Bummin' In Sweatpants and a Tee

But girl, you wish you were lookin' like me.

HAHA.

Okay, so seriously...I ALWAYS want a day off. So I don't have to worry about getting to work, or driving to Savannah, or whatever. I just want days that are so free I can just lay in bed all day and it doesn't matter one bit. Well, I got up today at my mom's, and went to the fitness center at her apartment complex. (All I needed today was a treadmill. :( ) After running, I came home and was just about to jump in the shower to get ready to go to Savannah when Morgan (my cousin) told me we'd have to wait til another day. I mean, I was sad and all, I wanted to see her...and get my errands done, but I almost jumped for joy!

No way! I got a whole day to myself.......Now I feel like a lazy bum and I kind of want to go to the gym. LOL I'm not though, because I'm trying my hardest to save gas and money! I am watching Make It Or Break It and its AMAZING. :) I can't wait until the new season premiers!

I lost another pound today. Since last May/June...ish, I've lost 34 pounds!! (But, I didn't really start doing anything about it until like July...which by then I was about 175 or so.) Since December, when I started working out with Keely, I've lost exactly 20 pounds. Not even 3 months! I started on December 17th, and its March 4th. Nice! Pant size 14 down to a 6! I've also lost around 11.5 inches all over. I'm just trying to put this into perspective for myself I think.

I was told that once I lost a lot of weight, I'd still think I was fat...I almost didn't believe them. I have to admit, I ALMOST feel like I look the same. I know I'm smaller, and I know I'm healthier, but I'm honestly still as insecure as I was 9 months ago. I have my good days, and I walk around thinkin' I'm fly (HA)...but I always have bad days when I go to the gym and push myself because I think I haven't changed at all.

I really think I am going to go back and reread all of the Hunger Game books, they are just so good.

Maybe just the first one, since the first movie is coming out. Who knows?

Oh yeh, and here's some pics from my past couple of weeks and stuff :)

my tres and i :)

pool of blood, what? no, we dyed her hair red.

poor amelia, hiding. ;)

like, a month ago. HAHA 

like i said, today i'm bummin' it. 

12/17/11 - 2/16/12 

Alright, too much time is being taken away from MIOBI. Back to my show.

- Katie

Wisdom and Pain

This morning, my alarm was set for 4:30 so I could get ready and get to the gym at 6, like I'm supposed to every morning. Slept through that. Whatever, I got over it and got up at 7:30. (I realized I am no longer able to sleep while the sun is up. GREAT.) I decided to try this new pre-workout I ordered and spent 10 dollars on. (Its a trial size, so I think that's sort of expensive...LOL). DISGUSTING. I couldn't even finish it. Since I couldn't finish that, I get to the gym and have the absolute HARDEST time getting through my workout.

No, I am not dependent on pre-workout to get me through my workouts, but I am still sick as a dog. I seriously have coughing attacks in the middle of a set and people look at me like I'm stupid. I know half of you reading this will not relate, but I just have to explain what I mean. I was doing my upper body circuit today, and in between each set, I usually do 5 minutes of cardio. I cut that out because I can't breathe because there's shit in my lungs. I usually only have a 'light' day once every 3 or 4 workouts...like, I do upper body twice a week, so I'd only have a light day once every 2 weeks or so. NO, I've had 2 light weeks in a row. I'm dying. Seriously, I almost died curling 40 today. WTH. Okay, so if anyone other than Keely or Morgan is reading this, just ignore that. HAHAHA

I don't like to brag, but man...my teeth are so straight. I've never had braces or anything. I went to the oral surgeon about two years ago to have her look at my wisdom teeth. She said I only had three...well, my last one is just now coming in. And its coming in crooked. SERIOUSLY? Of all 340581307 teeth I have, my last wisdom tooth comes in the side of my freaking mouth. I feel like a toddler teething. Its awful...I now feel the pain of crying toddlers carrying their little chewy rings around.

Okay, I am done now. Going to watch Jane by Design that I missed Tuesday and hopefully find something else relaxing to do since I don't have to work. :)

- Katie

FFTS

So, I was on Pinterest earlier when I found a picture of a 'fat chick'. I read the caption and wanted to know why someone would post this...I mean surely they weren't happy about this. (She was like, a 300 pound girl!)

Well, I went to the blog it was connected to, Fat From the Side. I started looking around and realized it was an appreciation blog for all these girls who are really fat. Cool - if you wanna appreciate your body...but there's NO way they are appreciating a healthy body. Personally, I think this type of thing is just sending the wrong message to girls. NOT that the people saying people should be stick thin are right either, but I think this is out of control.

