TV series you just cant miss!!

Heyyyyyy Guys (and Gals), 
I'm back with another blog post for you and as you can guess from the title its all about a TV series, i have to recommend this to you so you can become addicted and let it take over your life like it did mine (not literally but you now what i mean rite?) 😆


So have you ever been bored in bed trying to find something on Netflix that will occupy you for the next 30 min to 1 hour and help you fall asleep, then end up coming across something you have seen advertised and skimmed past loads of times but never given it a chance?. You pass by it again, then end up just choosing it thinking if it ain't good then it wont matter because at least it will help you go to sleep.  You click on said show and start to watch, first 10 minutes are good, halfway through your getting into it and by the end you think oh just one more then sleep. Before you know it your on the 4th 45min episode and its 3am, your eyes are burning but you don't want to turn it off because yes you have become addicted to the show!!. 

That Happened to me not too long ago.......... BATES MOTEL! wow, wow, wow, seriously i have been on Netflix a fair few times and just passed by it thinking it wouldn't be very interesting, but one night i had decided to watch psycho (because hey its a pretty good film), after that i went to bed and decided to watch something on Netflix, with psycho fresh in my head i decided to give bates motel a try and i am so glad i did. It has 5 series, 4 of them are on Netflix and the 5th you will have to find online or something. The synopsis that is written on Netflix us pretty boring and doesn't do it any justice, all it says is "seeking a fresh start after her husbands tragic death, Norma Bates buys a motel on the outskirts of  an idyllic coastal town" and that's it, it doesn't really draw you in. 

The reason why i love this series is because like i said earlier i like the film psycho, in the film all you see it Norman Bates as a man and his quirky personality, he mentions "Mother" a lot but you never get to see her. In the TV series it takes you way back to when Norman was younger and when him and his mother first move to the motel, your able to see the relationship between him and his mother and their own individual relationships, as well as other story lines that involve the town.

I haven't got this excited about a TV series since Breaking Bad, i have even got my brother and sister in law onto it. It is definitely a series I'm going to watch again and i really highly recommend it, it a me shouting out at the TV, hiding behind my hands, laughing and crying it just amazing!

So if you haven't seen it before you seriously need to go check it out NOW.........

Chezney 💓💓💓

Latest Fitness Post part 3!

OK first things first, yes this post is late its supposed to be uploaded every Sunday so i can show you hat kind of fitness things i have been up to during the whole week but you will see why its late when you read it. This post would be very short so as well as a smoothie recipe i will also include a healthy meal recipe for you all to try, happy reading guys 😘

Monday

My little girl said she wasn't feeling too good and that her neck hurt, i felt her neck ad felt a small lump behind her ear, the doctors were closed so i rang 111 and managed to get an appointment elsewhere, as that was in the afternoon we headed to town to buy some pain relief medication, had a little walk round town then headed to the doctors. I focused on looking after her in the afternoon so didn't get any exercise in.

Tuesday 

She said she was feeling a little better, the swelling was still there so with a little pain relief we headed to the fair in our local park, The girls enjoyed going on a few rides (nothing too strenuous for her poor little neck) then we had a lovely long walk round the big park grounds and stopped off at the park. The beautiful walk was my exercise for the day!

Wednesday

Daughter feeling worse so we went to the doctors and got referred up to hopital😕, Though we would get seen then sent home wit medication but she ended up having to stay in on iv antibiotics

Thursday

sleep over at the hospital again 😔

Friday 

sleep over at the hospital 😔, after ultrasounds, blood tests showing a nasty infection and iv antibiotics we had a diagnosis of Lymphadenitis! 

Saturday 

released from the hospital at 8pm at night! 😒

Sunday

We decided to make our girls feel a little better as they had missed out on pretty much  week of the Easter holidays so we went to the cinema and to dinner, little one on pain relief still and as next week off school so the swelling can go down.

So that was my week not too much exercise (walked rings round that hospital though i can tell you) hopefully i can squeeze in more home workouts while looking after the little one at home next week!, Hope you enjoy the smoothie and meal recipe and the pictures, i also included a few pictures i wanted to include last week but my computer wouldn't let me ha ha.

