Hi friends welcome back to my channel and welcome if you are new here. This is video number two In my eat this not that savvy WW food swaps the first video we talked all about breakfast and some savvy swaps you can make from your higher point breakfast items And simply swap those out for some lower point breakfast items that are equally as delicious So I will link that video down in the description box below if you have not seen that That was the first video in this series. This is video number two And today we are going to be talking about savvy swaps eat this not that for lunch and dinner Some basic staples for your lunches and your dinners that you can make very simple swaps Lower the smart points, but still have absolutely delicious food choices So let's jump right into this eat this not that savvy ww's food swaps lunch and dinner First let's talk all things bread So as you know traditional bread or your regular store-bought bread is not too bad in smart points You can generally have a full-size slice of regular white wheat bread for about three smart points per slice But there are some great savvy swap bread options out there that are equally as delicious Most of the time far more nutritious and are great swaps for bread So the number one on my list is the trader joe's sprouted wheat sourdough bread. This bread is delicious It has seven grams of protein per slice It is two smart points per slice so four for two if you're making a sandwich Or if you want a couple slices of toast two smart points per slice And it is packed with seven grams of protein and it's dense and delicious and amazing Now if you're more leaning towards the white bread option, there is the nature's own butter bread Now this is a great option as well. It is two smart points for one slice or three smart points for two So great choice for a low point bread option. This is your traditional white bread So if that's where your game is this is a great swap for a higher smart point bread And the last one that I want to share with you is the sarah lee 45 calorie bread Now this is not my favorite bread as you guys know, I don't care for it. I feel that it's very airy There's not much to it, but it is only one smart point per slice So depending on where you're going with your bread options You can either go for the higher point more nutrient dense Trader joe's or your traditional white bread with the nature's own butter bread Or if you really want to save some points and you don't mind that more airy less filling less dense bread Then the sarah lee 45 calorie is a great savvy swap for bread Next is lunch meat. Now most lunch meats are fairly low in smart points So the what I want to share with you today as far as lunch meat goes is eat this not that Don't eat the lunch meat that has added sugar So you're going to find a lot of like honey hams and those types of things that have added sugar They're just going to elevate your smart points It doesn't mean that you can't have that but there are some swaps that you can make To save a lot of points on lunch meat My number one choice is either a turkey or a chicken So a smoked or a peppered turkey or chicken is going to be the lowest smart points There are several brands out there boar's head is one of those that is zero smart points on the blue or purple plan So you can make a nice turkey or chicken sandwich for zero smart points for your lunch meat If you pick up the right kind So boar's head is one of those and then cost go also carries a naturals That is zero smart points as well Some other low smart point lunch meat options are a basic black forest ham You can generally have about two ounces for one to two smart points. You can also buy roast beef I know you wouldn't think so but generally roast beef is about one smart point per ounce Now, of course, this is going to depend on the brand of lunch meat that you're buying But you can swap out those sugar laden lunch meats for some of these other zero or low point options And you still have a delicious lunch meat sandwich or you can roll up a string cheese Or just eat it straight out of the container for a high protein low smart point snack while we're talking lunch meat I want to go into a few other protein savvy swaps that you can make on your ww journey And the main one of those is hamburger So your 80 20 or your 90 10 or even your 93 7 hamburgers are going to be a lot higher in smart points Than the extra lean version of hamburger, which is the 96 4 my favorite 96 for lean ground beef is from trader joes It is delicious I also love the one from walmart and you can have four ounces of 96 for Extra lean ground beef for two smart points So you can make yourself a big juicy burger patty for two smart points. So by just Cutting out those higher fat cuts of meat.  You really have to season that sucker up and it is on the dry side So I tend to lean more towards the 93 7 ground turkey But now you're looking at the same smart points as 96 for lean ground beef About four ounces for two to three smart points of the 93 7 ground turkey It's going to be a little bit more flavorful. It's going to be a little moisture But it's kind of up to you what you want as far as your ground turkey goes Now like I said, you can doctor up 99 percent, which is zero smart points And make meatballs out of it meatloaf out of it add it as your meat for spaghetti You can definitely doctor it up with some spices and even adding something that's going to add some moisture to it Like maybe breadcrumbs and eggs or milk or something to kind of not only bulk it up But add in that moisture, but really you can swap out those high fat turkeys for 99 percent and it's zero Smart points now on the green plan. It is so low about one smart point for a serving of 99 percent ground turkey So that's a great swap as far as ground turkey goes Steak, what if you're craving a steak? You can certainly have a low point option state and your best bang for your points buck as far as steak goes Is going to be a flank steak. This is going to be the leanest cut of steak that you can find Now with that comes a heftier price flank steak is not inexpensive But it is going to be the lowest amount of smart points Now you can do some other savvy swaps with your steaks and you can buy a loin Or a petite sirloin and you can cut off all visible fat and really decrease the amount of smart points as well So steak is not out of the question I loved the shaved steak that I can buy at my local Kroger store or friend Meyer store I've also heard that this is sold at other grocery stores as well. So just check your local grocery store But this is generally a fairly lean cut of meat. It is cut very thin Similar to what you would find on say a filly cheese steak sandwich So it makes a great dupe for that But if you just buy the leanest cut of steak that you can find you can still incorporate steak Into the protein sauce just swap it out for a leaner cut And if you didn't know you guys pork chops are not High in smart points I couldn't believe that pork chops were lower in smart points than I would have originally given them credit for You think pork you think pig you think high in smart points But that's not necessarily the case especially if you're buying a leaner cut of pork chop Anytime that you can get a center cut of pork or meat in general, especially when it comes to bacon You're going to get a lower smart point same thing you with steak You can go and just cut off any visible fat and of course that's going to lower the amount of points as well But pork chops are a great option. You can get them bone in bone out You can get them thin cut thick cut They're really honestly a very low smart point option and they're usually nice and juicy and tender So don't discount pork. Just pick the right cut and the last protein I want to talk about is hot dogs and sausages This is everything from sausages that you put on a bun to sausage that you have for breakfast So let's first talk about hot dogs hot dogs are generally extremely high in smart points Your ballpark those types of things are generally very high But you can swap those out for a couple of lower point hot dog options One of those being the hebru national low fat hot dogs. These are one smart point per hot dog These are a great option. They cook up nicely. They're delicious So this is going to be one of your lowest smart point hot dog options Also, you can find a turkey dog or even a turkey kielbasa And those are going to be generally low in smart points as well with the kielbasa You can just cut the size of hot dog that you're looking for or sausage that you're looking for For whatever dish it is that you're having those in another thing I want to point out as far as hot dogs or sausages is the sam's choice chicken apple sausage These are stellar. They have fabulous ingredients. In fact, they are whole 30 approved That's how great the ingredients are you can find these at your local walmart as sam's choice is a walmart brand And these are two smart points per sausage. That's it. That is incredible for a full-size sausage I like to have these for breakfast lunch dinner. You name it So there are some very savvy swaps you can make as far as protein choices go when it comes to hot dogs And sausages just scan or enter into the nutritional calculator, but there are a few really good swaps for you I also want to talk a little bit about wraps Another thing you may not be aware of is tortillas or wraps are really high in smart points So those big burrito shells that you can buy from mission or that you get at your local mexican restaurant Those are 200 to 300 calories per tortilla. That is crazy There are some great swaps when it comes to this number one is the olay wrap. These are one smart point They come in a high fiber a tomato basil a spinach and herb They're absolutely delicious and for one smart point for a full-size tortilla or wrap you can't beat it Another couple options are the tomorrows. I really really like the premium white This is your traditional white flour tortilla, and it is one smart point Also mission makes a carb conscious one. That is another option or carb counter I'm not sure it'll be here on the screen for you, but that's another really good low point option So I find that often for lunch I will incorporate tortillas or wraps as my bread instead of traditional bread because it's big I can load it up with all of my favorite veggies and proteins and sauces and it makes a really low smart point option I also make a lot of quesadillas with these especially the olay wraps They make great quesadillas and you can have two wraps for two smart points. You can't beat it So check out some of these savvy swaps for your tortillas and your wraps Another thing people automatically discount when they start any diet or healthy eating journey is pasta People think you can no longer have pasta because you're on a healthy eating journey.  