Kelly's Bringing It!!

ok this morning I weighed 209.something and thats what I ended up putting down for my august challenge. then for shits and giggles I weighed again like... I guess 3 hours later. 207.4. Where'd it all go? Not that i'm complaining. I'm actually rather happy, maybe the water weight will go away faster than I thought.
 
Great work! I've been really poofy this week too!
You look so much like Anne Hathaway in that photo! Have you ever been told you look like her before? Your face is very slender and I love the lip stick!
Keep up the hard work!
 
Hey!
Just reading your blog, congrats on your weight loss so far, I'm about the same as you now (203) trying to hit about 140 or so, I feel your pain with the PMS> sucks so much! Thanks for the tips on the makeup as well, I'm one of those sadd people who sit at home and just put on makeup and more makeup and more makeup for shits and giggles haha. I've been looking for some cheap but half deent brands I could buy off ebay might give this ELF a go!
Another one, have you heard of coastal scents>? I've never bought anythign from it, but I've checked the site and you can get like, makkeup making sets so you can mix the colours and stuff. Its not hugely cheap (couple of hundred dollars) but Id imagine it works out cheap!
And YES I just realised I sound like a massive advertisement I'm not secretly working for them I swear! Just something interesting!

I actually thought in your pic you were part Anne Hathaway part Vanessa Hudgens! V. cute :D

I love the fringe to, I've been tossing up getting one again, you are defintely convincing me towards getting one!
Although I think, I'll wait til I have lost a bit more weight, as my face is significantly rounder than yours!!
 
Actually Chubbygirl I HAVE heard the Anne Hathaway one, a lot lol. From people I know and total strangers. I don't see it unless I have bangs, then thats the first thing people say. I had bangs the whole time I was growing up *see cute image attached*


I've had em on and off for about a year now, and cut em myself. The one thing I think I do better than the hair stylists lol

Meece I have indeed heard of coastal scents. I -almost- bought their 88 eye shadow pallet, but ended up not. seeing as I was already getting 10 free ones from elf and those cheapy ones from Ebay I told myself to wait on those at least and see how they work before I go blowing money on stuff I dont need lol. You can find those on ebay too but they're shipped from hong kong usually not from the US so theres more of a chance of things being damaged or taking a long time to receive. Actually, amazon sells the coastal scents pallet too.

I like making my own stuff, I should go look at their site. Oh and this is totally off topic but has anyone ever used olive oil to remove makeup? I LOVE THAT STUFF. My skin is beyond sensitive and makeup remover towelettes and pads really irritate the skin around my eyes. So I heard about using olive oil or coconut oil to remove makeup. I was kind of like "riiiiight....." but I gave it a go, just on my eyes not my whole face (cause that just sounded a little too messy) and its fantastic. I was really surprised that it worked lol
 
btw Meece there's a bunch of reviews of coastal scents stuff on utube if you haven't found them already. I was on there looking for different dramatic eye shadow looks for my friends' costumes for the trip and a lot of them use those products.

So I've said I don't really have a date set for my "final" goal. But i'm bored so I crunched some numbers. Going by what I weigh today (207.4) I am 43lbs down from my highest ever weight (wow), about 16-20lbs from where I want to be at the end of october (185ish) and about 42lbs from 165. If I keep losing about the same rate I have, I can do that in another 4-6 months. and -that- will mean I'll have lost a grand total of 85lbs overall, and 65lbs in 7-9 months. And even if it takes me a whole year, I think thats pretty good and I need to remember that next time i'm frustrated that it feels like i'm going slowly.

I suppose I could pick a holiday like new years or valentines to aim for, but i'm wary of picking a date and being discouraged by not hitting it. I've done THAT a lot lol.


I also realized I haven't been keeping up with what i'm eating in here. No shakes for breakfast or lunch today. I ran out of straws... long story short i'm sort of weird about stuff getting on my face, and I didn't want to drink my shakes without a straw. I know, i'm ocd and weird. I went and got some and i'll probably have a shake for dinner and a snack later on. But anyhoo.

