Goodbye, October.

I know, I know...its a little late to be posting this but whatever lol.

Its bittersweet this year for me, for Halloween to be over. Usually I am already like super ready to be in the Christmas spirit. Its coming slowly this year though. I generally feel like the sooner we start listening to Christmas music and getting into that mood the longer it lasts. But yeah I haven't put up any of Christmas stuff yet. However I have heard Christmas music on the radio and a bunch of stores have their holiday signs up. So I think next week or so I am gunna start putting my stuff up. 

Anywho I did have a very good Halloween. I hope you guys did as well!! My little collage I made up above kind of shows whats been going on for me in the month of October. 

I think I am going to do this for every month. 

~ Style ~

I dyed my hair (from bottom right photo to top left photo). I also gave it a cut and added layers all done by muah! I was very happy with myself for not hacking it up...haha. I went for a more purply color and I love it! It kind of is like a red, magenta, purple color depending on the light. And I dyed it about 2 weeks ago and it still looks pretty good! My super faded red with hella brown roots grown out was not doing it for me anymore. Changing my hair is always a nice feel good boost. 

So for Halloween I had a little party with my family and dressed up as a witch. I used my Twilight Yellow contacts which really helped up the freaky factor. I followed a makeup tutorial for this eye makeup on YouTube if you want to check it out. It was by a girl named: Merbabe Aurora. 

~ Music ~

I am always on the hunt for new music. And love checking out new releases on Spotify. Although I had know and was waiting for Ariana's new song to come out!! I really like her new song "Focus". The video was beautifully done and I love the colors and OMG her hair!!! Its most definitely a wig, but its sure is a BOMB-ass wig that I want. XD The only thing I don't necessarily love about the song which, just about everyone feels the same, is the dude saying "Focus on MEH!". I read somewhere that someone said it is Jamie Fox. Its ok and I'm used to it but I was kind of hoping she would break away form this thing with having random dudes in her song ie. "...it's the RASCALS..." as said in her very first album by some randoms. I really hope on her new album she mixes it up a little, like does something acoustic or more soul/blues. Anyway enough ranting on that...other music I've listened to this month is Tori Kelly!!! Who absolutely is my favorite female artist! She just released another single called "Hollow" which is amazing as well as the video(lyric and official). She also has a song on this new album called We Love Disney that has a bunch of stars singing classic Disney songs. Tori did "Colors Of The Wind" which gave me all kinds of feels! There are a couple other amazing songs on that album. I would recommend checking out! I also have been loving Sam Smith's couple of new songs, Adele's "Hello", Troye Sivan's "TALK ME DOWN" freakin love all of Troye's newest songs can't wait for his album! P!ATD - "Victorious", The 1975 WHO is finally FREAKIN back, "Love Me". And some songs from 5SOS's new album are pretty good. 

~ Entertainment ~

Mainly this section will have what anime I have been watching and manga I've read. Occasionally some actual TV as well as movies and some YouTube stuff. So for October I have been watching a lot of ongoing series. One being Noragami: Aragoto which I am soooo happy its back! I LOVE MY SHIP Yatori!!! Also been keeping up with: Fairy Tail (mainly the manga...I really need to watch the anime I behind by like 10 episodes...its not like I don't know what happens tho/ I for real need some NALU moments to happen), Owari No Seraph: Battle in Nagoya, Diabolik Lovers: More Blood (second season of Diabolik Lovers which is really good but the episodes are only like 4 mins long, WAH!), and Dance with Devils (basically like Uta No Prince Sama). I re-watched Psycho Pass cause its sooo good and it has been awhile. I also re-watched The Wedding Singer because I love that movie and love Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler movies lol. As far as Halloween movies go I didn't really watch that many. I caught Hocus Pocus on tv a lot at different parts, watched Sweeney Todd again, and also sadly some of Twilight that I also caught on TV lol. But it was Breaking Dawn:Part 2 which I felt was the best out of all. As far as YouTube...I had like 73 videos that I had saved to my watch later. Finally caught up, it was a combination of lots of PewDiePie, CutiePieMarzia, DanandPhillGames, Kalel, PrankVsPrank, Nerdy Nummies, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Ryan Higa, and a bunch others I can't remember. 