Smoothie recipe

Its Easter so i had to of course find a smoothie with chocolate in ha ha so here is the Chocolate Spinach Smoothie

Chocolate can only be great, don't you think?! It sure is and spinach make the drink that bit healthier. Chocolate has its share of nutrients though these being: antioxidants, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and Vitamin K, these are just a few nutrients found in chocolate.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of fresh spinach
• 1/2 ripe banana
• 2 tablespoons of raw cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons of honey
• 1 cup of almond milk
• 1 tablespoon of chia seeds
• 1 pinch of cinnamon powder

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients in a blender and pulse untill smooth and well blended. Pour the smoothie into glasses and serve as fresh as possible

Nutritonal Information per serving:

Calories: 232

Fat: 17.1g

Protein: 4g

Carbohydrates; 20g

were all allowed a treat once in a while! 

Meal Recipe

Mini Gluten free Meat Loaf Muffins

Servings 6

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 lb lean mince beef
• 1 table spoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon of pink Himalayan salt
• 1 small onion finely chopped
• 1 egg

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients together well, then divide into 8 greased muffin tins. Bake uncovered for between 1 hour and 1hour and 15 mins. serve with 1/2 baked sweet potato and mixed veg.

Enjoy!!

Park we visited  

Gym from my last fitness post 

Hope you enjoyed this post see you all soon love,

Chezney 💓💓💓

******Review*******

Hi guys so from the title you will probably now what this post is about!, Yep back again with a product review!!.

I have to say this one is my favourite by far, interested?, read up about what it is down below 👇😀

The Product is from a company called JASTEK and it is available to purchase on amazon.co.uk, it is Multi USB charging cable and has 4 different charge connectors to choose from, these are 

• 2x Lightening 8pin cables suitable for iphone 7/7plus SE/6/6S/6plus/5/5c/5s iPad 4 retina, iPad Air/Mini
• 1x Micro USB cable suitable for most android phones & tablets, bluetooth headset, external batteries and more...
• Type C cable suitable for the latest Macbook, OnePlus2, Pixel C, Nexus 5X/6P, NokiaN1 tablet, Lumia 950, Lumia 950XL and other devices with a type C connector

 The Multi USB Cable length is 3.3 feet (1M) in total,and  is made of a Nylon braided protective layer and Aluminium alloy connector's. This product is perfect for people who are tired of taking multiple chargers with them when travelling, for use in your car or work van, when your battery is running low and you bot need to charge your phone, just plug it in and off you go. This is perfect for me especially at bedtime because i like to set my alarm on my phone and put it on charge, then settle down and watch something on my tablet until i fall asleep. That's all well and good but i have often found myself watching something and the battery light flashes up, i then have to take my phone off charge then swap chargers over so i can carry on watching, the only problem then is i forget to plug my phone back in when i have finished so its not fully charged in the mornings so annoying. Now my problem is solved i can plug my phone and tablet in at the same time and i will have enough length in the wire to still hold my tablet. 

If you want to check this product out click the link below, if the link doesn't work copy and paste into your browser bar and check it out!!!!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N4E69QF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489722866&sr=8-1&keywords=4+in+1+braided+multi+usb+cable

Chezney 💓💓💓

2nd Fitness post!!

Hi all, first off i have to say i'm sorry this post is late, only by a day though so better late the never eh!. I got back late Sunday night from a weekends away and one of my girls is a little under the weather so this is the first chance i have to post.

So this is the 2nd Fitness post i am about to upload, i am doing one every week about what i have got up to fitness wise the following week. As you all know last week was the first week of the two week Easter break and because i have my two beautiful girls with me for two whole weeks instead of being in school i cant get to the gym so have to find a different way of keeping up with the exercises, so this may be a short post ha ha, Any way i will get on with is so check out my week below! 👇😊

Monday
So i started out with the squat challenge, this time my girls had the pleasure of joining in with me, they loved it one was counting along as we did each squat 😄. We did plenty of walking and i did some exercises using an app i have on my mobile called workouts. On the app you can choose from Ab, Arm, Butt, Cardio, Leg or Full Body, workouts then the program will ask you to choose between a 5,8 or 10 minute workout, once chosen desired time it will play different exercises for you to do non- stop till the time is up. I currently have an iphone so if you want to check this app out type in workouts to the app store, the app cover is a white square with a blue jogging lady in a blue circle, there is also another good app i also use called simply yoga that is again a white square with a pink woman doing a yoga pose in a pink circle, check them out, pretty good if you cant get to the gym.