I love this pasta so much It is half or less the smart points of traditional pasta You can have two ounces of fiber gourmet pasta for three smart points There's elbows rotini penne and spaghetti They have all the types of pastas that your little heart could ever desire And you cannot beat three smart points for an entire Serving of pasta hands down the best it is packed with protein and packed with fiber So you're actually getting a good nutritional boost from this pasta as well. I buy mine off of the net triton website I will link that down below for you guys Go check their website out. They have hundreds of w w friendly items If you want to know what may be my top four five are leave that in the comments and i'll share that with you But I order off of this site probably once a month It's affordable and it literally has everything including fiber gourmet pasta So pasta my friends is not out of the realm of what you can have regularly on w w and with your pasta You need some pasta sauce So we're going to talk red and we're going to talk white as far as red pasta sauce goes your best bang for your points Buck is going to be homemade make it at home in your crock pot or on the stove zero smart point marinara My favorite is from the skinny-ish dish. I will link that recipe down below for you guys It literally takes five minutes to throw everything in your crock pot Turn it on let it cook and you have zero smart point. No matter how much you have on every plan Absolutely delicious marinara You can use this for spaghetti on pasta on pizza to dip things in such as two ingredient dough breadsticks It is delicious. I know that there's a couple other zero point marinara options out there But i'll link the skinny-ish dish because that's my very favorite Most other traditional jarred marinara are going to range from two to four smart points for about a half of a cup So it's kind of up to you what you want to spend your points on But a really savvy swap is to take out all of the points of your marinara and do a zero point option Now for white sauce. There are several options out there I do want to caution you that a lot of the traditional Alfredo or white sauces and the lower fat or lower calorie ones Have about the same smart points So this is a great chance for you to use your scanner or your calculator To compare because sometimes you can buy the full fat version for the same smart points Or just one or two smart points more than the light version Clisico brand is a prime example of this the traditional clisico I think is one smart point more than the light now I'm all about saving the point So I generally buy the light and I think it's delicious But just do some calculations, but you can definitely work alfredo sauce into your day It is really actually very low in smart points I will put here on the screen the points for the light for a serving It's incredibly low and it's really truly creamy and delicious So zero point red sauce and a very low smart point white sauce And you have pasta Next up is cheese. I love cheese like I really love cheese I love me some cheese So there are a lot of high fat cheeses out there Your traditional cheeses that aren't reduced fat or low fat are going to be fairly high in smart points But there are a lot of low point or low fat cheeses out there that are super easy savvy swaps Where you can still indulge in delicious cheese and save yourself a ton of smart points Number one is going to be a light string cheese versus a full fat string cheese I like the light string cheese at trader joe's and also frigo makes a really good light string cheese as well As far as cheese slices go my go-tos are the yarlsburg light swiss cheese It is a full-sized slice of cheese for one smart point sargento also makes an extra thin Slice of cheese that is one smart point for a slice as well And velvita makes a one smart point cheese slice Two so kind of whatever your favorite is as far as cheeses go the kind of cheese The consistency of the cheese the meltability of the cheese Those are some great slice low point options and as far as shredded goes I generally will use fat free shredded cheese and mozzarella because you can have a quarter cup for zero smart points on all Plans now if you're not a fat free cheese person You can get a reduced fat cheese and it's generally two to three smart points for about a quarter of a cup It's going to depend on the brand of cheese that you choose Also trader joe's has an organic mozzarella cheese that is so incredibly delicious It is so indulgent like a full fat cheese, but it is only two smart points for a quarter cup That's my go-to when i'm making pizzas or when i'm wanting mozzarella cheese that really creamy mozzarella I'll go for the trader joe's organic, but because it's organic you're going to pay a pretty hefty price It's about five dollars a bag, but in my opinion It's delicious. It saves on points and it just bulks up that cheesiness of any dinner So cheese is definitely an option You just have to swap those full fat or high fat versions for a lighter version And you still get the creaminess and deliciousness of cheese pizza Who doesn't love pizza? I mean honestly if you don't like pizza leave it in the comments because i've yet in my 44 years of life Met somebody that doesn't like pizza now people's Toppings that they like or don't like may change, but i've never met someone who legit doesn't like pizza So if that's you leave that down below So there are some great options as far as pizzas go the lowest point is going to be making it on your own Especially if you follow blue or purple you can make what's called two ingredient dough So that is equal parts of non-fat greek yogurt My favorite is fae and it is equal parts of self rising flour Gold metal makes a great self rising flour you mix that together and voila You have pizza dough and it's very low in points because you only have to count the points for the flour So if you're into making your own you can make bagels out of this breadsticks Garlic knots people make cinnamon rolls out of this dough. It's endless the opportunities with this dough Now let's say you don't want to make your own dough. What about buying a store-bought dough? You can get a cauliflower crust and they're going to be a little bit less in smart points And trader joe's also has a butternut squash and a broccoli crust I have not tried the broccoli, but the squash one is delicious And those are going to be lower smart point options as well You can go to your smart ones or your lean cuisines for pre-made pizza They are a little bit hefty in points But if you want the convenience of literally throwing it into your oven and cooking it and calling it a day Those are great options for you But I recommend making your own pizza with a homemade crust Especially that two ingredient dough top it with some zero point marinara and you my friends have a very low smart point pizza And we're talking pizza for low smart points cookies. I want to talk about cookies I love cookies. So we can sell cookies my friends We just need to swap out those high point cookies like those double stuffed oreos and those big huge chocolate chip cookies You find at your local bakery for just a more savvy for your points buck cookie. So I have some favorites I love the oreo thins. Those are a great option for a low smart point cookie You still get an oreo. You still feel like you're having this really yummy high point cookie But it's the thin version and in my opinion. It's absolutely delicious. I love the yellow I think it's the vanilla one. I'll put a picture here for you guys. That's my very favorite oreo thin I love it also in the same token of cookies is biscotti biscotti can be a little bit lower in smart points and you still feel like You're having an indulgent cookie trader joes again has some great options for some low point biscotties I know that chips of white also makes a chips of white thin So I guess the moral of the cookie story is by a thin Or a cookie that you can have several of for a set points value Because then you can decrease the number of cookies that you eat to lower the smart points Stay away from double stuffed frosted loaded with sugar big huge cookies And you can still indulge and have some of your favorite things There are so many great recipes out there for low point cookies as well So do your research see if you can find some low point cookie recipes I've made a few here on my youtube channel. I made a no bake cookie. I've made a peanut butter cookie I've made low point sugar cookies for an easter recipe You can either make your own but there are still some great in-store options Where you can still have cookies and stay within your points like you can literally have a cookie a day and stay within your points What about hamburger buns and hot dog buns? So I've got my hot dogs Options I've got my low point hamburger options, but what do I put them on so you can buy normally in most Stores, they're smaller hamburger buns and they're going to range from two to three smart points Depending on the brand. I know that there's a brand on the east coast. I believe it's schmitt 647 I don't have that where I live, but I believe that those buns are two smart points apiece You just have to scan and enter information. It's going to vary on the brand But if you're looking for a one smart point hamburger bun, there is the smart bun Now that is from the same company that made the smart muffins that I talked about in my breakfast Video and they also make the one smart point smart cakes and that is smart baking company And they make what's called a smart bun. It is one smart point for a big full-size hamburger bun I will caution you that the texture is a little bit different than your traditional bun I find them best grilled or crisp Crispy from a pan like a little spray butter throw them in a pan get them nice and crispy I find that that helps a little bit with the texture But if you're looking for a one smart hamburger bun, that's a great option Now hot dog buns again are going to range in points based on the brand But I know that schmitt's brand is two smart points the hot dog I pick up from my friend mire or kroger store are three points So again, you're going to spend anywhere from two to three smart points For most hot dog or hamburger buns unless you take the smart baking route Then those are one smart point my code for 10 off of the smart baking website This is going to be the buns the smart cakes and the smart muffins is here on the screen And of course, I will link that down