~ Noms ~

I recently started this "diet" or what I like to say just, new way for eating healthy, Wheat Belly. It essentially is giving up all and any starch, gluten, wheat, corn, grain and sugar. And let me tell you it is hard!! I've been doing it for 2 weeks and I definitely feel more awake and like I have more energy. My parents are currently doing this plan as well cause giving up wheat is good for the heart. Which heart problems run in our family. And I am just doing it cause for some reason that I couldn't tell you, I decided to do this and have been sticking to it so I'm going with it. I've just mainly have been wanting to have a better eating lifestyle and as a bonus hopefully loose some weight. I can't say my weight has changed mainly because I still have been having real sugar. CANDY is the end of me!!! But thats the ONLY bad thing I have been eating. I love KitKats. They're my favorite candy and of course right before I started to go on this plan I had bought a lot of Kit Kats for my Halloween Party. They all didn't get ate so I had like a whole bag left over as well as Starbursts. I wasn't go be rid of them...I bought them so I'm gunna eat them. haha...and I did. Through all of this I think I lost maybe 2lbs. Now that all the candy is gone...I am never gunna by candy again, at least not the kind with wheat or real sugar. You would be surprised how many things wheat is in and just like sugar as a ton of different weird names, wheat does too. So I will post back after eating more strictly and sticking to the plan.  

From reading the Wheat Belly book I have learned there is something in wheat that makes us want to eat food all the time. Like someone who feels like they can't fill the void and that definitely describes me. I feel like I am never fully satisfied until I'm about to burst which is NOT good. Since starting Wheat Belly, I actually don't feel hungry as often a satisfied with smaller meals. I do however for sure notice when I am hungry. So I eat keeping portions in mind cause that is always a helping factor and I only eat what I portion out. This has been a task to say the least. I never realized how much wheat I consumed once I gave it up. I mean it was in everything, as well as sugar. Finding ways to replace those things is also a challenge. Instead of wheat flour we use almond flour. For a "foe bread" recipe we use a combo of almond flour,  and golden flaxseed ( a really good fiber that also helps with making things move along as they're suppose to). For a sweetener we use Swerve which is like real sugar but doesn't effect us like real sugar would. Swerve sugar uses Erythritol which is a natural microorganism found in honeycombs that breaks down the glucose and yields erythritol (got from website lol). It also naturally produces in fruits and vegetables. The only thing that does bother some is that it has a cooling sensation that you will feel, kind of like when you have a mint. Especially if you drink water right after you will feel it and your water will taste sweet. I have come to get used to it and I try to lessen the amount a recipe will call for so its not too bad. Just like real sugar, again watch the amount and portions. You don't want to over consume. Mainly stick to meats, eggs, lots of veggies, some fruits (still want to be careful, even though fruits have a natural sugar its still not good to consume tons of ex. strawberries) greek yogurt(Fage), unsweetened almond milk etc. Some fruits are better than others, I eat almost 1 apple a day. If you are more interested here is the a link to the Wheat Belly website. Sorry I talked a lot about this but this has been a BIG change to my life. I will probably have more posts on this as well as share some recipes that my mom and I have come up with. All in all I still feel happy with this change and I am going to continue with it.

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and are also enjoying November so far! Super excited for the Mocking Jay Part 2 to come out! The lovely Danisnotonfire (Dan Howell) actually posted a video on YT interviewing (sort of) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. I was sooo proud and happy for him!! It was a really funny video too. Anyways bye bye for now!!! 

YAY for November and setting our clocks back 1 hour and it being cold cause I love the cold!!