Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, you know I sat here and I listened to the member from Mikusav. Something must be very, very wrong and I go, first of all, Mr. Speaker, he believes that I got annoyed. I'll get annoyed. So he tries to make me annoyed. I'm not annoyed. I'm passionate. I believe what I see. You think you can ever get annoyed? Never. I wouldn't try that. I wouldn't try that. You said that.  You're not getting me angry. You're not getting me angry. I'm not angry. The only thing I say is deliberate. I'm not angry. I'm deliberate. I'm not angry. Yes. I'm deliberate. Anything I say, I'm deliberate. And the problem is that what you expect will not happen. That's up to you to find out. Mr. Speaker, the only country in the world, the only country in the world, Mr. Speaker, that is not being affected by what's happening now. There is no country in the world, Mr. Speaker, and the members of the opposition, they continue to peddle these lies about the cost of food. Every country is suffering from imported inflation, from events that little islands like ours have absolutely no control over. It is arguably one of the most difficult times to run countries doing this time, Mr. Speaker. Plus that these factors seem to be piling Ukraine, then Palestine and Israel, now the problem in the Panama Canal, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, let me give you a few examples, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this member for Microsoft has not come up with one workable solution as to how to solve the price of imported goods in this country. Not one workable solution. But what he's not saying is that we've removed that on building materials. What he's not saying is remove that on equipment, on medical equipment. What he's not saying, Mr. Speaker, is that we have zero rated many items and we are in the process of continuing the debate on the zero rating and the exempt goods as far as that concerns Mr. Speaker. But Mr. Speaker, the member is a man of plans. All what he knows is plans. Plans and renderings. There is no tangible proof of anything in this country. What he says is that COVID, he spoke about St. Vincent, Mr. Speaker. I was in Grenada a few months ago. I saw hotels that were built between 2019 and 2021. Grenada had COVID. Grenada had COVID, Mr. Speaker. I saw hotels that were built between 2020 and 2021. I saw hotels that were built when the election solution was held in 2016. I saw evidence of hotels starting in 2017 and ending in 2019 because of COVID. After that, they stopped and started again. I saw nothing that needs change solution. During COVID, Mr. Speaker, this government got $302 million worth of concessory finance during COVID. $302 million worth of concessionary finance. They only spent $7 million for import support. And that $7 million came from the National Insurance scheme. All the import support that came came from National Insurance. This government had absolutely no reserves to give anybody any income support. Countries like Grenada had reserves from the Treasury that they paid for import support. We in 2019 went COVID struck. This country had absolutely no reserves. The primary account and the current account had gone into deficit already. And when inherited from the Minister of Finance, it was in surplus. He inherited a surplus and the figures can show. But I, and he continues with that lie, there was a primary surplus in 2016. There was a primary surplus. There was a primary surplus in 2016. And when you gave it to us, when you gave it to us, you gave it to us in a primary deficit. That's what you gave. After you'd borrowed $302 million from concessionary finance. Remember, Mr. Speaker, there's a fundamental difference between a primary surplus and having reserves. Two completely different things whatsoever. When they came into the government in 2016, there was zero reserves. In fact, that's why the famous statement came, something went wrong. A primary surplus has nothing to do with the reserves of a country. And the member ought to know better. In fact, so I just want to say that he's misleading the House. When we came into government in 2016, zero reserves. In fact, we were building up reserves for this country. And we used everything the reserves when COVID came. Mr. Speaker, only $7 million worth of income support were given to the people of this country during COVID. $7 million. And that money came from the National Insurance Scheme. That's where it came from, Mr. Speaker. It came from National Insurance Company. That's where it came from. Nothing came from the government's reserves. Nothing. And we inherited a primary deficit. That's how you manage a country. That's how you manage a country on a primary deficit. And this year, there were primary surpluses. That's what we found. That's what we found from you. When the member of the Vifotsov left it, there were primary surpluses. There were primary surpluses, you understand? But, you know, the member for Microsoft just stands up and says anything. And when the time comes, he goes into a pitiful, hey, the poor people of this country, you said they should flog their party supporters. What is more racist? What is more Jim Crow than saying they should flog people?  You and you are on record and saying people should be flogged because they should flog publicly. And you believe, you said it. And you believe that that's okay. You can say it because you are you. And if you don't pay attention, we'll forget you. You said the people, let us suppose you're referring only to members of the Labour Party. That's different. Forty-three percent of the people in this country always vote for the Labour Party. So you're saying that between forty and forty percent of people should be flogged. Should be flogged. Because you lost an election and you also said they should be flogged. You're on record saying that. Mr. Speaker, again, the member is misleading the House. If he's going to make a comment about me, put it in the right context. Nobody said anybody should be flogged because of the way they voted in the election. In fact, if I remember, there was a person from their party that said that people should be flogged on the square. Mr. Speaker, you know, that is the kind of thing that is not only misleading, but it's irritating, Mr. Speaker. The gentleman is on record and saying people should be flogged. Now he's saying he said it in context. You know, that context, context people flogged. You said I talk about racism. People flogged. Flogged. Flogging is a history of Jim Crow. And you're saying that all of us here, I'm from the member from Miku, from the member from Miku North, all of us should be flogged because we are supporters of the Labour Party. That's what you said. And you refuse.  