I am still not where I want to be, and I won't be for a while, but at least I know how to make myself healthy. Sure, I want to be thin, but if my body decides it only wants to be as small as a 6 and I am living a healthy lifestyle, I will be okay. At least I'm not shoving my face with cupcakes and ice cream 10 times a day. I've seen both sides of this whole weight ordeal. I know what its like to be fat, unhealthy, and ashamed, I know it all. I know now, what its like to turn down cake after dinner, and how it feels to fit into those really cute pants I've always wanted. I know I'm not an expert, but geez - I can't be the only person who thinks its absolutely ridiculous to tell girls that being a damn hot air balloon is okay!

The only reason I even thought about posting this was because a girl left a rude comment on my pin after I repinned it with the caption "this blog is disturbing". I didn't like what she had to say, and I deleted it...whoops - thought about it afterwards. :P I did delete the pin, because I kind of felt bad afterwards, but this is my redemption.

STOP EATING SHIT. Go to the gym. Appreciate your body, yes...but also realize your body is a temple. God did NOT give you something so precious to just ruin. Don't chop 20 years off of your life because you decided you wanted to have 3 more hotdogs and 4 servings of fries.

I almost feel bad about posting this, because I read the captions and a lot of the girls on there have gone through so much with hating their body and all...and 'this is their chance to admire themselves and appreciate themselves'...but I just can't help saying that they shouldn't be admiring that. They should treat themselves right.

- Katie

Chocolate.

Weight loss problem number ONE: chocolate.


Reese's, kisses, milky ways, snickers, m&m's, chocolate hearts, twix, kit kats...oh my gosh. The list could go on and on. I just wish I could eat it all. Its so hard to say no to that wonderful bag of mixed chocolate just sitting on the dining room table. Sometimes I don't though, I grab a couple pieces and go about my day... ;)

We won't mention the sickness afterwards.

I've already posted a video telling you what I eat. You know I don't eat crap (well, other than that frieken chocolate) so don't expect there to be a quick fix. Sure, I've lost about 20 pounds in a month and a half...and that's PROBABLY not safe, but I'm doing it the right way. I don't know what else to say...I'm working out EVERY DAY. Except for that frieken rest day we just had to throw in.

Its not easy. Sometimes, I want to give up in the middle of the second set, but I don't. You can't, if you want to be healthy and look your best. Like they always say "You can't get rid of the body you've always had by doing what you've always done". Or whatever the hell is it...I'm sure that's close enough. :)

ANYWAYS, my point is...I don't care if you ask questions, but please...PLEASE do not message me asking what I eat (I already posted a video), how often I work out (you see my posts about always going to the gym), or if there's a special pill that I take (all I take are vitamins, and pre-workouts!). I even got a message one time where someone didn't even ask a question...they just talked. About nothing. I didn't know what to do. I'm a little awkward, so don't do that shit to me. LOL

I think I'm gonna go eat a chocolate heart.

- Katie

I loved Chocolate.

Well, tomorrow will be exactly six weeks since I've been really working hard. Six weeks since I learned how to eat and how to properly use gym equipment. My days are so long - waking up at 4:30 every morning gets exhausting. I can't just go to bed at 8:30 every night, so I rarely get enough sleep. Having a job, a boyfriend, a family, and going to the gym gets very complicated. There are many fights...but everyone understands.

My plan at the beginning was 'lose fat'. A lot of it...haha. Now though, my goal has transformed into something from an entirely different universe. Not only do I want to lose fat, but I want to tone my body, learn about what I'm doing (anatomy, diet & nutrition, etc.), and I want to be able to show others how to better themselves. SIX weeks people. I'm telling you - this is almost the tiniest I've been since like...ever. I'm not skinny, I know that, but I'm way closer than I've ever been. I'm learning so much about my body. What certain foods do for me & how I actually FEEL after eating certain foods (not just how it tasted). I ate chocolate the other day and got so sick. I thought I was going to feel good...but then I realized that chocolate and sugar don't make me feel good anymore. I feel better after I eat some vegetables or a sweet potato. (Weird, I know...right?) DON'T get me wrong, I love my cheat meals...but I can't say that I feel great after them.

Speaking of cheat meals - make sure you have one a week. If you don't, you'll binge. Just throwing that out there. Its an awful feeling afterwards too. (You won't die though...I already had mine. LOL I still lost weight)

So many people message me (and Keely...that amazing person who taught me almost everything I know. :P) asking how its done. Am I on a diet? What do I do in the gym? First of all, I am NOT on a diet. I'm changing my lifestyle. That's your first step. If you're serious about being healthy, this is a lifestyle change, not a diet. Diets end, and well, the other doesn't. Workouts are going to be different for everyone. Keely and I work out together every single day (and Morgan now :)) and we follow basically the same program together. Sometimes I have to substitute an exercise for something she can do because I just can't do it (or vice versa).

