DATE NIGHT AND A NEW DRESS

y'all. we found the best place for date night EVER! its a little hole in the wall sushi restaurant, that kinda looks like you may get food poisoning from the outside, but i promise you, we've now been there like 4 times in the past few weeks, and i have yet to get food poisoning, so its definitely safe to eat i promise. its called Sushi House, and they have ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI ALL DAY LONG. yes. you read that right, ALL YOU CAN EAT, and its not the shitty sushi where you can only get the basic little california rolls in the all you can eat menu, but they let you pick absolutely whatever you want and it seriously is the yummiest sushi i have had yet (and I've eaten at a ton of different sushi places in my life, like a ton.) 

also this adorable dress is seriously one of my new favorite fall dresses, and its so affordable its crazy! I'm a little obsessed...

dress

purse

pom keychain

lip color

shoes (old from topshop): similar ,  currently obsessing

"REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES"

"Real women have curves"


oh i cannot tell you enough how much i hate this quote. i dont just "dislike it", i dont just "kinda get annoyed by it", no. I HATE IT.

i am so sick of the media telling us smaller women that we arent real, that we are photoshopped, that "dogs only go for bones". i am also sick of the media telling women that being skinny is the only thing that you should be as women. that you have to have the perfect body, the flattest abs, the perfect butt, etc. YOU ARE NOT PERFECT. and you want to know what the most amazing this is about that?! its that NO ONE IS PERFECT. even the most "perfect" looking people in your eyes, have issues, insecurities, and imperfections and that is what makes us, US! 

you want to know what real women are?! real women are inventors, mothers, bloggers, shoppers, hairstylists, teachers, math brains, scientists, animal lovers, chefs, car enthusiasts, models, fitness stars, they are HUMAN. they are EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING IN BETWEEN, and if there is anything i can teach my daughter, is that she is a real woman no matter what she decides to do in life, no matter who she decides she wants to be, what she wants to do with her hair, whatever she decides in life, she is a real woman. cause guess what? I was a real woman when i was at 8% body fat, and extremely unhealthy, i was a real woman when i was at 13% body fat and at my most healthy "fit body", i was a real woman when i was healing from and emotional trauma and wasnt looking "my best" and I AM A REAL WOMAN NOW.

YOU ARE A REAL WOMAN

 whether you are "thick", "thin", short, tall, black, white, asian, mexican, polynesian, latina, aussie, european, have short hair, have long hair, have tattoos, have no peircings, NO MATTER WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE A REAL WOMAN.

my only hope is for people to be aware and proud that they are a woman in. so much pressure is put on us to be a certain way, to look a certain way, or to act a certain way, and i say SCREW THAT. do what you love, dress how you feel the most confident, read books and be proud of being a "nerd" if thats your thing, at the same time be proud that you hate reading, that you would much rather see the movie than read the book, be a cat lover, be a dog lover, dont own a animal all together, it literally does not matter what you choose to do, YOU DO YOU.

my absolute favorite quote about women being women is by Hanne Blank, and it says 

"Real women are fat. And thin. And both, and neither, and otherwise."

So be proud of being who you are, be proud of how others are, because to me, a REAL woman, empowers others.

xoxo leilani

I GAVE UP ENERGY DRINKS AND IVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER

So. ive had multiple questions about what on earth i was talking about on my facebook and instagram post,so obviously im going to share it with other people. i mean when you come across something amazing dont you want to share it with everyone else?!

so im going to back track a little bit here so that i can really have yall understand where i was just a few weeks ago. a few weeks ago i was at my all time low, i was at the heaviest ive ever been, i was beyond depressed (for those who dont know, surprise i have depression!), and i was super anxious all the time to the point where i didnt want to leave my house or even get off the couch. i was taking multiple naps throughout the day, and crashed around 9:30pm. I was trying everything i could, i was working out daily, i was getting outside when i could, i even tried to just focus on yard work one full day, but i could not get myself out of this funk.