No, you don't say it because you can say whatever you want.  Speaking about health and security levy, Mr. Speaker, let me tell you what the health and security levy has done for this country. The health and security levy has caused the commencement of universal healthcare. You spoke about health insurance. All what you know is plans. Plans for health insurance. For the five years, nothing. Nothing. Then he speaks about he spent six million dollars on saying to people abroad for medical purposes, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, six million dollars you spent. Mr. Speaker, let me tell you the recent record for the Ministry of Health about what he left for us. He spent six million dollars on health. Mr. Speaker, do you know? Do you know? Do you know? That in people who went abroad for medical assistance, the member for Microsoft says he spent six million dollars on this, Mr. Speaker. In accordance with your request, the Ministry of Health will submit statements to outstanding medical assistance for your attention. This statement covers the period commencing 2019 to 2023 and totals five million six hundred and forty two thousand four hundred eighty three dollars and seventeen cents. But he spent six million dollars in one year. He spent six million dollars in one year. He spent six million dollars in one year. But look at this guy. Mr. Speaker. Modern committee, he spent six million dollars in one year, but he left by the death of five million dollars for three years. Mr. Speaker, the member for Microsoft speaks about the price of oil. He says oil is seventy five cents or less. Mr. Speaker, the price of Brent crude today is eighty one dollars and sixty three cents. You know, he doesn't understand that anything he says can be fact checked. And I have warned and I did that from since I was in opposition. I told the people of Saint Lucia when the then prime minister opens his mouth, fact check him. Yes, like me, like me, fact check me. I want you to fact check me. I've challenged you to fact check me.  As today, we are subsidizing cooking gas by over twenty dollars per twenty two pound cylinder. When he was in government, the biggest subsidy they had for cooking gas is nine dollars. We are subsidizing by twenty dollars per twenty two pound cylinder of gas. We are subsidizing it. The people of this country, if it was not because of this government, would have been paying twenty dollars more for a twenty two pound cylinder of gas. And when he was there, the biggest, the largest subsidy was between eight and ten dollars. You understand, Mr. Speaker? Mr. Speaker, he is speaking about, this, the gentleman is speaking about, that Carrie Chris report is for twenty twenty two. How can you have a report when twenty three are finished yet? How can you have a report? All reports are one year pass. Financial statements are one year pass. So if I'm reporting, I'm reporting what I have and just as a matter of fact, Carrie Chris lowered the ratings in twenty twenty. Just on the side. If you forgot. Exactly, if you forgot. Mrs. Speaker, this member, the man from Microsoft, has an excuse for everything, Mr. Speaker. He forgets that tourism is seasonal. He forgets completely tourism is seasonal. He forgets cruise ships that come in St. Lucia in September and August and June. The cruise season starts on in November and moves into December. That's when cruise tourism starts. But I want to tell you, on the day you have your proposed match, there will be about possibly three and possibly six cruise liners in this country. Three or four. If you are a man that believe in the people, save the taxi drivers and put your match on some other day. Yes. That's when they are driving them back to the cruise ship.  If you are a man. Thank you. So Mrs. Speaker, universal healthcare. Universal healthcare has started, Mr. Speaker. Now, Mr. Speaker, this, the man from Microsoft, is saying that we sold the port. And my colleague, the deputy will speak about the port, Mr. Speaker. But before he speaks about the port, let me tell the people of St. Lucia how this member of Microsoft distorts the facts. He distorts us in a way, said if it's a Canadian accent, that if you do not listen carefully, you'll believe him. He said that we sold slasper. Let me tell you, Derevin, and my colleague will, and my colleague will, will expand it, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in 2019, first of all, GPH is only going to handle the cruise part of the port. The cruise. In 2019, 82% of the revenue from the port came from cargo. 82%. Only 11% came from cruise. But he said that we sold slasper operations. But he forgot, he forgot the instructions he gave to slasper. For the airport. For HIA. For HIA. He forgot that. He forgot the instructions as well. He forgot. What hurts me? Not that you can't get used that word for him. What hurts me is that this member, Mr. Speaker, he's so self-righteous. He made no mistakes. Everything his ministers did was right. He never said they did anything wrong. He never said, I will do things differently. Never. All what he knows is he's self-righteous, and he attacks everybody, and he believes his own truth. In 2022, 91% of slasper's operations came from cargo. 4% came from cruise. But he said we sold the ports. In 2023, 86% of slasper's revenue came from cargo. 