Kelly's Bringing It!!

bout to go to bed, but just realized today is exactly 4 months to the day that I started my diet. Still counting the horrible month-long bronchitis crap I just got over where I lost absolutely -nothing-, I still .....

lost 31 pounds in 4 months!

Went from a 18/19, to being able to pull my 16s off without undoing them. havent tried anything smaller just yet, but MIGHT be in a 14. i'll try in another 10lbs maybe.

Lost 22 inches.

Lost 51lbs TOTAL from my highest weight ever back in the day.

completed an entire full month of P90X (2nd and 3rd on their way!)

Gone down 1-2 shirt sizes, 1 bra cup size, and 2 panty sizes. you know its working when your underwear is falling off lol

so excited to see what october has in store for me. Hoping to be 190 by halloween, so 9lbs to go next month. lets see if I can keep this up!
 
well this is just a week chock full of good news!

I have a job interview on wednesday!

For anyone not aware, i've been trying to get a job back in Austin. Living up north near Dallas, this has sort of been a huge pain in the ass. After getting out of the truck (the bf drove cross country in a semi for a while and I was out with him for a few months) He dropped me off here to visit my family. He quit that job a while later, and went back home to the austin area to get a job driving locally there. We both want to live around austin, but unfortunately its been a hassle. Hes staying with his parents and working, and i'm stuck here at my mom's and been job hunting for MONTHS. So on top of that stress, I've seen my bf maybe 2-3 times since I got here in May, and he works long hours so we txt a couple times a day and he calls for a few minutes after he gets off, but thats it, so its been a strain to say the least. That and being stuck with our parents (mine arent so bad but his annoy him a lot) has caused more than one argument lol

Anyway, If I get this job, We will probably end up sticking it out at his parents for a while longer (hopefully no longer than a month or so) and we should have pooled enough money that we feel comfortable getting out own place. We're weird about money. By weird I mean neither of us like credit cards (I dont even OWN one) and we don't like owing money. So we do everything on our own, but sometimes that means sacrificing and being stuck at mom and dads longer than you want. Anyway, I can't wait to see what happens with this job! I'm a massage therapist and I can't just move to a new town, work on my own, and expect to get clients. I have to build them up and start over basically, so I'm interviewing at a local massage place. The pay isn't going to be as good as working on my own, but thats just a sacrifice I have to make to build clientele, and I'm ok with that. I can always work on the side.

Wish me luck! I'm driving up there probably on tuesday and my interview is wednesday. yay good news!
 
I go away and come back and look what you've done!!!

How can I say CONGRATS!! I'm SO Impressed! You kicked the illness and lost alot of weight since I've last been here..

Way to go on the job, and not getting in debt is one of the smartest things a person can do! (I got some credit cards because for some things you need them like, hotels and buying online) But I DO NOT believe in debt its way better to cinch the belt first and save up :)

I'm so happy to read you're progress! Keep it up fine lady!
 
Its been a minute! ok its been a week, but a busy week!
I came down to Austin a few days ago. I went to my interview and I pretty much was handed the job, gift wrapped and all! Which is awesome, cause I was so nervous about it lol. But thats a huge weight off my shoulders, Its been such a pain to try to get a job in a town you live 3 hours away from. The BF took me out to eat Italian to celebrate that night. I celebrated, but I didn't over do the celebrating lol, I had veggie lasagna so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Nothing fried and I didn't even eat the whole thing.
So we will be stuck (I mean living) here at his parent's house for HOPEFULLY no longer than a month or so before we'll have enough saved to find a place of our own. He's been saving all of his checks from his new job (if you're just catching up on the drama, we used to live in a big semi truck that he drove. He found a job here sooner than I did, and since his parents are already from around here he's stayed with them) so he's got a head start on me.
In the meantime, i'm trying to keep myself busy. I feel kind of weird staying at their house, and I don't want to go all anti social because of it. So I'm trying to make a real effort to get to know the town. I know Austin, but they live just outside it and I don't know this little town as well. So after my interview I wandered around some shopping centers and back roads and stuff. I went into a Sally's beauty store (cause i'm a nerd) and ended up chatting with the girls who work there for like half an hour. They gave me a PRO preferred card (you can get a sallys card or a pro card for professionals that get a bigger discount). I'm a licensed massage therapist but i'm not a licensed cosmetologist. They were like "hey close enough, you use some of this stuff too!" So now I get big shiny discounts, lol it was like christmas hahaha.

