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Hey everyone! Just wanted to get a little blog in updating that I lost 2.4 pounds this week. Puts me at 18.6 overall! Whooo

My mom gained 0.4 pounds this week. She’s not losing as fast as me. She doesn’t act discouraged, which is good. We can’t really figure out what the deal is though since she and I eat practically the same thing and do the same exercise. I realize that it’s different for everyone, though. She thinks it might just be because she’s 45 and I’m 22 so maybe my metabolism is faster? We eat around 1500-1600 on some days and 1600-1700 on others. She usually drinks around 64 oz of water. We do an hour of exercise a day. If anyone has any suggestions of what she could do to ramp up her weight loss it would be greatly appreciated!

Not a whole lot going on right now. My boyfriend is home from college for the weekend which makes me sooo happy! A person just doesn’t realize how important someone is to them until they can’t hold them everyday. He works every Friday & Saturday so Sunday is the only day we have together. This Sunday we’re going to the movies with my parents and I’m going to make fajitas afterwards. The Colts game is on Sunday night so we’ll definitely be watching that.

Have a wonderful weekend

Shame on me! haha.. yeah right! You know… I really did just eat one cup of ice cream & I’m finishing up my diet big red…. but guess what? I’m feeling pretty dang good about it. I drank 66 oz of water today and ate fantastic so I gotta say ice cream was yummy! I really don’t have anything specific to write about I just felt like it

 Can’t nobody hold me down! wooo :)))  Don’t mind me being random lol

Okay seriously.. let’s see.. update. I miss my boyfriend like crazy. I am absolutely not used to being away from him for so long. We went from being together virtually all the time to only seeing each other around one day a week. It’s hard but I do know I’m blessed. He is such an amazing person and I have to be the luckiest girl in the world to have him and the family that I do. They are all just some special people. I love my boyfriend, family & friends all so much! Everyone in my life (inluding you all!) is so awesome!

Okay let’s get on with some weight loss talk. I’ve been doing good eating & exercise wise.. Not so much on Saturday, though. My mom, boyfriend, aunt and two cousins went to tour a college for my cousin. We left home around 7:15am. We stopped at Wendy’s at 8:30 or so. I didn’t get anything to eat because it’s really difficult for me to eat before 10am. I tend to get sick to my stomach. I wasn’t hungry anyway. Well, the day was pretty busy from there on out so we didn’t end up eating lunch until around 3. So I was starving! I got chicken strips, ribbon fries, loaded baked potato soup. I ate three rolls (oh yeah too many lol). BUT i am soo proud of myself because I ate half my meal. I brought the other half home for my dad. My mom did the same thing! I got full and I stopped eating. How freakin’ awesome is that? Yeah, I’m proud. haha.

Well, friends, I think that’s it. Enjoy my super long blog title and have a WONDERFUL day tomorrow. Oh and eat some ice cream if you can fit it in.. so yummy.

Night everyone!

This blog will most likely have very little to do with weight loss. I wanted to write it anyway to keep myself accountable in a few other areas of my life. Therefore, I won’t be making it private.

Since I graduated college I’ve put several things on the back burner that I really need to start focusing on. Here’s the list:

-Stop two other bad habits I have

-Update my resume

-Figure out what I’m doing career-wise

-Take 6 more credit hours of college courses

-Study for & take the CPA exam

-Figure out what Daniel & I are going to do after he graduates college

As you can see I’ve put a lot of school/work related things on hold. I graduated college with 144 credit hours. In order to take the CPA exam I have to have 150 credit hours so I need to take a few more. I put that off this past summer and this semester mainly because it costs money, money that I just don’t care about spending right now. I really need to go ahead & get them over with, though. Also, before I can sit for the CPA I have to have so many hours of work experience in the accounting field. I currently have 150 so I have to work on that too.

What actually got me thinking about all this is that I received an email from an accounting firm located a couple hours away telling me that my college sent them my resume. They asked for an updated one because they are currently hiring a staff accountant. I can’t work there because it’s too far away from home, but it made realize that I need to get back into the groove of things in this area of my life. And honestly, I don’t particularly want to work at an accounting firm. I understand that I may have to in order to gain experience, but my ultimate goal is to open a firm with my dad in my home town.

