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 Reporting in on the journey with the Isagenix Collagen Elixir at 17 days! I’m 17 days into this Collagen Elixir trial, recovering from not much sleep, and hating that I didn’t smile at least a little bit in my first picture! I don’t like documenting my non-smiling self.  Smiles bring joy! So Day 000 with no collagen elixir in my system.  Zip, zero, nada. And today.  I know the backgrounds are different. I’m traveling. There’s not a lot I can do about that. I’m sorry.  I still have dark bags, but I think the puffiness under my eye is lessening. The skin is soft and doesn’t feel dry anymore. That’s a BIG deal. The dark? Umm, heredity so a bit harder to eliminate. I’m not saying impossible, just to be clear! The lines around my mouth are a little less chiseled. I’ll take it! I much prefer smiling pictures.  Much more personality! I remember watching my dad and his smile lines and realizing that if I was going to have lines, I wanted more smiling lines than fr...

 I received my Collagen Elixir yesterday and immediately drank my first bottle. Tasty! Here's Day 1 picture: This morning, I drank a bottle as soon as I got up because it's just the right amount of sweet.  Not too much and not too little! Day 2: It's windy outside, and I took my puppy for a walk.  He's sacked out now.  Learning to walk with me instead of racing after leaves scuttling across the sidewalk taxed him (and me) pretty hard!   Puppy: He's 16 weeks old.  We've had him for 7 weeks now. He and my son Steven have good times playing!