thankfully for me, my husband has some amazing friends who had tried this certain product and SWORE by it. they bought us a month supply and im not kidding you, it sat on our counter for 3 weeks.... finally colton decided he wanted to try it out, just to say he had cause we felt horrible that our friends had gotten us this product and it was just sitting. the first day colton tried it, he felt beyond nauseous, and super down and just didnt want to do anything, so we called our friends and told them "kay you must be insane cause this is not working what the heck is going on?!", well of course, colton had taken it completely wrong, so it whacked his stomach for the first day, so the second day i tried it with him cause i thought "well what do i really have to lose?" and THIS TIME we took it correctly and i IMMEDIATELY started feeling it. my mind was clear, i was awake, and colton was finally focused (like he is when he was on adderall, ADDERALL PEOPLE) except for not only was colton focused, but he was his normal self! he was the funny, romantic man i had fallen in love with, that now had the drive and energy to get everything done when he needed it to be. now if you have every had a loved one with ADHD, you know exactly what im talking about. Before this Colton wouldnt even finish full sentences cause his mind would just go wandering let alone there was no way in hell he would finish a project unless i got on to him multiple times through the day, so the fact that i no longer had to deal with that, but unlike adderall, he STILL had his personality i was SOLD. 

now for my own personal experience, yall. you have absolutely no idea. my mind was finally clear, i had no anxiety (which literally, in a normal situation, i felt trapped inside my own mind and was the biggest worrier out there), not only was my anxiety gone, but my stress was gone. I had the energy to get through ONE WHOLE DAY! i wasnt crashing at 9:30 anymore, i could actually stay awake without getting grumpy towards people (sorry colton ), and I FINALLY SLEPT A FULL NIGHT WITHOUT WAKING UP AT 3AM AND STARING AT MY CEILING TILL COLTON WOKE UP.

seriously by the second day, all these issues i was having had been solved by this miracle product, so obviously being the slightly pessimistic, need to know it all nerd that i am, i immediately searched every single ingredient that was in this product, and learned exactly what it did for you, and called everyone that i could that knew things about this product that i couldnt figure out, just trying to find 1 bad thing inside of it so that i could, if you want to say "prove" myself wrong that this "supplement" really couldnt be solving all my issues, but to my dismay, and at the same time, my excitement, i found that there literally is nothing inside of it that is bad for me, so we ordered more, and became a part of the company, and now im sharing my experiences with y'all because i seriously am so beyond blessed that our friends shared this with us and it solved all my problems i was having, as well as my husbands, so i NEED to share it with the world, because if its had this impact on me, i know it'll help other people.

now this product isnt just for people who suffer with anxiety, like me, or have ADHD like colton, it has helped a myriad of people. For our friend brooke, its helped her fix her metabolism, for her husband its given him drive and energy, for other people its helped them get themselves to the gym and start changing their lives that way, and its helped all of us start a business and get ourselves some extra money every month too so of course that doesnt suck :)

so without further adieu, the product that ive been using is called THRIVE

what it is is a supplement you take FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, before you put anything else in your body, a protein powder you take 20 minutes later (which i like to mix the vanilla flavor with chocolate milk cause it tastes like cookie dough ;)), and then a patch that you put on a lean part of your body. yes a patch, like a nicotine patch except it contains a ton of vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function properly, as well as LESS CAFFEINE THEN A 12oz REDBULL, that seriously gives you energy throughout the whole day! plus whats amazing is it cuts all your crappy cravings, and you start actually craving healthy things! (for those who know me personally, know i am NOT a healthy eater. i love my dr pepper, i love my candy, and i hate water), with this product ive been craving salads and water daily! as well as true organic non processed foods, which has been a definite changer in my physique and my skin health!

(click my write up link below to learn the logistics of everything)

so i have two things for yall to do now that you have heard about my experience and a few others, i want you to take a look at this product, i want you to look through my write up of what exactly is in it and go to my husbands page and learn more about it (ill put the link below) and if you are interested in trying it or learning about the "business" side of it, (cause who doesnt want an extra $600-$3000+ a month?!) contact me or my husband through instagram, or facebook, or through our email or even send us a text! (i'll put that info below as well)

THRIVE INGREDIENTS

HUSBANDS PAGE





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