9% came from cruise. He said we sold the ports. What we're doing is the government has transitioned the cruise part of the port, the cruise part of the operation of slasper to GPH, the cruise services, in exchange for investments, Mr. Speaker, and in exchange for taking the debt out of slasper. So what had happened? And slasper has begun. Slasper has bought a new crane to expand the port operation, Mr. Speaker. Hopefully we can expand it to some other destination. That's what he did. So what have the governments done? They've diversified. They've put the cruise part, all in the cruise, into a company, all in the cruise company, and the revenue. The revenue. That's the revenue from the main revenue from the ports. The main revenue from port, Mr. Speaker, comes from the cargo operations, which are going to be modernized, which are going to be modernized under the cruise, Mr. Speaker. So suddenly, Mr. Speaker, the member of Mikusov doesn't know about the seasonal age of tourism. Mr. Speaker, the member from Mikusov speaks about Grozile, speaks about the Grozile Highway. Mr. Speaker, the member from Vifotsov was Prime Minister. We negotiated with the Q80s. We negotiated with the Q80s, Mr. Speaker, for reconstruction of the castles Grozile Highway. We negotiated with the member from Mikusov, was a member for Vifotsov, was Prime Minister. We had a complete loan, a loan for the reconstruction of the castles Grozile Highway, together with the roads, the subsidiary roads, Mr. Speaker. The tender for that happened sometime in April or May. The member for Vifotsov, with his level of transparency, he thought that the results of the tender board, there was too much of a vast difference between the full tender, the highest tender and the lowest tender. He instructed that it be re-tended. And the re-tender happened on June 6. When they won the election, Mr. Speaker, the re-tender incidentally was on June 6. That's when the tender's board was supposed to meet. But it all happened on June 6. They won the election, Mr. Speaker. The Kuwaitis called them and begged them, literally begged them to continue the highway. They literally begged them to continue the highway, Mr. Speaker. Also, and I want the farmers, because he spoke about bananas, Mr. Speaker. There was also, Mr. Speaker, there was also the plan to develop the feeder roads in the same Mikunov, Mikunov and Vifotsov. The member for Vifotsov can testify to that that these loans were signed and ready to go. When they came into government in June, they cancelled it. The Kuwaitis called me, because they thought in St. Lucia there was transition. They called me and said to me, they said to me, Mr. Speaker, what is happening to these roads?  And they could not believe, they could not believe that a loan that had been completed, that had been signed, Mr. Speaker. The government would just abandon it. So I want to tell the people of Grossly that anytime they get stuck on the Grossly Highway, they must blame the member for Mikusov. Anytime they get stuck on the Grossly Highway, they must blame the member for Mikusov because he was the one who cancelled the loan for the construction of the highway. And the records are there. Unless you're thinking about records, these records are available. We can show it. He cancelled the loan, Mr. Speaker. He cancelled the loan. The government is documenting, Mr. Speaker. They begged the government not to complete, not to ban, not to stop the construction, Mr. Speaker. But you know, again, instead of he just he just says to himself, I made an error. But read it out, read it out, like a little child is trying to take his toys. That's how he behaves. Because he doesn't admit, admit, I said, listen to me, I was an error in judgment. I sought, we got done something different. Say that. Just say it. We may understand. Because you in government, we took responsibility. We said that we are not, after we got the report from the committee, we said we are not going your way in St. Jude. We are going the way of continuing work on the existing buildings. We took responsibility for our actions. We said we are not continuing on your billion dollar airport. We are going to redo the terminal. We took responsibility for our actions. We took responsibility. We said we took decisions and we took responsibility. But you refuse to take any responsibility for the decisions that you make.  No responsibility. He did everything right. Everybody was wrong. 152 is no margin. Nothing was wrong. You were perfect. And you lost the election because of a reward or reason. You were perfect. I have heard the member from Viford South say he would do certain things differently. But not you. You're right. You're self-righteous, Mr. Speaker. So Mr. Speaker, then finally he speaks about COVID. Can you tell me the member from Viford South can bring back COVID deaths in 2023? To score points? You bring back COVID deaths? I mean, where? The member from Microsoft knows very well the deadly Delta variant was not in government when it was not there when it was in government. But we will not bring that back. That's a fact. The Delta variant came in the year 2020. T1 to 2022. That's when it came. But you want to argue about it? You want to make a fuss? I'm Delta deaths. I'm deaths from COVID. Mr. Speaker, where are we? Where are we? Where are we in the country? You want to go back to that, Mr. Speaker? Then you speak about $1,500. I said what I said. I'm going to repeat. And you want to pay tips? You can pay tips. What I said. And I repeat it. What I said. What you are giving $500 from NIC. If we were in government. If we were in government at the time we would have given $1,500. And I stand by it. And I'm saying to you right now we are giving the public of St. Lucia for the Ministry of Energy those who deserve it 5,000 of them are going to get $1,500 each. And that is a fact. That is not a plan. That's not something we would do. That's not something we try and do. That's not something you write on a paper. That's not something a plan. Oh, we would have done that. We would have done that. We are doing it. We are doing it. Mr. Speaker, we are doing it. It's not $5,000. It's not $5,000. You know Mr. Speaker? Then finally, what was what was even more surprising Mr. Speaker? And I don't want to speak up. I don't want to say it. I don't want to say it. Because I have a responsibility because my job, our jobs here are temporary jobs. All of us will not be here every time we leave. We have a responsibility to the country, Mr. Speaker. I will not speak about Bank of St. Lucia. I will never do what he did. Never. Because and the man for shows them should stand up and disassociate himself from his statement, Mr. Speaker. But I won't get involved in that. But you know, that is the responsibility.  