I am dripping in sweat right now!!

I just got done working out to Kinetic. I burned 350 calories!!! So excited because I really feel like I'll lose weight now that I'm working out. I've got the eating down pat, now it's time to sweat!

Although, this week has been tough with food with me because of a lot of events going on, but they are over now so I can now go back to normal habits :) Yes, I said NORMAL lol. My eating habits are finally normal :) yay!!

This butterfly picture was taken at a butterfly museum when I was in Florida last March in 2007. Isn't she purrrty? lol

Anywho, I am literally dripping sweat off of me so time to shower...

Have a great day everyone! FREE SLURPEES AT 7-11 TODAY BECAUSE IT'S JULY 11TH :)

Ugh...!

HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY BOBBY!!!

LOL...he's a quarter of a century old! lol

Anywho! Today is another crappy eating day :(....I feel like I'm giving excuses as to why I'm not on track, but who cares! Today is my brother's birthday and we are going out to dinner AND having cake and ice cream :) Plus, I ate the last 2 slices of pizza this morn for breakfast. So, there is officially no more pizza in this house :) Thank God! I'm glad I got it out of my system. I don't want to return to that again lol.

Now I'm going to play more Kinetic and try to burn off some water weight. I still have my burn, but the pain is hardly there anymore. Some places are worse than others, but I think I can deal with it today.

I was also up on the scale today at 182 lbs due to all the freakin sodium in the pizza :( lol...I still look damn sexy though so whatever!! lol Talk about my confidence :)

The numbers on the scale will go down, but I still feel fantastic......

Onto working out :)

UPDATE: I just worked out and burned 297 calories playing Kinetic...I'm a hot mess right now but I feel good about my workout. :)

Omg!

Okay guys...I'm not falling behind or anything, I'm just about to start my period next week and I am giving into all of my temptations!! That is so bad for me! I gave in to 7 peanut butter cookies at Randy's parent's place (where he's staying at now), and then I had a chocolate roll thingy (2 of them), and then I went home to get pizza from Little Caesars. It was horrible choices today yes, I know, but I really wanted to eat it. I'm glad it's out of my system now and I will not be stuffing my face anymore.

I felt like I had to blog about it because I need to leave myself accountable for whatever I eat. Lately, I have been craving a lot of things because my period will be next week and normally I get the munchies now lol.

I had 6 slices of pizza today :( I had 4 with dinner and 2 later on in the evening. blah!!! lol

I know everyone has had these kinds of days when food and calories are no issue at all so whatever. Tomorrow is a brand new day and my burn is hurting me less so I will probably work out tomorrow with Kinetic and then have cake with my brother for his bday. I promise I'll have a small ass slice because I need to get my butt into gear!!

talk to y'all later :)

Jobs and School!

I seriously can not wait until I start teaching. The only types of jobs that I have had in the past were dead end jobs that were part time only. I have had one full time job that lasted 2 months during the summer like 3 years ago. I have never been paid more than $8.00 an hour and that was when I worked at the Royal Oak Medical Center doing Medical Records. I so got underpaid, but I had no experience with Medical Records and my boss was cheap lol. Anyways, all of my jobs never took me up to management due to the fact that my school schedule was so demanding. I have never done school full time while working full time. I always have dedicated myself to my schooling instead of work because my schooling is what is going to get me somewhere as where a job is just a job for a paycheck. I have to think that way because it's true. All of jobs have just been paychecks to me. School is my ticket out of Michigan :).

I just see other people my age who are in management positions and I'm still getting minimum wage at a dead end job. It frustrates me, but at the same time it's making me appreciate my education so much more because I know I'll be doing something I love and all of these other people will probably be stuck where they are at :). That makes me feel a little better. lol

I can't wait to go back to school in September :)

Lucky 7's Challenge

Okay, so this morning I weighed in at 179.5.

That means that all my water weight pretty much came off :) yay!!

179.5 is my start weight for the new challenge put forth by Mandy and I can't wait to kick some butt.

I have been in the sun pretty much all day and I've had all of my calories so far lol. I might go over a little bit today, but I'm not worried about it. I got in a lot of exercise by swimming in the wave pool and walking around the park for a while. I had so much fun! Although, I got really burnt :(

Other than that, today went well :) I'll be working on the intro video for the challenge today and posting it a little later.

Good Luck to those who are joining the challenge :)

Post 4th of July

Okay y'all! haha....I'm a dork, I know!

I had a great 4th of July and I have to say that while I was there, I didn't count my calories because I never eat the types of food I ate while I was there in Fowlerville :). These are the foods I remember having: (all day, not all at once, and I know I ate a lot so don't be surprised)

• bagel with cream cheese (2) New York Bagel (the second one might have made me sick)
• nacho chips with cheese (large portion lol)
  
• hot dog with cheese
• pasta salad (small portion)
  
• beans (small portion)
• green bean casserole (small portion)
• tiny bite of nasty egg salad....eww their's was gross
• 1 slice of cake
• 3 mint desserts (they looked like tiny cheeseburgers but they were two vanilla wafers that had a mint patty with red and yellow frosting to look like ketchup and mustard)..so good!
• bean dip with cheese and tostitos chips
• 2 Mike's Hard Lemonades
• Strawberry Shortcake frozen ice cream bar from the rest stop coming home! lol
  

I believe that was everything I ate all day. It was sooooo good, yet sooooo unhealthy.

At about 5 am this morning, I woke up shaking uncontrollably and feeling so nauseated that I wanted to throw up! I went to the bathroom to try and throw up but it wouldn't go. My stomach was going crazy the entire time and then finally, it came out :) But not throwing up so at least it's out of me lol.

I weighed this morning at 181 :) I weighed last night to see how the food affected me and I was 184.5 last night (always up by at least 2 lbs at night so I'm not worried).

There is a new challenge for July-August that Mandy, from YouTube, has announced. It runs from July 7th to August 18th. This Challenge is absolutely perfect for me because my 22nd birthday is on August 21st. :) My own personal goal is to lose 11 lbs by my birthday, but if I can get off 7 by it, then this will help me :)

I don't see anymore challenges getting in the way of my weight loss besides my brother's birthday on Thursday the 10th of July. He'll be 25 and we are having cake here at my house. I will put away the calories for it and will only have a small piece.

It seems that this past week, ever since June ended, that I've been having trouble with food only because last weekend was my cousin's grad party and then the 4th was yesterday so it was hard to eat healthy. I see nothing but good things from here on out and I hope ya'll are doing well :)

Have a good week :)

Food for Thought

So, tonight I really got a craving for my pint of Haagen Dazs Strawberry ice cream and I knew that tomorrow, the 4th of July, was going to be an off day because I'll be around lots of yummy food and I know I'm not gonna count my cals for the day. I got the craving and discussed what I was thinking about with Randy. Well, I figured that I'm already gonna go over tomorrow and I'm craving it now, I might as well give in because of tomorrow. I haven't had it in a month now and if I leave a craving, I'll do worse the next day, so I just ate it. It sure was yummy! I even called Christi at like 10:30 (my time) to see if she was awake so she could help me out, but no luck, her phone was off :(.

So, if I gain some weight because of my choice tonight and my choices tomorrow, I am okay with it. I know I'll just work out hard and eat right from Saturday on to get back to where I'm at now at 179 :)

Just some thoughts on what I went through today...food will always still be an issue lol.