Tuesday
Today was rest day for the squat challenge so i didn't have to do that ha ha, Today i spent the whole day doing the garden, digging it over and my gosh it was such hard work!,i  feel that was a good enough work out, sweated so much and my whole body ached especially my arms!.

Wednesday
Started with squat challenge again with the girls, enjoyed a lovely meal at my aunties house then walked to my mums, got some lovely scenery picks from the hill walk, unfortunately because the sun was shining they are a little dark, i also did another work out using the workouts app.

Thursday
Literally did the same as i did yesterday except for the hill walk, Just squat challenge and home workout.

Friday
had time to fit in the squat challenge before i went away for the weekend to visit family

Saturday
family time, missed the squat challenge today but did go on a lovely walk on the beach with the families dogs in Redcar and also visited Whitby and walked round the town sightseeing.

Sunday 
Visited a gym in Middlesborough to get a quick session in, we got in free because it was the first time we had been. It was called the lifestyle fitness, and is honestly the best gym i have ever visited hands down, It was huge they had two floors and every single machine/piece of equipment you could think of even monkey bars and Olympic rings, it also had a ladies only room with cardio and weight sections, as well as a fully stocked health bar and they even sold fitness products like protein powder, shakes etc, i wish they had that gym where i lived. So had a fab early morning work out there.

I did have some pictures to post in this post but it wont let me for some reason so i will post them in the next post, smoothie recipe below. 👇

For this weeks smoothie i have chosen the Kale and Grapefruit Smoothie

This smoothie is amazing for weight loss because it has a low calorie content, plus the grapefruit is known for it benefits on boosting digestion and weight loss.

Servings: 4
Ingredients :

• 2 grapefruits, cut into segments
• 4 kale leaves, stems removed
• 1/2 cucumber, peeled and sliced
• 1 cup of low fat yogurt

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients in a blender and pulse until smooth, Pour the smoothie in a glass and serve it fresh  and chilled.

Nutritional information per serving:

calories: 133

Fat: 1g

Protein: 6.1g

Carbohydrates: 17.9g

Well i hope you guys liked this post see you next week, also i will have a couple of posts coming out in the next couple of days so keep an eye out for them, thanks for reading

Chezney 💗💗💗

First Fitness post!!

Hi well here i am posting my first fitness post on the date i actually said i would ha ha. I am posting these every week either on a Saturday or a Sunday, and they will let you in on what i have been getting up to fitness wise that week. I will also be posting a meal recipe r smoothie recipe for you to try out, maybe even both, and i will also include some pictures i have taken during that week. Well i hope you enjoy my first segment check it out below.  👇 😄

So at the moment my arms and legs are aching soooo much, i have pushed myself more this week in terms of exercising and have done the gym Mon-Sat (maybe even do it tomorrow, sun, i'll decide when i wake up ha ha) and i have also tried eating more healthily, especially at lunchtimes before starting work. During the days i start by walking the girls to school, jumping on the bus to town, straight to the gym, after that i go to work, after work its back to town for dinner things, then back on the bus to collect the girls from school and the walk home from school. I will write a little description of what i have done each day in the gym now starting with Monday.

Monday
I wanted to start off the week with a little cardio, so once i got to the gym i put my stuff in my locker and headed to the cardio room. I started on the treadmill doing a fast walk, i then upped the pace into a slow jog, i only jogged for a couple of minutes then dropped it down to a fast walk and upped the climb to a steep hill walk, i did the hill walk (so sweaty ha ha). After the treadmill i went onto the cross trainer and chose difficulty 9 and whole body work out level, i did this for 10 minutes non-stop as fast as i could, every 10 calories i burned i would change from walking forwards to walking backwards, after another 10 were burned i would switch back to walking forwards, i carried on repeating this until i had done. After the cardio room i went into the circuit room and saw they had a 30 day squat challenge pinned up and luckily it was the first day so i decided to join in. I completed the squat challenge then did 50 crunches just to finish up.

Tuesday
Started with the Squat Challenge today this was my little Pre-workout before my class at 9:30-10:15. This is my favorite class its called Abs and Stretch class, we combine ab workouts with yoga stretches and play relaxing music and even light a Lavender smelling candle. Sounds relaxing but it does get your body worked out and still feel tired and sweaty after ha ha.