It's a scotch of policy. You go and you say all what you can say, mash it up just because you're not in power and hopefully you can rebuild it. That's not how we behave in opposition. We were tough. We were tough on facts. We won the records. We never spoke about war. We never spoke about flogging people. We never spoke about we never spoke about about people's parts people's, we never called people mongers, Mr. Speaker. And I reiterate, Mr. Speaker that the member from Microsoft any time he opens his mouth I wanted the public television to fact check him in there, Mr. Speaker because he just says things just 20%, 40%, 90% all kind of things 4,500, all kinds of things, Mr. Speaker the facts are with us and I want to thank the people of St. Lucia. We're going to have discussions because you know this supermarket struck St. Lucia's search not because of the government the supermarket is run basically by one player that's a fact. It's run largely by one player. What we are doing, Mr. Speaker we are it's a fact. What we're doing is that we are holding, we're going to hold some discussions so we can see how we can deal with the situation because we understand the price of goods are going up. We understand it. We talk about subsidizing flour you are the first guy the member of Microsoft, he's on record saying this government has an idea by reducing the price of flour and sugar they have the poor. That's what he said you know he said that on a program he said our idea of helping the poor is to subsidize rice flour and sugar he forgot that he said so on a program he was criticizing us for saying that and now you want to say we must do it after we do it already but that is a double standard and that's why you must fact check him you must fact check him Mr. Speaker because he says things on one side and he achieves in itself rice as posture and goes into helping the poor my colleagues talk about helping the poor you call the poor medicans you call them medicans you said yes you said you were the one who said our patchy money is in our credit card and you you spoke about you speaking about the poor Mr. Speaker on a point of order again I'm going to ask the member to withdraw that statement I have never referred to poor people as being medicans I mean I can sit here and allow some of the other stuff to take place you said but the fact is I have never once you never used it with medicans not to describe a poor person who are you describing you tell me you said I never said the medical you said that the lady who brought the land the lady who brought the land the lady who brought the land asking him to withdraw the lady who brought the land you said she was a non entity you didn't say that either you were exactly what you do is that when you caught instead of getting the money this to me that is something I should have said Mr. Speaker again the member is misleading if he wants to remember when I spoke about he is making the people in this country and his policies and with the lady who brought the property that she was a non entity as a business person and we've clarified that but if you want to continue to do and make those kind of things but I'm going to from now on Mr. Speaker every single time that there's a misquote like him I'm going to stand up for a factually correct statement I never called people mendicants and I made reference to the young lady as being a non entity from a business perspective and instead of being more concerned as to why she brought the land and how she brought the land he wants to detract and speak about something completely superficial Mr. Speaker you see what he calls superficial a young person going to business that's what he calls superficial a young person going to business that's what he calls superficial but that's the same member that's the same member who can't try to justify giving a thousand acres of land to one man based on plans on renderings that's the same member who said he was not building a set of islands he went to a citizen and he said I've got two billion dollars worth of investment he said he had two billion he said he had two billion US deny you said it I'm repeating you you understand I'm repeating Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker but you know that the delusion that he's suffering from the delusion that he's suffering from Mr. Speaker but we are focused so that will not take us of focus Mr. Speaker so the value added tax on barrels is the people of this country and I I'm saying that we are going to continue Mr. Speaker to continue the policies that benefit the people of this country and we will not be distracted by people who do not understand that the people of this country took a decision I thank you very much Mr. Speaker


Morning happy bright and early day after Christmas morning. As always I'm filming today's video on Monday It's 4 50 in the morning. I'm up. I am at boot camp actually just pulled into the parking lot I got here a couple minutes early, so I could say welcome to today's video Boy, the holidays were a whirlwind. We had a really low-key kind of chill holiday Which was really really nice actually for the first time, and I don't know how long I actually relaxed quite a bit over the course of not one but two days I am always so busy. I never have time to relax and I have to say staying in my pajamas until about noon on Christmas Day I'm definitely not mad about it. So I'm feeling really good Refreshed ready to finish this year out strong. In fact this morning when I get home I am re-signing up with my fitness coach She is going to be an intricate part of my 2023 goals And I'm going to start planning and prepping for the new year Like I mentioned in my goals video if you haven't seen that I'll link it down below for you I have some major goals for 2023 and one of them is to very much clean up my diet and go towards a whole food approach So I'm going to be pulling some recipes for my January meal plan whole food based I share my meal plan in my Facebook group So if you're not in my Facebook group come join us You can purchase a monthly meal plan dinners breakfast lunches snacks Really helpful to stay on track and I really want to focus that on whole foods And then take my pictures measurements get all signed up with Steph So that I have a fitness coach in my corner for the new year So you I've got a lot going on today, but I'm ready I'm ready to finish 22 2022 out strong and get completely ready to just hit the ground running in the new year So I am going to grab my weights my mats do boot camp when I get home will have some breakfast Oh, I did have my protein coffee this morning about half of it the other