I also am making an effort to hang out with his parents a bit. I don't have any issues with them but we don't have a whooole lot in common. But I was proud of myself this morning, I got up early and went to Curves with his mom. And it seems that working out is what we'll end up bonding over lol. It was a lot of fun, and i'm going out to lunch with her and his dad this afternoon. I have a free week pass to curves, and she wants me to start going to zumba classes there too. Since I don't have my P90X stuff with me atm thats a new alternative, and maybe something new I'll like to do! If I can afford it lol

So tonight the BF and I are leaving to drive 3-4 hours to stay at a lake cabin with a bunch of my friends I haven't seen in probably a year. Its going to be lots of fun! Then I have next week to go back up to Dallas and get the rest of my crap down here, and then I start working the week after that! YAY MONEY AND JOBS! lol
Plus, our 2 year anniversary is next month, so it'd be nice to have an apartment by then as our present :D
 
quick update.
Lake house was fun. Felt really bummed out when I got some of the pictures back, because I still look.... squishy. To myself anyway. Everyone else goes "oooh you look so good", but when I saw the pics I was like "are you frickin kidding me??" I know I still have a way to go, and I need to focus on the difference I DO see, and there are some.

I got thrown off the tube (tubing behind the boat) and landed in the water neck first. I don't remember hitting, the next thing I remember is feeling like someone was choking me cause they were dragging me by my life jacket toward the boat. Lucky girl that I am out of my friends that were on the boat, 2 are cops, 1 is an ER nurse and 1 is a fireman. So I was well taken care of. Sort of embarrassed actually about the fuss they made. They said I didnt skip across the water and slow down, I just hit and stopped dead, and in the middle of the turn we were in, I probably got slung off doing at least 40mph.

I came away with bruised ribs and a second degree concussion. It was... weird lol. I've never had my head smacked around before, never even been in a car wreck or anything. I don't remember being confused (which i've read is supposed to be common) but I remember not being able to focus. People kept asking me stupid questions like whats 80 plus 30, and I couldn't grab onto the numbers in my head long enough to get it done. I thought it only took 5 seconds to answer, but apparently it was more like 30.

So at least I don't start my new job till next week and I can try to relax this week. I still have an aggravating low grade headache and my ribs are still sore, but nowhere NEAR what I was the day after. the next morning I felt like I was hit my a freaking truck. Twice.

so that was my fun little adventure this weekend.

As far as weight goes, I have no idea. Last I checked I was 199, but that was over a week ago I think, and I haven't been around a scale since.
 
Awesome, Kelly!

I did P90X too and lost a ton of weight. It changed me mentally and physically and taught me how to eat. Now I help other people get success with programs like P90X at home. P90X changed my life and I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT! Working out, personal support and nutrition is what it takes. You have to have ALL 3 in order to make a change. You are on the right track.
 
this is a very inspirational diary and I enjoyed the boat story (sorry if I shouldnt have enjoyed it but I have sisters who I like to throw off the tube at high speed and get a good laugh when I wipeout them when I am driving, not to hurt them obviously, and your story reminded me of good times on the river). Hope you get over the soreness soon.

I also realise what you say about not being able to see the difference but people around you comment. My sister and mum were telling me the other day about how much weight I have lost but I have only lost 10lbs and want to lose about 30lbs more. I still see very little difference in the way I look but if other people are seeing it, I just trust them and will keep working at my weight loss.

I try to think about the times when I have complimented someone else on their weight loss and I have only ever really complimented someone if if I had seen a noticeable difference so I assume my weight loss has been noticeable as well - even if I cant see it myself!

30lbs is a great start, keep it up!!!
 
