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kll

kll

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Hello fellow forumers.

I'm not so good at this "diary" thing. Then again, I'm not so good at the "weight-loss" thing either, so here's to getting better at multiple things! I feel like the typical, cliche, hyped up, new year/new hope junkie. I can't even tell you how many times I've resolved to eating better and changing my life.

HOWEVER, my dear people, I think this time may be different. I'm not trying to lose quick weight with some fad diet or to starve myself for three months and then go back to eating what I was and hoping to magically maintain my weight. I've been educating myself. Reading about nutrition and vitamins. About the pros of exercise and putting the right things into your body.

So, I'm ready. I'm no expert, obviously... and that's partially why I'm here. I need to continue educating myself and so far, I've learned plenty from just reading some of your posts here.

After celebrating the New Year last night, I took that 30 minutes before bed to really reflect on what I learned over the past 365 days. And, I think, I can sum most of it up solely using examples from last night:

  1. Tequila is not your friend.
  2. While crashing the mayor's party may SOUND like a good idea, that does not necessarily mean that it is.
  3. If you DO decide to show up uninvited to the mayor's party, make sure you are at least fit enough to run away when discovered.

On to the issues at hand I suppose. I'm 20 years old, 5'6 and weigh about 235 pounds. That is so hard for me to type for some reason. It's not like it's surprising or "I'm better than that." I've always been over-weight. I guess it's so hard because I've always pretended like if people don't know the EXACT number, they wont know that I'm fat... which makes no sense, obviously.

Either way, I've decided to change myself for the better. One way of doing so is joining that new years 12-week contest. So today I worked on my water intake. I didn't QUITE make my goal. I drank 10 8-ounce glasses of water instead of 15 but I'm working on it! I also cut all of my portions in half. My own personal goal for this week is to write in this journal every day. I need something to hold myself accountable for, so why not this? At least I can pretend like I have some avid reader just WAITING for my next post.

I must sleep now, for tomorrow holds 7am work and a gal such as I needs as much beauty sleep as possible.

Until next time,
Kelly.
 
hey kll!
I'm a new member too and i just want to wish you the best of determination! yes, determination and strength, because the best of luck has no meaning in this context, unless you're gambling with your weight... but thats a whole other story! (am i making any sense? i'm tired, so yeah.)
ANYWAYS
don't forget to always have small goals in mind, it'll be encouraging to accomplish them while still trying to accomplish the main goal.
 
It's great that you're making that jump to decide to lose weight...and to do it right this time! Be sure to read all the stickies in the various sections because they'll provide you with plenty of information.

You'll soon find that weight loss is probably 80% about what you eat. While exercising is great for your health and does supplement weight loss quite well, your diet is what you have to take control of. I know that was the difficult part for me at least!

Good luck with this new year and your commitment to change yourself for the better. I subscribed to your thread so I'm anxious to see how things are going for you! :)
 
Tequila stopped being my friend about ten years ago and we have NEVER made amends. The rose bush next to my driveway in California knows all about it!

I know how hard it is to type the numbers down and throw them out into the abyss. It's hard, damn near devastating! Most people wouldn't guess I am as heavy as I am by looking at me so I know what you mean when you say you feel thinner by not saying it out loud.

Though typing in an online journal doesn't always seem like it will hold you accountable, it will, if you let it. By this I mean that people, such as myself, will start reading and commenting to support you. If you disappear for a few days or fall of the wagon, we'll be here waiting to brush you off when you return.

However, it is just as easy to disappear altogether. The minute you decide to stop visiting the site or skipping a few days will be when you stop losing motivation and determination. We all falter. You can see that on this board but you'll also see the success stories and feel a sense a hope.

So stick with it. Get involved and change will happen!
 
I agree with Veronica. I've been a member on here for a loonnnng time, and everytime I have GREAT success, its because I've stayed "faithful" to this site. I try to get on here everyday, because for me- I miss more than 2 days, and its done. I'm back to effin myself over by piggin out :rolleyes: I'm in the challenge too, so it'll be nice getting to know ya !
 
SUCCESS!

I really appreciate all the support guys. I've been working on my food intake and what not but should really start couting my calories. I shall startthis tomorrow!!!

Today I drank 96 oz of water. I really need to step it up and get all of my ounces in tomorrow. I took an hour walk today :] I would have done more but I worked ten hours.

AS OF RIGHT NOW! I am watching A Perfect Getaway.... I like Steve Zahn but not sure what I think of the movie so far. That was off topic.