half is in the fridge So I'll finish that while I'm getting ready then we'll make some breakfast and get started on our day So welcome to another what I eat in a day. Good morning. It is time for some breakfast. I'm hungry I just finished getting ready for the day was kind of deciding what I wanted to do for breakfast And I forgot that I had these in my freezer and it has been a long time since I've had these These are from the brand Lahi lolly Lolly these are the morning protein bites It says all natural chicken sausage cage-free eggs sweet potato yellow squash kale and caramelized onions You get four of them for 130 calories 10 grams of protein So I'm gonna have four of those and then I'm going to have a Chobani zero sugar yogurt with some freeze-dried fruit I've been eating this every day. It has become a major major staple for me I love the crunch that the dried fruit gives it and I have the banana and strawberry fruit crisps I just bought these off of Amazon. There's no added sugar So I actually count these as zero points and then the yogurt's only one point So it's a one-point snack and again, it just gives it a really really good crunch So I'm gonna do four of those yogurt and freeze dried fruit Also last time I wore this shirt you guys were asking where I got this actually got this off of Amazon So it does have this cute kind of bunched Side here, which I really like and then it has the one Shoulder strap, which I also like super cute if you wear your hair up So I'll link this down below for you. It comes in a whole bunch of colors. I decided to get purple I really like purple and I was trying to add a few more pieces to my wardrobe But this is super cute super soft super comfortable and I also love that it's long-sleeve So here's my breakfast.  They are so good. I forgot how good they are So I'm glad that I kind of rediscovered them in my freezer And then I have my Chobani yogurt. Look at that yumminess with the freeze dried fruit So this is going to be a really high protein healthy breakfast So I'm sitting here doing some work in my office and I just mixed up my 6 a.m. Run This is something I take after all of my workouts. This is it right here I've been getting a lot of questions seeing lots of posts about what I take post workout And why really what supplements I take in general But this is the one that I take every time I work out whether I'm lifting weights in the gym going to boot camp This is about half gone I have two or three of these all the time because I love them My favorite is the watermelon the lemon lime is really good But the watermelon the watermelon is so good It has a BCAAs in it helps with muscle recovery joint recovery Soreness just helps alleviate a lot of the water weight that our muscles hold when we break it down So we don't see that big jump on the scale. It's just really such an amazing product I just put one scoop in my Lululemon water bottle with some ice shake it up So I'm going to sip on this I will actually link 6 a.m. Run down below for you with 20% off And let me know are you guys interested in seeing a video about what supplements I take and why? If you are that's definitely a video that I can put out I do take quite a few different supplements and I have a very Regimented routine for a reason so if you're interested definitely let me know But I am going to sip on my water do a little bit more work on my computer And then we will have a morning snack so as I mentioned Troy and I didn't really exchange gifts this year We didn't exchange gifts with my mom my in-laws really anybody because we kind of just buy what we want throughout the year We did pick up some lottery tickets about $60 worth scratched all of them ended up losing half And we did make it back about $32 But I have treated myself to a few things and one thing was actually a recommendation from one of you So thank you to Sharon my subscriber. She's part of my Facebook group. She's part of my challenge group She recommended the Lululemon if you guys haven't heard about this This makes my weight loss nutrition coach coaching heart really really happy. This is a metabolism Tracker this is what it looks like. It's this tiny little handheld device This is the coolest thing you used to only be able to track your metabolism at a hospital It was a test that you could pay for and do in the hospital Now you can actually track your metabolism at home with lumen. This is just a lot This is data that I was really interested in especially how our metabolism is affected by what we eat the movement that we do What happens with our metabolism when we first get up versus after before we exercise after we exercise later in the day After a meal after a high protein meal high carb meal So when she mentioned lumen and how much she loved it I went on to their website and I picked one up for myself and I'm so excited. I've tried it out I actually just did my first test this morning when I got home from boot camp actually about an hour and a half After I finished working out. It was so easy super easy to do I actually downloaded the lumen app on my phone.  It's going to tell you where your metabolism is falling whether you're in one two three four or five now level one and two are fat usage Levels number three and four are moderate carb and fat levels and number five is a carb level So where is your body utilizing energy from where is your metabolism day to day? How is it affected by your sleep your physical activity and your nutrition? It also gives you workout optimization, which I love and it gives you nutrition information So it's going to help you figure out what foods are best to eat for your metabolism It is going to give you protein carbs fat Recommendations I still recommend having your personalized macros and calories done This is somewhat personalized but doesn't take into account Everything like my personal macros and calories do you can go in and modify the numbers to what I give you which is what I did in Mine you can monitor and improve your metabolic health So it's going to again track your sleep your nutrition your fitness data Provide you with a flex score which basically reflects your success and helps you sustain results You can even track your cycle. It is just the coolest device. It charges with the USB Actually, I'm going to plug mine in in my closet with my Apple watch charger Then that way I can make sure that