below for you guys So there are lots of options when it comes to hamburger and hot dog buns You just have to pick the savvy swap that fits best into the points You want to spend on a bun another thing I love and eat a lot of his rice And to be honest your points on rice are going to vary as crazy as that seems You would just think that rice is rice and the points are going to be the same But that's not necessarily the case So again, if you are following the purple plan Brown rice is going to be zero smart points. So of course, that's going to be your go-to On the purple plan for rice. I'm not the biggest fan of brown rice I find it hard I find it hard to cook it to a consistency that I like and that nutty flavor just is not my favorite So I generally lean towards a white rice My very favorite white rice is jasmine rice and it is a little bit hefty in smart points So I generally will just lower my serving I have about a half of a cup of it and that can range from three to five smart points You can also pick up a short grain white rice and you can have a half a cup from three for three to five smart points So rice is really a pretty low smart point option The best bang for your points buck when it comes to rice is going to be wild rice You can have an entire cooked one cup serving for five smart points Now the rest of your rice is are going to be six to seven smart points for the same amount So if you're not a big fan of wild rice, you can still have your white rice or your long grain rice And your points are going to be fairly similar and the best dupe for rice or pasta or any type of higher point Side dish is just lower the serving to get lower smart points I generally eat between a quarter of a cup and half of a cup of rice When I have it and then that way it still works really well within my day I want to talk about french fries I love french fries and if you buy them from any restaurant or fast food They're pretty high in smart points. You can make your own at home So easily in your air fryer or in your oven So I want to share with you some of my favorite french fry options If you are looking for a regular crispy fry Orida really truly makes in my opinion one of the best french fries that you can cook at home Whether it's shoestring crinkle cut the crispy fries the steak fries In my opinion is really the best brand when it comes to french fries Another brand I really like is alexia and these are really good and they have fabulous sweet potato fries Now french fries are going to range in points if you don't cook them in oil From anywhere from four to six smart points per serving Now if you go for tater tots or little rounds, those are going to be higher points So that's your savvy swap.  Now if you have the points to spare I love a tater tot. I love a good tater tot.  You feel like you're indulging in fast food side dish I want to give a mention out to salad kids So I know those of us on a healthy eating journey or those of us that hear about what you should eat when you're on a diet You always hear about salad But let me caution you my friends salads that you buy at a restaurant can be really high in smart points Like you literally can have a hamburger and fries for the exact same amount of smart points and calories as a lot of these restaurant made Salads your dressing is where you're getting caught up in points So there are some great salad kits out there and there are some not so great salad kits out there Now the best thing that you can do if you're really trying to conserve points Is to buy a salad kit and not use the dressing use all of the other goodness that comes in the salad kit But sub out your own low smart point salad dressing now This isn't always an option and for me I like to literally just use the kit that I buy So I've found some really good low smart point salad kits Two of which are found at Trader Joe's one of them is the Mediterranean kit And one of them is their veggie kit and this is a fairly new one These you can have an entire serving for about four smart points sometimes Three smart points depending on the kind of salad kit That's all of the goodies in the kit and the dressing at your local store A really good option is going to be either a light Caesar salad kit or the dull endless summer is another one that is pretty low in smart points And again, they're going to range from four to five smart points per serving and generally a serving is about a cup So that's a lot of salad. It's great as a side dish I probably wouldn't recommend having a salad kit as your main entree or the majority of your meal Because you're not going to get enough for a low smart point to really fill you up But if you're craving salad and you want something quick and easy that you can just throw together dressing included These are some great options. Again, the best thing to do is to scan your local store See what's out there put it into your recipe or put it into your nutritional calculator Or scan it with your barcode scanner and see exactly what the smart points are going to be But be very cautious of salad kits and salads at restaurants Next up is soup. I think you think would be pretty low in smart points Nope, it all depends on the soup Did you guys know that Campbell's tomato soup is about six smart points a serving? That is crazy. You would think tomato soup. It's a vegetable. It should be low in smart points Nope It's all the stuff they add to it the sugar The starches that they add to soup that elevate the smart points So really watch your soups Your best bet for soup is going to be to swap those types of soups for a light soup The number one light soup that is delicious is progressive And you could cannot go wrong with really any of the progressive light soups You can generally have the entire can for less than five smart points My favorites are the chicken tortilla. That one is delicious. I really like the clam chowder But really you can't go wrong with getting a progressive light soup So the best thing to look for when you're buying a soup is healthy Heart healthy light low fat look for those make sure you are scanning them or putting them into your calculator To see the exact smart points per serving and per can Make sure you are watching the the serving size and making sure you're putting that in right But if you go with a light or a low fat soup, you can generally have a really good low smart point option I will caution you with soup and this is any soup is watch your sodium Soup usually is high in sodium Maybe not the best thing to have before you weigh in because it will retain some water in your body because of its sodium content But as far as soup goes, it's a great option on w w You just have to swap out the high fat soup and the high point soup for the light low fat and low point soup And the last lunch or dinner savvy swap or eat this not that is frozen meals This is another thing that can be pretty tricky to navigate a lot of those frozen meals out there Are so high in points your marie calendars. You guys these are loaded with points your banquets your hungry man These have Tons of smart points tons of fat tons of calories loaded with preservatives artificial things and sodium tons of sodium So I wouldn't recommend frozen meals as a staple on your journey I think always eating a home cooked or whole food is a better option But I know that there are times when a frozen meal has to happen a busy day at work for lunch Or when you get home from a long day of work or school or the gym And you just want something quick and easy and you just throw it in the microwave and voila You have a dinner. So if you are going to take the frozen meal route I highly recommend the smart ones. Those are the weight watchers endorsed meals Those are going to be generally fairly low in smart points lean cuisine is another one Healthy choice make some great steamer Types of frozen meals that are really really low in smart points and absolutely delicious And the ingredients are not so shabby on those healthy choice options So you have to do some scanning and some putting information into the calculator On your frozen meals before making your choices, but there are some great options out there if you are looking for Something convenient quick and easy another thing kind of on the frozen meal Train but not really an entire meal is going to be the amy's organic burritos These are a great option and they are generally six to eight smart points So that's a healthier whole more whole food option if you're looking for a quick easy frozen meal Don't buy those fat laden calorie laden ones and just savvy swap out for a lighter version of your favorite frozen meal All right my friends that is it for a second video in my eat this not that savvy swaps on W we talked all things lunch and dinner and I hope that you got some great ideas of some very simple Savvy swaps that you can make to incorporate your favorite foods into your Or your healthy eating lifestyle Nothing is off limits with ww. That is my favorite thing about this program We can eat whatever we want to eat. We can buy our food Wherever we want to buy our food whether that's the health food store on amazon off of an affiliate link Or a discount coder at our local grocery store It's our journey and we get to choose where we buy our foods and what foods we put into our body Everyone's opinion is going to vary and I always say sometimes those opinions keep them to yourself as far as food goes Because we get to make the choices of the foods that we eat So I wanted to share with you guys some of the traditional favorite foods like pasta and burgers and pizza And how you can make healthier lower point options So I hope you enjoyed this video stay tuned for video number three and four in this series Where we're going to be talking snacks and desserts. You don't want to miss that So with that make sure you're subscribed to my channel hit the little bell That way you're notified whenever a video is uploaded. You don't want to miss the next two in this series They're going to be great with tons of great information for you. Also if you're new I'd love it if you would subscribe if you're already subscribed make sure that you've hit that bell So you get the notifications when I upload Thumbs up this video if you like having these savvy swaps and these eat this not that series and leave your comments down below I want to hear what is the one thing I shared with you today that you really had no idea That a you could eat on your w w journey and b what swap you could make to make it a little bit less Point heavy. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you're loving this series as much as I'm loving putting it together And I'll see you guys in my next video.