Breakfast I had a chicken and artichoke lean pocket (I don't like breakfast food. I KNOW IM WEIRD lol) that was like 200 calories I guess. Not sure cause I throw away the box and put them in the freezer individually.
Then I crocheted another beanie and took a nap because I had been up since 4am with this very annoying dog we're babysitting that pooped all over the house.
Woke up, had lunch which was a sandwich of 100 cal wheat flat bread, a small chicken breast and a piece of low fat provolone cheese. I really love this bread I get, they look like tiny little english muffins, small round and thin, and its 100 calories for both pieces. Average that to something like 250 calories. I don't know for sure, i'm guessing the cheese was 100 by itself.
Snack was a Kashi pumpkin pie bar (yum) thats 120cals.
so thats what, 570? Which is about the same that i'd have with my shakes by now. So shakes for dinner and a snack would only be 770. Kinda low, I probably need to add some veggies in there somewhere too.
 
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My sister in law LOVES Costal Scents... SO I ordered some stuff from them. It came really really quick and was pretty cost effective (I thought) Has tons of colors and seems really high quality. I love the colours of the blush pallet, they actually blend with my ginger skin. The one catch is that I CAN"T put on makeup! lol. In a few weeks when I go out there to visit I'm going to try to get her to give me some tips....

The other thing.. I'm a freckly redhead with deeperset eyes, and you would not believe how hard it is to get colors that look good without overwhelming my face, or to make things look good! Haha. or maybe its just my lack of talent. I'd hate to be one of those way over made up looking gingers. I see them occasionally, not good.

Btw. Kelly you are GORGEOUS! Way to go with setting your goals too! I love reading your diary hehehe.
 
Yeah Angel i've heard good things about their pallets, and they seem pretty decent quality and of course they have a LOT of colors. Off the top of my head i'd say if you're pale with freckles and deep set eyes, I'd concentrate on using a bit of concealer around your eyes to counter the shadows that deep set eyes can cause, and keep your foundation lighter. If you try to totally cover up your freckles it tends to look fake. There's lots of tutorials on youtube for applying different kinds of makeup for different types of skin.
I actually have freckles too but mine are pretty light and only really show if I get a lot of sun, so you can't see them at all when I wear makeup.
Thanks for the compliments! Its all makeup trust me, i'm just your average pasty white czech girl from texas lol
 
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ITS 65 DEGREES OUTSIDE!!!!
ok, its only like 8am but the heat wave is officially over!
And you know what else? 206.6! waaater weights goiiiing bye bye super fast! happy happy day!

Ok first order of business. Coffee. Second order of business. Workout. Third order of business. Nomnoms.

I'm so happy to see that 6 again. Its seriously been like 10 days since i've seen it. Its terribly unfair we girls get stuck with a built in set back every month. I could have been in onederland by now! Oh well. I'm going to really step it up this week, period or no. I'm dying to see that 199 as soon as I can!
(LATER)

ow. my leeeeggssss
Good workout. its nice and cool out there so I didn't actually sweat myself to death today. Let me tell you, doing P90X in a 99 degree garage is tough. Its much easier when its only 75. Well, easy isn't the right word, less life-suckingly-difficult than usual hehe
Got a delicious mocha protein shake and some water, now relaxing a little.
 
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I agree.. It looks like we're on the same schedule, today I lost all my water weight it looks like and had a huge burst of energy all day long. It is hard not to look at the scale but if I do its worthless, because it says I weigh quite a bit more. Thing is.. I always used to have pretty painless periods.. then the fat came on, and they got worse and worse and I even experienced some pain (WOW lol), I think the fatter I get the more water I gain and the worse PMS I have as well. So, the more in shape I've gotten (esp not eating crap all the time) I've noticed a big difference. I'm so glad about this. Because seriously for a few years I thought I had something seriously wrong with me (I bleed an enormous amount that is until I found ibuprofen and that makes it better phew)

Well, we'll see. Hopefully when I get down 20-30 lbs and more in shape it will be a breeze that I won't notice so much! (crosses fingers)

It doesn't take much makeup for me to look like I'm wearing it so I do try for the natural look. I really should try YouTube some more. Theres not alot out there for redheads, freckles and blue eyes, and yellow teeth :S haha

Way to go with the p90x in that hot garage! When you're done you're going to be marine material it sounds like haha
 
Girl the first few years I had it I didn't know what all the fuss was about. I mean the VERY first time I obviously noticed some slight pain, but I had it really easy. I'd cramp like the week before, barely bled at all, and never had pms or felt crappy or anything.