I take my metabolism test every single morning before any exercise It's a great way to improve your metabolism and figure out how your body gets stronger and fitter from working out What you're going to find with lumen is it's going to help promote natural weight loss less snacking Energy and mood boost improved overall health and enhanced weight maintenance. I love that. It's personalized I love that it's all done in an app and for me being so close to maintenance This is going to be a huge key factor in my maintenance journey I plan on giving you guys updates throughout the next few weeks on how lumen is working for me What am I noticing as far as the results that I'm getting? How is my metabolism working? I'm really happy to say that I'm in complete fat burn today, which isn't Uncommon after working out and I haven't had a lot of carbohydrates today. You saw what I had for breakfast I'm about to go have a morning snack I am going to up my carbs a little bit for my morning snack I really really am loving this and I can't wait to utilize this in my health and fitness journey I will link lumen down below with a special discount for you guys Definitely check it out It give yourself a gift of health and tracking your metabolism and knowing where you are in your fitness and weight loss journey This is going to be such an integral part of the rest of my journey And I'm so excited have lumen in my hot little hands and something that I can really focus on So again, I'll link it down below with a special discount for you. Oh side note I think we're going to utilize this throughout the day today I'm going to go make my morning snack. Like I said, it's going to be a little bit more carb heavy Then we'll test again on here and see if it changes anything So let's have a morning snack and then we'll test again on our lumen see if it impacts anything I'm really curious how the foods that I'm eating and what I'm doing throughout the day impacts that Super exciting for me So I am going to have one of the chocolate Quaker rice cakes and then I'm going to do I don't know if I'll do one tablespoon or two We'll kind of see how it how it ends up But I'm going to use the candy cane kisses peanut butter from american dream nut butter. This is my all time favorite I love everything about this. It is chocolatey. It is pepperminty. There's chunks of white chocolate regular chocolate It is so incredibly good. There's eight grams of protein eight grams of carbs and 11 grams of fat And this particular one only has 150 calories for a two tablespoon serving So less than regular peanut butter and in my opinion so much better I will link american dream nut butter for you guys too with a discount But let's put together this post workout or morning snack Look at all the mix-ins in this. Oh, it's so so good. It is my Very favorite. I love all the cookie bits and that little bit of mint from the candy cane Oh my gosh, I just love it. I love their peanut butter. They do have an almond They have almond butter and cashew butter too the peanut butter is my all time favorite in this candy cane kisses one Oh, I'm literally obsessed with it. So two tablespoons is 28 grams. Let's start with 14 grams, which is one tablespoon Okay, so there is 14 grams Let me spread it out and see if I want to go for two tablespoons. Yeah, I'm going for two tablespoons There we go. So 28 grams. So I did two tablespoons of candy cane kisses nut butter On my chocolate rice cake get all the bits the chocolate bits the peppermint. It's so good Amazing I just got a big chunk of candy cane Makes my heart so happy definitely check out american dream nut butter They have a ton of options and again, I'll link it down below with 10 off So I'm gonna head out and get a coffee I need to stop at the post office to mail off some stuff that I've been hoarding since before christmas But I forgot to show you guys that the lumen also comes with a little travel bag that you can put this into take with you I'm so excited about this. So we're gonna go ahead. Let me open it up on my app And we're going to go ahead and test it just for fun since I had the rice cake with peanut butter about 40 minutes or so ago So I went ahead and opened up the lumen app There's a little it looks like a little wind symbol right here That's what you hit to actually start taking your measurements. So it says you can do morning check-in before exercise after Before eating after eating after fasting before sleeping or custom check-in. So we're going to do an after eating and we're going to go snack Okay, it wants me to turn it on there's a little on button right here. Let me take the lit off turn it on And it's finding my lumen here in the app Let's go. Okay. So we're warming up inhale deeply Hold your breath. Okay. It's analyzing Ooh, okay. This is interesting. So see what it says now Now i'm a level four the yellow and it says you're burning mostly carbs Which makes perfect sense because I just ate that rice cake with peanut butter So prior to that I was in level number two, which was fat burn Then it immediately will take me to my food log where I can log my food now I log in the lose it app. So i'm not going to log in here too But that is really cool. How accurate this is it knows that I just ate a carby snack So now i'm mainly going to burn through the carbohydrates that I ate versus burning through fat Now once those carbohydrate stores from the rice cake and peanut butter are burned through it should go back to fat burning mode So here's what we're going to do. We are going to go run our errands get our coffee go to post office I'll take it again before I have lunch. See where we are My lunch is going to be pretty protein focused and we'll take it again after that So we're just going to do all the testing today So far I am thoroughly impressed with how accurate this is and how cool the information is So I was just looking at this really quickly as I was closing it out and look what it says This is exactly what I tell my coaching clients to It says enjoy unlimited non-starchy veggies. They're super healthy. So we'll show Their carbs in green and they won't count towards your macros So that's actually what I tell my clients too is not to Count non-starchy vegetables towards your macros because we should be eating them for all of their nutrients And I love that lumen is right on the same page You guys need a christmas