Howard Wigg, Think Tech Hawaii, Cold Green. Welcome to another beautiful Hawaiian winter day. Background. We worked for the Hawaii State Energy Office, and Hawaii was the leading state in declaring the goal of 100% clean energy by the year 2045. Many states have since emulated us and we're on track so far, but we've gone through the low hanging fruit. Now we need to get really, really serious about following the latest in energy efficient technology in order to achieve that goal. And of all the citizens in the state of Hawaii, possibly the person in the lead of the lead of pioneering high efficiency technology and bringing it to the fore, not just for Hawaii, but for the entire world is Mr. Nick Dizon, president of Dizon Energy. Welcome again, Nick. Been a while. Time since we've seen you because you have spent more time in the UAE and the Philippines than you have in Hawaii. I was concerned about your family, but your wife is attending grandchildren, so that works out to an equitably equitable family situation. So you have been since last we met up to some very exciting pilot programs in the UAE and the Philippines. So take it away, Nick, and wow, describe what is breakthroughing here. Yeah, well, you know, the policies of Hawaii with the objective of it's now law about clean energy or 100% renewable by 2045. Other countries have taken an even more aggressive stance. So in the Philippines, for example, before COVID, they passed the law for energy efficiency. It required a 30% reduction in draw or for large power users, or you face penalties because of COVID that was delayed by a year or two. But starting today, or January one in the Philippines, large power users who have been forced to report their energy usage are now having to have to meet that 30% energy efficiency reduction target, or they face penalties. So that's in action in the Philippines right now, with day one being January one. United Arab Emirates, along with the other oil producing countries there, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, they've also adopted very stringent energy efficiency laws and regulations, which go into effect also from now. These are driving customers to find energy efficient solutions. And to reduce your energy load by 30%, there's only one place to look that's at heating and cooling. And the only solution that meets that and is advertised for meeting that target, at least in relations to heating and cooling, is SunTrack. So as you know, on previous episodes of Think Tech, I presented SunTrack and how it works and all that good stuff. I also presented how Carrier Hawaii has validated that SunTrack works. And they've endorsed it to the point where we co-market SunTrack and Carrier equipment together. And we've actually seen where customers in Hawaii, commercial customers in Hawaii, have seen over 60% reduction of energy drop by the air conditioner that the SunTrack's hooked up to, be it a four or five ton split or a 30 or 40 ton commercial split, or a 30 or 45 ton air-cooled chiller. We'll be doing our first 150 ton chillers, several of them this year, all in Hawaii. We're looking to do, we're already doing a variable refrigerant flow over in India with SunTrack, over in the Philippines with SunTrack. We'll be starting that on splits and variable refrigerant flow in Israel and throughout the Gulf countries and the Gulf in the Middle East. So by the end of this year, we'll actually have a greater pace of installation of SunTrack overseas than we will in the United States. That's also because two major fast food chains that I don't want to say their names, but they're very, very well known, have committed to switching all their air conditioning to SunTrack in the Philippines. That's over 17,000 panels that'll be going in to the Metro Manila area on just those two fast food chains. And that's going to be the equivalent of several replacing several coal-fired power generating plants. That's how powerful SunTrack is. All without, you know, so we're reducing the carbon footprint, we're reducing the amount of coal or any fossil fuel, natural gas that needs to be burned. And because we work 24 hours a day, that actually enables wind, solar in particular, to be most effective during the day, towards further reducing energy draw from commercial air conditioning in the Philippines, the US, and the Middle East. So that is underway at this time. So the big breakthrough is SunTrack is becoming pretty much accepted worldwide that it actually works, the technology works. Another thing that happens on the sustainability side of SunTrack is not only do we increase the life of the compressor by order of magnitude of more, we've also addressed a problem that we didn't know, we didn't under, we didn't appreciate how bad this problem was. And that's corrosion on condenser coils. Here in Hawaii, it's well known, salt air will destroy condenser coils. I mean, some of the biggest reasons why we were able to put SunTrack on commercial installations here in Hawaii was the salt air was causing the condenser coils to leak so badly that it only made sense to replace the entire unit. Well, lo and behold, it's worse in the Philippines because they don't have the EPA's Clean Air Act, they don't have the Clean Air Act, they have acid rain. And acid rain is from all the soot from all the cars that don't have catalytic converters, all the diesel, they don't have filters over there or scrubbers.   So leaking condensers across the Philippines is a fairly common problem. So what does SunTrack do to prevent this corrosion? Yeah, so earlier you had the background, you had the video of the website, the Need on Clean Energy website, and it shows the headquarters for the Philippine Department of Energy in downtown Manila. Well, there's that SunTrack there is mounted to a four ton dyke. That dyke has been running for about two years at around one and a half to two amps, year round, which is unbelievably low. It's supposed to run anywhere from 12th to 15 amps, and we have it running at under two amps. But just as importantly, apparently, is the fan on the condenser never turns on. In fact, they had two teams, engineering and science teams, from the Department of Energy Philippines test the system. And both teams said that they never ever saw the fan coil fan for the condenser go on. If that fan never turns on, it's because the refrigerant coming from the compressor has changed state from gas to liquid and is already at about ambient temperature. Therefore, there's no heat rejection or dissipation that needs to occur at the condenser. The SunTrack has done all that on its own. So the fan never pulls the soot in. So the condenser coil, if you see pictures of it two years later, it's pristine. You can run your finger across it, and no black soot comes out of your hand. So at the military bases here in Hawaii, when they found out that the condenser coils at joint base or marine core base, which wrought out usually within two to three years, that this won't happen because the salt air won't be pulled in because the fans don't turn on, that's got military, commercial facility people across the state of Hawaii pretty excited about this, which is why we'll be doing our first 150 ton air-cooled chillers this year. We expect to have at least one or two major projects a month throughout this year, and that may double or triple in 2024. I expect by third quarter 2023 that we'll see that number double, and it's going to start increasing to the limit at which we have crews able to install. So that's happening in Hawaii. That's going to be happening across the western US, especially in California. We're starting with great guns all obviously in the Philippines, and right now it's winter in the United Arab Emirates. It's actually down in like the upper 60s, lower 70s there, so they're kind of on hold. Things will start heating up rapidly in March. When we installed the first soundtrack in the United Arab Emirates, it was 105 degrees Fahrenheit, 80% humidity on a brand new carrier 4 ton split. That 4 ton split was running at around two and a half to three amps at 105 degrees Fahrenheit, 80% humidity. That's crazy good. And what is the normal amperage under those conditions? Oh yeah, that 4 ton is going to be running full bore, full on. Earlier in the summer, we didn't have it up running when it was 115 degrees Fahrenheit. So we probably would have seen maybe another amp or so on top of that 4 ton carrier, but carrier and dyken I would have to say make the most efficient