When I hit my highest weight, my periods disappeared ENTIRELY. For a YEAR. I actually used to take pregnancy tests once a month out of habit (even if I wasn't doing anything that warranted it lol), but I thought it was just stress cause thats the same time I got out of a very bad relationship and moved across country back to my hometown and started all over so to speak. So I never really worried a whole lot about it, though in retrospect if you're period suddenly disappears for that long, yeah you should probably have your engine checked lol.

So after I lost about 20lbs, it suddenly came back, And I was so not prepared lol. Now they're painful the week before AND the week of, and forgive me for being gross but I usually go through a tampon every 3-4 hours or so the first half of it. Now I know what all those girls in high school whined about hahaha

I have issues with makeup staying on my face (foundation, eyeliner, you name it). I put it on and a few hours later my face is melting. So if I want it to stay on I use Almay truly lasting color. Its supposed to last 16 hours. On top of that I use a loose mineral foundation from maybelline, ELF concealer and ELF sheer powder to set it. And I have to blend that powder really well so it doesn't look like i've got SO much crap on. If I do it right, I don't look like i've got any foundation on. Its kind of funny, I was talking to my best friend online tonight and she said some friend of hers saw my picture (That last one with all the lipstick on) and said she was jealous of how "naturally pretty" I was. I'm like honey, if you only knew how UNnatural that picture is you'd laugh lol
If I want lighter coverage I just use the powder foundations with spot treatment concealer. But I actually find that when I use -just- powder, I look more made up. Like the powder doesn't blend into my skin when it has nothing on it already.

Another neat trick is mixing a liquid concealer with a bronzer and put that on like a moisturizer. It covers but it also gives your skin a glow that looks less matte and more healthy and natural in the summer. or just use a tinted moisturizer by itself, then when you put on eyeshadow or lipstick you still look "put together" without looking fake.

I also have very hooded, very creased eyelids. Like every other girl in my moms side of the family (gee thanks genetics). I've never been able to get eye shadow to stick to me, and it sucked because thats my favorite thing to play in. Until I -finally- discovered eye primer. Its a miracle. I use the ELF primer, it cost a buck and is just as good as the expensive stuff.

Wow, I had no idea I could babble so much about make up...

onto diet things! I actually was sort of inconsistent today. Before dinner, all I had was a cup of coffee, 2 shakes, and a couple handfuls of these quaker blueberry fiber crisp things, i think there like 100cals or something for every 10 or something like that. For dinner I had a delicious chicken breast, some sweet potato fries and a popsicle. I've never had sweet potato fries before... it was weird. Not unpleasant, but i'm like ok... they look like fries.. they smell like fries... they taste like thanksgiving. My brain was confused. I don't know why I didn't eat enough today. You'd think my appetite would be higher because of all the hormonal mess i'm in the middle of. But for the last 3 days I haven't been hungry once. I actually had to make myself eat dinner last night because I hadn't eaten in 8 or 9 hours (bad kelly, I got sucked into crocheting and dealing with the step siblings, and what my mom made for dinner wasn't healthy so I ignored it) and my stomach totally skipped the hunger and went straight to feeling sick. I don't know if anyone else feels like this, but when i'm sugar crashing, like if I haven't eaten in so long my blood sugar is getting weird, I feel sick. Like going to throw up sick. Forcing yourself to eat when you feel like vomiting is really weird, but i've always been like that if I don't eat enough. It was like 11pm but I made myself a snack anyway cause I needed it. But it was just weird that I never got hungry, never had my stomach growl, nothing! I think maybe its just gotten used to me feeding it every few hours and forgot how to tell me it needed food lol. I guess thats better than over eating, but I gotta get back to being more consistent with when I get my calories in!

Hoping for a new low in the morning. My low before the pms attack was 206.4, and today was 206.6, so maybe i'll see a nice even 206 in the morning! I hope I hope I hope I hope!
 
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DISCLAIMER* I put my weight-related post up here at the top, so you don't have to wade through the enormous amount of wandering, rambling crap thats below it. I ramble when i'm tired, and actually deleted huge chunks of it and its still stupidly long and has no business here! But... there it is lol.

