Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! So I've decided do something about my health and my weight. The years between my sister's terminal cancer diagnosis and the year after she died I gained over 120lbs. Sad by true. I've always had problems with my weight and have successfully lost almost 100lbs twice in my life and here I am working on lucky number 3. Before Lisa died I was doing low carb for about 2 years and had gotten down from 280 to 200 and then we found out her cancer had again returned and was terminal. Between that year--2009 and 2010 I gained all that I had lost and more. I'm a depressive eater and believe you me no one says salad makes them happy. Mashed potatoes and gravy, chicken & dumplings, tapioca pudding, mac n cheese those are the things that make me happy. So that's what I ate and ate and ate and ate and soon here I was heavier than I had ever been at over 300lbs. For the longest time I didn't care. I didn't care it happened to me again, I didn't care I knew better and shouldn't have let it happen. But then slowly things in my life started to level out and I realized how lucky I am at my age--53 and my size 323lbs I didn't have diabetes like my father had or like his mother my grandmother had. I was lucky I still had my gall bladder. I was lucky I didn't have high blood pressure. And honestly how long was that going to last??? I am like a ticking time bomb for some serious health issues to hit. So I could either just give up and be old and fat or I could do something again about my weight.
So I started back on low carb. Which as a blood type of 0- works really well. It's actually not difficult for me at all to do low carb even though all my comfort foods are high carb foods. In February I started following a low carb lifestyle again and in April I started walking. Walking is hard for someone who is large like me and it hurt like hell. I started by simply walking around my office once every hour. Then I started going into our huge warehouse and walking that every hour. Then I started going in early in the mornings so I could walk around the warehouse twice. I graduated to walking around the warehouse several times on lunch and on Saturday I did my first 4k walk in forever. I wanted to do it very badly and even though I had only been able to go for 35 mins at one time I was successful on Saturday. I did the whole 4k AND I didn't come in last! I had A LOT of support from my family and friends. Even though I was pretty wiped out on Saturday I walked a mile on Sunday and today for lunch I walked two miles. It's hard and it's hot and it's sweaty as hell which is so gross but I'm doing it.
I'm doing it because I have to.
I'm doing it because I need to.
I'm down 29 lbs I still have a long way to go. I'd like to only weigh 200 lbs for my niece's wedding June 2017. If I don't make it, I don't make it but it's not going to stop me from trying.
I have to give myself these little pep talks so last night I decided to do this really cute little "Hang In There" mani
How cute is this?? Born Pretty Store BP-59 over OPI Susi Says Feng Shui and Kiko 655
I topcoated my Kiko because I need to have glitter in my textured polish LOL!
Even though all I've been doing isn't easy I keep saying to myself "just hang in there" I can do it I just need to stay focused.
To anyone fighting the fight against obesity and working on getting healthy--HANG IN THERE!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Saturday! What a super fabulous weekend it looks to be. I get to spend today doing nuthin'! Woot! Actually I'm going to be reading. I've got a couple of books by Cherise Sinclair's Doms of Dark Haven's series to read and couple books from Alexa Grace's profile series to read. Plus this is the month of June so the kringle of the month is rhubarb from my bakery. Having some delish iced coffee, eating rhubarb kringle and reading what's not to love?!
Last week I was over at Emily's hanging and I did a cute little mani over there. A nice neon gradient with some stamping. I liked it but the pinky got smeared so the next day I decided to take off a few of the stamped nails and add a Kiko Cupcake to it! Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!
Here's the mani I wore home from Emily's
I'm not really sure what happened but the pinky got so smeared AND I used Seche which usually never smears
I'd like to say the smear didn't bother me but it really did! That's why I just had to take it off LOL. I kept a couple of the stamped images and then put on Kiko Cupcake 650
So much cuteness!
I wish I could tell you the names of the polishes but I can't! They are from China Glaze neon collection from last year though!
I definitely think skittling and extending a mani is the way to go these days! That way you get almost everything you own onto your fingertips!
Tomorrow we are celebrating my grandnephew's birthday. It should be a bunch of fun. Let's hope I can come up with something cute to wear on my nails!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Wow look at that gorgeous sunshine out there! I think we passed Spring and went directly into Summer here. I'm not complaining though because the sun is out!
I've been doing the lowcarb lifestyle for about a year now. My son and I are both following it at home and together we've lost over 100 lbs. I still have a ways to go though and while I haven't been walking because of the craptastic cold and rainy weather I have been pretty good about eating low carb.
Sometimes you just have those cravings though! OMG Mine are definitely for cherry turnovers and chocolate covered peanuts. If I'm having a really bad day I will definitely go for some chocolate covered peanuts. My son will eat a gallon of ice cream if it's in the house, so we both have our different things we can live without.
I did this cute mani with my new Kiko cupcake polish to help curb my cravings!
My fab friend Michelle picked me up a few of the Kiko Cupcakes polishes. This one is 647. I'm surprised I like them as much as I do--I don't like any other textured that's flat!
I did an orange, pink and blue gradient for the accent nails and then stamped with DRK B and MJ VI
I thought something bright and cute would be a great way to keep this Summer weather going!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy April Fools! Lots of pretty silly things going on today in a few of the blogs I've seen this morning but definitely not one here. I think my body has been snatched and that's no joke! Suddenly I am liking pastels AND non sparkly textured polish! What the french?! I'm totally blaming my friend Michelle on my recent love of non sparkle textures thanks to her sending me a few bottles of the new Kiko Cupcakes. These babies are pastel AND textured. They are pretty cool, full of tiny little confetti sprinkles.
I decided to pair one up with a recent purchase from Elevation--the super lovely Twinkle In A Yeti's eye and I just love how this turned out!
Yeti is a super lovely teal blue with a pink almost fuchsia shimmer, just lovely!
It's a great color for Spring and Summer!
I paired him with the lovely Kiko 655 a light blue with confetti sprinkles. Super love this polish!
And to give it a little stamping flare I hauled out my Nail Craze NC01 and did some dandelion stamping!
Pretty cute if I do say so myself!
I hope you all have a great day today and that no one gets sucked in to that omg is this for real or is this just an April Fool's joke!