machines in the world, efficient air conditioning machines. Of course, Hyundai, LG, Samsung, train others are up there, but we've installed on their gear and I personally and my team have seen the best results with carrier and dyken equipment. It works on Panasonic, Mitsubishi, train, ream, Goodman. It works out everything, but it looks like the algorithms and the machine learning in the the carrier and dyken equipment are maybe a cut above everybody else. I'm sure everybody else is trying to catch up, but the firmware software sensor controls and dyken and care makes a lot of the other offerings of software to add on to make those more efficient. I really don't see the a good business model where there's a good return on investment on those software. SunTrack with carrier and SunTrack is absolutely the best. When you're able to drill a 4 ton unit down to two and a half to three amps on 105 degree Fahrenheit, 80% humidity, there's no add-on software. There's no other piece of equipment out there that can get remotely near that. And what is the normal average drop for a 4 ton unit? Yeah, on like an LG or other brands, it's probably going to be between 13 and 15 amps. The carrier dyken might get as low as 11 to 13 amps, a little bit lower, but you throw a SunTrack on the carrier or the dyken or the Mitsubishi or the Fujitsu, you're going to really drill it down. But I've seen a one to two plus amp drop advantage with carrier and dyken in particular. That Philippine unit, I flew into the Philippines last year, April 26, 2022. While I was approaching the airport, dyken had sent a team to the Philippine Department of Energy to analyze that machine themselves and the engineers were flabbergasted. They were like, this is unbelievable that this unit is running so well. In fact, to make sure it was working, they went into the space that was cooled and they changed the thermostat. It was at like 24C, 23C, and they lowered it to 16. That's upper middle, upper 60s Fahrenheit. And so when they did that, the compressor went full blast. The fan started to turn because there was no way it was going to bring the space down to that set point. So they verified, oh, the machine works properly.  So it took a while to stabilize back to the temperature, to a comfortable temperature. But yeah, so we had three teams check out that project on the Philippines and we even did a presentation to Moralco and Emser. Moralco is the largest utility in the Philippines and they are under pressure right now because there's almost no spinning reserve left for all of Metro Manila. And during the summer, they go into yellow and red alerts where rolling blackouts have to occur because the ACs are all pumping and they don't have reserve. They've made the commitment not to build anymore coal-fired power plants, but it's expensive to add more LNG and there's resistance to putting more LNG. So they're trying to add more wind and solar, but approvals for that size of wind and solar take time. And even those that are approved are not going to make up the difference, especially in the early morning, late afternoon, evening, when the heat is at its highest and it's sustained and yet solar energy is dropping off like dropping off a cliff. So really the answer to that issue, the affordable immediate answer, is SunTrack. In fact, worldwide, be it the duck curve in California or Texas or Hawaii or anywhere in the Sun Belt where there's extensive solar and wind, SunTrack is the only solution that can address that immediately. Now, Nick, you mentioned the dyken several times and we see that unique looking panel. Please refresh us as to what role, very important role, the dyken unit contributes. Yeah, so they're the largest air conditioning OEM in the world. They're in a battle for first place all the time with Carrier. And dyken also bought McQuaid. I think you remember the McQuaid brand. So Goodman, Amana, American brands, McQuaid, all bought by dyken. And the third largest factory in the United States is a dyken factory over in Houston, Texas. It's only a few years old. They make 400,000 air conditioners a month. I mean, wrap your mind around that. For the US market, 400,000 Amana Goodman dykens are made a month and they sell out. I've been in that factory, took a tour, and then I had a meeting with a senior executive there for about two hours. So dyken also believes that the SunTrack product works. The difference, though, is while they agree that SunTrack works, they haven't validated it to not voiding their warranty to the degree that Carrier has. So the other largest exclusive distributor of Carrier in the world is in the Western United States called Sigler. Sigler is beginning from today across their Western US network. They will be marketing SunTrack along with Carrier equipment across the Western US. That was all initiated by us guys in Hawaii. We set that all up. We set the Carrier while rolling with Carrier Hawaii. Thankfully, Carrier Hawaii has the owner of Carrier Hawaii, longtime Hawaii guy, John Arizumi. He is a strong Hawaii pro-carrier advocate. When he saw for himself that SunTrack works back in 2018, he personally stuck his neck out with Carrier corporate and said, Carrier Hawaii is going to work with SunTrack so that as long as a SunTrack certified installer puts it on Carrier equipment, it will not void the Carrier warranty on brand new variable refrigerant flows, splits, commercial splits, air cooled chillers. That's unheard of. Daiken knows this and they are aware of this, but Daiken being a Japanese company run out of Osaka, it's going to have to be an executive consensus decision out of Osaka that makes that happen. In the meantime, they're watching Carrier get installed with SunTrack. Frankly, the projects that we've been doing, brands other than Carrier are not even invited to propose right now. The only equipment spec is Carrier SunTrack. Wow. Remind us, Nick, what SunTrack does, because I regard that as a secret sauce that brings your amperage down by a factor of seven or so. Yes. SunTrack is a device that's a solar thermal collector, heat collector that goes between the compressor there on the far left and the condenser on the far right. You can see the SunTrack panel inserted in the circuit in between. It essentially does the job of both the compressor and the condenser. You'll actually see the hot gases coming out of the compressor going into the SunTrack and changing state to a liquid. The SunTrack increases the pressure on the gas to such an extent that around halfway, as it flows through the SunTrack panel, it changes state from gas to liquid. When it changes to liquid, it dumps heat at a rapid rate. On a commercial, on that 30 ton chiller, we saw the exit temperature from the SunTrack being around 131 degrees Fahrenheit. The entry, and this is in the height of summer here in Hawaii, where we're in the low 90s. The entry temperature of the liquid, now the liquid refrigerant as it entered the condenser was 91 degrees. We saw a near 40 degree drop in temperature in around 15 feet of pipe. Our MEP was flabbergasted. He measured that again and again and again, but the temperature drop was further verified by the fact that the thermal-controlled bands on the condenser didn't turn on. They didn't need to pull air through there to cool anything because as soon as that 91 degree ambient liquid hit the condenser fins, whatever heat it had left to dump, it dumped instantly. On a 30 ton chiller, the size of the condenser coil, it's like a wall. It's like a U-shaped wall. It's pretty big. You can put your hand on it and the entire surface is cooler than ambient. The other thing is, it's right next to the water. It's Honolulu Harbor. The anti-corrosion coating, which is this green coating that they spray on, normally within a year or two, it's gone. It's pristine. That green coating is as good as it was in the first month of installation. That condenser coil, it's now been there since late 2018, early 2019. We're talking at least three years of nothing degrading that condenser coil, the coating. This is why carrier engineers, they swear by it though. In Hawaii, carrier engineers are working side by side with us to sell SunTrack. Nick, we've just got a few minutes left. I see the rapid, rapid expansion of this technology in Hawaii, which is going to help not just with our amperage, but I think this carries through to the peak evening hours also. Yes, it's the best answer for the evening peak. As solar drops off, the SunTrack, which is working through the day, will work through the night. Later on, if you have a chance, Howard, you can look at the e-gages and you'll see that as night comes, there is not a surge in amp draw. In fact, it stays low through the night. It'll rise again during the day because of the heat of the day. It will rise a bit, but the range of change is very small. We also reduce demand charge. There's no motor inrush current, no lock rotor spikes, none of that stuff. We save money on the demand charge side, as well as the KWR side. I know there's only a minute or two left. If you could put that last website up, I'm actually going to be pivoting my personal time away from SunTrack by end of first quarter of 2023 to focus on what you see there, which is sky sales and need on wind power. I didn't want to create any new companies, but I did in this case because it was impossible to ignore. This is a far superior way to get renewable energy at a low cost, at a low footprint. They are coming out with a 1 megawatt kite. Instead of 1 megawatt of solar panels or a wind turbine, you get this kite flying in there. This kite is considered firm energy like a generator Howard. 