WEIGHT STUFF
Didn't weigh this morning cause I got distracted helping my mom do stuff outside (See below) then further distractions after (see below again). At the moment its 11:20pm and its reading 206.9. being a 6 anything at the end of the day is encouraging, as I normally gain 2lbs during the day.


RAMBLING CRAP
Today's been pretty low on the shiny happy scale. I've been sick to my stomach pretty much from the moment I woke up. I've still been drinking my water nicely, but my food has been really crappy today.
9amish- coffee, as usual, felt fine. missed my breakfast shake by being out in the backyard helping my mom set up some kind of...canvas...shade... thingydoodle.
11am- mocha protein shake (nomnomnom, love those) and a chocolate/caramel protein bar thing.
pretty much right after I ate that bar is when I started getting sick. I'm wondering if its got sugar alcohols in it that pissed off my tummy. I had 1 bar a day every day for the first 2 months of my diet without any problems, but i've been not eating them this past month because I was running low and wanted to make them last longer, but in the end I just pretty much stopped eating them and ended up substituting kashi bars as snacks instead. Maybe after a while of not having them it made my tummy rebel? I dunno. Anyway, I pretty much curled up on the couch and sipped water the rest of the day. felt like crapcrapcrappitycrap.
At dinner I finally decided to try to eat again, and just had a maybe half a really thin grilled pork chop and maybe half a cup of rice with some chopped veggies mixed in, and made sure to eat slowly and pay attention in case anything started gurgling suspiciously lol.
So far i've felt okay since I ate, so I think my insides are over whatever pissed it off today. not 100%, just kind of... stomach buggy y'know.

Which is totally bizarre if you knew me. I pretty much have the strongest immune system known to man. As a kid (of course being in school with other kids) I seriously got strep throat every single winter from like... age 6 to age 16, plus your run of the mill colds a couple times a year. As an adult I just... don't get sick. I mean I do, but its maybe once every two years. I don't even get those little week long colds everyone else seems to get. When I DO get sick, its always the worst possible case of whatever's been going around. Last time I think it waas... august of last year maybe? My bf had a cold, it lasted a week, he was fine. I got it from him (I guess) and I was out of commission for nearly a month, and my cough stuck around for 2 months. Ridonkulous, as they say.

I'm actually a little concerned about my mom's kids going back to school, cause they're going to bring home germy germs. part of the reason i never get ill is probably because I don't have kids bringing home other kid's diseases lol

ANYWAY.
I'm going to be avoiding the protein bars tomorrow. After the day I had i'm scared of them lol. Its days like this i'm glad I have the shakes. They're super easy on my tummy with lots of vitamins so if i'm still feeling under the weather tomorrow I won't starve. I really should have been drinking them today to keep my calories up (such a struggle lately, its unusual) but getting up from the couch, unless it was to go run in the bathroom, was the last thing on my mind today.

Sad face.
 
Morning Kids!
Gonna get some coffee and get my workout on before it gets too hot.
only 3 more days till the next weigh in in the August challenge. I'd be happy right now to just hit -2!

BF starts his new job today, i'm anxious to get a call at the end of the day and hear how it went!
My abs are killing me today. I tacked on Ab Shredder yesterday after cardio, because I realized i'd completely forgotten it last week. Ab Shredder is a 25-30 minute ab workout that you add on to your strength training days. After about 30 minutes of sitting inside cooling off after cardio, I had some leftover energy to burn lol. Ouch. I forgot how intense it is, but I was proud I did as well as I did.

*LATER THAT SAME DAY....*lol

I noticed its been about a week since I posted measurements. Seeing as I was stuck the last few weeks on the scale I wondered if I'd actually lost any inches while that was going on, so after my workout today I took some new ones, and here is how they compare. The first ones are from The day I started P90X, July 23rd. I'd already been dieting since late may so who knows what I actually started at. The second are from August 1st, and the last are from today after working out.


Bust 44 42.5 42.5
Under bust 37 36 35
Waist 36 34 34
Belly Button 47 45 44
Hips 51 49 47.5
Thigh 24.5 24 24
Bicep 11 11 10.5
Calf 16 15.25 15.25

Also, I dug up some pics. This isn't my -highest-, but i'm guessing its around 240 (i'm on the left). All I can say is thank god i'm wearing black and you can't see all the damage in that picture, its pretty atrocious. The second one is from last october, i'm somewhere around 200, so thats reasonably accurate to what I look like now, although now (thanks to exercise) I wear a size smaller in jeans than I did in that picture. The THIRD pic is from a long time ago, when I was 180lbs, before all the weight gain. Hoping to get back there soon!

