maybe I don't really want to. My inner conscious says, "that's stupid, you should be eating right now," and I listen to it. Then I eat. Sometimes I am happy with that little voice in my head and other days I think "damn, why didn't you wait just a bit longer". But at the end of the day, it is what it is. I have to learn to live with my diet choices and make the most it. If my diet slips and I eat bad, I ask myself, what are you going to do tomorrow to make up for that, OR how will you use that extra energy with regards to training? EX: ate a lot of chocolate, instead of feeling sorry for myself, I'll say okay - great, that's an excess amount of sugar that is either being stored as glycogen or fat. So I'll make sure to do some HIIT and then later a long walk, this way I hit both my carb stores AND my fat stored. ADDITIONALLY, when I go for my walk and heal my soul, I'll give myself a therapy lesson. Let my mind and body have a chat and get them both to remind them about their goals (as if they are two different people - in a sense they are - but more like a love couple) and then learn from that experience.

Week 4 Progress:

I'm happy that I had a few consecutive days that were great. I think weeks that FLOW with this pattern are most ideal for my social and work life.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading and feel free to share my experience with others!

CB xo