24 hours a day, except for a 10-second flight return time, this thing is giving a megawatt all day. We'll put enough of a battery system in so that during that 10-second flyback, there's no reduction of output to the grid. If we have three or four of these flying with synchronization, we'll have four megawatts to the grid, 24 hours a day, firm power for a fraction of the cost of wind turbines or solar farms. Of course, we have a 24-hour production time on these. This company has been around for around 10 years. They started out making a device to help reduce fuel burn on ships. Then they converted it to generating electricity. Most of 2023, I'll be focusing on that. I hope to bring a pilot system to the big island by third quarter of this year. Wow. On that very, very positive note, Nick, we must bid fond adieu, but I'm making a note. Contact Nick Dizon in September and see what in the heck is going on. Maybe if you're up and piloting, we can have a whole new show on that. So on that very cheery note, thank you so much, Nick Dizon, and from Howard Wigg, Green, Think Tech Hawaii. See you next time.


All aboard for the transcribed premier production, the cruise of the Paul Parrot, that thrilling, exciting story of the sea. The mystery of Mr. Grange's map and the strange chopping sound in the hold have still not been solved. And now there's new trouble ahead, because in our last adventure, while old Dickon was spinning one of his wailing yarns to Johnny and Sue, a rough red-headed seaman named Red Mulhooly started bullying Johnny. Captain Dalton came up just in time to prevent the seaman from striking the lad. With a mighty blow, the captain dropped him to the deck. Red, however, has vowed vengeance and there is no doubt he will cause plenty of trouble. Now as our story opens at his night, Johnny, who is still bunking in the captain's cabin, has been awakened by that chopping sound. He gets up quietly and without awakening Captain Dalton, steals outside. That noise certainly sounded as though it were coming from out here somewhere. That's funny. I'm sure that scraping noise came from above. Now I can't hear it at all. I can't understand it. When you're below a deck, it sounds like it's coming from above. Now from up here, it sounds as if it came from below. It stopped again. I wonder what it can be. Who's that, I wonder? Guess I shouldn't have come up here this late. I hope no one sees me on deck. The captain wouldn't like it, I know, if he knew I was here this late. I'll hide behind this cask in case it is someone. Now he won't see me, whoever it is. Say, it looks like Sue coming this way. What can she be doing up here? Sue? No, who's that? It's me, Johnny. Oh, God, it was that frightful red moholy. What are you doing here this late? I was just going to ask you the same thing. Your brother'd be awful mad, I bet. If he knew we were up here. Oh, yes, we were sound asleep when I left the cabin and snored like a buzzsaw. You want someone to hear us? I forgot. I came up here because I heard that scraping sound again. The sound that your brother, I mean Mr. Grange, was talking about. Where was it coming from? Well, I don't know exactly. When I was in the cabin, it sounded as though it was coming from up here. But after I got up here, I heard it again. But it sounded like it was down below. I don't know what to think about it. Well, perhaps it's nothing. The sailors were looking for it, but they couldn't find anything either.  Well, this was no worm, I'll bet. It was too even-like. Well, what do you think it could be, Johnny? I sure wish I knew. Whatever it is, I'll bet that Altesdi has something to do with it. Altesdi? Yes. That means Spaniard who tied me and shoved me down that whale oil cast. But I heard Captain Dawkins say that Altesdi must have gotten away in a boat. Why leave search from stem to stern and can find no trace of many where. Well, I'm not so sure. Still, you'd think if he was on board, the sailor would be able to find him. Well, if I ever find him, I'd teach that bad man that he couldn't treat you like he did a shore the other day. I'm then stuffing you in that cast. Why, it's the one you weren't hurt. Oh, that was nothing. He was just mad because I wouldn't tell him where the captain's cabin was and your brother's cabin. You were sure brave not to tell. Oh, I wasn't brave. I just didn't know where the cabins were. Well, just the same. If I ever lay my hands on that... That... What is it that can cause him? That swab. I'll show him he can't treat a friend of mine like he did you. Gee, Sue, you're wonderful. And thanks for getting Mr. Grange to let me stay on the ship. I'll never forget it.  Well, I mean any boy or girl, except that I never knew any girls before. Gee, all the girls I ever saw where I lived, well, they were all such frady cats, but God's sure as brave as Captain Dalton. I like you too, Johnny. We should have lots of fun together.  He always tells me yarns when he's ashore. Once he told me how he lost his leg in a fight with a whale. Gee, I'll bet that was exciting. Oh, it was. And he said that one of these days he was gonna meet that same old whale. And when he does... Do you think he ever will? Let's see. We forgot what we came on deck for. I think we ought to... Wait a minute. Who's that coming this way? Quick, hide behind this oil can. Yes, hurry. Shh. Jesus, he'll take us to Captain Dalton for getting up this time of night. Then he's likely to be mad about it. Oh, is he? Can you see? Yes. It's Red Mulholly. It's that sailor who tried to bully me and Captain Dalton knocked him down. And here comes another one down the deck. They must be on watch. Listen, maybe we can hear what they're talking about. Eve too, baby. I have something I'd like to talk to you about. Aye, but I must get to my watch in a hurry. Never mind the watch. This is much important. That may be, but you're not too strong with Captain Dalton as it is. Who cares about Captain Dalton? Aye, he's a mighty man, and one of the fear of his crossed. He'll hold down your hook without much difficulty today. And he'll do it again, you may later that. Hold your tongue, sailor. Besides, he hit me when I wasn't looking. You wasn't looking, aye? I'll come and hit you in the middle of the chin, spang him at you. Did you have your eyes shut? Now, listen. This is no time for a squal between us. Now, listen to me, sailor. I'm gonna get even with a skipper, even if it's me last voyage, and you're gonna help me. Not me. You can boil me in blubber if I have any part of your dirty wick. You won't, aye? Well, suppose I told the Captain that your name wasn't Jameson, eh? Suppose I told him you escaped from their new Bedford Bragg and that they're looking for you. Yeah, maybe it is, too. Maybe it is, but I never killed a man like you. Hey, how did you know that? Never mind how I know, but one false move and I'll open my hatch and your rigor will be in for a crazy boy. Why, you won't? No one, there'll be no more bully in me. You'd better steer a clear course, he'll be in irons. Else I don't know the Captain at all. The pale scum? How did he know I killed a man? Well, whatever. That wasn't the first. It won't be the last. Nobody can knock me down and get away with it. I'm gonna get even if I have to pin him under a stench, and I'll do it right now. Gosh, Sue, what are we going to do? That man is going to try