whimsy before I go get my coffee Don't we do we need a christmas whimsy's? Say we got so many nutrients for christmas so many All right, bud your last but not least All right, I have secured the goods We have coffee. I actually just pulled into the gas station to get chorea pop while I'm out He is having some issues with his foot. It's really sore He can barely put any weight on it. It kind of started yesterday and then it's progressively gotten worse So his dad thought maybe he had plantar fasciitis. So poor guy It's just an onslaught of medical issues Speaking of medical issues social security. I'll give you a quick update But first coffee So I went back to my og which is a iced americano with two cream and three shots of sugar-free toasted almond And then I get an extra shot of espresso It's so good and I wanted something less sweet after the holidays, you know all the sweets and things I kind of wanted to go back to my roots This is a super low calorie low point drink because the only points are the half and half in there The serp has zero points. So I picked that up I'll sip on that grab his diet coke and then run to the post office But quick update a social security update. So We finally got denied We finally got denied for social security. We actually applied in february And just heard back in november. So it took a long time to hear back We moved in the process. So it delayed it a little bit But we got denied honestly. I was a little bit surprised that he got denied I really thought that he would have gotten approved the first time So we have hired an attorney a social security attorney a really well known one in tuson So he's working our case right now. We have filed an appeal social security has accepted the appeal He did say that it's probably going to be another year Before we hear anything there's a possibility they could deny us a second time But we have an attorney in our corner now. So hopefully that helps with the approval process It just is really rough because troy has no income. He cannot work I mean, he's physically unable to work So he has no income for the last few months and then a whole another year And we are paying cobra medical insurance, which is $650 a month for him So we're going to have to continue to pay that until we get approved if we get approved from social security So it's just a big financial strain So I really appreciate you guys watching my videos not skipping through the commercials When I post a link using my links and those that I get commission on I really appreciate that Coaching has been really great for me great for you guys. It's been great for me So I really appreciate all of your support because you're helping support my family and pay my mortgage since my poor has been Doesn't have an income right now and actually is in the whole $650 a month with medical So it's been hard, but we're making it through and again. Thank you for your support I couldn't do it without you guys and I'm so blessed to have this job And this platform so that I can support my family. So thank you again. So coffee Diet Coke post office Diet Coke check Who it was busy in that gas station people are still out and about after the holidays. So Last stop for me is going to be the post office Which is a good thing because pretty crazy out today with all the traffic I do have a couple coaching calls as well. And then we need to make some lunch So let's go to the post office and head home Okay, the parking lot is completely empty For the post office. I have a bad feeling they're closed today In lieu of the sunday being christmas day Because there would be somebody here. I mean you would think at least one person Yes Well dang and banging it Well, good for them. Good for them for getting today off since christmas book fell on a sunday So, all right. Well, we're heading home for the day. I'll just hit up the post office Wednesday when I go grocery shopping. All right, I'm gonna go in the kitchen to make some lunch I just finished my coffee So let's test this out. See what happens prior to a meal than about an hour after a meal pulling up my app Going to the little breath symbol. We're gonna do a before eating And we're gonna go lunch Turn her on and we are ready to go Let's see what we're at prior to a meal Post snack post coffee. So now you can see I'm a three So it says you're burning both carbs and fat. So that's good So we went from burning just carbs to burning carbs and fats. Nobody's mad about that So let me go ahead and go make something. Let's put together our lunch We'll eat and then we'll wait like 30 to 45 minutes after that and try it again for lunch I'm having a pizza We had my in-laws over for christmas eve and my mother-in-law brought over the chicken Artichoke pizza from papa john's the really or papa murphy's sorry They're really really thin crust. So I'm going to have one full piece. I think there's two pieces. Oh three pieces left So I'm going to have one full piece And then I'm going to scrape the toppings off of the second piece and just eat the toppings I do that a lot just so I'm not eating as much crust as much bread But I'm still getting all the protein from the toppings and then that'll leave one extra piece I also have some cut up cucumbers carrot celery left over from christmas eve And in my little uber home bowl, which by the way, I love uber home I'm actually going to use their pre-portioned plate for my lunch today. I'll link them down below with the discount I love all their pre-measured pre-portioned products I did make a dip using light sour cream light mayonnaise and a little onion dip pack It's really really good You can see the bowl has lines in it too for measurements. I just really really love them So again, I'll link the uber home stuff for you, but let me warm everything up and I'll show you my lunch So here's my lunch.  So I'll do my best to kind of guess on that And then I have cucumbers carrot celery and a couple tablespoons of my dip. So that is my lunch All right, let's do another quick test on the lumen after lunch. All right, she's on purple light indicates that she's on So after lunch, we're still a three. So we're still burning both carbs and fat That's good news. So we had the pizza and the vegetables and the dip none of that affected Anything and putting it more towards burning carbs.  