10 Teeny Tiny Things You Never Knew Existed

Teeny tiny versions of everyday real life objects or even scenarios is not a new trend of the scene. Most of us have owned a doll house, a barbie dream house or a micro machine or two in our lives. However, recently I have seem to come across somewhat a new phenomenon (well new to me at least) and its the video version of these teeny tiny things, and even more specifically teeny tiny animals in teeny tiny settings! There is just something about seeing these teeny tiny things in action of even just on display that keeps me coming back for more as I seem to be pleasantly surprised by the level of detail put into something... well... which seems so useless. I have come to a personal conclusion that there is literally a teeny tiny version of just about literally anything you can think of! Tiny jewelry, check! Tiny functioning cannon, yup its been done! Tiny lasagna, its been made! Go ahead try it! And if you find something that hasn't been made... there is someone out there who could surely make it! The following is what I like to call my miniature menagerie, a round of my top 10 favorite teeny tiny things. 

Teeny Tiny Pringles - Guaranteed less the calories of reg size Pringles!

Tiny Cheese Plate

Honestly HelloDenizen does it best! These hamster are living the life! Between the cuteness overload and creative genius I would love to see more of this on Instagram!

Tiny Veggies

Tiny Tool Box and Tools

Tiny Bubbles

Tiny Pancakes 

Teeny Tiny Breakfast

Tiny Ice Cream Shop

Teeny Tiny Cleaning Supplies 

12-12-12

Its 12-12-12! For some people its just another Wednesday in just another December in just another year... but today is the last of the great repeating dates we will see in our lifetime and our last chance to get excited about a date like this for many years to come. While many are commemorating about this magical date, I have put together a little list with the help of my good friend google of 12 notable 12's in our life's followed by a dozen things to be in the know about on 12-12-12... 

12 Notable 12's
12 Months in a year
12 Inches in a foot
12 Conference members in the Pac-12
12 Signs of the Zodiac
12 Dialing keys on a telephone (including * & #)
12 Golden yellow stars on the flag of Europe
12 Men have walked on the moon
12 apostles of Jesus
12 Makes a dozen
12 Face cards in a deck
12 Steps in Alcoholics Anonymous

12-12-12 In the Know

• Alabama teenager Kiam Moriya turns 12 at 12:12 on 12-12. — Emirates247.com

 

• Pope Benedict XVI has opened a personal Twitter account, and he is scheduled to answer a question about faith in his first tweet, scheduled for 12-12-12, according to Vatican officials. — CNN belief blog

• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to open 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden in New York. It is being billed as the largest event in music history.

• Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers wears No. 12. "So earlier this year the state Legislature designated the day [12-12-12] Aaron Rodgers Day in honor of the Super Bowl winner and last year’s MVP." — The Washington Post
• Such numerical happenings as 12-12-12 spook some people while enthralling others. Some see the tick, tick, ticking of the calendar as magical or especially lucky.

• Be in the twitter know re peeps 12-12-12 tweets

• Check out the NY Times content-free fluff piece which strives to assign some significant meaning to the arbitrary assembly of numbers. 

• If 12 is your lucky number, today is as good as it gets!

 

• Check one-two-one-two... Appropriately... today has been dubbed National Soundcheck Day

• The Ancient Mayan calendar speaks of 12-12-2012 as the end of times as we know it.
• After today, there won't be another triple date to match until Jan. 1, 2101. 

• I think its a nice tie-in for publishing my post on 12-12-12 at precisely 12.

 

A Photo Worth 1,000 Calories: Meal Snap

 

Its no secret I'm a fan of working out (and yes, as I have admitted before… this is a borderline obsession but honestly now, I enjoy it, its good for me and it keeps me happy and feeling good) nonetheless, a person can work out 7 days a week and even twice a day, but if you’re not maintaining a healthy/balanced diet than you probably are not seeing your desired results. I can honestly say I have never been one to utter those 4 (what I refer to as) empty words, those words being I’m on a diet… I don’t believe diets work for me and I certainly am not one to count calories all day long, points or no points. I must however admit that I work out pretty hard and daily for that matter yet I'm not completely satisfied with my level of results as of lately…  A reevaluation is in order. I am fully aware that the focus of this reevaluation, for me, needs to be directed at my "diet".  Recently I decided to try keeping a food journal… No, not like one of those annoying ones people carry around the gym tracking their every step and every lb they lift, but a photo food journal. And what do you know, there's an App for that! That app is called MealSnap and this little technological food photo snapper/calorie counter is seriously “magic” at my finger tips!

If you re not buying the legitimate calorie results this app yields, you're not the only one... but check it out for yourself... you just might be impressed! 

   

It has been an excellent tool this past week and a half which has helped me get a good idea of how many calories I'm actually eating during the day (and trust me when I say this can be a real eye opener). We have all heard things like "Abs are made in the kitchen and not in the gym" as well as "in order to loose weight you must burn more calories during the day than you consume" and as much as these words may be true, I must say, that having to take a picture of every meal or snack I'm consuming throughout the day has made me far more conscious of the types of and amounts of food I am consuming, than any quote fact or article that has ever crossed my path. Meal Snap has forced me to instantly become more in tune with the food choices I am making… I'm not using this app to put myself on a diet by any means, but more so using it help myself make the necessary adjustments I need to in order to break the plateau I feel I have hit.

 

If you were to seek a consultation with a nutritionist, the first thing he or she would have you do is start a food diary. Feeling better can be as simple as eating better and the same goes for looking better too. Meal Snap isn’t going to teach you how to eat, but if you ask yourself the right questions about the food you are consuming it really almost comes down to common sense… At the end of the day I'm confident that we could all write the book “Eat This Not That…” Take a look below at a day in the life of my meal snap!

 

{I love that Meal Snap kinda holds you accountable for all your meals during the day! Apparently I missed lunch on the day pictured above...}

With the continued advancement in all this high wired gear from smart phones to game systems to 3D flat screens there is certainly a biased view out there that all this is troubling to the health of society with the potential of making us fat... I believe it can go either way...
Recently when asked “How does technology aid in health and fitness goals?”  Jillian Michaels answered:
Technology is the key to success in health and fitness goals for one very simple and obvious reason: It provides accurate and unbiased information that people can utilize to take effective, informed action that's going to yield powerful results and positive change. Without the proper information, you're going to be lost like a ship at sea.

{this is not a a meal snap mash up from me just another example via pinterest}

 

Meal snap, this camera powered calorie counter is awesome! I give this app 5 stars and highly recommend it to anyone trying to adjust their eating habits!