It's Spring time!!! YaY!! APRIL FOOLS!!!

So today Is April Fools, and it is freaking SNOWING. What the crap is this all about? Last week it was warm! I just LOVE Utah weather…NOT. Lol.

So finally I broke down and made it so that we get internet on our desktop now! I’m way excited about it! I couldn’t take it anymore so I just drilled a hole in the wall and fed the internet cord thru the wall. But our laptop still doesn’t connect, so my uncle said he would come and fix it for us. But in the mean time, I can get so much done! I have been looking for legit ways to earn more money, but while I am at home, since I already work full time, so I was looking around at jobs for ChaCha and I had to take this test to see if I was fast enough at web searching. It was intense lol, but I ended up being fast enough so now I have to watch a bunch of training videos to be able to do it and make money. I think it will be fun! I’m sure they don’t pay very much, but still. Money is money right?

The day I got my internet hooked up I posted a bunch of pictures of stuff that was on there. One was a shirt that I designed in like December. Anyway, I put it up on Facebook and a lot of people were interested in it! My cousin’s husband saw it and we started talking about shirts and stuff. He asked me if I would design some shirts for his band that he is in! I’m SO excited! This may be the point where I get my shirt store going!! I’ve set up an account with a store website, and I’m looking forward to getting it up and getting some shirts sold! YaY!

I am going to start blogging on a weekly basis and giving updates on my weight loss! I’m excited!!

Weight Update!!

Here is a weight update!! I started my ACTUAL weight loss program and diet stuff on March 23rd, and I weighed myself on the 30th and I had lost 8 pounds already!! 8 POUNDS!! WOW! I plan on weighing in every Monday from here on out! Just so I can keep it on a schedule! This week has been really hard. I’ve been sick, so I haven’t been able to make it to the gym at all, which sucks. When I get better, I am going to run my tail off!! My diet consists of a plethora of things lol, here is what I am sticking to.

1: PORTION CONTROL
First my problem over the past 2 years has become the amount of food I would eat in a sitting. I would eat and eat until I was stuffed. And we all know we hate that feeling. Immediately after, you think “wow I shouldn’t have eaten that much.” Now I am keeping my portions small!

2: TOO MUCH (pretty much the same as 1, but I look at them differently)
My second problem as I mentioned /\ up there, was eating until I felt like I was going to explode. Everyone is guilty of this and I know it. After I would clear a plate, If I didn’t feel like I was going to spew I would just keep eating till I got there. Now I am training myself that 1 helping, is plenty...no need for seconds. So I don’t feel like puking after I eat. Not to mention, if you don’t over-eat, you don’t feel like you have 1) a food baby 2) to undo the button on your pants 3) to just sit around for a while until the food settles.

3: HMM..I’M BORED…*WALKS TO THE FRIDGE*
Thirdly we have the compulsive “I’m bored…what should I do? WAIT…lets eat, just because we don’t have anything else to do!!” problem. I have done this so many times I can’t even count. Now I only eat when I am hungry, and before I eat I make sure to drink a big glass of water, just to make sure I’m not getting hunger and thirst mixed up. Actually a lot of people confuse the two! Which leads me to…?

4: SAY NO TO POP!!
About a month ago I stopped drinking pop for about a week, and when I went to weigh myself to see how much I had lost, I was surprised to see that I gained 2 pounds!! What the crap?!? SOOOO I celebrated in buying a 12 pack of Dr. Pepper and drinking pretty much the whole thing. (Over the course of a week or so) But now I am on the pop wagon again and have not had pop for about 2 weeks now and I LOVE it! I do miss the carbonation though...there’s nothing like the first drink of a cold can of Dr. Pepper!..Ok, Ok..i need to stop with that lol. What I’m doing is making sure that I have water with me at all times. I have this mug I got from my grandma’s house; I call it a pregnant mug lol, its one of those mugs you get from the hospital when you have a baby hahah. But it’s easy to take around with me! BUT I have to MAKE SURE that I put a ton of ice in there, cuz I hate warm water.

5: CARB MONSTER…
One of the things that I LOVE to eat is CARBS. I kind of felt like Regina George in Mean Girls when she is like “Is butter a carb?” Lol! I just love Potatoes, Rice, Bread and Pasta. Really those were like my favorite foods!! And although carbs are good for you in a way, I try to stay away from what I can. If I have to eat them, I just make sure its not much.

6: NOT SO SWEET…
I have THE worst problem with chocolate. Chocolate is the most delicious thing ever created! Especially Hershey’s Kisses and Cadbury Eggs. Those are my main weaknesses, when It comes to candy. I’m just monitoring the amount of sweets I have each day, which is sometimes none at all. No more hand full of kisses or Cadbury eggs for me!