Way to go on all your weight loss! :)
 
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thanks shinsplint! Yeah theres a really horrific photo of me from my very highest weight that I think is on my other laptop that I left at my bf's parent's house when I got my new one, and its like, really bad. I'm outside on the porch talking on the phone and my dad thought it'd be funny to snap a pick of me, and i'm wearing this totally unflattering cami and these really thin, stretchy like goucho pants things (basically my jammies). that pic is what got me to wrap my head around just how bad things were. One of these days i'll get it and put it up here and we can all cringe at it lol

So a few hours after I weighed this morning at 205.8, I weighed again. I say for shits and giggles, which is just my blanket excuse for my weighing obsession sneaking back in. It read 204.4. WOW. that gave me a shock lol. only in the best way ever though!
I just weighed again, its um... about a quarter after midnight, and i'm right at 206. Its so weird how your weight moves around during the day. But i'm always glad to see a lower number at night cause I know i'll weigh less in the AM. I'll be very happy to see another 205.whatever in the morning. I'm SO READY to get over all this 206 crap, its sucked up 2 weeks of mah life!
 
204.5
-25.5

Goodbye forever you stupid 206!
When I hit -30 i'll do my measurements and all that jazz again, and maybe get another pic.
If I can hurry up and get to 200 at least by the 12th, i'll still be on track to hit my first goal in october. I've got 14 pounds to go before I get into the goal range I set for myself, and a little under 60 days to do it. Hopefully i'll hit it and maybe just a little bit more. I mean i'll be super happy to hit 190 by then, but i'd be -more- happy to see a big fat 180something
 
Congratulations !!! You are doing so well..

I am new to here, and I have up to now lost 14 pounds, but I want to lose another 21 to be at my ideal weight - Hope we can support eachother !!!

Well done again xxx
 
blah.
I think i'm allergic to this dog.
We're babysitting my step dad's parent's 17 year old husky while they're on vacation. I've sneezed all day long. I kind of sound like a boy, and my head feels...sloshy.
All I can say is.... lamesauce.

I forgot to add in my last update that i'm down 45.5 overall. But I hate to say that, because i've been here before y'know. Its not like Its been a straight downward line since my highest weight, but I do like to keep that big "overall" number around to keep it in perspective on days I dont feel like i've changed much. so yay me!
 
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ugh. I cursed myself by talking about how I never get sick.
Cuz I think i'm sick.
Unless this is what allergies feel like, in which case god bless you people who still function when they hit. jeez.
tried sudafed, didn't work. Tried dayquil, worked, but made me feel wonky. Once that wore off I was out and all I had left was niquil. Needless to say i'm all KINDS of wonky now.

wonkywonkywonkywonky....
I feel like i'm in that family guy episode with the kids licking toads. "Everything's so....significant....!
No sore throat thankfully, but my head and my ears are killin me. Can't lay down without losing the ability to breath through my nose. ears are popping. sneezing all over. My eyes hurt kinda burn. I knew i'd get something from the kids starting school with other kids, but I didn't think it'd be RIGHT at the beginning of the school year. NOTE* (when I say "kids" i'm referring to my step siblings, they're much younger than me. So to clear up confusion no, I have no kids, and do not plan on it. Its my step dad's kids. ALL 5 OF THEM lol)

SO yeah, i've been pretty sedentary today. Tried to nap earlier but I couldn't breathe lol. Took the niquil like 30 minutes ago and still can't breath out one side of my nose. LAME.
 
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ALLERGIES! I tell you ... try taking some fast acting allergy meds.. If it goes away you'll know.

I rarely have this but I cleaned my room and found mold in the closet.. I couldn't breath at night, (kind of scary but I was too sleepy to get up and get something to fix it) Was really really tired, itchy and low grade.

I haven't commented, but I read all your posts up there, and yeah the babbling is cool to read.

Congrats on loosin that nother bit of weight!! YAY!
 
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