Inspiration Pictures

January 30, 2010 / Twix / No comments

It’s been so odd yet so refreshing to see my itty bitty waist again. I’m going to have to invest in a pair or two of new pants, though. Belts are hardly helping.

Still on the clean eating kick… I get in a few non-clean snacks here and there. I still manage to have fun and eat fun foods with my friends; hopefully in this upcoming week I will be able to get in to the gym (yeah, it’s crazy… I lost 10 pounds without going to the gym. Talk about cleaning up the way you eat!). I’ve fiddled around my schedule so there is gym time and study time scheduled in there. I won’t lose! =)

Anyway. I found some pictures of women whose physiques I use as my inspiration to kick my own butt. Here’s for 10 more pounds of weight loss come February! 186, here I come!


10 pounds down!

January 22, 2010 / Twix / No comments

I told myself at the beginning of the year that I was going to lose 10 pounds a month for the next five months, so that I would get to my target weight (156 lbs). I have been eating a ton better, have been making plans to go to the gym (am starting this next week), and recently people have been telling me that I “look like I have lost some weight”.

Last night, I was feeling horrendous -chills, feverish, all sorts of nasty things – and I ended up going to the doctor today to get checked out. Doc said she had to weigh me, and I was like, “okay, okay. Same story. I get on, scale says 206, I get off”.

I got on the scale.

196.2 pounds.

WAHOO!

If I have lost 10 pounds from just better eating, then exercise is gonna really melt these pounds!

Sorry that I haven’t written in awhile!

January 14, 2010 / Twix / No comments

Some very quick updates:

  • Relaxed my hair on 1/11/10. Am going to cut the split ends that I keep catching, though that goes against this challenge that I took. Am going to have to ask the challengers if cutting the split ends is against the rules if I notice that they’re causing breakage. I don’t think they are.
  • I start classes next week on Tuesday.
  • Will be purchasing my car tomorrow so that I can get to classes and the gym on campus. Will have to configure my schedule so that I can squeeze in that.
  • Will be searching out another part-time job in the area to do after classes end for the day. I have decided that I want to be able to afford my 1 bedroom apartment, insurance for my car, gas, and utilities myself. Being dependent on another person sucks, especially if that person ends up being unable to pull their own weight… That’s more later, or not.
  • Have to look into getting the braces put on soon. My two molars on the left side of my mouth DEFINITELY have to go. Will talk to a dentist/orthodontist about getting the other molar on the right side and the wisdom teeth next to all these molars pulled in order to accommodate my braces.
  • I have been working on a lot of projects, including a e-magazine for black females and a farming simulation MMO game. I need to get all of this plotted in on weekends or something.
  • Will be setting up my personal-care maintenance schedule. I already have meals for the week planned, so that lunch won’t be a major panic during the week.
The biggest thing here is that I have GOT to get serious about losing this weight. I read from notes that I took that I promised my doctor in September or August that I would lose 20 pounds in the three months after that… didn’t happen. My pants don’t fit as tightly as they did before (so I guess I am losing weight at the waist), but I have eaten cookies, ice cream, and other Not Good gunk in the past few days, many times in substitute of meals. Hectic schedule, but that’s not a good enough excuse.
(though, not having much food to choose from in the house due to not having a car definitely may count)
I want to be the best me I can be. May 2010, I will be 156 pounds. Mark my words. I’ve gotta kick it into gear here.

Facebook Job Posting for Product Designer

January 6, 2010 / Twix / No comments

Changing this whole post! User Interface Engineers are the computer science types. I guess I want more of this:

Strong portfolio featuring interaction design samples
Expertise in PHP, Unix, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX
3+ years of experience building web or desktop applications
Clear verbal communicator and detail oriented
BS or BFA in any field

My Workout Inspiration Song – Whipped Into Shape

December 29, 2009 / Twix / No comments

Spaghetti Sauce!

December 28, 2009 / Twix / No comments

Monday is Spaghetti Monday in our house, and at the last week of the farmer’s market here in my town, I bought some awesome tomatoes from a local farmer. I got five of them for five dollars; they were pretty big, and even if it was a little pricey that have a great taste and texture for spaghetti sauces. Yesterday I ended up making the sauce early and serving it with some chicken breast and green beans. I have a new habit of saving my jars from things like Miracle Whip (which I’ve cut out of my diet, mind you), etc., so I got to put it in an old spaghetti sauce jar. Here’s what I did:

Ingredients:
  • Four large tomatoes (I ended up eating one of the five on sandwiches last week…)
  • 3/4 Water
  • 1 T Italian seasoning
  • 1/2 t Garlic salt
  • 1 can (6 oz.) tomato paste – mine happened to be an organic brand I had around
  • 2 T Vinegar (less to taste; we tend to like the taste of vinegar around here)
  • 1 T Sugar
  • 1 T Extra Virgin Olive Oil
I chopped up the tomatoes into sections, then put them in a rather large pot with the water, Italian seasoning, toamto paste, and garlic salt. I let the tomatoes simmer a bit in the water, about an hour (we were rearranging furniture while it was cooking). When they got pretty wrinkly, I started smooshing them up with a plastic spoon so that there were smaller chunks.
Again, I let the sauce simmer, probably about another half an hour, until I could smell the aroma from the pot. =) Warning, it smells really good, so make sure you’re not too hungry. Then I added in the vinegar, sugar, and lastly, the EVOO. The EVOO provides monounsaturated fat, something that’s supposed to be really good for you. Another half an hour, and dinner was served!
The chicken was pretty simple; just chicken breasts sprayed with canola oil and given some rotisserie chicken seasoning. But the dinner was great! We plan on growing tomatoes in a container garden this spring/summer/upcoming year, so I’ll be collecting more jars and making this a definite staple.

