Showing posts with label Everybody Changes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everybody Changes. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Change in Progress...the blog edition
After several hours of not being about to sleep I thought that I would change the layout of the blog. I LOVE pink....but it was time for a change, I wanted something lighter and something "summery". I'm sure over the course of my weight loss journey this blog will change and grow... just as I am.
The text is larger.. and that's something that I need to get used to... plus I'm playing with Photoshop (pray for me... cause Lord knows the kind of trouble I'll be getting into...
So in the meantime let's reflect and say good bye to the old blog.... so long friend....
Until next time....
When you change....you grow!!
Saturday, June 16, 2012
In:
Accountability
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Blue Team
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Everybody Changes
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motivation
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My Fitness Pal
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NSV
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Nutritional values
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Snark
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Transplant
Almost a year later
Since I'm not able to lift anything or exercise I figured I would revisit my blog and apparently I haven't blogged since February... geez... I've been a busy girl... okay maybe not so busy....but LOTS of life changes. So let's take it slow....
SPRING (Feb, Mar, Apr)
This past spring, something snapped in me, I don't know what it was but for the first time I wanted to de-clutter my life and my body.... got rid of people in my life who really just negative and non supportive. It's always a difficult decisions, but one that I haven't regretted yet. This made me more determined to lose weight and get "me" back.... It was also during this time that I learned about my arch enemy.... my arms...but I can't complain... things are shrinking... and I'm happy about it!
SUMMER (May, Jun....)
My mother thinks I'm starving myself, she hasn't come out and say it... but she thinks I don't eat enough food...for the record my base caloric intake is 1310 (more when I exercise,but I am almost always under no more than 200-300 calories) Every time I go over, she tries to feed me...I have to remind her that I do eat cookies, I do have ice cream...I do eat food. But I just make sure that it stays in my range... she continues to look at my like I've starving. Then I took this picture and she damn near lost her mind and determined I was too skinny (notice my arch enemy the hanging arm flab)... clearly she hasn't looked at the scale.
I brought a dress... that's not all that odd...but this dress doesn't have layers or an empire waist to hide the belly fat ... it straight up and down and it shows everything and I brought it!!
Right before my birthday I went shopping for new bras... my boobs are completely unrecognizable they've gone from a 42DD to a 38C...I miss my boobs, and I fear if I continue to lose breast fat at this rate, I'll be a A when this journey is done... Fair readers please pray for my breasts (I can almost guarantee no one has asked for a prayer like that)
But the best part is my BIRTHDAY!! I turned 35 (and to be honest I totally don't think I look 35!)
So many positive and wonderful, and some sad things have happened since the last time I had an entry...but once thing that hasn't changed I remain committed and WILL reach my goal!
Almost a year since I decided to lose weight, and I'm half way there, * feeling positive and excited about the next half of my journey!
* So whenever I tell people how much weight I want to lose they look at me like I've lost my mind. My goal has always been to get healthy... not to get skinny...
Until next time ....
This past spring, something snapped in me, I don't know what it was but for the first time I wanted to de-clutter my life and my body.... got rid of people in my life who really just negative and non supportive. It's always a difficult decisions, but one that I haven't regretted yet. This made me more determined to lose weight and get "me" back.... It was also during this time that I learned about my arch enemy.... my arms...but I can't complain... things are shrinking... and I'm happy about it!
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| flabby arms |
My mother thinks I'm starving myself, she hasn't come out and say it... but she thinks I don't eat enough food...for the record my base caloric intake is 1310 (more when I exercise,but I am almost always under no more than 200-300 calories) Every time I go over, she tries to feed me...I have to remind her that I do eat cookies, I do have ice cream...I do eat food. But I just make sure that it stays in my range... she continues to look at my like I've starving. Then I took this picture and she damn near lost her mind and determined I was too skinny (notice my arch enemy the hanging arm flab)... clearly she hasn't looked at the scale.
I brought a dress... that's not all that odd...but this dress doesn't have layers or an empire waist to hide the belly fat ... it straight up and down and it shows everything and I brought it!!Right before my birthday I went shopping for new bras... my boobs are completely unrecognizable they've gone from a 42DD to a 38C...I miss my boobs, and I fear if I continue to lose breast fat at this rate, I'll be a A when this journey is done... Fair readers please pray for my breasts (I can almost guarantee no one has asked for a prayer like that)
But the best part is my BIRTHDAY!! I turned 35 (and to be honest I totally don't think I look 35!)
So many positive and wonderful, and some sad things have happened since the last time I had an entry...but once thing that hasn't changed I remain committed and WILL reach my goal!
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| almost half there! |
Almost a year since I decided to lose weight, and I'm half way there, * feeling positive and excited about the next half of my journey!
* So whenever I tell people how much weight I want to lose they look at me like I've lost my mind. My goal has always been to get healthy... not to get skinny...
Until next time ....
Sunday, January 8, 2012
In:
Everybody Changes
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Keane
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Life Lessons
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Music
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Weekend Update
Everybody's Changing
But while I was driving, I felt like this could be a posting on the blog, don't because it;s extremely relevant to my life right now, but it's something that I think my readers would be able to relate to.
Life has a funny way of you giving you what you need when you need it (and I guess taking it away when you don't) For a long time I've felt like I was going through a transformation (emotional, spiritually, physically), and because of it I've "grown out" of a lot of relationships. I can't stand here and tell you that I'm the same person I was ten years ago...I'm not the same person that I was six months ago, and I think that's okay, I think as humans we are meant to evolve, we are meant to experience the good and the bad.
So "out growing" relationships. I know that I said it, but I have a problem with the word. It's not like they are clothes or shoes or something. I would never say that a person(s) haven't touched my life in some way, so that they haven't been there for me through difficult times, but I've recently realized that you can't keep relationships just for the sake of having one, if a relationship (friendship, partnership, marriage...whatever) isn't a shared experience where there is give and take, why would you continue to stay in a one sided relationship. Why you continue to change and the person is not changing with you? Someone recently told me that this view was a cop-out. So let me ask you this? How many of your high-school friends are you still in contact with? How many friends from college do you still hang out with? (and friending them on Facebook doesn't count)
Have you ever hear, "people come into your life for a reason, and for a season?" I believe that, that's why I try my hardest not to burn bridges, you never know when they might come back into your life.
When I decided to loss weight, I never in a million years thought that this would be a such an emotional journey for me, the changes for me emotionally have far outweighed the physical changes. It's almost become a therapy for me... when you loss weight, you are forced to reevaluate your life and take a long , hard, honest look at it. Things emerge that were hidden and you find things about yourself that you never knew. I think this is one of the reasons you hear so many people (who have lost weight) say, "a lot of my friends say I've changed" or "It seems like I'm losing friends" Before I went on this journey I would have simply said they were jealous, but now being in that position I realize what it is. Everybody's Changing, just not in the same way.