Nudey Tea | Quick Review

So my third teatox of 2014 was Nudey Tea.

First thing first, this teatox has two teas. Daytime detox tea and bedtime detox tea. You take the daytime tea daily for 14 days. I drunk it after my breakfast. The bedtime tea you drink every other night for 7 nights. I drunk it 10mins to an hour before bed.

The benefits that this tea claims as per the website:

This intensive 14 day detox will assist you with your healthy eating and fitness plan to lose weight, speed up your metabolism whilst cleansing and detoxifying your digestive system.
Feel rejuvenated and energised from the inside out. A great start to a new you!

Now the review...

Honestly, I can't give a full review on this tea because of my terrible eating habits while I was taking it. However I can say these greats things about it.

• I didn't feel bloated while drinking the tea
• I do feel that the tea helped me not put on extra "water/bloat" wait during the holiday's
• The tea (both of them) smelled amazeballs and taste great too sans any extra sweeteners
• I didn't experience any "laxative" effects from the tea even though I thought I would being that my eating sucked.
• Overall, I would try the tea again when I am eating healthy to see true results.
• I would recommend giving it a go. 

Cons.  Can't say I have any. The tea didn't make me feel jiggery or dizzy like my previous teatox did. Drinking the tea daily and every other night wasn't demanding. & like I mentioned before it taste pretty good too. My only con that's not really a con is that I didn't eat as healthy as I wish to get true results!

Here are my results:

Disclaimer: This review is based on my own thoughts of the product however Nudey Tea did send me the 14 day detox for free. I was not compensated.


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Yourtea | TinyTea - 28 day teatox | Review

Thank you to the heavens above, those 28 days are up!

Okay so I have completed my 2nd teatox. This one was by the company YourTea and it is called Tiny Tea. I purchased the 28 day teatox. Let me tell you... I don't think I ever want to do another 28 day teatox again. I love tea. I really do. But Jesus, Joseph, and Mary was it annoying having to drink 3 cups of tea a day. Maybe if it was 1 cup a day, and then 2 cups every other day or something like that it wouldn't have been so draining to my soul. But I got so annoyed having to 1) Remember to drink it 30 minutes before I was ready to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and 2) Having to drink it 3 times a day. Granted I missed drinking it a 3x a day a few days but I always at least drunk it twice.

So let's talk about my overall feelings about the tea and how it worked for my body. I think it worked well. I didn't bloat much and I can see a difference in the results. Energy wise, can't say I paid much attention to it. Like I said on the review at the halfway point of this teatox, I am pretty energized already just from what I eat and working out. Towards the end I started getting symptoms I had in the beginning - feeling weird, lightheaded and a little nauseated post drinking of the tea. I also experienced this when I first started drinking the tea for the first few days. Also I had a couple tummy aches back to back during my last week of drinking the tea. Now I can't say if the tea caused it or not but just stating the facts.

Would I recommend this tea? Honestly, if you don't mind the demand of having to drink the tea 3 times a day, then sure. I recommend you to try it. However, if I do another teatox, I think I would go back to flat tummy tea. That is my preference. I like drinking it only ever morning and then every other night or every third night. I also think I prefer the taste of flat tummy tea and liked that it was loose leaf tea.

P.S. I still have about 12 bags of the tea left. From days when I missed drinking it. I will save those from tough times during the holiday. But I just couldn't continue on LOL.

 Here are my before and afters! 

 These results of course are with working out 5x a week and eating healthy 85% of the time. 

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Tiny Teatox - Halfway point.

In my last post regarding my first teatox, I mentioned I was starting another one in a week. Well that week has come and gone and I just completed 14 days with YourTea Tiny Teatox. Unlike my first teatox, this one is 28 days and not 14. It is also a lot more demanding which I can't say I love. About two days in, I wish I had only gotten the 14 day teatox.

I mean I love tea. I'm a teahead but drinking 3 cups of tea every day is overkill, even for me. Especially because you have to kind of time it according to when you plan to eat as you are suppose to drink the tea 30 mins before or after each main (breakfast, lunch, dinner) meal. I drunk mine 30 minutes before. So if you have a super busy schedule you might only be able to drink it twice a day.

So let's get down to it. 14 days in, what are my thoughts. Well the ones I haven't already listed I guess LOL.

The flavor. Strong but I like it. Sometimes I put a tsp of honey when I want it a little sweet but most times I just drink it as is which is strong LOL. If you're not a tea drinker you might need some sweetener like honey or stevia.

Side effects. My first few days of drinking the tea I felt weird after drinking it. Maybe even a tiny bit nauseated but it only last about 5 to 10 minutes. I don't feel this way any longer when I drink it.