So my plan of attack is as follows:

(1) Update my resume to the point of near perfection

(2) Find out how much 6 hours of classes will cost + the books

(3) Decide which classes I want to take then sign up for them

(4) Look into ordering materials for studying for the CPA exam

(5) Look more in depth at CPA requirements, including costs of taking exam

(6) Look into available accounting jobs in my area

(7) Save every penny I can so I can afford all of this (classes + books will probably be around $1000, study materials for the CPA exam costs between $1000-3000, to take the actual exam costs anywhere from $575-800)

My list also included two things that weren’t school/work related. First, is my two bad habits (not weight loss related). I don’t care about discussing either one right now. I mainly want to put it out there to remind myself that I need to constantly work on them.

The second item is what Daniel & I are going to do after he graduates college in May. I still live with my parents, which I don’t mind at all. Actually, I really love living with my parents. Daniel’s dad hasn’t been too involved in his life since he was 11. He actually lives a couple hours away. His mom moved three hours away a year or two ago. His home life hasn’t been the best and he hasn’t exactly had anywhere to live. So, my parents let him stay with us on the days he’s not at school. I realize some people don’t agree with this type of situation, but my parents are saints. We’re not allowed to sleep together. Not that it’s even really necessary for to explain that to anyone. All I want to say is that if they didn’t let him stay here life would be much more difficult for him than necessary. He is an amazing person and deserves every chance at life. My parents are amazing people for providing him with one. Anyway. The point is that when he graduates it would make the most sense for to get married & get our own place. I just think that May is going to come quick so I’d like to have some kind of plan for what we’ll be doing when that time comes. I currently don’t have much of an idea but that’s why I’m putting it on my to do list!

I lost 3.2 pounds this week. That puts me at a 16.2 pound loss since September 18. I’m really excited about this! I’m 18 pounds away from my next mini goal. Can’t wait to get there!

Everything is going great here. Been eating good, been exercising. I’m going to my boyfriend’s college tomorrow with him, my mom, my aunt and my cousins. My cousin is going to tour the college because she’s wanting to go there after she graduates. I’m sure we’ll be eating out… probably at O’Charleys (pretty much my fav restaurant!) if I had to guess.. I fully intend on eating whatever I want

In other news, I have progress pictures! It’s only for the last month but I think I can see some difference…. even if it’s only 8 pounds worth! haha.

Oh yeah, one other thing before you get to see the pics. I was just curious if anyone could tell me how to change the background on my profile? I tried to do it using myspace layouts but it didn’t work right. Any help on how to customize my profile would be greatly appreciated!

Here’s the pictures:

Where to start? It’s been a fun, busy weekend. My eating wasn’t the best. Friday night I went to my friend’s Halloween party. I ate good all day until I got there. I had a couple pieces of pizza and a couple sugar cookies. I went into town with her and her sister around 11pm. Her sister got a mocha & a big muffin. I was proud that I stayed away from that! Saturday I had a turkey sub for lunch then for supper my parents and I got a pizza and breadsticks. I ate 3.5 breadsticks and 2 pieces of pizza. Too many breadsticks but I’m glad I limited the pizza. I was so stuffed. It wasn’t that long ago I coulda/woulda ate 4-5 pieces. Today I went with my boyfriend to take his brother to a city about an hour away. On the way we stopped at my boyfriend’s grandparents house. I had already had some toast for breakfast before we left the house, but the guys didn’t eat anything. His mamaw was like I’ll fix you some bacon…then she added french toast to the mix…then scrambled eggs. She sat 3 places at the table and so I ate. I didn’t get to eat again until several hours later so I’m actually glad I ended up eating something there. She had homemade syrup for the french toast. Wow, it was awesome.  I limited myself to one piece of french toast, about 1/4 cup of scrambled eggs & 2 small pieces of bacon. Everyone else was drinking this fruit punch stuff that had 110 calories & a million grams of sugar in it. Instead of just taking it I asked if it was okay if I got water. So proud of myself for that one! lol It’s the small victories… Then we ate at a Chinese buffet for supper! Not the absolute best choice, but man was it good!! I drank 3 large glasses of water so I did something good lol… One thing is for sure I am hitting it hard tomorrow.