Things That I Want Out of Life

December 28, 2009 / Twix / No comments

I was reading on a forum that I frequent about a “That Girl” challenge for 2010. That’s essentially what I have my blog for: becoming my own personal version of “That Girl”. I am already participating in a lot of challenges on that forum, so I might not join there right on the forums, but I will participate here. There’ll be another post with my “That Girl” goals for the year 2010. This is just a listing of the things that I want and goals that I have. These are things that, likely, are not going to be in my cards in the near future.

  • Get hitched. This will mean helping my SO (significant other) push his way through school and, hopefully, this goal will be achieved by 2011.
  • Have a house with plenty of backyard space so that I can have a large, sustainable garden in the backyard. Tomatoes, peppers, etc. A pecan tree would be glorious; so would an avocado, but…
  • [Own horses?]
  • Have my childbirths be delivered by a midwife
  • [This means finding a midwife.]
  • Have my family’s primary physician be an herbalist
  • Three to four kids
  • Initially, a three bedroom home; preferably nearer to my parents
  • Chickens! And probably geese and ducks
  • Goldfish pond
The problem with me, sometimes, is that I look too far into the future instead of looking at today. But I love looking toward the future. It helps me concentrate my goals and ambitions for today better, I think. Anyway, that’s it for now. Will refine this later.

Following an Eyebrow Tutorial

December 26, 2009 / Twix / No comments

Found this eyebrow tutorial today, so I will be trying out most of it! (Save for the part with the bleach… Maybe will try that another day.) Will post pics when I get the chance.

Frustration

December 23, 2009 / Twix / No comments
Quickly, something I’ve noticed:
On days where my face feels gunky, I just need to give it a wash with this very nice black seed soap that I bought from the beauty supply store (it’s supposed to cleanse AND moisturize), or some Dove soap (finally bought some; missed this stuff) and finish up with my St. Ives Apricot Face Scrub. Fresh and clean.
My scalp is constantly hurting. It either itches or just feels really bad or it feels like it’s sore… I deep conditioned my hair last night (Infusium 23 Moisturology + Garnier Fructis Triple Moisture + LeKair Natural Shea Butter Cholestorl Creme + aPhogee’s 5 minute reconstructor). Left it on for several hours under my wig while we had company. My hair feels so much better today.
I am growing kind of frustrated with my hair, though. I keep telling myself that I’m going to relax the left hand side bone straight (as it’s pretty underprocessed compared to the right hand side), but then I put water on it to wash, condition, or put protein in it and so I have to wait at least a week.
We’ll see what happens next week, I guess. I am just a little impatient. I’ve seen some pictures, though, showing that I can MAYBE expect 6-9 inches of growth between now and this time next year. I just have to sit on my hands, try and leave my hair alone (since I wear wigs over it most of the time anyway) and not clip it (because I’m sure I don’t have massive split ends). The growth will happen when it happens, I guess.
On a much more positive note, I’ve started clean eating. It feels much nicer and it’s a lot easier than I thought it would be. The only thing that really gets in the way sometimes is my love of cooking/baking. I like to bake for myself and others. However, last week I made Tosca’s Bison Burgers and they were AWESOME. The meat was 7 dollars a pound (god help me), but I bought it for my SO because he’s obliging participating in the clean food stock up/bad food purging.
Clean eating is hard when you have to do it with others.
Lastly, someone stole my bike this weekend. :/ So I need to find another way to exercise.

“Crack Cookies”

December 23, 2009 / Twix / No comments

So everyone knows those wonderful, fluffy, addictive Christmas time (and pretty much anytime now) cookies that they have in the stores for about 3-4 bucks a dozen. My neighbor refers to them as “crack cookies”. I was looking for them online, to see if I couldn’t find a recipe for them. Apparently, they use a “sour cream cookie” base. I found this recipe at allrecipes.com

There were a few others, but money’s a touch tight right now so I figured I’d use this one first. Made the most sense, and I am trying to conserve resources. Instead of 1/4 cup of sour cream, I used 1/4 cup of fat-free yogurt. Probably should have used whole-fat yogurt, but since I am trying to stick to clean eating (aside from deserts, which will be consumed less frequently by me now), that’s what I had on hand.
The dough is currently chilling in the freezer. We have a bunch of holiday cookie cutters, so I’m really pumped about that.
This is the frosting I’ll be using:
It looks pretty close to the ones that they use in stores, albeit a little less perfect. I’ll post more when we get to rolling, cutting, and baking.
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