well its been a minute hasn't it.
its super late and i'm on pain killers (i'll get to that later) so i'm going to make this pretty quick.
1. got moved just fine
2. started my lovely new job just fine. i loooove it. its so nice to have a job that i love, and work with people i like, and come home to a guy i love. i know a lot of people can't say that they actually get paid to do what they're passionate about, so i'm thankful for that!
3. that being said, i'm -totally- bummed out that i'm under doctors orders to not go back to work until november 1st. why, you ask? well....
4. i had a freakin emergency laparoscopic appendectomy 2 days ago. just out of nowhere, my appendix decided "eff this crap i'm outta here!" woke up in pretty mild pain. i never threw up or had a fever, but the pain was just weird and never went away so i went to the emergency care place. they sent me to the ER. got there around 3pm, was in my CT scan by 5, was in surgery at 8. it was my very first surgery ever, and by all counts i did very well. my anesthesia nurse called me "a badass" because i was talking lucidly immediately after surgery. (granted i coudnt see straight, sit up, or do much of anything else lol) other than some -serious- pain from trapped co2 gas in my shoulder that is -still- bothering me, i handled it like a pro. my blood pressure was a little low coming out of it (i think they said it was like 90/60) so they kept me up all freakin night by taking my blood pressure every 15 goddamn minutes. seriously.
once it stabilized at 116/65 they finally left me alone lol. next morning i walked around like they told me to (and that effing hurt!! stupid co2), peed on my own like they told me to lol, kept my food down just fine, and so they sent me home. only at home did i decide to finally start feeling like utter crap. i wish i still had my morphine drip, these oral pain killers are killing my stomach. so i can either be in pain, or be sick. not happy.
6. oh yeah, the CT scan also showed a lesion on my pancreas. i wasn't surprised. i had a bout of -serious- pain in my upper abdomen when i was 16, complete with low blood count, vomiting, passing out, rapid pulse etc. classic acute pancreatitis symptoms, but at the time i was so young no one even thought about that. so i have to go back in 6 months and have another ct scan to check on that.
7. before all the medical crap happened, i was going to curves with the boyfriends mom 3 times a week. other than that, my workout was.. well... work. i'm a massage therapist and working regularly i burn a fair bit of calories. i was just planning on upping the workouts -back- to doing p90x and walking my bf through the workouts with me before my appendix rebelled against my tyranny.
8. last time i checked, my weight was sitting between 200 and 202. between all the moving and job changing and stress and *cough*chik fil a *cough* i'm happy with that lol. still aiming for my goals, but now that i can no longer devote -all- my time to them, things are definitely slowing down. but thats ok, i just have to find my routine.
 
making friends

hey kelly,, how yah doin,, i was jus reading ur journal..i thought it was really awsome..
seeing how far u have come thru all this stuff .. soo proud of u...
curves is a great place, my ex used to go there ,,she spent jus as much time as u go there,,awsome !!
anyways i should introduce myself my name is kevin iam from canada and im 28,, my biggest thing is to help ppl,, myself is dedicated to the gym,i go to fitness world ,have u ever heard of that gym before? it pretty well known and its great ..i know its getting pretty late for myself too,, i would love to keep in touch..i will reply to your post again tomorrow if u are on,, well gnite kelly .. reguards kevin
 
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Oh Kelly! :'(

You've been taking it hard, good thing you're such a trooper, I've been checking up on you daily, wondering, where is she! Where is she! I love reading your posts, so just know I'm rooting for you and I have confidence despite these obstacles you'll be able to beat this thing in due time :) Patience IS a virtue,

Your job sounds so great, thats totally great you were able to find something like that! Just remember not to be too hard on yourself, if this is a lifestyle change, you gotta be in it for better or for worse, and have patience to wait out the harder times,
 
thanks angel :) things have been hectic that's for sure. but things could be worse.

the bf came home from his haircut with a surprise. he set up an appointment for me to go tomorrow to get my hair done. cut, color, whatever I want to get. (aww <3)
He feels bad for me because I was sick as a dog today. well, sicker than I have been.
TMI AHEAD
for anyone who's ever had an appendectomy, Did they WARN you that you'd have the worst constipation cramps of your entire life as soon as your body decided it wanted to start working normally again? because no one told me!! I was MISERABLE TODAY. As in throwing up because my stomach hurt so bad miserable. ALL DAY. there was no, oh it hurts a little, ok its all better. ALLLL DAAAAY. from 6am to about 5pm.

I'm a sad panda today.
 
Kelly, out of the blue I began to think of you today and realized you havn't posted for quite some time.

Whats going on? How is your health these days, you arn't allowed to go MIA from here. I'll miss your posts too much!!!
 
Kelly! How are you doing? I've dropped off the face of the earth over Christmas, but you aren't allowed to vanish forever!
 
Feels like its been a lot longer than it really has since i've been here!

I'm alive. I haven't been losing weight, but i'm alive. Quick update, and before you ask angel, life has finally slowed down so I'm going to make an effort to be back on here more often!
So here's the good news.
1. We FINALLY got into our own apartment. *rejoice*
2. Job's AWESOME.
3. I've pretty much quit smoking! I still get nicotine, but in the form of a nifty E-cigarette, and less than half the amount of nicotine in a regular one. I haven't had a regular cigarette in over a month.

Not so good news
1. My eating has gotten lazy, and i've gained probably between 7-10lbs.