to kill the Captain. Well, Johnny, there's only one thing we can do. We've got to get to the Captain's cabin. We sure do. Quiet now, and hurry before we're too late. Hurry, John. Who's that? Suzanne? Sue? Where is that girl? I'd swear I heard that scraping sound again, but now it's stopped. Found that chair. Now where's that lamp? If I... if I can only... Ah, there it is again. I'm going to get at the bottom of this thing right now. That lamp, where is it? Oh, well, perhaps I can grope my way to Captain Dalton's. These cabins are as black as pitch. It's I, Ezra Grange. Oh, come in. The door's open. Captain Dalton, something must be done at once. A vast man wants to commotion. Captain Dalton, I'm not a coward, but that chopping sound is beginning to get on my nerves. What? That same sound again? Yes, I can hear it right below my cabin. Perhaps your nerves are jumpy, sir. Your imagination is getting the best of you, sir. It's not my imagination. I heard it distinctly. But we've traced every foot of this ship. It's out of the ordinary aboard the Paul Parrot. Yeah, but listen to me. There is something that is causing that odd chopping noise, and I intend to find out once and for all just what it is. Aye, sir, but what do you... Besides, Sue is not in the cabin. What? She's disappeared. That does call for looking into. Wait, I light the lamp. There. And look, Johnny the boy. His bunk is empty also. There's him down my hatch. The lad's gone, too. Somebody's taken the boy and my sister while we were asleep. Now perhaps not. We'll soon see. Now, easy. If anything has happened, we've got to keep our wits about us. Yes, I suppose you're right, Captain. But hurry, something must be done. Aye, sir, that there does, and there will be something done else my name isn't Roy Dalton. I wouldn't have anything happen to my sister for all the treasures in the world. Treasures? Did you say, sir? Hurry, Captain Dalton. There may be no time to lose. Right you are, sir. Little Miss Sue and the lad, Johnny, may be both in danger this very moment. But hold, I'll blow out this lamp so no one can see us leave the cabin. Some swab may be laying for us, and I'll walk into no trap. But take it easy, sir, and we'll... Wait, someone's coming down the hatchway. The hatch is open, and I can see a shadow against the moonlight. Quickly, hide behind this door. Can you make out who it is? I think so. It looks like the red-headed swab who was bullying the lad today. Red Mulhooly? Aye, so he is. And if he's up to some devil tree, he'll be put in chains. Look, he's heading for your cabin. Aye, then he is up to mischief, the bill scum. Look, Dalton, someone's following him. I can see a shadow up by the hatch there. Either that, or someone is helping the swab to do his devil tree. Good lord, it's Sue and the boy. What in the world are they doing? They're trailing the blue-man redhead, or I'm a weak-kneed-lubber. Well, evidently, red doesn't see them, for he's heading right into your cabin. We've got to get in and grab him before those youngins get down here, else one of them might get hurt. Come on. Quiet now. When I say the word, we'll rush them using a swab. Ah, what, the starboard? Ah! Drat that bird. I shouldn't have let Dickon need him in my cabin. That will put the redhead at what on his guard. Ah! Rush him, Captain Dalton, now's the time. Take it easy now. He has a knife, and in the dark, someone is likely to be hurt. Let me handle the swab. Red? Red. We know you're in that cabin. Drop that knife. Who's gonna make me? Not wholly.  Drop that knife, because I'm coming in there after you. Yeah, it'll give me a great pleasure to rip you from stem this far. All right. You ask for it. Stay here, Grange. I'm gonna take the blasted worm. Come on, I'll give it to you. Out! Out! Out! So, Red Mulhooly did try to make good his threat. Will Captain Dalton and Grange overpower him? And will Sue and Johnny escape unharmed? And the chopping sound from the hold or from wherever it's coming still remains a mystery. These and many other exciting events are soon to be unfolded in the further adventures aboard the Paul Parrot. Be sure not to miss even one of these thrilling adventures on the cruise of the Paul Parrot. Your Paul Parrot announcer is Dave Ward.


One of my very favorite sayings is, great skincare leads to pretty makeup. And I firmly believe that you have to have beautiful skincare, taking care of that skin before makeup even looks decent on you. So I'm excited to bring you my top five favorite skincare tips for anti-aging. And I'm also excited because this video is a collaboration with my friend Annie from Anne P. Makeup and More. She is a YouTuber here that has been on YouTube about the same amount of time as I have.  She has a no-nonsense channel where she just gets down to doing just her everyday thing. She doesn't like follow the trends or anything like that. She just is a super individual, beautiful woman inside and out. And if you haven't seen her video on 80s makeup, I have to make sure I link that for you guys because it is so funny and so good. And it's kind of funny to look back on the makeup that we did back then. But she is a great gal. Please go show her some love and make sure that you tell her that I sent you. I'm excited for you to get acquainted with her if you haven't already. I really think you like her little sense of humor too. She's got just this little quirky fun personality that I think is just so special. So go over and give any some love and I hope that you enjoy her content. So let's get into today talking about what I believe are the five skincare tips that I've learned through the years that have really helped me so much. You might not be surprised at a lot of these, but I think you're gonna be surprised at my number five. And that is, I believe, in facial massage. The reason that I am such a proponent of it is because our face has the same as our body does. And you know when your body gets the lumpy cellulite stuff on it that we all hate and we all wanna get rid of? Well, that's the fascia. The fascia is the knitting that holds the tissue and the knitting that holds in our muscles, our fat, our tissue, everything gets held by that fascia. And it's right underneath the skin. And what happens is that fascia begins to kinda pull apart or get bound in a weird way. And that's what happens with our face as well. And this is particularly good for aging women because you can break up that fascia and it can bring the blood supply up to this surface. And if you have things like bags around your eyes, if you have really puffy eyes, or if you have places on your face that you feel like are swollen, a lot of times that is needing to move the lymph and it's also needing to break apart that fascia just a little bit to be able to release some of this sagginess. Sometimes you can even get around your lips, around your eyes for sure. So I have a video on that that I did a couple years ago and anytime I'm feeling really puffy or like I really just my face hurts or anything, I'll go into facial massage. And we've been taught for years and years not to touch our faces and I don't think that's the case. I think we need to touch our faces in specific ways in order to really help our skin get lots of blood to it.  I really do believe that facial massage is an integral part of anti-aiding. Okay, number four is leave no spot untouched. And when I say that, I mean I go everywhere with my skincare. I don't just do my face, I don't just do my neck, I go clear down my chest to the boob line. And then like today, you can see that I have a shirt on that kind of goes down around my neck and the back right here and my shoulders.  