So, my goals for tomorrow;

count and write down my caloric intake.
drink all of the water suggested for my weight.
exercise for an hour and a half.


Sorry this post was so bladdy blah blah. I'm quite tired. ANOTHER GOAL FOR TOMORROW! Write in this earlier!

I hope all of your resolutions are staying strong!
 
Great goals :)
I know a lot of people don't do the calorie counting thing, but its the only thing that works for me... I've been slackin the past few days... oops :blush5:
Have a great day tomorrow!
 
Thanks Jess and everyone else for commenting and really motivating me even more than I was before! Question.... what is that site everyone is always talking about where you can log your calories in? I see it all the time and yet for some reason, now that I've decided to use it, I can't find it anywhere.

Anyways, today went very well in my opinion! I drank 118 oz. of water! That's .5 more than I have to drink a day. FIST PUMP! (I feel like that moment should be seen only in slow motion. So imagination time people.)

I also did a lot better in my diet than I have been since Friday. I realized that when couting calories, though, it's probably better to write down these calories as some sort of reference for later SO tomorrow I'm going to buy one of those food diary things?

Speaking of tomorrow. First day off in a week so I'm starting this new exercise routine. It's Jillian Michael's book so I'm sure it'll kick my ass even without her here to do it literally.

I believe that is it for now. BUT, before I leave... tell me you all saw that final second shot in the gator game this afternoon!!! Talk about amazing.

So long diary,

Kelly.
 
kll said:
I believe that is it for now. BUT, before I leave... tell me you all saw that final second shot in the gator game this afternoon!!! Talk about amazing.
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That shot was RIDICULOUS! Just saw it on Sportscenter. That's gotta be the best feeling hitting a shot like that. And I also just watched the Perfect Getaway last night, but I missed the middle half playing with my nephew.

Anyway. Sounds like you're off to a good start. It's all about making a few small changes and then building from there. I've heard Jillian's book really kicked a few people's asses on here, so hopefully it gets you working hard.

Oh, and the site is Fitday I believe. There's a few other ones, but I used that one for two weeks when I started, and it really helped me see where I was going wrong.
 
kll said:
Hello fellow forumers.

I'm not so good at this "diary" thing. Then again, I'm not so good at the "weight-loss" thing either, so here's to getting better at multiple things! I feel like the typical, cliche, hyped up, new year/new hope junkie. I can't even tell you how many times I've resolved to eating better and changing my life.

HOWEVER, my dear people, I think this time may be different. I'm not trying to lose quick weight with some fad diet or to starve myself for three months and then go back to eating what I was and hoping to magically maintain my weight. I've been educating myself. Reading about nutrition and vitamins. About the pros of exercise and putting the right things into your body.
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To be honest, I stopped reading your post riiiiight about there. As soon as I read that part, I had about a million jokes running through my head and I lost all concentration. But, since you're new here, I'll refrain from basting your journal with my usual sexually-oriented innuendos and comedic banter. Instead, I'll just wish you good luck. Sooooo...good luck.

Getting started can be tough, but you came to the right place. I was scared as hell when I first made the decision to lose weight, but I'm really glad I found this forum, because it made things a lot less...umm...sucky and hard? HA...I said "sucky and hard". Awesome. Umm, ANYWAY...good luck on your journey and, if you need anything, I'm sure you'll more than enough help from all of the members here on the forum. Oh, and if you want to, you can borrow my Taylor Swift CD. It's got a scratch on it, but it'll still play. I was listening to it one day and I started dancing around with my shirt off while I spread peanut butter...you know what...you're probably not interested. It's not even a good story. It ends with somebody dying. Sooooo...yeeeeeah.

Good luck!!!

PS - As you can plainly see, I, in fact, did NOT refrain from using sexually-oriented innuendos and/or comedic banter. Umm, yeeeeeah. Sorry about that.
 
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Marathon Man said:
Oh, and the site is Fitday I believe. There's a few other ones, but I used that one for two weeks when I started, and it really helped me see where I was going wrong.
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Thank you sir! I shall use this as soon as possible.

ChefChiTown said:
PS - As you can plainly see, I, in fact, did NOT refrain from using sexually-oriented innuendos and/or comedic banter. Umm, yeeeeeah. Sorry about that.
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After pulling a Nick Cage and deciphering this commment by squirting lemon juice on my screen and shoving my lap top into the oven for five minutes, I have decided to not block you from my thread.... because I think a little bit of sexually-oriented innuendos and/or comedic banter is exactly what it needed.