So staying away from a lot of refined carbohydrates I mean the only refined carb I had was the one thin slice of pizza the bread Everything else was protein base. There were some healthy fats in there. We had some vegetables So it's good to know that that's about where we're falling Palmer, did you get a Christmas frisbee? Palmer, Palmer, can you show daddy? No, oh no, he's gonna ruin Yeah, you're putting cute over there Diesel look at Palmer's baby. Look, he has a Christmas one. Bye For afternoon snack, I'm gonna keep it pretty simple I'm going to have one of my protein H2o waters only because I need a second protein supplement I do two protein supplements every day So I had my profi my protein coffee this morning and then I'm gonna do the strawberry banana protein water I love these. These are the only protein waters. I've ever found that I even remotely like I actually really really enjoy these and it's going to give me 15 grams of protein for only 70 calories. I buy them on amazon.  This one's my favorite You can have a half of a cup for 110 calories 11 grams of protein So I have protein water protein crunchy snack and that's going to do it for the afternoon for dinner tonight I am making spaghetti squash lasagna. So we're going to have spaghetti squash in place of pasta We're going to add lots of good vegetables. It's going to be high in protein So let me show you what's in dinner first. You're going to need salt and pepper as always I'll link my gravity fed salt and pepper grinders down below. They're off of amazon super affordable You'll need some red wine vinegar Parmesan cheese ricotta cheese your favorite marinara. I'm using rayos. We like this one. It's nice clean ingredients You'll need some spinach. You can use regular or frozen mozzarella cheese zero point ground chicken Spaghetti squash and some garlic To stick her off that squash. So these four are going into the oven at 400 degrees They'll cook all the way through so that they're nice and soft so we can scrape out the insides And that's going to serve as our pasta. I have my skillet sprayed with some nonstick cooking spray I'm going to add my meat Break that up while it starts cooking and then we're going to add some salt and pepper We're going to add in a big scoop of minced garlic and let it cook down for just a couple of minutes until fragrant Add in your jar of marinara add a tablespoon of red wine vinegar And stir to mix we're going to allow it to simmer on medium low heat For about 10 minutes just so we can meld all those flavors together While the squash is cooking we're going to make the filling so I have a one cup of low-fat ricotta cheese One half of a cup of light shredded mozzarella a pinch of salt And then your spinach go ahead and tear it up if you're using fresh spinach just tear it into small pieces Otherwise you can use frozen And then give that a good mix together. This is the Filling or the cheese portion of our lasagna. I just pulled the spaghetti squash out I'm going to flip these over I think And we do need to let them cool a little bit. They're piping hot before we shred them Once you've shred the spaghetti squash, we're going to go ahead and put the shreds in with the cheese mixture Then go ahead and mix the spaghetti squash in with the ricotta mixture Now you have the option of putting this mixture back into the spaghetti squash Shell which is what I'm going to do because then we're going to put it back on the baking sheet At our marinara sauce and then you can pop it under the broiler if you want to melt and brown all of the cheese If you didn't want to use the squash shells, you could just put this in a bowl or a ramekin That's oven safe and do the same thing So we're going to divide the mixture out between our four shells Then place them back on to that same baking sheet And then we're going to top them with the marinara I do have a tiny bit of marinara left. I don't want to overdo it So I'm just going to put that in a storage container We can add it to it once we dig into it a little bit more And then I have a half of a cup of the light mozzarella. We're going to sprinkle that on top And then a quarter cup of fresh parmesan. We're going to add that to the top as well And like I said, you can put this back in the oven at 400 or you can pop it under the broiler to get that nice crispy Cheese the brown cheese. I think that's what I'm going to do is pop it under the broiler Look how amazing these look.  Let me go ahead and plate these up and I'll be back to share points calories and macros So here is dinner. So this is one of the lasagna spaghetti squash I'm probably not going to be able to eat all of this. I'll pop up here on the screen How much I did eat this can make four to six servings You can even do eight servings if you want to split one of these and eat half at a time I will go ahead and put all the information for dinner here on the screen for you All right for dessert. We're keeping it pretty simple My friend Amy when I was in new york gave these to me. These are the blue diamond Peppermint cocoa almonds. She knows how much I love peppermint anything So she gave these to me. They are really good. They're definitely more cocoa-y than pepperminty The peppermint is pretty pretty light in them, but they're really really good You can have an entire serving which is 28 of them for 160 calories You're going to get five grams of protein as well. So I'm going to have a whole serving. They smell so good So here's what they look like. So they kind of look like cocoa dusted almonds But like I said, they just have a really subtle hint of peppermint So I'm getting in some protein and some healthy fat On today's what I eat in a day on www I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today Seeing all of my meals definitely check into the lumen. This is the coolest thing ever It's something I'm going to look forward to doing every single day And it's just another piece of the puzzle to my success moving forward. I'm really really excited about it I'll link that as well as everything else I shared with you down in the description box If you enjoyed today's video give it a big thumbs up Subscribe if you're not because I do a what I eat in a day every wednesday and I do upload five times Per week everything is down in the description box including nutrition coaching and my facebook group come join us there We'd love to have you happy wednesday and i'll see you in the next one. Bye