Laxative effect? The tea claims to not have any ingredients that would cause a laxative effect however it will make you clean out your system. Meaning you might go more "regular" if you don't already. Personally I didn't have any problems as I am already pretttty regular (TMI - sorry not sorry we all poop people!)

Bloat. I must say this is my favorite part with these detox teas and this one is no exception. Throughout this whole 14 days, I haven't felt bloated once and this past week I was even on my menstrual. I also (though can't say if it is the tea) didn't experience any cramping. However some cravings were still there but no feelings of being bloated or that dreaded "fat" feeling.

Energy. I can never tell with these teas if my energy is different. I think I am pretty energized as can be (with waking up at 5:30am on most days). So can't really comment on that.

So I think that is all. I will continue the process of course. 14 more days to go. Hope I can stay dedicated. So far I have only missed drinking the tea three times.

Before I end, I know what you've been waiting for and here it is. Before and "during". This is of course with healthy eating and working out 5 times a week.

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I gave in to the Teatox.

So I am an avid tea drinker. I overly love tea. Love it. Absolutely awesome. So I had been seeing all the latest craze about tea detoxes (or teatox) and finally I gave into it. I thought, why not? You drink tea all the time anyway. I just didn't want one that had too much of a laxative effect because I know that can't be too good for your body. So I was watching Scola Dondo on YT and she did a review on Flat Tummy Tea. Her review really got me and I ordered it that day. I got the 14 day flat tummy trim teatox and I started it on Sept 11.

2 weeks later, here are my results (taken on the 25th).  There was actually enough tea that it lasted me about 18 days. Gosh this is my 1st time actually really showing my GUT. Be nice to me.

Excuse the junky pic :-/

Please take into account that I did go on vacation for four days (Thursday - Monday 18th to the 23rd). While on vacation I did continue to drink the everyday tea - Missed Friday day tea and didn't drink night tea at all -  and Monday night I took the evening tea and let that sucker sit for 10 whole minutes so I could get a good flush from the junk over the weekend. TMI?

Sorry. Anyway I am pretty pleased with the results. Of course I have been working out consistently but what I love the most is that I have felt a lot less bloated. Especially while on my menstrual, I did not feel yucky and fat like normal.

As far as the night time "Afresh" tea went for those who are itching to know, I didn't experience any real "laxative" type effects. I don't think I went too much out of the norm but I hear if you don't have a good diet you make get more of an effect from it. However, I still do feel like it detoxified me.

My routine for the morning tea was drinking it after my workout. Then I would wake about 30 minutes to eat my breakfast. At night I would drink it about 30 mins to an hour after dinner usually when  felt myself wanting a night time snack LOL. It would help me not get one because once I drink the tea, there is no more eating! Anywho, def recommend this teatox for those looking to try one out!

I'm taking off this week and then on Monday I am starting another teatox. This one is from YourTea and it is the Tiny Tea detox. Crazy enough this is the first teatox I came across and have been following them on Instagram forever and finally I bit the bullet and purchased it. I would also say it was because of Scola's review. She did a great review on FTT, and then said that she liked TT better so I had to try it for myself. After this teatox, I'll be taking a break and if I like the effects of it I will probably do another one in December or January.




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TIP for tat: Detoxing after a holiday!

Just want to say thank you for all those that have served, are serving, and will serve my country. What you do is truly appreciated. Thank you for you courage, strength, and dedication. 

Happy (Belated?) Memorial Day!

So Memorial Day, like most holiday's consists of BBQing and eating and possibly drinking a good amount of things that you normally don't.  Unfortunately (or is it fortunately) I didn't this year but I'm sure a lot of folks did So what does that call for? A DETOX!

A quick 1 day detox is all you really need to help your body flush out those BBQ ribs, mac&cheese, corn bread, etc toxins. & by the way, I'm so jealous. I love ribs.

Citrus Detox?!

Hey folks - again!
Two posts in one night, told ya I was back.

So I know I said I was detoxing this past week.
& Tuesday - Thursday I pretty much did
But then I fell off the train and decided my body needed more protein
and maybe a few snacks as well.
Don't judge me.

Anywho, after the cruise I felt so BLOATED
but now I feel much better.
I don't know if it's the overload of citrus I've been eating (grapefruit, oranges and mandarins)
or just that I've been back to my healthy eating
and much much much less sugar.
No crazy sugar cravings either!

Who's idea was this again?!

I'm not turning into the Hulk yet. 

So here is where I will be keeping all my updates regarding my Green Smoothie Detox challenge.  So keep checking back.