My mom and I have been doing the Slim in 6… We’ve been on the first level for awhile so I think we’re going to try to move to the next level tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes.

On another note.. My parents got me this REALLY cute pair of jeans for Christmas a couple years ago. For the last few years I’ve normally been wearing 22-24. These were a size 24 but I guess they are made really small because they didn’t fit at all. I tried them on yesterday and I can ALMOST get them buttoned. Not quite there yet but I will be soon! I’ll post some pictures as soon as I can get in them.

Welll… I better get going. I’m gonna get my butt in gear so I can do the slim in 6 in the morning instead of in the evening!

Oh, P.S. I lost two pounds this week!!!!!!!!

I want to be able to wear this and look good:

HELLOOO!! I hope everyone is having a fantastic Sunday. I don’t have anything in particular to say, but I need to blog! I feel like I haven’t been all that supportive to everyone on BuddySlim this week. I’ve been trying to keep up-to-date, but it seems like I’ve had a hard time this week. I want to thank everyone for the comments. I apologize for not being around all that much this week. I intend on changing that! I’ll be around so much everyone’s going to be sick of me!! lol

Well.. an update.. Hm.. I gained 0.4 pounds this week. I know it’s not horrible but I was a little disappointed when I saw it. I’m over it now though! I’m ready for next weigh-in. I plan on kicking some major butt this week.

Today should be a good one. Football game at one. My mom and I are going grocery shopping and taking our walk before that. Then during/after the game my mom is going to help me get my room back in order. I have to admit it’s a huge mess right now. I graduated college in May and I’m pretty sure I brought a lot more stuff home with me than I originally had. I have so many clothes. Right now I have three big storage containers sitting in my room half full with clothes. I just have no idea where to put everything! So my momma is going to help me do it I’m so lucky.

My next random bit of information.. I was reading Make the Connection by Bob Greene & Oprah Winfrey last night.  In it he talks about exercising in the zone. Basically he has a scale of 0 to 10 in he book and describes what you should be feeling at each level. For example, 0 is the feeling you get at rest. There is no feeling of fatigue. Level 10 should not be experienced. This is the feeling you would experience with all-out exercise. He says that one should strive to achieve a level 7 or 8 during an exercise session. Level 7 is approximately 70% of your maximum heart rate & level 8 is about 80%.

Level 7 is the feeling you might get when you are exercising vigorously. This is a definite feeling of fatigue, but you are quite sure you can maintain this level for the rest of the session. Your breathing is deep and you are definitely aware of it.

Level 8 is the feeling you might get when you are exercising very vigorously. This is a very definite feeling of fatigue…. and so on.

I’m sure this probably sounds like common sense, but it didn’t really hit me until I was reading this. We exercise 60 minutes Monday-Friday. On Sundays we exercise 40 minutes. Sometimes we’ll exercise on Saturdays but we usually take the day off. The exercise I do consists of 40 minute walks & 20 minutes Slim in 6 DVD. Whenever I do the Slim in 6 I’m pretty sure I reach a 7 or 8. But when I’m walking, unless I’m going up a hill, I rarely hit the 7 or 8. Soo… my big goal for this week is to GET IN THE ZONE!!

Sadly, every part of my title is true. I don’t know what came over me. I’ve had a taste for something “bad” for a few days now. I ate a couple of my dad’s onion rings on Saturday afternoon. I ate pizza Friday night, but I balanced it out by eating a big salad first so I didn’t eat as much  pizza. I was proud of myself for eating something I had really been wanting but managing to incorporate it in and not feel guilty about it. But then I go and eat THREE chicken strips at TWO in the morning. And oh yes.. I did cry. I admit that they tasted SO good but then I just wanted to throw up. I felt awful for eating them. I mean…really? Why did I do that? My poor boyfriend. I feel bad for him. He brought them home from work for everyone. I just made him feel absolutely horrible by crying but I couldn’t stop. I tried to convince him that I wasn’t crying because of him, that it wasn’t his fault. And it wasn’t. I should have resisted them all together. Or I could have taken one bite just to taste it. Or I could have stopped after one chicken strip…but I didn’t. It’s over so I’m moving on.