SO! I am off to the store to get my food diary and then I really need to clean out my car before a new ecosystem begins to grow. So long!


P.S. My dad is chewing his gum with his mouth wide open.... BIGGEST PET PEEVE OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Today went really well. Padre dearest is on his "diet" kick and thinks fasting is the best way to go about it though so that has been annoying. I had a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast and then did my Jillian thing. I don't think I'm doing it prefectly yet but I'm hoping as time continues I'll get better with my posture and what not. For lunch, and don't make fun of me, I had a soy chicken patty with avocado on whole wheat bread. I like the morningstar chicken OKAY?! Are you happpppy now?!

I drank 118 oz. of water too! I want to get one of those big ass water jugs that look like mini kegs! I would rock that thing like Flavor Flav rocks over-sized clock necklaces. And yes, I do mean that I would look like a moron, but I would leave out the grill... so it would balance itsself out.

Dinner was awkward. My dad is sooo weird. It's his turn to make dinner tonight so he went to the store and brought home diced tomatos, onions, lettuce, bell peppers, banana peppers, relish, pickles, and chick peas? He then threw them on the cunter and said "dinner!" DINNER?! WHHHHHAAAAAAAAT?! So, I, being the heroin that I am.... grilled up some chicken breasts and seasoned them with a little garlic salt and tossed them in a blue cheese vinaigrette. Woahla! Dinner is saved.

Side note: my sister just said Jillian Michaels has a nice butt.

I think someone on the biggest loser is in labor....:flame: <-- orange sonic?

Alrighty, I hope all of you are doing well.


P.S. I said cunter.... heh.

P.S.S. A quick update before I go to sleep; I just peed outside and I'm cold.
 
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Dearest Diary,

Today was.... interesting. I got peed on by a dog. And not just a lift of the leg, "oops I got you" kind of pee. This labradoodle literally sat on my lap and peed on me. That is what I do all day; get peed on by (and play with) dogs. Not a bad job minus the pee. The issue with work is that I have to leave the house by 7 to be there by 7:30 and I can't yet bring myself to wake up before 6:45 so I "don't have time" to eat breakfast. (I know I have time to eat breakfast, you always have time to eat breakfast.) I really need to just set something up the night before that's quick and simple in the morning. I then work for about 5 hours until lunch and I live too far to go home....

As I write this I realize how dumb I sound. There are so many simple solutions to these problems. DUH KELLY, PACK YOUR LUNCH YOU BIG BLOB!

Anyways, I get off work at 6 usually. And tonight I just so happened to get off a 5:45!!!! YAY! So I drive home thinking about how excited I am to be out early and go home and relax (today is my off-day for the exercise routine I'm on) just to discover when I get there that these plans have been thwarted! Low and behold, there is father bear unraveling our 13 ft tree of it's lights. Being the wonderful daughter that I am, I did not ignore his muffled calls for help as he tried to dig through the branches to untangle the lights....

So there we are, him on one side of the tree and I on the other. He's throwing me the string of lights from behind the tree and I'm pulling them around to him, when the final strand gets stuck on the top branch. And we're yanking and pulling trying to get this string off the top branch to no prevail, when finally papa bear snaps! He's yelling and screaming something horrible about people putting lights way too far in the tree and what kind of dumbass would put lights that deep into the tree. As he's huffing and puffing and ranting and raving, I'm just laughing and laughing and can't stop because he is the "dumbass" that he speaks of. This really makes him upset he says; "Just leave them on! Just leave them on there. I'm throwing the whole damn thing out." Which makes me laugh even harder.

I think when padre gets angry, he thinks he's the hulk. Like now, after getting pissed off, he can lift this 13 ft tree while I slide the stand out from under it. Not a chance father. I tell him this which infuriates him even more and what happens? POP! goes the Weasel. His back is now out, so who is left to deal with the tree? Kelly.

This is where things get creative. I Feng Shui the shit out of that living room and move all the furniture to the far corner. And I pushed that tree over. And I will tell you this, if that tree fell in a forest and no one was around to hear it, it would still make one hell of a sound. And if that tree fell in the forest and no one was there to feel the nasty ass water spill alll over the tile, it would still be sticky as fuck.

