YOUTUBE?!?!

Hey friends, GUESS WHAT? I made a YouTube!!!!!! My name is Simply Macy's Life (duh) Since I am passionate about many things, and not just fitness, I plan on posting all sorts of types of videos!! I love food, fashion, fitness, motivational speaking, and tech stuff. I am so excited to post blogs and other videos!!!! The link is: www.youtube.com/simplymacyslife (the link should work if not then just search in Simply Macy's life in the search bar of YouTube) I already have two vlogs of my typical day up so please check those out and subscribe for some exciting content coming up!!

Happy living, Macy :-) 

Luna Chocolate Chip Brownie Review!

Went to target again today. (Of course) (I work by target) (spend to much money there) (I love target) ;)

Okay, so where I work, we just moved offices and we are now by a target! I only have a few days left (tear tear)! Now usually I don't normally go to target, because A. I just usually go wherever my Dad chooses to grocery shop. B. I never think about going to Target. (That's definitely changed) they have such a better variety of nut butters and food and protein bars and AHHH TAKE MY MONEY hahah

So today, I picked up a few different kinds of protein bars (aka I bought mostly my fav Luna protein bars and then decided to try one new one) and this one looked good so I decided to give it a go! I was kind of in a hurry so I just grabbed this or I would've picked up a few others too! 

This is what the packaging looks like. Believe it or not, this is the first Lara Bar I've ever tried! 

First impression: the texture was so strange! It was like chewy but very soft at the same time. It's a date base, so it's pretty much the same as any other date based bar. The macros are alright, I think there was 9 fat and 20 something carb and I'm not sure how much protein. There were chunks of almonds and chocolate chips through out the whole thing. Here's what the inside looks like: 

It tasted like a cross between a date bar and a brownie and it was really good!! I think this would be a good alternative for those of you who don't like clif bars! (I love clif bars) I think this would be amazing heated up and it would be like a gooey brownie!! 

Brb going to buy 12 of these.

Overall I give it a solid 7 out of 10!!

Can't sit to try the other flavors!!:-)

Happy living, Macy! 

Simple Protein Bar Review!! (Double Chocolate)

So as I was roaming the aisles of the grocery store today, I come upon these bars. Of course I had to buy them. Because protein. Chocolate. 75 cents. In my town, we have a store that is like Aldi's but it has all Kroger brand food. It's pretty awesome what you can find there.

So I bought two flavors, the Double chocolate (pictured) and Peanut Butter Extreme.

As soon as I got home, I opened one of these bad boys and gave it a go. It really reminded me of the Pure Protein Brand chocolate brownie protein bars. It has a very chocolatey flavor, and I love it. Call me weird, but I like the protein-y taste of protein bars, so I thought these were reallll good. It had little crisps of cookie bits in it (I think there called Protein Crisps??)

What I love the most about these is that A. There 75 cents per box of 6 at this particular store AND they are made with ingredients I can recognize. (Hence the name Simple)

Overall, I give these a 7 out of 10!! Definitely going to go back and buy like 10 boxes. (Not exaggerating either)


Happy Living, Macy :)

Blueberry Oat Chips Review!

These taste gooooodddd. Like real good. 

The texture is actually strange, it is like a mini rice cake but with little oat flakes covering the outside. There are I think 5 (?) flavors. 

It was dark in my room when I took this, so you can't really see the actual texture. There are 3 servings in this bag and each serving is I think 110 calories and 22 carbs and 1.5 fat. I ate the whole bag. So there's that. They are pretty tiny and I was hungry so I just though, hey CARBS. 😂 I think I would like these better if I had gotten a zestier flavor and not a sweet one but the store I went to only had this and the caramel corn one. 

I give this a 6.5 out of 10. 

Happy living, Macy. 

MiO energy Review!

So recently I've been looking for ways to spice up my water since I drink so dang much (1.5 gallons a day) and I also have been SO tired lately so I decided to try Mio energy! It's originally $3.50ish per bottle but I got both of these flavors on sale for $2.89 at a local grocery store. I'm not sure if there are other flavors but the two I go are called Wicked Blue Citrus and Strawberry Pineapple Spark (makes me think of advocare haha)

They both taste sooooo gooood! There is 1.62 oz. in each bottle or 18 servings per 8 oz. of water! There is also 60 mg of caffeine per squeeze (1/2 tsp). The blue one tastes like a blue-raspberry slushie aka my FAV flavor 😍 and the orange one tastes like pineapple juice so it's sooo good! 

The only thing about these if that you need to be careful about the caffeine because you could easily overdose on caffeine because you can't even tell its in there! Just make sure to not put too terribly much into each squeeze. There are 0 everything in this (calorie,fat,carbs) so that's nice as well. I feel like if your trying to lose weight this would be helpful because the ingredients in it are metabolism boosters. 

As for energy goes, caffeine usually gives me the jitters and this kinda does that too but not to terribly bad. Here are the ingredient list: 

I give this a 9 out of 10! 

Happy living, Macy. 

Healthy Chocolate "Ice Cream"

Who doesn't love chocolate ice cream? Aliens? Who am I kidding, they probably do too. This recipe is literally 150 calories and practically fat free. Did I mention it tastes exactly like a Wendy's frosty? Because yes. BUT it doesn't contain all the nasty preservatives and oils in it. Straight up goodness. Here's what you needs : 

1 frozen banana (essential that it's frozen)

A few ice cubes (I used like 4)

 1-3 tbsp of Cocoa powder (or any chocolate sweetener) (amount depends on how chocolatey you want it)

Here's the one I used: 

And a splash of water. 

Directions: simply put everything in a blender and mix until the banana chunks are broken up with the ice. Here's the final product: 

Here's a tip I've found that makes it taste super good and even more like ice cream: use realllly ripe frozen bananas. 

Hope you enjoy and remember, 

Happy living, Macy. 💜

 

The protein bar gods have spoken

Yes. Yes. Yes. LUNA BAR PROTEIN BAR CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH. YES. 

This is the hands down, best protein bar I've ever tasted. Even better than Quest. (I'll do a post later on those) but seriously this was SO good. I only bought an individual one (98cents ftw) and I'm definitely gonna have to go back and buy a whole box. (6$?) It literally tasted like I was eating a block of cookie dough covered in chocolate and it was the most heavenly thing. Do yourself a favor and go buy these. Now. 

Definitely a 10 out of 10.

Happy living, Macy.