Thankfully my job has me on my feet, physically working 7 hours a day (yep people, massaging is hard work!) unfortunately, I seem to have taken that as an excuse to let my eating slip. "oh I'm going to burn 600 calories at work today, I can totally eat a whole bag of goldfish crackers!" etc etc. I guess i'm lucky I haven't gained more than I have.
The upside of that I guess is My proportions haven't changed hardly at all, in fact I seem to have LOST inches in my waist and arms, and my ring size has dropped. I also have much more energy and stamina. I guess the explanation would be I've gained muscle
from working full time again. well, that and not smoking has noticeably increased my stamina. So I've been far from sedentary, at least thats good.

I have a gym in my apartment complex and I still have all my P90X stuff, I have no reason to not work out. And i've GOT to get my eating under control. I don't OVER eat, and I don't eat sweet stuff much... I just love carbs, man. Its sick. I will live for 3 days on nothing but ramen and goldfish crackers if you let me. my other weakness is eating out at work. When you're starving after doing 3-4 massages in a row, suddenly chik fil a looks a lot better than the dinky sandwich you brought to work lol.

Yesterday when I went grocery shopping I made an effort to get some healthy food, skipped on the goldfish, and got healthy stuff that I actually like: stuff for turkey sandwiches, apples, juice, etc. Honestly, its a pain. I'd much rather just go back to my shakes I was doing before, but there's no way to make them at work... I'm thinking I may get them again and just eat them at home and then eat healthy food at work.
wow i'm lazy lol
 
KELLY!!!!!! :D

Just tonight I was looking at your journal wondering if I'd ever see you again, then you posted! :p

Welcome back. I've been spastic over Christmas, but this entire month I've been buckling down and seeing some good change.

Maintaining is awesome, the way I figure, after all the weight loss is done thats what we'll be doing anyways, so may as well learn how. And I think it might be good to take breaks from being so intense all the time to avoid burnout and the chance weight might just pile on when the loosing part is 'over'

'nyways congrats on dropping the cigarettes, your home and job! Having an active job is superb.. I spent a month in the office and the pounds started PILING on.. never again.. I like my walk-around-all day job hehe Not as much work as massaging tho...
 
I don't know if the weight loss gods hate me or love me...
I have the freaking flu.

it hit me and 4 of my coworkers all the same day. I'm on the way to getting better though. Fever hit and spiked the same day, I think saturday. It was kind of weird too, it was at 100.9, so I took a fever reducer, and an hour -later-, it was at 102.5. I barely slept for 2 days because I hurt everywhere so bad I couldn't fall asleep :(

I thought the fever broke today, but it keeps going back up to around 99.6 every time my meds wear off.

So I guess the good news is that all i've really wanted to eat for the last 3 days are popsicles.
 
well aside from a lingering cough, i think its safe to say the bf and I are over the flu, finally. bleh.
the lucky jerk lost 10 lbs while he was sick lol. I lost 2. And he doesn't even NEED to lose weight. Bah to him and his high metabolism.

So now that i'm feeling better I believe I am going to go back to what I was doing over the summer to lose weight, high protein/low fat, mostly meal replacement shakes, and back to P90X. I'm currently looking at ordering another set of shakes. My 3 month supply I bought the first time ended up costing me something like 500 bucks, and it ended up lasting me more like 4 months. But I may start with a smaller order this time, seeing as now I have rent to pay and such. Worth every penny, mind you. Not having to worry about cooking, and just doing the same routine every day seems to really work for me. Easy and quick, thats how I like it lol.
I'm about to go take my measurements, and try not to cringe if I see that anything has changed in the wrong direction.

...........
How weird.
Half my measurements are the same, the other half are less. Even though i'm about 7-10lbs more than I was before I moved here. I know at least some of that is muscle. doing 6 massages a day will do that to you.
I'm ordering a 2 month supply of the same weight loss program I did last summer. My goals are going to be the same as they were last time. 2lbs a week. P90X 6 days a week. hopefully by summer i'll have something to show for it. There's no reason I can't get back in the swing of things like I was over the summer just because I work full time now.
 
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Here's the weird measurements I just took. Weird, because I weigh more now than I did at the last time I took them. The first ones were taken when I was 199. The second are from today, where i'm sitting around 210.
Bust 42.5-41
Under bust 34-34
Waist 34-34
Hips 45-45
Thigh 23.5-22
Bicep 11-10
Calf- 15-15

I also looked up that for someone for my weight, massage burns around 386 calories an hour. And I normally do 4-6 a day. I think thats the only thing thats saved me lol
I've officially ordered 2 months worth of my diet shake stuff. Hopefully i'll get it by next week.
 
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