7: …PRETTY MUCH LIKE CRACK.
I think the area that I honestly have a problem with is fast food. No joke, I was ADDICTED to fast food. I don’t even know how to even explain it. For example I would be sitting at work and be thinking how good a subway sandwich sounded. I would leave work and be on my way to subway and I would be close to McDonalds and I would smell it, and my mind would just change to how delicious McDonalds, chicken nuggets, fries, and a double cheeseburger…plain, would be. Have you even seen those cartoons where something smells so good, that the character would like raise up out of their seat, their nose would hit the smell (the stuff that looked like smoke lol) and just float over to whatever smelled so good? That’s how it was, sadly. So I would just stop there instead. I can not express how badly I was addicted to that place. I mean I’ve never been addicted to crack or anything, but holy crap, I felt like a fast food TWEAKER!! Not even kidding. When I would eat McDonalds i would be totally oblivious to how many calories I was eating. Not to mention what I would get would be anywhere from $7-$10! A DAY!! That makes me want to puke. You know how much money I was spending on food? And not just any food, food that Is so bad for you, so greasy that you can practically smell the blood-clot, stroke, and heart attack coming your way. I’m happy to say that now I don’t go to McDonalds every day! It’s been probably the hardest thing for me to stop, but I believe that you must replace addiction, with addiction. My new addiction is the way I felt when I stepped on that scale and saw that I was down 8 pounds. I’m finally at the point where I want this, and I don’t care what I have to do to get to my goal weight.


8: EXERCISE IS KEY…
I can’t stress how important it is to exercise. Even if its just walking around your house or whatever. Just so your heart rate is elevated, and you break into a sweat. Since I have been sick, I’ve been doing some things around the house that get me sweating. For example, both of our spare rooms are a mess. Until we decide what we are going to do as far as carpet and wall paint, we don’t really want to unpack everything. So we still have things in boxes. One day I moved everything out of the smaller room and brought my computer in there. It was some pretty hard work actually, and with lifting and going back and forth, I felt like I got in some sort of a workout, even though I was sick. It’s mind boggling to think of how many calories things are, then think of how much exercise it takes to burn those calories. For another example (I’m full of those today) 1 can of pop. Usually a can contains about 250 calories. If you get on a treadmill and walk to burn off those calories, you would need to walk about 2.5 miles just to burn off that can of soda. That is ridiculous! So be extra careful about what goes in your mouth, and know how many calories you are taking in and burning.
My sister, my friend Mia, and I all have passes to Crossroads Fitness! We are trying to go as often as we can. My goal, for a little while, will be going to the gym at 6am Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at around 11. My exercise is just solely cardio. Which gets old really fast, but it’s what gets you losing weight the fastest.

9: SUPPORT DIETERS lol….
Nothing else affects the outcome of your diet, and weight goal success more than a support system. I can not tell you how hard it is to follow a diet and exercise program when you don’t have people who want you to succeed, and are willing to help you out any way they can. My first attempts in my journey to being healthier, I did not have a support system at all. Left and right, suggestions of fast food for dinner would come about. I would be too lazy to go to the store with my husband to pick out healthier things, so he would get what he knew I liked, but was a big no-no in my diet. When you are stuck to a diet, it sucks when you are tempted with things. Now I can say that Tyler and I are now on the same page. Tyler and I really want to have a baby. I know that I am not healthy enough to have a baby yet, and Tyler knows it too. So he reassures me that my hard work is paying off and I am getting closer and closer to my goal each day. I am so grateful for such a wonderful supportive husband. I love him so much!

10: KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE
Most people get discouraged when they see people in magazines or on TV that look good. I personally used to be one of those people, but now I have changed my thinking. There is nothing stopping me from looking just like that person except myself. (Yeah I know I won’t EVER look like Heidi Klum, but you get my drift) I saved all my clothes that I had when I was skinny and I keep them for motivation. I have the cutest jeans that I got from Abercrombie & Fitch like 3 years ago, along with a super cute shirt that I wore 1 time. I have a ton of way cute hoodies that I keep too, one of which I wore to work today!! The only thing I have to complain about is the fact that I don’t have very many clothes now. When I was at my heaviest, I literally had 2 hoodies and 1 pair of pants that have been washed so many times that it made holes. So for my birthday my dad and step-mom got me a gift card at Maurices so I could get some clothes. They are so cute! But now I don’t fit into any of them anymore lol. Well I can wear them, but I look retarded because they are so big. Every 2 steps I have to pull up my pants, and if I bend over, yep HELLO BUTT CRACK! Hahah. But I am so excited that I am finally on the right track to becoming my old self. I miss my old self. I miss the outgoing, outspoken, softball-loving girl I used to be. But let me just tell you, I am on my way to being that girl again!


Now that I’ve taken up pretty much my whole day blogging I think I should probably stop typing! I still can’t believe this weather today! It’s spring time!!!! APRIL FOOLS!!

See you in a week!! Maybe less..