Monday March 4th
10:46am - I am hungry. I want to eat something. This is not the business. Ugh how am I going to make it until my next one at 12:30. Who's idea was this again?

11:42am - 45 more minutes before my next smoothie. Thank goodness. Thinking about going to run a mile on my break and then it'll be smoothie time. I can do this.

12:30pm - Well what do you know it's 12:30 and I am not RUNNING to get my next smoothie. Crazy. About 12 o'clock I wasn't as focused on the time anymore. See the tricks your mine plays. When it's so far away, you feel like you're coming to die. Now that it's time for another I'm just like whatever. I'll get it in a minute.

1:08pm - Just having my second smoothie. Lookie there a hold 38 mins later than planned. It's so yummy!!

4:16pm - Just finished smoothie number three!! The last 3 hours were a breeze. I am trying to decide if I'm going to have one or two more smoothies. I think just one and then an apple for my "late night snack" because I go to sleep around 10:30 on Monday's. Yeah like an old person. Don't judge me.

8:19pm - Waiting until 9 to have my final smoothie. I ate an apple (pre workout snack) that I ate after my workout & also an orange (I need the vitamin C because this Florida weather has made me sick -_-) but I don't consider that falling off the detox wagon. These are things I would put in smoothies! :)

11:00pm - *Yawn* I am beat. It is high time for me to get some sleep. I usually wake up at 5:30 on Tuesday mornings to go running with my running group but it's suppose to be in the 30s & I already got the sniffles so I will stay cuddled up in my bed until it's time for me to get up for work. In other news - on the subject lol - I made it through day 1 of my green smoothie detox! I feel like it was a success. This morning I was not sure how I was going to make it but after 11:30 it was a breeze. Hopefully tomorrow isn't bad. I need to leave all my money at home so I can't buy anything at work!

Stay tune for Day 2 ...

Tuesday March 5th

11:28am - My tummy is growling. Marvis as I like to call him. Yes my tummy has a name. Long story. Don't judge me. I have some water I'm about to guzzle. It should hold me for the next hour!

2:41pm - I'm getting a headache. Uh oh. My next smoothie is in less than an hour. I don't know if my lack of feeling well is due to lack of food or just me being slightly under the weather.

7:52pm - Sooooo I fell off the wagon for a second. I had some almonds. Oopsy. Waiting until 8:30/9 to have my last smoothie of the night. Somewhere between pretty little liars and dance moms.



Wednesday March 6th

5:22pm - I'm so over this. lol. I want some meat. Some real protein. Let's be real. I did deviate. I ate some almonds and raisins. Not too bad but still not what I was suppose to eat. Anywho that's neither here nor there.  Ugh. Tomorrow can't come soon enough.  Welp it's time for my third smoothie.

9:46pm - I'm not that hungry to have another smoothie. So I think I'm just going to eat a banana and then go night night. This challenge has been great. Sad to see it go. Not.

xoxo, the coily bombshell

I just might turn into The HULK!

Or a green monsta! 

As you all know, I'm participating in the Great 48 Instagram weight loss challenge. To really jump start this challenge I decided that I'm going to do a 2 or 3 day detox type challenge. I am going to - waiiiit for it  - drink only green smoothies for the next two possibly three days. I want to do 3 days but I might not make it. LOL! We shall see if the willpower persists! 

Why you may ask? Well why not! I love green smoothies. Great meal replacements as well as a great snack so why not have it for both! I plan on drinking 5 green smoothies a day. Breakfast. Snack. Lunch. Snack. Dinner. No snack. Oh and I will have an apple for my pre workout snack. 

Okay okay okay I know some of you are like what in the world is a green smoothie! Well my little grasshoppers it is something I never knew about until last year! It's a smoothie with fruit and leafy greens (usually spinach or kale). I use Spinach in mine normally and when I feel like living on the edge I'll throw in some Kale. Kale is a different acquired taste for me. That I haven't acquired yet.  My normal green smoothie recipe is a very simple one: About a cup of water, some ice, lots of spinach (2 - 4 handfuls - start small until you get use to the taste), a cup of frozen strawberries, and a small frozen banana. Your fruit doesn't have to be frozen but I prefer it that way so it can be nice and chilled and kind of thick! Sometimes like in the picture below I add in other fruit like blueberries or frozen mango chunks as well as some protein powder! With my challenge I will add protein powder to one of the smoothies every day!

Now when you're detoxing you're not usually as energized as you can be so I don't know how my first few days of Insanity (yes I start that tomorrow!) will go! But come Thursday I hope to be like the Hulk or at least a green energizer bunny!

Wish me luck. I will keep you all updated on how it goes!

xoxo, the coily bombshell