Here is a picture she posted today:

It is an amazing quote. I wish everyone could read this. 

You can't just run on the treadmill for 3 hours a day, all you're going to do is get one of those sickly runner's bodies. (They come with loose skin if your starting weight is very high.) Those stupid pills don't work. You can't buy a bottle of pills and expect to magically lose 20 pounds. And last but not least, fad diets are AWFUL. If you want to lose the weight and keep it off, you have to LEARN what your body needs. Give it what it needs to live and not just 'low carbs' or 'low fat' because that's what all the celebrities are doing. They're lying to you anyways...they have personal trainers. They're just a face to put on a product to make people buy it. 

I have a lot more to say - but I figured it might come out wrong, if some of this hasn't already. Plus, I'm dying to go to sleep and have to be up in six and a half hours. So, good night. :)

- Katie

Like Nike - Just Do It.

If you aren't happy with your body then CHANGE IT. Don't complain about it while you're eating a bag of chips or a handful of M&Ms. I'm so tired of seeing everyone on Facebook talk about how they're going to start going to the gym and then they're like "Well, I didn't have time" or "I didn't have a workout buddy". Oh well. I started out by myself, and I'm not the only person who's had to do it alone or wake up at 5 am to get the the gym for the day. You can do it too, so suck it up and do what you need to do.

Every single person is going to have a different starting place and everyone is going to have different first steps. Whether your first step to becoming a healthier you is drinking more water, adding in weight lifting instead of just doing cardio, or reducing your calories from 3000 to 1500 a day, you can't expect it to be easy. Of course its going to be hard...that's why you haven't done it yet! I was so embarrassed when I started. I didn't want anyone seeing my body to even take my before pictures. I didn't want to admit that I ate like a disgusting 300 pound man (okay, not really...but you get the point) and I didn't want to be that girl in the gym only using 5 pound dumbbells. You have to start somewhere, and that was my starting point.

I am so proud of myself for coming as far as I have in only a MONTH. Imagining what is waiting for me at the three month marker? You better believe I am ecstatic! Just do what you have to do. Stop talking about it and stop making those frieken excuses.

- Katie

RANT

Okay, SERIOUSLY. It is so freaking RUDE to walk into a store when you know they are closing in 10 min.

We were slow alllll day today, and then at 8:49 an entire family walks in. You all know me, and I got so mad that they didn't have the courtesy to wait until the next day, or get there just a BIT earlier, so I walked up to them and asked if they needed anything - just like I do when any OTHER dumb people walk in as we're closing. Of course they said no and went along with what they were doing...messing up our perfectly straightened plus side of the store. Well, I don't enjoy people doing this, so what did I do? I followed them. Around every rack, and made sure to fix every single freaking thing they touched so that they'd get the hint. Did they? Of course not.

DON'T DO THIS TO PEOPLE. Its so RUDEEEE. Unless you've worked retail, you will NEVER understand how rude you are being. Seriously, here is a list of things to remember:

1. Take your things OUT of the fitting room.
2. At least TRY to hang things back up right - it makes it easier on us.
3. DO NOT WALK IN when the store is closing.
4. DO NOT TALK ON YOUR PHONE loudly when the store is super quiet. I really actually DON'T want to hear your ghetto conversation about how that guy was cheating on you.
5. Don't talk on your phone at the register. It just pisses off the cashier. (I talk as loudly as I can to you, and ask you as many questions as I can...so just don't do it. I'll piss you right back off.)
6. Don't put things in the wrong place. If you don't know where it goes, there is usually a rolling rack outside of the dressing room - put it there.
7. Don't separate clothes and hangers. ITS IRRITATING to find empty hangers or clothes hanging over a rack.
8. Don't double question a freaking price. Ask once, that's cool...but don't ask me to recheck. I WASN'T LYING THE FIRST TIME.
9. Don't ignore me when I ask you a simple question like "Are you finding everything okay". I'll make the rest of your visit a living hell.
10. DON'T ask an associate to find every white shirt in a large. You look for it, & we ring you up and tell you it looks good.
11. Don't expect the associate to be your personal shopper. Just don't do it. You have two feet, so do it yourself. We have 20 other customers to watch & help.
12. If you knock something over, try to pick it up, or at least TELL an associate. It pisses me off to walk up to a wall that has half the clothes on the floor. I don't care if you did it, but at least freaking let me know.


Well, I think that's all. Now be nice to the workers when you shop, I'll tell you first hand that its not as fun for us as it is for you. So do your part, and don't be that person we go home at night and yell about. Thanks :)

- Katie