I go on top of my ears, make sure you even go back behind your ears all the way through there. And then I don't stop there. I always do my hands, I do my fingers. I go all the way up my arms. And I feel like that is so important because the things that can show our age the most is our deglitate. That's where we get a lot of sun damage because the sun does have a tendency to hit right there. And then we get neck sagging. And I just feel like all of this area really needs to be just slathered and really taken care of by skincare. And I also use the same amount on my neck and my deglitate that I do on my face. So I don't skimp on skincare at all. Then I put another big dose on the back of my hands and all the way up my arms. So I feel like don't leave any spot untouched or you're going to show those signs of aging through your life. Number three is one that now that I have had my surgery and now that I have lost weight, it's a little bit harder for me. This one is drink plenty of water and I know you guys get told that all the time. Drink more water, drink more water. But this can make such a huge difference with our skin. Dehydrated skin doesn't just come from what we put on our face. It comes from inside. We have to remember that our bodies are something like 70% water. So if you get even like 1% dehydrated, 2% dehydrated, think of what that will do as far as our skin goes. And it can really show up. And I really notice a difference in this area right here when I don't drink all my water in the day. So I challenge you to get those eight, eight ounce glasses of water and see how your skin does after one week. If you don't notice the difference, I would be shocked but I have really, really noticed a difference in myself as far as making sure I get that water. The other thing that that does is it flushes toxins out of our entire body and toxins can age us as well. So we need to constantly be taking in that water in order for all of those yucky things to be washed out of our body. So take up that challenge and get all that water. Number two is sun protection. This is everywhere, everybody talks about it.  Today, if you're in your teens, clear up to when you're in your 80s, 90s, don't skimp on sun protection. It is so, so important. This is the one thing that I wish that I had done way back in my 20s and my 30s. I was a sun worshiper. My mom, she believed in the sun and you know that beautiful tan and it is a beautiful thing. But thankfully now we can get sunless tanners and get that glowing look without having to be exposed to the UVA and the UVB rays. Now keep in mind that there are those rays out even on a cloudy day. So even in winter, you need to slather that sunscreen on and use it and don't be afraid to do that. Now you might say, but I don't like the way my skin feels with sunscreen on it. I gotcha because I don't either. But I searched and searched until I found some that I really, really like. And this one is from Skin Aqua. This is the UV Super Moisture Milk and this is SPF+++. And this I got off of Amazon is really nice and hydrating. And that's what I love about it is I have super dry skin and when I was putting other skincare on, they were one of two things, way too greasy or way too drying. But this one is the sweet spot that I talk about all the time. So I really love this particular one. I'll make sure that it's linked below. You can also go into my Amazon Loves page and you'll get a bunch of recommendations and this is right on there. And this is one that I absolutely love. I like other ones for like other parts of my body. But as far as this area where I'm gonna put makeup from the forehead, clear down to the chest, this is one that I use because I'm gonna put makeup there and I don't want my makeup disturbed and it plays so pretty under makeup. Now this primer right here, this is from Revlon. This has an SPF of 34. It also has the smoothing properties that are so good for, you know, foundation, going under foundation and the property of being able to grip the foundation. But it gives you that sun protection, which is so great. So the reason that I like it is I get that double protection and I always use my SPF 50 before I do go in with this one, but I like both of these. And I think that you would like them too, especially if you're dry skin. The other thing I wanna talk about is that you have to reapply during the day often. So just because you put sunscreen on in the morning doesn't mean that you're protected for the whole entire day and that's something that's a little bit hard for us to remember, but it's really, really important. So I do keep an it CC Airbrush Perfecting Powder, your skin but better and this is the finishing veil, excuse me, 50 plus UVA and UVB and this is a powder and I do keep this in my purse to touch up during the day just to give some more coverage on my skin of the SPF. Okay, number one is what we use on our face for skincare and we talk all the time about products, skincare products and those are really important and I feel like the three most important to me right now in my life and what I'm using are Vitamin C as an antioxidant which keeps any aging from outside coming in. We all have those free radicals that are in the air. We have a lot of pollution in our air. Vitamin C is able to penetrate our skin and be able to give us really great antioxidant benefits and if you're asking, well, what does it matter? What is an antioxidant?  The antioxidant would be the vitamin C if you put a lemon over top of that that fruit is gonna stay nice and fresh and not brown up like it would if it didn't have that citrus or that vitamin C on it. So think of it that way. That's the protection that our skin needs and that we get on our skin. The second one I have been absolutely loving for my aging skin is acids and they are like salicylic acid, glycolic acid. Any of those acids, BHA, AHA acids that can give you a good exfoliation and I love using it in a serum form or in the glycolic toner that the ordinary has. I love using those because I feel like they're a little bit more mild on my skin and as I'm approaching menopause my skin has all of a sudden become very sensitive. So I'm just really liking to use those instead of a physical exfoliant because they seem to be sloughing off the skin without extra irritation for me. The last thing that I wanna talk about and I feel like this is the most important one of all the skincare that you put on your skin is Retin-A. This is the 0.1%. I was fortunate enough to get this when I was down in Mexico and I am just getting ready to switch over to this and I'm excited to do it because I've been doing the 0.5% for the past two and a half years and I've noticed such a huge dramatic difference in my skin, you guys. I cannot begin to tell you how I feel like this is benefiting me. More than anything, you guys know losing 115 to 120 pounds to your skin's gonna sag but I have been so diligent about putting it on this area right here in my neck and my gels and just making sure that I go everywhere even on the top of my lip for my lip lines and I feel like it really has helped turn back the clock. My sunspots are so lessened and the fine lines and the wrinkles. I have my laugh lines. My eyes are always gonna be wrinkled because I have those deep laugh lines so there's not a lot I can do about it and I do have pretty good banding around here with these lines. So this is just kind of holding everything at bay and kind of helping every single day to push that collagen up and to produce the collagen and collagen's what makes our skin bounce back and just be so plump and so pretty. So those are my top five anti-aging skincare tips that I feel like everybody can start at any age and benefit from at any age. So if you haven't incorporated any of these, maybe just start with one. Maybe just pick out one thing that you think is really important and then move on to the next or and see how those things do. Personally, if I was going to start anything like immediately, it would be this, the Ret May and making sure that I got my sunscreen on every single day. The other things are good things and if you do them all together, you're gonna see so many benefits and I've had you guys ask me recently, what are you doing? What are you doing? Your skin looks great. And those are the things that I have really been diligent about. Those past two years, like I said, two and a half years are all of those things but I feel like combined together, they're just giving me much prettier skin and my skin is looking better and better all the time I feel like. So I'm happy to pass those on to you. I can't wait to go over and see what Annie's skincare tips are for everyone. I'm excited about that. And by the way, I will make sure that I link all of her information below for you guys. Make sure you tell me what you feel like is your most important skincare tip or skincare item that you have. And I haven't forgotten that I promised you guys that I would do my routine and I would also talk to you guys about the order in which you put products on. So watch for those videos for skincare coming up very soon. Thank you guys for spending a bit of your day with me. I really appreciate it. Hope everyone is doing really well. Please take care of yourselves and I'll catch you all in my very next video. Take care. Bye-bye. Love ya.