I then drug that beast outside like I was some sort of Lumberjack on steroids and I know that when I walked back inside.... my father's heart broke a little. Why? Because he knew, at that moment, that I wasn't just his little girl any more.... and that he and my mother truly named me well, for I am a warrior woman.


The point of this story? I think I worked out more tonight than I have all week.
I also have pine needles in places one should NEVER have pine needles. Including under my skin and possibly in my tear duct.


Until tomorrow (my weigh-in date!),

Kelly.
 
kll said:
Dearest Diary,

Today was.... interesting. I got peed on by a dog. And not just a lift of the leg, "oops I got you" kind of pee. This labradoodle literally sat on my lap and peed on me.
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:spits out water errywhere: :smilielol5:

No way. That...is...AWESOME!!! Oh, I mean...hey, good luck with your weigh-in tomorrow.
 
SAWEEEEET! Today has been quite successful so far. I woke up this morning to find that I lost 6 pounds this week. I'll TAKE IT! I also started classes today so that was pretty interesting.

There are like.... 10 people in my career development class. Awkwardly small.

I'm about to go for a walk with my dog and then do my work out for the day. Tonight it my first eating out test (shuttup chefchitown.) My family is going out to dinner with my brother's girlfriend. She goes to school in Michigan so we're sending her off.

It's this place called Bonefish Grill. I'm not sure if they have them everywhere of just Florida... I'm going to look up their menu online before we go so I can figure out what's best to eat ahead of time.

Alrighty,
I'll update tonight with how dinner went.

OH! And, in honor of the 6 pounds removed from my body, I took some pictures so I can actually have a "before" shot eventually.


I look way too giddy in the face picture so I also included one shot of me looking puzzeld trying to figure out my new camera.

And of course, my body shot :[

My face looked too horrified to keep it in the picture.
 
I believe that someone may be trying to kill me. Possibly an assassination. QUESTION!; does one have to be famous to be assassinated? I mean, if you're not famous, is it just considered a "hit"?

So my murder mystery....

We went out to dinner at said restaurant. And I decided to get the crab cakes with a side of soup and asparagus. Bare in mind, I had full intentions of saving one of the crab cakes! Now, I know that I've had crab cakes where they put bell peppers in for flavor. And I am severely allergic to bell peppers, so I asked the waitress if they were included. She said "No, I hate bell peppers and I love these crab cakes." So, I took her word for it. HOWEVER! My mom ordered some crab chowder and asked ANOTHER waitress if it had bell peppers in it (for she is also allergic) and the lady tells her yes and that most of their crab is embellished with bell pepper. SO! I kindly tell my other waitress that I need to change my order because I have a severe allergy to them. I ordered this chicken with goat cheese, mushrooms, and artichoke hearts (so good) and asparagus. Now, at this point, no harm no foul... I hate complaining at restaurants because I know there's a lot going on. However, then she brings out our food and they have this corn/green bean/something red garnish so I asked her (just to make sure) if it was bell pepper. She assured me that it was tomato. So as I'm eating my chicken, the waitress from the OTHER table brought me out a brand new garnish missing the red and said "I wanted to bring you out one minus the bell pepper just in case you wanted to try it."


lksdvasoidghgfdssdc. First of all, kudos to her. Second of all, bad first waitress... bad girl. *slaps hand*

SO THEN! After dinner, we're all saying our goodbye to the hermano's g/f.... and I start walking away all dramatically and turn around for that "look" when BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That could have been me, minus the bus and adding a homeless man on a trike with empty beer bottles in the basket.

Assassin creed rammed right into me!


Now I'm ready though. I'm looking out for those sneaky suckers.

Enough of my "no where near death" experiences.

I'm going to go for another walk with the dogs because I'm soooo not tired enough to fall asleep. It's nice out. Like 60 degrees nice. OH! And I'm trying this stuffed shells recipe tomorrow!
 
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Very funny [not real] near death experiences... Also, according the Shakespeare who invented the English word Assassin, I think it applies to politicians and people of importance in society. So, unless you work for the CIA, or MI6, or the UN (or wherever you are from) not exactly an assassination. :D

Sucks that you are allergic to peppers. But it looks like you are eating healthy!! which is good news. :)

Walking the dogs is always great! It is another reason to get out there, and get in shape quicker! :)

ANyways, good luck! Keep posting!
 
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well missy.. i have never posted on your blog b4... but i would just like to say...

congrats on the weight loss...and most importantly..

get you ASS back online..and keep updating..we are here to support you!! :D
:p
 
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