Wednesday 
Started again with the squat challenge on day 3. I also did 50 crunches with my legs straight out and crossed over on the floor, 10 sit-up paired with an oblique twist using the kettle-bell, 50 crunches with knees bent and feet flat on the floor, 10 full sit ups touching toes with the kettle-bell, another  10 sit-up paired with an oblique twist using the kettle-bell. After this i got the weighted hoop out and did that for  while.

Thursday
Today i started with a little 30 min pre-workout because it was 9:30 and my class didn't start until 10:00-10:45. The mini workout included the weighted hoop and some arm exercises using the dumbbells. Today was supposed to be the rest day for the squat challenge but oh no my trainer said we were not having a rest so we started the legs, bums and tums class doing squats (200+ legs were dead) The legs bums and tums class consisted of loads of different exercises including, squats, low squats, lunges, pulse lunges, dumbbell squats, staying in a squatting position and doing rainbow lifts with the dumbbells crunches, bicycle kicks, sit-ups and oblique twists and more!.

Friday
Just did a few different things today, started with my arms doing overhead lifts with dumbbells and a range of other normal lifts, squat challenge day 5, crunches with legs out and crossed over on the floor (didn't count how many just as many as i could in a certain time), 10 oblique twists and dumbbell lifts (lay flat holding dumbbells, do a full sit up, raise the dumbbells above your head for one lift the hold dumbbells out in front lean back about half way and twist one arm out to the side until dumbbell touches floor, bring back to middle and do other arm, keep staring forward, once done lay down fully and repeat) and finished on the weighted hoop.

Saturday
Did the squat challenge at home and got the kids involved ha ha, then headed to the gym. I started with a floor workout doing 10 oblique/dumbbell twists, 1 min 30sec crunches non stop legs out crossed over on floor, crunches legs bent feet flat on floor and crunches legs raised crossed over all for 1 min 30 sec, i then did the hoop cross trainer and the circuit (the circuit is a range or machines that work out your arms, legs and tummy, all arranged in a circle 8 in total a min on each one non-stop).

Smoothie recipe
Kale Blueberry Smoothie
Kale can be rather tough to blend, but here is a tip to obtain a smooth drink: remove the stems from each kale leaf. The nutrients remain the same, but the drink will be smoother and creamier.

servings: 4
ingredients

• 1 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries
• 6 kale leaves, stems removed
• 1 cup of buttermilk
• 2 tablespoons of honey
• 1/2 cup crushed ice

Directions

Combine all the ingredients in a blender and pulse until smooth, 

Pour the drink into glasses and serve it fresh and chilled

Nutritional information per serving

• Calories: 127
• Fat: 0.7g
• Protein 5.3g
• Carbohydrates: 27.4g

Join me in the squat challenge 
 

 Saw This in a bus shelter lol

Hope you enjoyed my first fitness post join me for more next week. 💪

Chezney 💓💓💓

My New blogging plan!

So i mentioned in an earlier post that i had written down loads of new ideas on what i wanted to include in my blog and that it needed sorting out with more detail and review dates etc!. WELL i did it!, i finally got chance on Sunday while the girls were busy playing, to sort trough all the ideas i had, i got my new book and sorted it into sections, blog, YouTube and beauty recommended (will explain about this more in a separate post), i then bullet pointed my ideas, wrote in detail what they were, then wrote release dates/when i wanted to start the content. 

5 PAGES LATER!!, Its finally sorted and written down, i have all my dates and i am so excited to let you know that i will be posting my first fitness section on Saturday the 8th April. This will be a weekly post about my fitness regime at the gym, how I've eaten, products i use e.g. shakes, Pre-workout and i may add a meal and smoothie recipe each week. I will also post fitness challenges that i undertake so you can join in with me and will share pictures of products, meals and exercise plans.

I hope you will like it i am looking forward to it and i may even let you in on how much i  have lost!

As for my other blog ideas their is certainly a lot more in the pipeline, i am actually getting organised and it feels so good.

So this post is short and sweet but i hope you will come and join me on my fitness journey on Saturday 8th April 👍😊

Chezney 💓💓💓