I am so glad that I logged on today.  The first blog I clicked on was Nancy’s then Dawnrenee’s. Nancy talked about evolving and she was giving it to the haters! You have to love how honest she is. I didn’t even get through Dawn’s entire post before I saw her before & after pictures. Then I scrolled down the list and saw Tiffany’s post. She is going through such a difficult time yet she comes here and shares it. Everyone is giving trememdous support. Then I remember reading yesterday about Kerstin’s red pants. Doesn’t she look awesome? I am so inspired by everyone.. not just the ones I mentioned! You are all wonderful. I love buddyslim so much because everyone is so supportive. This support doesn’t just take place in the form of encouragement when Kerstin is looking hot in her pants, but it also comes out ten fold when one of us is having set backs. I am so lucky to be part of such an encouraging and loving community.

I have no idea how this went from me crying about chicken strips to how wonderful everyone is, but it’s true… you are all quite special. Thank you for that! 　

I don’t really watch how many carbs I eat. My diet is more based on caloric & fat intake. I have noticed that I tend to eat 150-250 grams per day. My friend had weight loss surgery and she only eats 40-60 carbs. My mom said that Dr. Phil said that is not nearly enough for one’s body to function properly. I was just curious who all watches their carbs. I know that it is especially important for diabetics to pay attention to carb intake. If you keep track of it how many grams of carbs do you typically get in one day?

Today we took a 40 minute walk and did the Slim in 6 DVD for 20 minutes. I drank 64 ounces of water. I had 1552 calories & 33 grams of fat.

Breakfast:

2 waffles - one with 1 tsp sugar free syrup, the other with 2 tsp sugar free preserves

Lunch:

healthy choice

Afternoon Snack:

necatrine & 1/2 chocolate bar

Supper:

spaghetti & salad

Evening Snack:

2 graham crackers & 8 oz skim milk

Well, I’ve gotten a little behind on everyone else so I’m going to catch up and then hit the sack!

Hey all! I just had to write about my absolutely wonderful breakfast….Okay, so maybe it was more like brunch, but oh well. It was sooo good! I had two 4″ waffles with 1 tbsp peanut butter & 1/4 cup sugar free syrup. I LOVE waffles & haven’t had them in forever. Definitely felt like I was cheating but my calories were only 270 so I’m doing good!

I’ve had a good weekend so far. My boyfriend had to work last night, but he came home early because he wasn’t feeling well. I was glad to see him but didn’t like that he was sick.. :(… My parents and I went to eat at a Mexican restaurant. I ordered Pollo Loco which was 4.5 ounces of grilled chicken breast, mexican rice & a gaucamole salad. I ate 1.5 ounces of the chicken, half of the rice and all of the guacamole salad. My parents ordered fajitas so I ate some of them too. I actually did pretty good considering my usual at this restaurant is covered in cheese! I probably should’ve sipped the chips & salsa… but I did manage to control myself and only eat a few.

Today is football day! The Colts play at 8 tonight so we’re all looking forward to that. My dad mentioned getting KFC for supper so we’ll probably get a bucket with grilled & crispy. I love that I am thinking ahead & planning out what I’ll eat. Like last night we were talking about eating at either the Mexican restaurant or Denny’s so I looked at the nutrition for both well ahead of time so that I could pick a better option!

Ohhh I almost forgot. I was so proud of myself yesterday because while taking a walk I incorporated some jogging! May not sound like a huge feat, but I sure felt like it was. I think we’re going to go to the park today to take a walk around the track.

Good luck to everyone with sticking to their goals in this new week!